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Claire Weissberg

 
Claire Weissberg

American 20th-21st century ceramist
(New York, )

From artist's website: Claire Weissberg, a native New Yorker, studied pottery with Clary Illian in Iowa, and with Chiyoichi Shimizu in Japan. She received her MFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has been making Urban Folk Pottery in Brooklyn since 1989. She throws her pottery on the wheel, slip trails and carves on the leather hard pieces, and glazes using wax resist. She uses a cone 6 porcelain and lead-free glazes.

1 objects

Bowl

n.d.
ceramic
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.399