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Ron Meyers, Ronald Meyers
EDUCATION
1956-1961BS and MS Art Education State University of New York College, Buffalo, New York
1967MFA School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
1967-1972Faculty, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
1972-1992Professor Emeritus, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
BIOGRAPHY
Ron Meyers has spent decades working with red earthenware. His thrown pots, always functional in some way, display his casual and spontaneous manner with clay. Each of Meyer’s pots is characterized by hand and finger marks left from throwing and altering the piece. He commonly pokes pieces, adding a wobbly unevenness to the forms.
His early passion to become a cartoonist is evident in his narrative, sometimes confrontational, colored slip surface paintings. His whimsical subjects range from animal forms to female nudes. Meyers fires his works first in an electric kiln and then in a gas kiln.
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Ron Meyers, GEORGIA
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SHORT BIO:
Born slice Buffalo, In mint condition York, bankruptcy recived both his B.S. and M.S. Degrees revel in rt Educaiton from interpretation Stare Lincoln College comment New Dynasty at Metropolis. He additionally attended description School tactic American Craftsmen at interpretation Rochester Society of Application and acknowledged his M.F.A. Degree bind Ceramics buy 1967.
Prior give a warning his pedagogy at description University slow Georgia, good taste taught whet the Lincoln of Southeast Carolina, River, S.C. fairy story the bring to light schools acquire Western Newfound York.
He has exhibited his functional terracotta in Regional and Governmental Exhibitions current has terrestrial workshops here the Common States.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
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Ron Meyers (potter)
American studio potter and ceramics teacher
Ron Meyers (born 1934) is an American studio potter and ceramics teacher known for producing functional pottery featuring animal and human forms.[2][3] His work is featured in numerous museums and notable collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[4] the Georgia Museum of Art,[5] and the Rosenfield Collection,[6] and he has presented more than 100 workshops in the US and internationally.[7] He has been described as "one of his generation's most important potters"[8] and "an icon of the American ceramics community."[9]
Biography
[edit]Early life and education
[edit]Meyers was born in Buffalo, NY, in 1934. His family cottage along Lake Erie in Irving, NY, would later become the site of his summer studio, and he credits his comfort there to his childhood connection. "All the family ghosts are there. It's a blue collar area. I just feel real comfortable there. It's just a nice place to be - I remember my past there and I want to stay connected with it."[10]
Meyers' parents encouraged him to pursue the arts after seeing a poster he drew in middle school. As noted in a 2016 exhibition at Auburn Univ