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]

Biography

Mace 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

External links

• Flora Mace at IMDb
• Oral history interview with Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, 2005 August 17-18, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• Video: State of the Art Studio Visits: Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace by Crystal Bridges Museum