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American fiber artist
Mary Balzer Buskirk
Born(1931-03-11)March 11, 1931
Mountain Lake, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedMay 11, 2009(2009-05-11) (aged 78)
Monterey, California, U.S.
Alma materCarleton College, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Known forTextile art

Mary Balzer Buskirk (1931 – 2009) was an American textile artist known for being part of the Mid-century modern movement creating fiber art outside the applied textile tradition.

Buskirk was born on March 11, 1931, in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College and her Master of Fine Arts from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2001 the Monterey Museum of Art held a retrospective entitled The Fabric of Experience: the woven art of Mary Balzer Buskirk.

Buskirk died in Monterey, California, on May 11, 2009. Her work is in the collection of the Monterey Museum of Art the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, the Museum of Art and Design, among other venues.

References

  1. Falino, Jeannine (2011). Crafting modernism: midcentury American art and design: . New York: Abrams. p. 147. ISBN 978-0810984806.
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