O pioneers! : women ceramic artists 1925-1960
Ezra Shales (Editor, Curator), Susan Kowalczyk (Curator), Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University (Host institution)
"'O Pioneers! Women Ceramic Artists, 1925-1960' revisits important contributions of women to American art history on several levels - as artists negotiating modernism and as educators paving new roles in the academy. Drawing from the collection of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum and the Everson Museum, as well as private collections, the exhibition includes over 100 works, ranging across functional pottery and figurative sculpture, and presents a complex narrative of global influences, a diverse cast, and, perhaps most importantly, illuminates a time when an imaginative reverence toward historical form, clay, and glazes permeated both the academy and the gallery. Ceramics might not have been considered a field or discipline outside of a few schools in America, but it was a vocation many women embraced as a new way to imagine a life of work"-- Publisher's website
Print Book, English, 2015
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University, Alfred, New York, 2015