MacNeil, Linda, 1954-

MacNeill was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, a suburb in greater Boston, and studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, the Massachusetts College of Art[1] and received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. She was introduced to glassmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art where she also met her husband, glass and metal sculptor Dan Dailey.[2] She has taught in glass and sculpture programs including the Pilchuck Glass School, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Philadelphia College of Art, Waterford Crystal and the Miasa Center and Niijima Glass Art Museum in Japan.[1]

MacNeil sets great store by the "wearability" of her pieces as well as on perfect execution.[3] In 2002 a book was published, United in Beauty: The Jewelry and Collectors of Linda MacNeil with portraits of eighty women wearing pieces created by MacNeil. In the introductory essay, Helen W. Drutt English notes: 'Like Olaf Skoogfors and Toni Goessler-Snyder before her, she can claim to be a constructivist whose passion for geometric forms allows her to create works that are compositions in themselves - independent of the wearer.