Flora Mace

Flora C. Mace (born 1949) is an American glass artist, sculptor, and educator. She was the first woman to teach at Pilchuck Glass School. Since the 1970s, her artistic partner has been Joey Kirkpatrick and their work is co-signed. Mace has won numerous awards including honorary fellow by the American Craft Council.

Biography Mace was born in 1949 in Exeter, New Hampshire.

In 1977, Mace was the first resident glass artist at WheatonArts (formally Wheaton Village, or Wheaton Art and Cultural Center). Mace was the first woman educator at Pilchuk Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, where she taught glassblowing.

Kirkpatrick and Mace have art in various public museum collections including the Portland Art Museum, Corning Museum of Glass; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Seattle Art Museum; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), and Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne.