Chi ha sposato Dan Dailey?

Dan Owen Dailey (born February 4, 1947) is an American artist and educator, known for his sculpture. With the support of a team of artists and crafts people, he creates sculptures and functional objects in glass and metal. He has taught at many glass programs and is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts College of Art, where he founded the glass program.

Emerging from the studio glass movement initiated by Harvey Littleton, Dailey's work has branched out from the mainstream by the incorporation of metal into many of the sculptures. Additionally, he has worked with several glass companies, for more than twenty years. Since 1971, Dailey's work has been featured in more than 150 exhibitions and included in over 350 juried or invitational group shows.

Linda MacNeil (born April 14, 1954) is an American metalsmith, jeweler, abstract artist, and sculptor. She works with glass and metal specializing in contemporary jewelry that combines metalwork with glass to create wearable sculpture. Her focus since 1975 has been sculptural objets d’art and jewelry, and she works in series. MacNeil’s jewelry is considered wearable sculpture and has been her main focus since 1996.

MacNeil is married to American glass sculptor, Dan Dailey. “MacNeil’s artistic relationship with her husband is distinguished between their very different aesthetic approaches to glass as medium. Dailey is known for his often witty use of glass in narrative constructions. MacNeil is more abstract, allowing the material to be itself. It is a philosophical divide between the celebration of form and materiality and the championing of human intellectual vector as applied to the material”

It is noted that MacNeil is “A master metalsmith in every respect.” Modern Magazine, and  “Linda is considered one of America’s foremost jewelry artists, a reputation earned through her emphasis on imagination and technical virtuosity.” The Mint Museum, Sculptural Radiance exhibition. The impact of her work is acknowledged, “the development of this innovative jeweler’s stunning aesthetic and her position within the history of jewelry and adornment enhances both the fields of glass and jewelry.”