Virginia Cartwright

Virginia Cartwright (born 1943) is an American ceramic artist.

Virginia Cartwright
Born1943 (age 7980)
Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1][2]
EducationCalifornia State University, Long Beach,
Rochester Institute of Technology
OccupationCeramist
WebsiteOfficial website

Biography

She studied at California State University, Long Beach (BA degree); School for American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology (MFA degree) under Frans Wildenhain; as well as at Pond Farm in Guerneville, California; and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.[3] The first four years of her career she spent working on the wheel, and afterwards she moved to working in hand and slab-build, primarily utilitarian works.[3]

Her work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[4][5] the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art[6] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[1]

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