Having just joined the Smithsonian Young Benefactors I was ecstatic to learn that your membership also enables you to receive Discounts on fine art through the Smithsonian Associates Art Collectors Program. Through the program you can purchase Smithsonian-commissioned contemporary fine art prints and posters by acclaimed American artists. Their limited-edition prints are numbered and signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Smithsonian.
The collection also includes Studio Editions by Dale Chihuly who is the most phenom glass artist I have ever seen in my life (well next to Elizabeth Doyle). Each piece of glass art is hand blown and signed by the artist. Now I just need to save the $4000 for one of his pieces and I'm set. I guess that means NO drinks for me for the rest of the year.
Dale Chihuly (b.1941, Tacoma, Washington) is credited with breathing life into the now-flourishing world of blown glass. He studied at the University of Wisconsin with Harvey Littleton, and at the Venini Glass Factory in Venice, Italy (the first American to be granted such access). In 1971, he co-founded the Pilchuck Glass Center in Stanwood, Washington, which is now the creative center of the continually expanding art-glass universe. His works are in collections of more than 100 museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery.
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