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USA, 1900
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Ellice T. Johnston

Ellice Johnston is known for thrown and altered sculptures.

Johnston studied ceramics with Susan Peterson at Chouinard and then with Vivika and Otto Heino. She was instrumental in founding two important west coast ceramic organizations. The first, Irving Place Studio in Los Angeles, was founded with Dora De Larios in 1968. Then in 1976, two years after she moved to Oregon she was instrumental in founding Clayfolk an organization serving clay workers in norther California and southern Oregon.

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