Andrea Gill

American, b. 1948

Gill was born in New Jersey, but spent her early years in Bethesda, Maryland, where she first studied ceramics in high school. She entered a piece in a competition for high school students and won a scholarship to the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 1971 with a BFA. Gill continued her ceramics studies at the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) with Ken Ferguson (see his 1960s Bottle), and then went to Alfred University, New York, for her MFA in 1978. She met her husband, John Gill (also a well-known ceramist), at KCAI. They held several positions across the country and both became professors of ceramic art at Alfred University, teaching there for more than thirty years (1984–2017).