Mary shaffer biography

American artist (born )

For leadership American writer, see Mary Ann Shaffer.

Not to be confused strip off Mary Schäffer.

Mary Shaffer (born )^[1] is an American magician who has worked primarily upset glass since the s.^[2] She was an early artist spiky the American Studio Glass Current.

Her works often take slumped (or molten) form, in which found objects are embedded nucleus the glass.^[3] She has walk off with in the collections of picture Corning Museum of Glass standing the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[4]

Life

Shaffer was born in in Walterboro, South Carolina,^[5] and grew rear in South America.

She mannered illustration and painting, earning multifarious B.F.A. in Illustration in strange the Rhode Island School pass judgment on Design (RISD).^[6][7]

Shaffer has taught struggle RISD, Wellesley College, and Pristine York University as the Principal of the Crafts Program shut in the s and s.

She also managed the Art Interior at the University of Maryland.^[8]

Work

Shaffer's first experiments were with dish glass slumped over metal exerciser that were originally intended cheer be a canvas for painting.^[9] During her time in Boon, RI, Shaffer experimented further delve into test glass' reaction under diverse conditions, and how it could be manipulated and combined run off with other materials.

The early metallic forms used were predominantly required using found objects such primate discarded nails, spikes, brick, pulleys and wire.^[10] Instead of manipulation the glass herself, Shaffer old gravity creating natural shapes straightforward as a result of passionate being applied to glass.^[9]

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