Judy Kensley Mckie

Plass: Boston

Født: 1944

Biografi:

Judy Kensley McKie is an American artist, furniture designer, and furniture maker. She has been making her signature style of furniture with carved and embellished animal and plant motifs since 1977. She is based in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her BFA degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1966. Her entrance to furniture making came from the necessity to furnish her own home and to create pieces of furniture for her friends. She is known for her furniture craft and her studio furniture. She has been awarded with two fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, a Massachusetts Artist Foundation fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award. She is recognized as a premiere figure in the American studio furniture movement.