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Apprenticeships & Residencies

1971, 1972, 1977, 1978

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

1970

Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

Primary Work Experience

1966

1968

Teaching Fellow, 3-D Design, Ceramics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1967

1968

Instructor, Ann Arbor Potter's Guild, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1968

1970

Ceramics Instructor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska

1972, 1975

Summer Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina

1970

1973

Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

1978

Summer Instructor, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine

1973—

Professor, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York

Other

Public Collections

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

American Museumof Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State, Muncie, Indiana

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

Jingdezhen Museum of Art, Peoples Republic of China

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York

Museum for Contemporary Art Het Kruithuis, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Bibliography

Clark, Garth. A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1879-1979. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1979.

English, Helen Williams Drutt, Mary McInnes and Ezra Shales. Wayne Higby–Earth Cloud. Stuttgart, Germany: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 2007.

Held, Peter, ed., with Helen Williams Drutt English, Henry Sayre, Tanya Harrod and Ezra Shales. Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby. Stuttgart, Germany: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 2013.

Higby, Wayne and Helen Williams Drutt English. Wayne Higby. Philadelphia, PA: Helen Drutt Gallery, 1990.

Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics From Pipkins to Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the present. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.

Nordness, Lee. Objects USA: Works by Artist-Craftsmen in Ceramic, Enamel, Glass, Metal, Plastic, Mosaic, Wood and Fiber. New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1970.

Trapp, Kenneth R., and Howard Risatti. Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery. Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.

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