MARCH APRIL 2017 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 55
St. Petersburg’s 100-year-old Morean Arts
Center began talking with renowned glass
artist Dale Chihuly in 2008 about obtaining
a permanent collection of his work. Due to
the Morean’s support of children’s art education
and Chihuly’s passion for such education, he chose
St. Petersburg as the home for the Chihuly Collection.
Chihuly’s work is in more than 200 museum
collections worldwide.
Chihuly created this silvered, white-spotted
Ikebana floral-like arrangement with gilded
purple stems in 2006.