Flora Mace
{{Short description|American glass artist, sculptor}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Flora Mace
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1949}}
| birth_place = Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.
| education = Plymouth State University,
University of Utah,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
| occupation = Glass artist, sculptor, educator
| partner = Joey Kirkpatrick
| website = {{URL|http://www.kirkpatrick-mace.com/}}
}}
Flora C. Mace (born 1949) is an American glass artist, sculptor, and educator. She was the first woman to teach at Pilchuck Glass School.{{Cite book |last=Greenberg |first=Jan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gD2pDwAAQBAJ |title=World of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly |last2=Jordan |first2=Sandra |date=2020-05-12 |publisher=Abrams |isbn=978-1-68335-625-7 |pages=53 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Flora C. Mace |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/flora-c-mace-6297 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |language=en-US}} Since the 1970s, her artistic partner has been Joey Kirkpatrick and their work is co-signed.{{Cite web |title=Flora Mace (aka Flora C. Mace) |url=https://collection.mmfa.org/artist-maker/info/616 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)}}{{Cite web |title=Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick |url=https://www.craftcouncil.org/recognition/flora-mace-and-joey-kirkpatrick |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=American Craft Council |language=en}} Mace has won numerous awards including honorary fellow by the American Craft Council (2005).
Kirkpatrick and Mace have shared a home and art studio in Seattle, Washington and a farm in the Olympic Peninsula.{{Cite web |title=Joey Kirkpatrick |url=https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/studioglasshistory/artists/joey-kirkpatrick/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Voices in Studio Glass History, Bard Graduate Center |language=en}}
Biography
Mace was born in 1949 in Exeter, New Hampshire. 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.{{Cite book |last=Taragin |first=Davira Spiro |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJkkAQAAMAAJ |title=Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection |last2=Brite |first2=Jane Fassett |date=1993 |publisher=Hudson Hills Press |isbn=978-1-55595-073-6 |pages=199 |language=en}}
In 1977, Mace was the first resident glass artist at WheatonArts (formally Wheaton Village, or Wheaton Art and Cultural Center).{{Cite web |title=Flora C. Mace |url=https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/studioglasshistory/artists/flora-mace/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Voices in Studio Glass History, Bard Graduate Center |language=en}} Mace was the first woman educator at Pilchuk Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, where she taught glassblowing. In 1979, Mace met Joey Kirkpatrick through Dale Chihuly at Pilchuk. Kirkpatrick and Mace are known for their oversized glass fruit.{{Cite book |last=Ward |first=Gerald W. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1MHpAAAAMAAJ |title=Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft: Selections from the Wornick Collection |last2=Boston |first2=Museum of Fine Arts |last3=Muñiz |first3=Julie M. |last4=Kangas |first4=Matthew |date=2007 |publisher=MFA Publications |isbn=978-0-87846-720-4 |pages=48 |language=en}}
Kirkpatrick and Mace have art in various public museum collections including the Portland Art Museum,{{Cite web |title=Joey Kirkpatrick |url=http://www.portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=7740;type=701 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Portland Art Museum}} Corning Museum of Glass;{{Cite web |title=Flora Mace & Joey Kirkpatrick |url=https://www.craftinamerica.org/artist/flora-mace-joey-kirkpatrick-2 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Craft in America}} the Detroit Institute of Arts;{{Cite web |title=Fruit Still Life |url=https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/fruit-still-life-94615 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) |language=en}} the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Seattle Art Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Krannert Art Museum,{{Cite web |title=Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace |url=https://kam.illinois.edu/artist/joey-kirkpatrick-and-flora-mace |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Krannert Art Museum}} Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM),{{Cite web |title=Joey Kirkpatrick |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/joey-kirkpatrick-6298 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |language=en-US}} and Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne. Mace and Kirkpatrick's work, Bird Pages: Cooper Hawk, was acquired by SAAM as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.{{cite book |last1=Savig |first1=Mary |last2=Atkinson |first2=Nora |last3=Montiel |first3=Anya |title=This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World |date=2022 |publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum |location=Washington, DC |isbn=9781913875268 |pages=228–238}}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-flora-mace-and-joey-kirkpatrick-11940 Oral history interview with Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, 2005 August 17-18], from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lf-xABBvZ8 State of the Art Studio Visits: Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace] by Crystal Bridges Museum
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Category:American glass artists
Category:Plymouth State University alumni
Category:University of Utah alumni
Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Category:20th-century American women sculptors
Category:20th-century American sculptors