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Recently, the Everson acquired several important works for the permanent collection, including Put Me Down Gently, a monumental fiber installation by artist Sheila Pepe. Put Me Down Gently is currently on display in Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism, a mid-career survey exhibition which examines how Pepe plays with feminist and craft traditions through drawing, sculpture, and installation. Read More

American Encaustic Tiling Co. was one of several tile manufacturers located in Zanesville, Ohio in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The company opened in 1875, intending to produce goods that could compete with the recent large influx of English tiles, which Americans had been importing to decorate their homes. In its early decades, A.E.T. was on the cutting edge of tile production in the United States, and by 1890, it was the believed to be the largest tile company in the world. Tile designs ranged from geometric and classical to large, custom-made relief scenes that spread across several tiles, as well as inlaid floor tiles and playful designs made for children. Read More

Born in 1942 in Nagoya, Japan, Jun Kaneko studied painting at a young age, and in 1963, he moved to California in order to continue his art education at the Chouinard Art Institute. His interests quickly changed, however, after exposure to ceramic work of the California Clay Movement. Also known as the American Clay Revolution, artists working in this style departed from the utilitarian objects typically associated with ceramic art and instead created largescale and often abstract sculptural works. Deeply inspired by these artists, Kaneko began his first experiments with clay. Read More

Born in Alberta, Canada, Marilyn Levine developed an interest in math and science as a child and earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in chemistry before committing to a career in the arts. Unable to find a teaching job after finishing graduate school, she began studying art part time at the University of Regina, and by the late 1960s, she was successfully exhibiting ceramics throughout Canada. In 1969, Levine moved to the California Bay Area, where she studied at the University of California Berkeley under master ceramist Peter Voulkos and received a Master of Arts in 1970 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1971. Read More

Gertrude and Otto Natzler are one of several collaborative husband and wife teams that made a significant impact on American ceramics in the twentieth century. After meeting in Austria in 1933, they immediately began a collaboration; Gertrud had recently started studying ceramics, and Otto took an interest in the medium in order to better connect with her. The couple opened their first studio in 1935 in Vienna and received their first prize in 1938 for works submitted to the 1937 World Fair in Paris. The invading Nazi regime cut short their careers in Austria, and Gertrud and Otto immigrated to the United States in 1938, just months after getting married. Read More