Collections Mar/Apr 2010 Volume 82 | Page 4

The installation of the chandelier is scheduled for the week of April 5, 2010 by a team of Chihuly’s staff and will be hung piece by piece – all 700 of them. Its asymmetrical shape will compliment the architectural design of the Museum’s atrium space. The Museum’s gala “Red, Hot….Cool” on April 17 marks the official unveiling. Not only will the chandelier be one of the most significant pieces of public contemporary art in the Southeast, but the project itself is currently one of the largest acquisition projects of any museum’s young professional group in the nation. Lunch with Dale Chihuly in his gallery. A Gaffer working in the Chihuly Studio Hot Shop. 2