Ron Meyers | Also Known As: Ronald Meyers

Ron Meyers has spent decades working with red earthenware. His thrown pots, always functional in some way, display his casual and spontaneous manner with clay. Each of Meyer?s pots is characterized by ...
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    Ron Meyers has spent decades working with red earthenware. His thrown pots, always functional in some way, display his casual and spontaneous manner with clay. Each of Meyer?s pots is characterized by hand and finger marks left from throwing and altering the piece. He commonly pokes pieces, adding a wobbly unevenness to the forms.

    His early passion to become a cartoonist is evident in his narrative, sometimes confrontational, colored slip surface paintings. His whimsical subjects range from animal forms to female nudes. Meyers fires his works first in an electric kiln and then in a gas kiln.

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    Apprenticeships & Residencies
    Primary Work Experience
    1967
    -
    1972

    Faculty, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

    1972
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    1992

    Professor Emeritus, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

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    Public Collections

    rosenfieldcollection.com

    Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California

    Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection, Asheville, North Carolina

    Bibliography

    Berman, Rick, "Ron Meyers, Thirty Years," Clay Times 8, (1995).

    Marian, Paula, "Ron Meyers Demonstration," NCECA Journal 20, (1999).

    Morgenthal, Deborah. The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 2008.

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    Archie Bray Foundation

    Scripps College Ceramic Annual

    Columbia, South Carolina

    Athens, Georgia

    Citation: Ron Meyers, "The Marks Project."
    Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/ron-meyers

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