Fyrewurks » Oklahoma http://fyrewurks.com between the click of the light and the start of the dream Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:58:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dale Chihuly Blown Glass Art in OKC http://fyrewurks.com/2008/10/dale-chihuly-blown-glass-art-in-okc/ http://fyrewurks.com/2008/10/dale-chihuly-blown-glass-art-in-okc/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:54:06 +0000 Jennifer http://fyrewurks.com/?p=167 The OKC Art Museum is just wrapping up their Roman Art from the Louvre exhibition and my family and I made sure we cought it while it was in town.  While we found this to be interesting, what we all really enjoyed were the modern art collections that the museum houses, especially the Dale Chihuly blown glass [...]]]> The OKC Art Museum is just wrapping up their Roman Art from the Louvre exhibition and my family and I made sure we cought it while it was in town.  While we found this to be interesting, what we all really enjoyed were the modern art collections that the museum houses, especially the Dale Chihuly blown glass art.

Here’s the towering piece they have in the lobby:

My eight year old daughter with an amazing eye for detail spotted this merman in the piece (I would have never caught it!):

And here were a few more of my favorites:

You can view more Dale Chihuly art from other museums here (taken by better photographers than me!).

I’ve always loved the works of Dale Chihuly (he’s one of my favorite artists, period), and I knew many were at the OKC museum, but it took this Roman Art exhibit coming through to finally get me to go check out this treasure sitting right in my back yard.

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However, this month it has been in the 80′s at the hottest, often in the 70′s, and even into the 60′s – I love it!!! 

This should be the perfect excuse to get some much needed gardening done…

Plus, we’re supposed to get rain for a few days this week – the cool, dry days are nice, but the cool rainy ones are even better :)

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