Today, it is a horticultural and educational institution showcasing exotic plant collections, special exhibitions, and Dale Chihuly artworks.
As a boy John Littleton grew up around glass art and his father’s colleagues in glass, including Dale Chihuly, Fritz Dreisbach, Erwin Eisch, Robert C. Fritz and Marvin Lipofsky.
The front entrance lobby features a wall sculpture from glass sculptor Dale Chihuly called "Mendota Wall".
For part of 2006, the Missouri Botanical Garden featured "Glass in the Garden", with glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly placed throughout the garden.
The Studio Glass generation of artists is represented in objects by, among others, Dale Chihuly, Erwin Eisch, Marvin Lipofsky, Harvey Littleton and Mary Shaffer.
There Dale Chihuly had been in charge of its glass program for ten years.
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Foster/White Gallery has a history of representing notable artists from the Northwest including Dale Chihuly, Mark Tobey, Guy Anderson, Richard Gilkey, Morris Graves, Tony Angell, Lois Graham, Alden Mason, Duane Pasco and George Tsutakawa.
RAM’s permanent collection features more than 4,000 artworks from internationally recognized artists such as: Dale Chihuly, Tim Lowly, Joel Philip Myers, Toshiko Takaezu, Wendell Castle, Arline Fisch and Albert Paley.
They include Harvey Littleton's colleagues in glass art, Dale Chihuly, Erwin Eisch, Shane Fero, Stanislav Libenský, Paul Stankard, Therman Statom, Sybren Valkema and Ann Wolff.