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American glass artist
Frances Higgins
BornFrances Stewart
(1912-12-24)December 24, 1912
Haddock, Georgia
DiedFebruary 12, 2004(2004-02-12) (aged 91)
Riverside, Illinois
Alma materGeorgia State College for Women, Institute of Design (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Known forArt glass
SpouseMichael Higgins
Work from the Higgins Glass Studio

Frances Higgins (1912 – 2004) was an American glass artist. She is best known for establishing the Higgins Glass studio with her husband Michael Higgins.

Higgins née Stewart was born on December 24, 1912, in Haddock, Georgia. She attended Georgia State College for Women and went on to teach at the University of Georgia. She relocated to Chicago where she studied at the Institute of Design for her MFA. There she met fellow artist Michael Higgins who was a teacher at the institute.

The couple married in 1948. They worked together out of their Chicago apartment creating fused enameled glass. The eventually moved to a larger space where they lived above their studio on N. Wells Street in Chicago. They created tableware using a technique of enameling, fusing, and slumping glass.

In 1966 they moved their studio to Riverside, Illinois. Higgins died on February 12, 2004, in Riverside, Illinois. In 1990 she was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council. Her work is in the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

References

  1. ^ "Frances Higgins". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  2. ^ Falino, Jeannine (2011). Crafting modernism: midcentury American art and design: . New York: Abrams. p. 286. ISBN 978-0810984806.
  3. "Frances Higgins". Voices in Studio Glass History. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  4. "College of Fellows". American Craft Council. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  5. "Higgins, Frances Stewart". Corning Museum of Glass. Retrieved 13 December 2023.

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