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Mary Shaffer


Meet the artist mary shaffer


Mary Shaffer (born 1947) is an American artist who has worked primarily with glass since the 1970s. 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. She has work in the collections of the Corning Glass Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Mary shaffer a natural force


Life

Shaffer was born in 1947 in Walterboro, South Carolina. She grew up in South America. She studied illustration and painting, earning her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Shaffer has taught at RISD, Wellesley College, and New York University as the Director of the Crafts Program in the 1970s and 1980s. She also managed the Art Center at the University of Maryland.

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Mary Shaffer Wikipedia