Catharine Hiersoux

American, b. 1938

Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1938, Hiersoux is a ceramist, teacher, and lecturer who has taught across the United States at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine; Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina; the State University of New York; University of California, Santa Cruz; and San Francisco State University. In her words, her career “evolved out of a life process. What I did in the studio came from an internal rather than an external need. I would work with the clay and let it evolve out of the process. It was largely unconscious. As I look back on it, it seemed I was defining myself through form, finding relationships with my environment.”