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Dick Huss
born Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1946
Person TypeIndividual
Tlingit Tribe; born San Francisco, California, 1963
born St. Joseph, Michigan, 1962; died Bremerton, Washington, 2000
BiographyDick Huss graduated from Mankato State University and also trained with glass masters Lino Tagliapietra, Dante Marioni and Richard Marquis. He has served as an instructor at the University of Minnesota and at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and completed numerous public and private commissions. His work can be found in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corning Museum of Glass in New York among others across the U.S. He has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Jerome Foundation. He is best known for his classically shaped vessels with sandblasted surfaces.