Artist

Frances Higgins

born Haddock, GA 1912-died Riverside, IL 2004
Also known as
  • Frances Stewart Higgins
  • Frances Stewart
Born
Haddock, Georgia, United States
Died
Riverside, Illinois, United States
Active in
  • Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Riverside, Illinois, United States
Nationalities
  • American
Biography
Michael Higgins ran the design department at the Chicago Institute of Design, where Frances Stewart was a graduate student. They met and, as Michael described, had “not so much a whirlwind romance as a dust storm!” Frances and Michael married in 1948 and left the field of education to join the handful of artists working in studio glass. They developed unique methods of manipulating commercial plate glass that combined enameling, slumping, and laminating to produce decorative tableware.