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1936 Born Cocosolo, Panama
2018 Died Oakland, California
EDUCATION
—University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
—San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
1965 and 1976 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1967 University of California, Davis, Davis, California
1976University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
BIOGRAPHY
Ann Adair Voulkos is known for porcelain sculptural forms that serve as canvases for drawing and painting with glazes. Her cone 10 porcelain clay is reduction fired, occasionally with nylon fibers added to the clay for strength.
Voulkos' primary glazes are celadon, semi-opaque white, semi-matte yellow, opaque white with a grey or pink cast and semi-matte turquoise blue that fires red when a clear glaze is added. She less frequently used cobalt, iron, black and copper oxides for lines and drawing.
In 1961 Voulkos took her first ceramics class with her future husband, Peter Voulkos.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Mills College, Oakland, California
Oakland Museum of California Art, Oakland, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Peterson, Susan, and Jan Peterson. Working with Clay. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002.
______________________________. The Craft and Art of Clay: A Complete Potter's Handbook. London, England: Laurence King Publishing, 2012.
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Source: The Forrest L. Merrill Collection, Dane Cloutier Archives
"Adair" often with the year the piece was created, written in black. Either in printed upper case letters or cursive lower case letters.
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