Virginia Cartwright

1943Born Los Angeles, California

EDUCATION

—BA California State University, Long Beach, California

—MFA School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

—Kyoto Fine Arts University, Kyoto, Japan

—Pond Farm, Guerneville, California

—Haystack Mountain Craft School. Deer Isle, Maine

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

—Kyoto Fine Arts University, Kyoto, Japan

1969-1970Otis Art College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California

1975-1980Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California

1982-1986El Camino College, Torrance, California

1983-1991Glendale College, Glendale, California

1988California State University, Los Angeles, California

1988-1991Harvard-Westlake School, Chair Art Department, Los Angeles, California

BIOGRAPHY

 Virginia Cartwright is known in her early career for wheel-thrown pieces but after 4 years she began to hand and slab-build thin walled functional pieces. Surfaces are left unglazed or are finished with deeply carved and slip-trailed surface techniques. Cartwright has also worked with colored clay that she creates by sifting dry colored clay onto a moist slab, then carving the surface and stretching the clay before forming the final object.