Flo Perkins
American, born 1951
Person TypeIndividual
BiographyFlo Perkins received her MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, CA in 1981 and her BFA Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA in 1974. She also studied under renowned Italian glass blower Lino Tagliapietra and in 1981 was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts, Apprenticeship Grant. Perkins is best known for her cactus and botanical forms and her method of combining bronze and metal with blown glass and has also achieved recognition for satirical “danger and sports” forms such as bowling pins sand traffic pylons. Among her most noted series is a group of Desert Botanical pieces she created in 2008 at the Venini Glass Factory in Venice, Italy. Perkins’ work is in the collections of Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Boston Athenaeum Library, Boston, MA; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Museo Municipal de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain; The Norton Museum, Palm Beach, FL; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Pilchuck School, Stanwood, WA; Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; Rockwell Museum, Corning NY; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ