David Walters
EDUCATION
2005 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1997 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1994 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
1993 BFA Glass, RISD, Providence, RI
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1991 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1987-88 Four quarters in Sculpture, Silvermine Guild of Arts
BIOGRAPHY
David Walters was born in rural central Pennsylvania in 1968. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design where he received a BFA in Glass in 1993.
After graduation he moved to Seattle Washington to work for Dale Chihuly and many other prominent glassworkers in the Seattle area. He was the head Gaffer at Chihuly’s Boathouse from 1999-2001. In 1994, while employed at Chihuly Inc., he met Lino Tagliapietra. He began working with him and has assisted Lino for the past 14 years working and traveling with the Maestro. He’s been part of the core of Lino’s team since he began, and continues to be.
David has received several scholarships and gaffing positions from Pilchuck and two residencies from the Creative Glass Center of America in Millville NJ. One in 1995 and one in 2004. He also completed a residency at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma in the summer of 2007. He is in several prominent, private, and museum collections. He’s also traveled and demonstrated extensively around the country at several colleges and glass programs, as well as around the country and the world with Lino.
David’s own work focuses on the narrative. Utilizing familiar children’s stories, or fairy tales, he weaves into the stories a more personal interpretation in an allegorical and metaphorical style, while integrating blown form and image toward a common theme.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Museum of Glass- Tacoma, WA- "Fertile Ground" Group Show
2008 Living Legacies: Homage to a Maestro, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2007 Museum of Glass Tacoma WA – Lino Tagliapietra Living Legacies Show
Painting with Light: Artists that paint on and with glass, Palos Verdes Art
Center, Ranch Palos Verdes, CA
2003 Creative Glass Center of America, show of past fellows, Millville, NJ
Group Show
2001 Lino & Friends Show, Fuller Art Museum, Brockton, MA
1997 Paintings on Glass, Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ
Calami-tea or Love Me, Hate Me, 2009
37 x 9 x 10”