Dan Dailey was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1947 and received his B.F.A from Philadelphia College of Art in 1969.  A teaching fellowship brought Dailey to the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, where he became Dale Chihuly’s first graduate assistant (helping him build the RISD glass studio) and received his M.F.A in 1972.  Since then, Dailey has been featured in more than 90 solo exhibitions and over 250 juried and invitational group shows, has completed 50 glass sculptural commissions, has been accepted into over 50 public collections, and has been lauded with numerous honors and awards.  A progeny of the Studio Glass Movement initiated by Harvey Littleton, Dailey has put his own contemporary spin on the tradition.