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Photo by Floyd Parks.
Winnie Owens-Hart is a curator, artist, educator, scholar, filmmaker, and critical thinker.
Owens-Hart’s life’s work is her interest in the creative process, the historical significance of clay and clay workers globally, and the preservation of all aboriginal ceramics.
She imagined, as a very young ceramicist, what pot-making and life must be like in an African pottery village. Initially this wish was realized in 1977 in a Nigerian pottery village and continues today, for the past ten years, in a traditional pottery village in Ghana.
Owens-Hart has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; a Renwick Fellowship and a Faculty Research Fellowship from the Smithsonian; was an international USA representative for FESTAC in Nigeria; and had her work selected for the 9th Biennale Internationale de Céramique d’Art in Vallauris, France.
Donor -This award was generously supported by the Ford Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 07.10.2024