Mary Balzer Buskirk (1931 – 2009) was an American textile artist known for being part of the Mid-century modern movement creating fiber art outside the applied textile tradition.
[1] Buskirk was born on March 11, 1931, in Mountain Lake, Minnesota.
[4] In 2001 the Monterey Museum of Art held a retrospective entitled The Fabric of Experience: the woven art of Mary Balzer Buskirk.
[5] Buskirk died in Monterey, California, on May 11, 2009.
[3] Her work is in the collection of the Monterey Museum of Art[4] the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, the Museum of Art and Design,[6] among other venues.