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Harrison McIntosh (1914-2016) was born in Vallejo, California, and became enamored with the arts at a young age. He developed a love of painting when his brother Robert was accepted to the Art Center College of Design in 1937. The McIntosh family relocated from Vallejo to Los Angeles to allow Robert to pursue a painting career, and this change of location was integral to McIntosh’s artistic growth, as he discovered his passion for ceramics in LA. The family hired architect Richard Neutra to construct their new home, and young McIntosh jumped at the opportunity to assist Neutra in the design. He suggested that the family add a garage to the layout, and this space later became his pottery studio. In 1939, McIntosh visited the San Francisco World’s Fair, where he saw Japanese ceramics as well as the folk art pavilion. This experience, and his interaction with Los Angeles ceramists, solidified McIntosh’s interest in the field. Read More

Members have been an important part of the Everson Museum since its early days as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, dating back to the early twentieth century. Originally, there were only two levels of membership: Annual Members, who paid $10 a year, and Annual Contributing Members, who paid $100 a year. Funds obtained through membership fees supported the Museum’s general operating expenses and helped provide free admission to the Museum for all visitors. Beginning in 1911, the Museum directed a portion of membership dollars towards the newly established Friends of American Art Fund, which was used to purchase artworks for the collection. Read More

Mara Superior (b. 1951) wields her knowledge of art history and historical decorative traditions to engage with the present day through her porcelain sculptures. Superior references history by using the traditional forms of relief platters, teapots, and other domestic, decorative items, which she decorates with contemporary textual commentary. Explaining her work, Superior has said, “I seek to create beauty through the reinterpretation of historical inspirations synthesized with my own visual vocabulary and contemporary views. The resulting objects are rooted in the historical continuum.” Read More

Barry Anderson (b. 1969) was born in Greenville, Texas. He grew up in East Texas and in 1991 received his BFA from the University of Texas, Austin, where he primarily studied photography. In 2001, Anderson received his MFA from the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University in Bloomington with a concentration in photography and digital media. Today he is based in Kansas City, Missouri and works in photography, video, and installation. Read More

Edwin Scheier (1910-2008) was born in the Bronx, the youngest son of two German immigrants. To supplement his family’s income, Scheier left school in eighth grade to work as both a delivery boy and as an assembler in a factory. Not content to stay in the Bronx, he hitchhiked across the country multiple times before turning sixteen, working odd jobs as he traveled. While working as a delivery boy at the Blue Kitchen, Scheier met fellow delivery boy Jacob Kainen, who later became a notable printmaker and painter. Through Kainen, Scheier discovered the thriving New York art scene. Read More