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REBECCA MAPES
Rebecca Mapes is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in glass and jewelry. Her practice is rooted in an investigation of material behavior, approaching each medium through its inherent properties and constraints. In glass, she works in dialogue with a material that is fluid, responsive, and inclined toward roundness and volume. In jewelry, she engages metal as a medium of structure, precision, and intimacy, where scale and wearability inform each decision. Across both practices, form emerges through a balance of responsiveness and control, guided by what each material allows.
Drawn to its responsiveness, Mapes engages glass as a material that resists rigid control, one that naturally seeks curvature, volume, and continuity. Rather than imposing form, she works in dialogue with these inclinations, allowing the material’s desire for roundness to guide the outcome. Metal frameworks are introduced not as constraints, but as collaborators: they contain and articulate the glass, creating moments of tension where soft, bulbous forms press against defined edges. In these interactions, her forms often take on a subtle corporeal presence—swelling, segmented, and held in dynamic balance—emerging through process as the material moves, gathers, and is held. The result is a language of form that feels both intimate and structural, sensuous yet resolved.
Mapes holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, where she lived and worked for a decade before relocating to Santa Fe, where all of her work is currently designed and produced. Her glass practice is developed at Prairie Dog Glass under the guidance of Patrick Morrissey.
“I always tend to think of my glass work in terms of how it relates to space and light in the form of installations, whether that be a table full of glass jewelry displays or tiny vases. The scale of the vases relates back to my experience as a jeweler and my tendency towards the small and intricate. There is something pleasing about an abundance of tiny objects, perhaps it’s just something small creating something more vast. I like thinking of the tiny vases as a mini glass installation, an artwork that can be experienced as a whole, like one would take in a field of wildflowers. My hope is that the vases will be a singular scene to behold, and for some, a treasure to take home that prompts a visceral memory.”
— Rebecca Mapes
2026
4” x 9.5”
Glass
$1,200
Assisted by Sarah Schiros
2026
6” x 10.75”
Glass
$2,600
Assisted by Sarah Schiros
2026
6.5” x 10.5”
Glass
$2,500
Assisted by Sarah Schiros
2026
7” x 10.5”
Glass
$2,600
2026
7” x 9.5”
Glass
$2,300
Assisted by Sarah Schiros
2026
6.5” x 6.5”
Glass
$900
2026
6.5” x 8.5”
Glass
$1,500
Assisted by Sarah Schiros
2026
6.25” x 6”
Glass
$900
EXHIBITIONS AT FOLKLORE
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A story about hope and rebirth. Folklore’s inaugural group show explores beauty in all phases of nature’s cycles. We honor the earth in her dormancy, the seeds we plant quietly, and the wild, divine process of unfurling.
February 10 through April 8, 2024
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A story about gaining clarity. Featuring new work by earth-pigment painter Ryan Snow and blown glass vessels by multi-disciplinary artist Rebecca Mapes. Constructs are examined, embraced, and reimagined. Form and space converse with light. Mediums harmonize and transmit calibration, allowing access to a more enlightened way of seeing. Through physical dialogue with materials that carry their own internal logic, or a message channelled from the field, we’re inspired to listen and respond. In doing so, we find something more honest and true to nature.
May 2 – June 22, 2026