Martha Longenecker
Martha Longenecker?s ceramic production is wheel-thrown stoneware functional vessel forms.
Initially a student of Laura Andreson at University of California, Longenecker went on to graduate school studies in painting with California school of ...
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Martha Longenecker?s ceramic production is wheel-thrown stoneware functional vessel forms.
Initially a student of Laura Andreson at University of California, Longenecker went on to graduate school studies in painting with California school of painters? artist Millard Sheets and studies in ceramics with Richard Petterson. It was at Claremont that she encountered Soetsu Yanagi and later went on to study pottery in Japan with Shoji Hamada.
Longenecker was a teacher who in 1955 established the ceramics program at San Diego State University and in 1978 founded and oversaw the development of the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, CA.
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1945
Studio potter, Claremont, CA
1945Taught Extension Service of the University of California, Los Angeles, California
1945Idyllwild Art Foundation, Idyllwild, California
1955-1990Professor, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
1978-2005Founder/Director, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California
Other
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Forster, Ken. Biographies in American Ceramic Art 1870-1970. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2010.
Nordness, Lee. Objects USA. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1970.
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Citation: Martha Longenecker, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/martha-longenecker
