Paula Winokur

American, (1936–2018)

Winokur was born and raised in Philadelphia. At Tyler she met her future husband, Robert Winokur. Their personal and artistic lives intertwined, raising two sons and sharing a studio. Paula overcame sexism in her early career, being told that as a wife and mother she did not deserve a full-time teaching position. She went on to lead the ceramics program at Arcadia University and became a mentor to countless young women as she gained well-deserved status in her field. In the last decades of her career, she turned her artistic attention to environmental issues. Winokur is best known for the work she made from the 1990s through the 2010s using her sculptures to bring attention to global warming and the melting of the world’s icebergs.