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Mary Shaffer
American artist (born 1947)
For the American writer, see Mary Ann Shaffer.
Not to be confused with Mary Schäffer.
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Born | 1947 (age 77–78) Walterboro, South Carolina, US |
Alma mater | Rhode Island School of Design |
Known for | Studio glass |
Mary Shaffer (born 1947)[1] is an American artist who has worked primarily with glass since the 1970s.[2] She was an early artist in the American Studio Glass Movement. Her works often take slumped (or molten) form, in which found objects are embedded in the glass.[3] She has work in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[4]
Life
Shaffer was born in 1947 in Walterboro, South Carolina,[5] and grew up in South America. She studied illustration and painting, earning her B.F.A. in Illustration in 1965 from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).[6][7]
Shaffer has taught at RISD, Wellesley College, and New York University as the Director of the Crafts Progra
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Mary Shaffer
Artist
born Walterboro, SC 1943
- Born
- Walterboro, South Carolina, United States
- Active in
- Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- Biography
Mary Shaffer began her career as a painter, an ambition she’d had since the age of nine. A busy job and two young children prevented her from painting very often, however, and she spent several years thinking about what she wanted to do and jotting down her ideas. Her work in glass began in the early 1970s when she developed the technique of midair slumping. This involves placing sheets of plate glass on a structural form in a kiln, until the heat causes the glass to bend and sag. Shaffer’s powerful sculptures combine twisted wire or rigid blocks of metal with flowing layers of clear glass.
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