Mary Clerkin Higgins
Mary Clerkin Higgins owns and operates the Clerkin Higgins Stained Glass studio in New York City. She has exhibited her original work in the United States and Canada and has been featured in The New York Sun, Glass Art Magazine and other publications. She is also a highly respected stained glass conservator and restorer and has worked on medieval and renaissance glass for many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the St. Louis Art Museum, among others. In addition, she has conserved glass by modern masters, including William Morris, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Harry Clarke, Louis Comfort Tiffany, John La Farge, Frank Lloyd Wright, Christopher Wilmarth, Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse. She fabricated two clerestory windows by Rowan LeCompte for the National Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Washington, D.C. She contributed the chapter “Origins, Materials, and the Glazier’s Art” to Virginia Raguin’s book, Stained Glass: From Its Origins to the Present (Abrams 2003).
She can be contacted at www.clerkinhigginsstainedglass.com .