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Ron Meyers

American, b. 1934

T - Bowl
2003

Earthenware
3.25 x 5 x 5 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
2003.8

Ron Meyers is known for his utilitarian, wheel-thrown earthenware and stoneware vessels that feature a host of loose pictorial gestures and painted or carved human and animal characters. His early desire to become a cartoonist is evident in these works. T-Bowl is a good example, with a rough fossil-like fish sketched and etched into the surface. Each of Meyers’s pots is characterized by hand and finger marks left from throwing and altering the piece, sometimes adding a wobbly unevenness. His earlier forms were primarily in stoneware before he switched to low-fire earthenware in the late 1970s and 1980s. In the mid-1990s, Meyers expanded his work to include low-fired, salt-glazed pieces, about which he said, “I needed a vehicle to reduce the color and instill a pure sense of form.” He fires his works first in an electric kiln and then in a gas kiln.

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.

Billie Sessions

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bowl, fish, fossilization*

bowl
fish
fossilization - Process of being fossilized. Modes of fossilization include mineralization, impression, trace preservation, and exceptional preservation.