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

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.