Dick Weiss Window from The Paul Marioni Collection at The Tacoma Art Museum

Cow on its side by Dick Weiss at Seatac Airport

Richard Weiss (born 1946 in

Everett, Washington Everett is the county seat and largest city of Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is north of Seattle and is one of the main cities in the metropolitan area and the Puget Sound region. Everett is the seventh-largest city in the ...

) is an

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glass artist. He is part of the American Studio Glass Movement. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in psychology from

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. He is a teacher at

Pilchuck Glass School Pilchuck Glass School is an international center for glass art education. The school was founded in 1971 by Dale Chihuly, Anne Gould Hauberg (1917-2016), and John H Hauberg (1916-2002). The campus is located on a former tree farm in Stanwood, W ...

and is primarily known for his large installations such as the work at The Seattle/Tacoma Airport and his collaborations with Walter Lieberman with the name of WD40+.

Permanent collections and commissions

* City of Everett, Everett, WA *

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, Seattle, WA *

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, Corning, NY *, Germany *

, Pilchuck, WA *

Museum of Glass The Museum of Glass (MOG) is a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m²) art museum in Tacoma, Washington, dedicated to the medium of glass. Since its founding in 2002, the Museum of Glass has been committed to creating a space for the celebration of the st ...

, Tacoma, WA *

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

, London, England *Chapel,

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, Seattle, WA *

Edmonds Woodway High School Edmonds Woodway High School is one of five high schools in the Edmonds School District in Edmonds, Washington, United States. It serves students in grades 9-12. It was ranked as the No. 318 high school in America by ''Newsweek Magazine'' in 20 ...

, Edmonds, WA * General Dynamics Corp., Falls Church, VA (With Sonja Blomdahl) * Kenai Community College, Homer, AK * Kent Senior Citizen’s Center, Kent, WA * Kentwood High School, Kent, WA *M’Connell Foundation, Redding, CA * North Central High School, Spokane, WA * Opera House, Seattle, WA * Port of Shanghai, China * Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, WA * Sitka Lutheran Church, Sitka, AK *

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, Seattle, WA

References

External links

*
Henry Art Gallery - University of Washington - Article on a project of Dick Weiss'
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weiss, Dick 1946 births Living people American glass artists People from Everett, Washington Yale College alumni