Mary Giles
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| birth_name = Mary Jo Mortenson
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|5|15|mf=y}}
| birth_place = St. Paul, Minnesota
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|4|11|1944|5|15|mf=y}}
| death_place = Stillwater, Minnesota
| nationality = American
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| field = fiber artist
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Mary Giles (1944–2018) was an American fiber artist.
Biography
Giles née Mortenson was born on May 15, 1944, in St. Paul, Minnesota.{{cite web |title=A Tribute to Mary Giles |url=https://textilecentermn.org/a-tribute-to-mary-giles/ |website=Textile Center |access-date=3 December 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Belz |first1=Adam |title=Mary Giles, fiber artist who transformed basketry, dies at 73 |url=https://www.startribune.com/mary-giles-fiber-artist-who-transformed-basketry-dies-at-73/480862341/ |website=Star Tribune |date=26 April 2018 |access-date=3 December 2022}} She attended Mankato State University and attended various workshops led by Ferne Jacobs, Lissa Hunter, and Diane Itter.{{cite web |title=Mary Giles – U.S. Department of State |url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/mary_giles_/ |website=Art in Embassies |publisher=U.S. Department of State |access-date=3 December 2022}} Giles had a career as an art teacher, retiring in the 1990s. She then turned her full attention creating fiber arts.
in 2013 Giles received the James Renwick Alliance Master of the Medium Award in Fiber.{{cite web |title=Art Lives Well-Lived: Mary Giles |url=http://arttextstyle.com/2018/05/18/art-lives-well-lived-mary-giles/ |website=arttextstyle |publisher=browngrotta arts |access-date=3 December 2022 |date=18 May 2018}} In 2015 the Textile Center of Minnesota held a retrospective of her work.{{cite web |title=Field Trip: Mary Giles Talk and Exhibition Tour |url=https://www.craftcouncil.org/post/field-trip-mary-giles-talk-and-exhibition-tour |website=American Craft Council |access-date=3 December 2022 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Mary Giles: A Retrospective |url=https://textilecentermn.org/mary-giles-a-retrospective/ |website=Textile Center |access-date=3 December 2022}} She died on April 11, 2018, in Stillwater, Minnesota. Her work is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art{{cite web |title=Mar Giles |url=https://collections.artsmia.org/search/artist:%22Mary%20Giles%22 |website=Minneapolis Institute of Art |access-date=3 December 2022}} and the Racine Art Museum.{{cite web |title=Collection Focus: Mary Giles |url=https://www.ramart.org/exhibit/collection-focus-mary-giles/ |website=Racine Art Museum |access-date=3 December 2022}}
Her work, Metallic Horizon, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum 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}}{{cite web |title=Mary Giles |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/mary-giles-30500 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=3 December 2022}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/mn-original-giles/mn-original-textile-artist-mary-giles/ video - MN Original | Textile Artist Mary Giles]
- [https://walkerart.org/magazine/studio-visit-fiber-artist-and-sculptor-mary-giles Studio Visit: Fiber artist and sculptor, Mary Giles] Walker Art Center
- [https://www.ramart.org/exhibit/collection-focus-mary-giles/ Collection Focus: Mary Giles] virtual retrospective - Racine Art Museum
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Category:20th-century American women educators
Category:21st-century American women textile artists
Category:Textile artists from Minnesota
Category:21st-century American textile artists
Category:20th-century American educators