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Barbara Willis (née Thompson) (June 29, 1917 - September 3, 2011) was an American southern Californian ceramic artist."She was among the first to adapt studio techniques to commercial pottery, using molds to mass produce simple geometric wares that had a hand-made look."
A ceramic vase with silver overlay made by Shirayamadani for Rookwood Pottery in 1892. Kataro Shirayamadani (Shirayamadani Kitarō 白山谷 喜太郎; 1865–1948), also known as Kitaro Shirayamadani, was a Japanese decorative ceramics painter who worked for Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1887 until 1948.
A studio potter is one who is a modern artist or artisan, who either works alone or in a small group, producing unique items of pottery in small quantities, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by themselves. [1] Studio pottery includes functional wares such as tableware, cookware and non-functional wares such as sculpture ...
Maria Poveka Montoya Martinez (c. 1887 – July 20, 1980) was a Puebloan artist who created internationally known pottery. [1] [2] Martinez (born Maria Poveka Montoya), her husband Julian, and other family members, including her son Popovi Da, examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people's legacy of fine artwork and crafts.
Joy Navasie was born in 1919. [1] As well as the art of pottery, the name Frog Woman was passed down from her mother, Paqua Naha. [2] [3]Navasie carries on the white ware pottery tradition from her mother, which she contends was developed around 1951 or 1952.
A shelf in the Leach Pottery museum and gallery, St Ives, Cornwall. Leach returned to England in 1920 on the invitation of Frances Horne. Horne was establishing a Guild of Handicrafts within the existing artist colony of St Ives in Cornwall. On the recommendation of a family friend, Edgar Skinner, she contacted Leach to suggest that he become ...
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Janet Darnell Leach (15 March 1918 – 12 September 1997), was an American studio potter working in later life at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall in England. After studying pottery at Black Mountain, North Carolina under Shoji Hamada, a visiting artisan, she traveled to Japan to work with him. She studied with him for two years and ...