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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.
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 ...
Alfred University was founded as a non-sectarian select school by Seventh Day Baptists. [6] In 1836, Bethuel C. Church, a Seventh Day Baptist, was asked to organize a college in Alfred and began teaching, receiving financial assistance from the Seventh Day Baptist Educational Society with resources, in part, from "Female Educational Societies" of local churches. [7]
Construction began June 2014 on a $10 million Alfred Museum of Ceramic Art. The university received a private donation to cover the cost of the new museum. [4] The museum is a teaching and research facility, and part of Alfred University.
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 ...
Category: Alfred University alumni. ... New York State College of Ceramics alumni (43 P) Alfred Saxons athletes (2 C) Pages in category "Alfred University alumni"
Charles Fergus Binns (4 October 1857 in Worcester – 4 December 1934 in Alfred, New York) was an English-born studio potter. [1] Binns was the first director of the New York State School of Clayworking and Ceramics, currently called the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He began his position in 1900 and retired in 1931. [2]
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.