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Flora Mace
Flora C. Mace (born 1949) is an American glass artist, sculptor, and educator. She was the first woman to teach at Pilchuck Glass School.[1][2] Since the 1970s, her artistic partner has been Joey Kirkpatrick and their work is co-signed.[3][4] Mace has won numerous awards including honorary fellow by the American Craft Council (2005).[4] Kirkpatrick and Mace have shared a home and art studio in Seattle, Washington and a farm in the Olympic Peninsula.[5] BiographyMace was born in 1949 in Exeter, New Hampshire.[2][4] She has a B.S. degree (1972) from Plymouth State College (now Plymouth State University); and in 1975 she took classes at University of Utah; and she received a M.F.A. degree (1976) from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[2][6] In 1977, Mace was the first resident glass artist at WheatonArts (formally Wheaton Village, or Wheaton Art and Cultural Center).[7] Mace was the first woman educator at Pilchuk Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, where she taught glassblowing.[1] In 1979, Mace met Joey Kirkpatrick through Dale Chihuly at Pilchuk.[1][2] Kirkpatrick and Mace are known for their oversized glass fruit.[8] Kirkpatrick and Mace have art in various public museum collections including the Portland Art Museum,[9] Corning Museum of Glass;[10] the Detroit Institute of Arts;[11] the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Seattle Art Museum;[10] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] Krannert Art Museum,[12] Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM),[13] and Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne.[12] Mace and Kirkpatrick's work, Bird Pages: Cooper Hawk, was acquired by SAAM as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.[14] References
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