For the next 25 years Tagliapietra worked in association with several of Murano's most important glass factories, including Vetreria Galliano Ferro,
Venini & C., La Murrina,
Effetre International, where he was Artistic and Technical Director from 1976 to 1989, and EOS Design nel Vetro. His influence on the American art glass studio movement is primarily attributed to his colleague
Dale Chihuly. In 1968 Chihuly visited Murano, where he gave Tagliapietra studio time to develop his own pieces. He taught Tagliapietra his techniques, which Tagliapietra taught to other glass
maestri, including
Pino Signoretto, and Tagliapietra taught Chihuly the Venetians' secrets in turn. Tagliapietra taught workshops at La Scuola Internazionale del Vetro (Murano) in 1976, 1978, and 1981, where artists and blowers worked on an equal footing. According to Rosa Barovier Mentasti, a leading historian of glass: In Giovanni Sarpelon's view, Tagliapietra has "a close and almost symbiotic rapport with glass" that erases the distinction between the craftsman and the artist. There is no question in his work "whether the fact that a work is made
of glass is purely incidental or whether it is essential to its creation." In 1998, he undertook a challenging project with
Steuben Glass Works that required him to work without color usingthe unfamiliar batch glass that Steuben has developed for its own production. In 2008,
Art Guide Northwest reported: He spent a week in October 2012 at the MIT Glass Lab, working with glass artists and educators to explore computer modeling and folding techniques. He has been working with MIT staff for several years to develop software for computer-aided design, known as Virtual Glass, attempting to improve advance planning to reduce costs, since both the materials and facilities rentals that glassblowing requires are expensive. In November 2011, he inaugurated the glass studio at the
Chrysler Museum of Art with a public demonstration in advance of its formal opening. He created "an impossibly large and complicated piece, which took a team of glassblowers more than an hour." In the spring of 2012, he participated in glassblowing demonstrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of
The Glass Furnace, an international non-profit glass school in Istanbul. In June 2012, the
Columbus Museum of Art announced it had acquired a glass installation piece by Tagliapietra,
Endeavor, an "armada of thirty-five boats suspended from the ceiling" that instantly became "an iconic part of the Museum's collection." Tagliapietra serves on the board of directors of UrbanGlass, a resource center for glass artists in Brooklyn, NY. From October 29, 2016 – July 16, 2017, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibited
Lino Tagliapietra Painting in Glass which highlighted five works from his panel series. ==Awards==