From the Rosenfield Collection: Beth Lo Paints Childhood Memories
Lo’s ceramics, decorated with lively scenes painted in pastel underglazes, illustrate these childhood experiences in a playful manner, while simultaneously embracing themes like cultural marginality, tradition vs. Westernization, and language and translation. While those who...
From the Rosenfield Collection: Lisa Orr Embraces Color
When it's time for Texas-based studio potter Lisa Orr to choose which color glazes she will create with, she imagines the meal she would plate on the ceramic and the colors of its fruit and...
Question and Answer with Louise Rosenfield
Meet Louise Rosenfield, the visionary behind our new café, Louise. A Dallas-based potter and Everson Trustee, Louise has dedicated her life to collecting functional ceramics. With over 3,000 pieces from over 500 contemporary artists in...
The Art of Making People Uncomfortable
It was a long time between the start of Frank Buffalo Hyde’s career and his use of the buffalo in his artwork. “I resisted using any sort of buffalo imagery because my middle name was...
Super Bowls to Celebrate Super Bowl Sunday
While much of the country cheers on the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LVII, at the Everson we are celebrating in our own way — by taking a look at...
Experimental Television Center at the Everson
Fifty years ago today, on September 19, 1972, the Everson Museum opened Work from Experimental Television Center, Binghamton, NY, an exhibition curated by David Ross that provided a comprehensive look at the Center’s involvement in...
Golden Splendor: Portrait of Alice Maud Allen Atwater by Abbott Handerson Thayer
Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) was a New England painter known for his ethereal angels, landscapes, and floral paintings, as well as traditional Gilded Age society portraits of women and children. ...
Celebrating the ‘Unheroic’: Women Walking in a Subway Station by Isabel Bishop
The youngest in her family by over a decade, Isabel Bishop (1902-1988) was often lonely as a child. She filled her free time drawing and attending Saturday art classes, and after her family relocated from...
Beautiful Danger: Patterson’s Curse, Tanami Traces by Pippin Drysdale
Pippin Drysdale (b. 1943) is an Australian ceramist whose career spans over thirty years. Drysdale’s ceramics explicitly engage with the Australian landscape, which the artist represents through abstract color fields and subtle, ebbing lines of...
The Story Behind Peaches and Evangeline
Many years before news cameras were bringing images from the fight for Civil Rights to American living rooms, a young, reserved, soft-spoken school principal lived in Mims, Florida, a small citrus town near Orlando. In...
David MacDonald: Vessels For The Human Spirit
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Revisiting Dawn Williams Boyd Lecture, “Perspective of the Other”
In celebration of Black History Month, we are sharing a lecture given by Dawn Williams Boyd in 2021 called “The Perspective of the Other.” In it, Boyd discusses an ongoing series that she has worked...