Linda Ann Hufnagel, Linda Jaron

1939Born New Jersey

EDUCATION

1961 BA University of Vermont, Zoology, Burlington, Vermont

1963 MS University of Vermont, Zoology, Burlington, Vermont

1967Phd Biological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

—Fleisher School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

—Columbia Teachers College, New York, New York

—Creative Art Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut

2006—Workshops with Karen Karnes, Tom Coleman, Hiroshi Ogawa, Gail Nichols, Lee Segal, Tom Ladd, Seth Rainsville, Chris Gustin, Matt Long, Nancy Train Smith

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1973-2016 Teaching, agronomy research, cell and molecular biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island

—Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan

BIOGRAPHY

Linda Ann Hufnagel is known for wheel-thrown and altered, shallow and deep carved stoneware and porcelain functional and non-functional organic forms. Surfaces may include motifs, images, and patterns drawn from the natural world. The work is fired to cone 6 and 10-12 in kilns using various atmospheres including salt and soda, wood-firing, pit-firing, and raku firing methods.

Hufnagel’s early work used clay found on her family’s Vermont farm. She credits Elsbeth Woody her teacher at Columbia Teachers College, NYC as a major influence.

Hufnagel worked at Pewabic Pottery and studied with Bill Powell and John Glick.