Ron Meyers

American, b. 1934

Meyers earned a master’s degree (1961) in art education from SUNY Buffalo State, followed by an MFA in ceramics (1967) from the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he studied under noted Bauhaus potter Franz Wildenhain. Before teaching ceramics at RIT, he taught high school art in Gowanda, New York, then ceramics at the University of South Carolina from 1967 to 1972, and at the University of Georgia from 1972 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1992. Meyers has presented more than one hundred workshops and demonstrations in the US and abroad, and was the recipient of the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts excellence in teaching award.