Ron Meyers, Ronald Meyers

EDUCATION

1956-1961 BS and MS Art Education State University of New York College, Buffalo, New York

1967 MFA School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1967-1972 Faculty, 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.