Mary Ann Shaffer

مكان: Walterboro

مولود: 1944

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Mary Shaffer is an American artist born in 1944 in Walterboro, South Carolina. She grew up in South America and studied illustration and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, earning her B.F.A. in Illustration in 1965. Shaffer is known for her work in glass, which she has been working with since the 1970s. She is considered 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. Shaffer's work is in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.