Margie Hughto

1944Born, Endicott, New York

EDUCATION

1966BS State University of New York, Buffalo, New York

1971MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1971—Professor of Ceramics, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

1971-1981Teacher, Consultant, Lecturer and Curator of Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

BIOGRAPHY 

Margie Hughto is a mixed-media artist known for her non-traditional approach to clay. She creates site specific richly textured and colorful collage ceramic wall reliefs, paintings, and ceramic tile murals. Hughto’s pieces are created from various sized ceramic slabs/tiles. Each is glazed and fired separately and then composed much like a collage. She includes imagery from nature and the man-made world.

Her tiles are made by pressing wet clay into plaster molds. She makes the molds using objects she repurposes. The mural she created for the subway stop beneath the World Trade Center survived the September 11, 2001 attacks. However it was removed from the wall and moved when the station was reconfigured. A number of tiles were damaged in this process and were remade.