Michael Boylen

Born: 1935

Edith Franklin is best known for functional and sculptural stoneware.

In addition to her ceramics work, Franklin studied glass blowing with Harvery Littleton.

Franklin worked in Toledo, Ohio. She began teaching pottery ...
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Edith Franklin is best known for functional and sculptural stoneware.

In addition to her ceramics work, Franklin studied glass blowing with Harvery Littleton.

Franklin worked in Toledo, Ohio. She began teaching pottery workshops at local colleges and schools in the 1960?s. Known in the community as, ?La Grande Dame of the Arts,? Franklin was a co-founder of the Toledo Potter?s Guild, a trustee of the Toledo Area Glass Guild, and The Paper Makers Guild. Franklin?s legacy of service is continued by her Youth Arts Fund which supports local potters in the Toledo area.

Apprenticeships & Residencies

Apprenticeship - Abraham Cohn. Potters Wheel Gallery, Fish Kill, Wisconsin

Primary Work Experience

1980

2010

Director, Ceramics Program, Marlboro College, Marlborough, Vermont

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Public Collections

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK

Bibliography

Bernstein, William, Andre G. Billeci, Michael E. Boylen, William H. Boysen, Vernon Brejcha, and Dale Brownscombe. 1976. New American Glass, Focus West Virginia: exhibition catalogue, June 20 through October 10, 1976, Huntington Galleries, Huntington, West Virginia. Huntington, W. Va: Huntington Galleries.

Boylen, Michael. “The Ceramics of Asger Jorn.” The Studio Potter 22, no. 2 (Dec. 1993).

Boylen, Michael. “Sculptures and Drawings,” Glass, Spring 1998.

Grover, Ray. Contemporary Art Glass. United States: Crown Publishers, 1975.

White House Conference on the Arts: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, and the Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions, on H.J. Res. 600. United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978.

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