Margaret Flowers (Mrs. Leslie Flowers Sr.), studied with Harding
Black at the Witte Museum Art School, with
Marguerite Wildenhain at Pond Farm Pottery
near Guerneville, California,
and with
Bernard Howell Leach known as the, "Father of British studio pottery".
She lived with her rancher husband in Uvalde before they moved to
San Antonio in 1945.
She began exhibiting her work in 1946. In addition to exhibiting in
all major Texas cities and winning awards in a number of state
competitions, she exhibited numerous times in the nation's major
ceramic exhibitions : the Syracuse (New York) National; the
Wichita ( Kansas) Fine Arts National; the circuit exhibits for
1959 in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N. H.; Cleveland
Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Grand Rapids' Gallery
of Art. She became head of the ceramics department and the San
Antonio Art Institute in the 1950’s and funded the construction of a
modern ceramics studio. In the 1960’s she opened her own gallery in San
Antonio. Her work was featured in Potters' Quarterly, The
Christian Science Monitor, and The Ceramics Monthly. She was also a
fine painter and watercolorist and member of the Texas Watercolor
Society, Texas Fine Arts Association. American Designer Council and
the San Antonio Craft Guild which she was instrumental in founding
and served as president. Her work is in the permanent collections
of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, the Witte Memorial Museum,
the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, the McNay Art Institute, and the Texas Fine
Arts Association, Austin.