Jennifer mccurdy ceramics prices

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Education

1978, B.F.A. with honors, Michigan State University,
studied under Louis Raynor
1980, Graduate study, Florida Atlantic University,
studied under John McCoy

Museum Permanent Collections

The Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, Washington DC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Art & Archeology, Columbia, MO
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton,

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View Jennifer McCurdy’s works featured on Ceramics Now Magazine

Ceramic artist Jennifer McCurdy lives on the island of Martha’s Vineyard.  She has been working with porcelain for over twenty five years. For the last few years, she has been working with structural questions. How thin can the high fire porcelain be before it collapses in the fire? How much can it be cut away and still maintain structural integrity? How can the structural form be integrated with the visual, as in nature? How can the movement of the potter’s wheel and the fire of the kiln be reflected in the finished piece, which is rock-hard and permanent?  

“Emotion fills me when I see perfect forms in nature, from the cracked conch shell on the beach revealing its perfect spiral, to the milkweed pod burst in the field, its brilliant airborne seeds streaming into the sunlight. The ordered symmetry and asymmetry of nature’s forms reveal the growth of life, the movement of life.

Living on Martha’s Vineyard, island time, especially in the winter, seems to conform to nature’s cycles. As a potter, I

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The Art of Creation: Capturing Movement within Clay

Jennifer McCurdy, a ceramic artist from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, draws on the forms and shapes of nature, translating spirals and fractals, seaweed and flowers into vessels that evoke their source in such a way that the viewer comes away feeling as if they have seen into the heart of something beautiful and living.

McCurdy's finished vessels have an organic look to them, like flowers or leaves, or perhaps seaweed, but aren't representational. “I would be defeated if I tried to copy nature’s patterns,” she says. “I just try to think the way nature thinks and have the work flow from there but, because of the repetition of pattern in my work, I hope that my pieces look more grown than made.”

As she says, "Emotion fills me when I see perfect forms in nature, from the cracked conch shell on the beach revealing its perfect spiral, to the milkweed pod burst in the field, its brilliant airborne seeds streaming into the sunlight. The ordered symmetry and asymmetry of nature's forms reveal the growth of life, the movement o