Virginia Cartwright
Virginia Cartwright is known in her early career for wheel-thrown pieces but after 4 years she began to hand and slab-build thin walled functional pieces. Surfaces are left unglazed or are finished ...
Read more
Typical Marks
About
- Biography
-
Virginia Cartwright is known in her early career for wheel-thrown pieces but after 4 years she began to hand and slab-build thin walled functional pieces. Surfaces are left unglazed or are finished with deeply carved and slip-trailed surface techniques. Cartwright has also worked with colored clay that she creates by sifting dry colored clay onto a moist slab, then carving the surface and stretching the clay before forming the final object.
"""In addition to ceramic works, Cartwright produces digital prints she calls Kaleidoscope Images. Plants and glass shards are used to create the content of the images.
Cartwright studied with Franz Wildenhain at Rochester Institute of Technology.
- Apprenticeships & Residencies
- Primary Work Experience
-
-—
Kyoto Fine Arts University, Kyoto, Japan
1969-1970Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
1975-1980Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
1982-1986El Camino College, Torrance, California
1983-1991Glendale College, Glendale, California
-1988California State University, Los Angeles, California
1988-1991Harvard-Westlake School, Chair, Art Department, Los Angeles, California
Other
- Public Collections
-
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
- Bibliography
-
“Art Quest.” Ceramics Monthly (February 1986).
Flight, Graham. Introduction to Ceramics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice -Hall, 1989.
Lane, Peter. Ceramic Form. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1988.
_________. Studio Ceramics. Radnor, PA: Chilton & Co., 1983.
“Portfolio.” American Craft (April/May 1984).
“Teapots.” Ceramics Monthly (October 1986).
Zakin, Richard. Ceramics: Mastering the Craft. Radnor, PA: Chilton & Co., 1990.
- CV or Resume
-
Clark, Donald
- Website(s)
Citation: Clark, Donald Virginia Cartwright, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/virginia-cartwright
