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While originally housed in 1,500 sq. ft. of exhibition space in the New York State College of Ceramics' Binns-Merrill Hall, the museum's new building was constructed in 2014 by KMW Architects [2] to allow the museum to grow since the village of Alfred is known as a ceramics mecca.
Robert C. Turner, ceramist, professor emeritus of ceramic art at Alfred till 1979. Lydia Wallace-Chavez, member of the Unkechaug Nation and Kainai Nation, wampum artisan; Betty Woodman, ceramic artist who studied at the School for American Craftsmen when it was located in the liberal arts program at Alfred University in 1948–49.
Margaret L. Carney has served as director and curator of numerous museums, including the Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1986–1990; founding director and curator of the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York, 1991–2002; [1] the Blair Museum of Lithophanes, Toledo, Ohio, 2004–2012; [2] before establishing the ...
The college was founded by an Act, signed into law on April 11, 1900 by Governor Theodore Roosevelt, per Chapter 383 of the Session Laws of New York, 1900 establishing the New York State School of Clay-Working and Ceramics. [3] This move by Alfred University to petition the New York State legislature in 1899 followed a period of crisis at the ...
The Milwaukee Art Museum organized a retrospective of his ceramics career, which toured from 1985 to 1987. Turner was also honored by the establishment of the Robert C. Turner Chair in Ceramic Art at Alfred University, now occupied by the well-known potter and ceramics teacher Wayne Higby. He died July 26, 2005, in Sandy Spring, Maryland.
Minnie Negoro (27 April, 1919 - 1 May, 1998) was a Japanese-American ceramic artist and professor.During her professional career from 1945 to 1989 Negoro worked at a number of institutions as a ceramics researcher and potter.
Daniel Rhodes (right) assists a ceramics student at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming (January 1943). Daniel Rhodes (May 8, 1911 – July 23, 1989) was an American artist, known as a ceramic artist, muralist, sculptor, author and educator.
Glidden McLellan Parker, Jr. (1913 – 1980) was an American artist and designer who is best known for his work in ceramics and stained glass. He established Glidden Pottery in Alfred, New York and later was chief designer for Glass Art Studio in Scottsdale, Arizona.