Maria Phillips

Maria Phillips is a Seattle-based studio artist and educator who received her BA from Loyola University, New Orleans and her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1997. Most recently her work was exhibited in “Hidden in Plain Sight” at Bellevue Art Museum in 2019.

Her work is in numerous private and permanent collections, including the Museum of Art and Design, the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Renwick Gallery, and the Tacoma Art Museum. She is the recipient of a Washington Artist Trust Fellowship and has been a resident in the John Michael Kohler Art Center’s Arts/Industry Program. Phillips work is published in the books The Art of Enameling, 500 Brooches and The Penland Book of Jewelry: Master Classes in Jewelry Techniques in which she wrote a chapter on the process of Electroforming. She recently was awarded the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence for her work in the Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial.

Phillips has continued to explore sustainable methods for artmaking. In 2018, she was an artist in residence at Recology’s material recovery facility in Seattle, an opportunity that sparked a shift to working entirely with found and collected plastic materials.

(source: artist’s website)

For additional information and images visit the artist’s website: http://www.mariaphillipsstudio.com/

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