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Arnie Zimmerman (b.1954) is a sculptor and ceramist currently based in Hudson, New York. In the 1970s, Zimmerman apprenticed as a potter in Lincolnshire, England and as a stone carver in the Provence Quarry of France before returning to the United States to complete his formal education. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1977 and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1979, and then relocated to a studio space in Brooklyn. Read More

Today we launch a new blog series, From the Archives! The Everson’s archives document its long history, beginning with the institution’s founding as the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts in 1897 and extending through 122 years of exhibitions, programs, and events, as well as the building of a collection with over 11,000 objects. In this series, we will share photographs, correspondence, exhibition materials, and other ephemera that tells the story of the Everson. Our first From the Archives find is material relating to the first Ceramic National exhibition in 1932. Read More

Sorcha Boru (1900-2006) was an American ceramist from the San Francisco bay area. Born Claire Everett Jones, she used Sorcha Boru as her studio name in an homage to her Gaelic heritage. Throughout her career, Boru worked in multiple studios in the California bay area, including one at the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park and one in San Carlos. Boru’s Art Deco ceramics were small in scale, often in the form of miniature figurines, salt and pepper shakers, or chess sets. Read More

Born on a ranch near Athol, Kansas, Bernard Frazier (1906-1979) grew up raising cattle and horses and farming wheat. Frazier expressed interest in art at a young age, using local clays and stones to create modest sculptures without any training or guidance from an art teacher. He enrolled in a semester of art classes at Kansas Wesleyan University in 1924, before transferring to the newly established school of design at the University of Kansas to study painting. Read More

Kim Ellington (b. 1954) lives and works in Vale, North Carolina and is known for his use of local clays, ash glazes, and a groundhog kiln to make and fire his functional pottery wares. Ellington studied clay at Haywood Community College in Clyde, North Carolina, and was a studio potter when he met venerated Catawba Valley ceramist Burlon Craig. From Craig, Ellington learned the traditional methods of Catawba Valley potters, and since that time, has followed their traditions at his company Ellington Pottery. Read More