Bertie Smith

Bertie Smith is known for small hand-built earthenware sculptures, often in the form of teapots, vertical assemblages of forms or human figurines. The sculptures are vibrantly decorated using underglazes, glazes, and luster. ...
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    Bertie Smith is known for small hand-built earthenware sculptures, often in the form of teapots, vertical assemblages of forms or human figurines. The sculptures are vibrantly decorated using underglazes, glazes, and luster. They were raku, reduction or salt fired.

    Smith?s first ceramics classes were at the Witt Museum, San Antonio, Texas with teacher Harding Black.

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    Smith, Dennis W., “Bertie Smith,” Ceramics Monthly¸ 48, no. 6 (June/July/August 2000). Accessed 29 October 2021 ceramics-monthly-jun00-cei0600d.pdf (ceramicartsnetwork.org)

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    Lange, Hanna

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    American Museum of Ceramic Art

    American Ceramic Society

    Center for Craft

    Harding Black

    Raku

    teapots

    sculpture

    AMOCA

    ACerS

    CfC

    Citation: Lange, Hanna Bertie Smith, "The Marks Project."
    Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/bertie-smith

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