Debora Moore

Debora Moore (born 1960) is an American contemporary glass artist and teacher. She is best known for her flora and orchids made of glass. She owns Fiori Studio, located in Seattle. She was the third of six children, and spent many summers with her grandparents while she was growing up. Her career as an artist was influenced by her grandparents' garden and public art classes she took while visiting them.

Moore took classes at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, as part of a work-study grant she received, then won a scholarship in 1990 to blow glass at Pilchuck Glass School, near Seattle. There she worked with Italo Scanga, Pino Signoretto, Ruth King, and Paul DeSomma, and Paul Marioni, and was a member of Dale Chihuly's glassblowing team.

She was married to glass artist Benjamin P. Moore, who died in 2021. Together they have a daughter.

Career Before becoming a glass artist, Moore worked a number of jobs, including waiting tables and modeling. She has participated in several artist-in-residence and visiting artist programs at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia; the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington; and the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Canada. Notably, she was the first woman, and the first African American, to be a resident at Abate Zanetti, Murano, Italy.

Moore began making glass flowers in 1987, and is best known for her orchids. She uses glassblowing and hot sculpting at the furnace to "retain the pure brilliance of glass".

Her pieces, Cherry and Pink Lady Slipper Branch, were acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign. and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.