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| Linda MacNeil began her prodigious career as a metalsmith while she was still a teenager. Crafting wire jewelry in a basement studio set up by her father, she successfully sold the pieces on the street to passersby. MacNeil grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, in a family filled with creative individuals, from her father who designed machinery to her clothing designer mother to relatives who were architects. Committed to art at an early age, MacNeil studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and the Massachusetts College of Art, where she was introduced to glass and her future husband, Dan Dailey. She received her B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. |
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| Upon graduation, MacNeil started exhibiting her work in
commercial galleries and soon gained recognition for her talent. Indeed, one
of her first exposures at the Cooper & French Gallery in Providence, earned
her praise alongside Dale Chihuly in a Craft Horizons review. She has since
shown in many distinguished galleries including Heller Gallery, New York;
Habatat Galleries, Florida; Hawk Galleries, Ohio; Leo Kaplan Modern, New
York; and Imago Galleries, California. Her work has also been featured in
American Craft, and major articles have appeared in Neues Glas, and
Metalsmith. MacNeil’s metal-and-glass sculpture and jewelry has been
acquired by several prestigious museums, among them the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Renwick Gallery of the
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; and the Mint Museum of Craft and
Design, Charlotte, NC. In addition, MacNeil’s artistic accomplishments have
been recognized by both the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Arts. MacNeil has shared her consummate skill and aesthetic vision—marked by an Art Deco inspired elegance and economy of form—with students at the Pilchuck Glass School; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; Rhode Island School of Design; and at the Miasa Center and the Niijima Glass Center in Japan. Although she has worked in various formats, including sculpture, windows, and architectural installations, jewelry has been the mainstay of her career. MacNeil applies the same love of material, technical precision, and clarity of form to all her work, while meeting the additional challenge of wearability in her jewelry. Click here for an Adobe Acrobat pdf file of Linda's resume |
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