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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 ...
McKinley then made the decision to work with pottery by enrolling, instead, to study in the Department of Industrial Design at the New York State College of Ceramics in Alfred. McKinley earned her BFA and MFA from Alfred University, the MFA in 1955. She emigrated to Canada with her husband Donald in 1967 (he headed the furniture program at the ...
Vivika Heino (MFA), ceramist, the second M.F.A. graduate from the ceramics program (following Daniel Rhodes) Ka Kwong Hui (BFA 1951, MFA 1952), potter, ceramist, and educator [1] Amy Karle, bioartist, provocateur and futurist. Jae Won Lee, ceramic artist and educator; Charles Loloma, Hopi potter, business owner and director of plastic arts ...
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]
Walter McConnell is an American ceramic artist living and working in Belmont, New York.He is most recognized for his unfired ceramic installations addressing the relationship between nature and culture – more specifically, the means through which contemporary culture constructs an understanding of nature. [1]
[25] [7] He continued his studies at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University completing an MFA in 1979. [ 7 ] In the early 1980s, Zimmerman moved to New York City and opened a studio in a converted Williamsburg, Brooklyn factory in 1983.
Scholes Library is located at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York and is named for renowned glass scientist and educator, Samuel R. Scholes. It was formally established in 1947 to support the curriculum and research programs of the New York State College of Ceramics. Today, Scholes Library serves as an international resource.
In 1976 she received an MFA degree from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University. [ 1 ] Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum , [ 1 ] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston .