Since the 1970s, her artistic partner has been Flora Mace and their work is co-signed.
[4][5][6] Kirkpatrick has won numerous awards including honorary fellow by the American Craft Council (2005).
[6] Kirkpatrick and Mace have shared a home and art studio in Seattle, Washington and a farm in the Olympic Peninsula.
[7] Joey Kirkpatrick was born in 1952 in Des Moines, Iowa.
[9] In 1979, Kirkpatrick met Mace through Dale Chihuly at Pilchuk Glass School in Stanwood, Washington.