Ruth Easterbrook
Ruth Easterbook is known for hand built functional plates, vessels, butter dishes, and other serving pieces, created with slabs, pinched clay, and molds, in a midrange red clay fired in oxidation. The ...
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- Biography
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Ruth Easterbook is known for hand built functional plates, vessels, butter dishes, and other serving pieces, created with slabs, pinched clay, and molds, in a midrange red clay fired in oxidation. The surface techniques include treatment with underglazes, terra sigilatta, glaze pencils, wax resist, sgrafitto, and a transparent glaze.
Surface design is influenced by the illustrators Tomi dePaolo and Maurice Sendlak.
- Apprenticeships & Residencies
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2006-2009
Apprentice, Production Thrower, Hoyman-Browe Studios, Ukiah, California
2009-2010Studio Assistant, Whitney Smith Pottery, Oakland, California
-2016Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado
2019-2020Artist in Residence, Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, Allston, Massachusetts
-2020Artist in Residence, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Primary Work Experience
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-2011
Certified TEFL Instructor, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Other
- Bibliography
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Cliff, Courtney. “9 Makers Share Secrets of Staying Creative on the Daily.” Brit + Co., Sept. 16, 2014. https://www.brit.co/remake-maker-creativity/
Easterbrook, Ruth. “In the Studio: Ceramic Watercolor Surfaces.” Pottery Making Illustrated, Nov – Dec. 2015 issue. https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/pottery-making-illustrated/article/ceramic-watercolor-surfaces/#
Penland School of Crafts. “Ruth Easterbrook’s New Love,” Penland Sketchbook Blog Post, May 30, 2014. https://penland.org/blog/2014/05/#sthash.64zLmsuD.dpbs
- CV or Resume
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McGee, Donna
- Website(s)
Citation: McGee, Donna Ruth Easterbrook, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/ruth-easterbrook
