Английская Википедия:Georgia Blizzard
Шаблон:Short description Georgia Blizzard (May 7, 1919 - June 2, 2002) was an American ceramic artist from Virginia. She was self-taught and her work is in the permanent collections of several American art museums.
Biography
Blizzard was born in Saltville in 1919.[1] She claimed Apache and Irish ancestry.Шаблон:Sfn When she was little, she and her family moved to Plum Creek.Шаблон:Sfn Her mother taught Blizzard and her sister how to create art using a pit-fire method.[2] During the Great Depression, she left school in order to be part of the National Youth Administration.[3] She worked in a munitions factory in Bristol during World War II and after that, worked at a textile mill in Chilhowie until 1958.Шаблон:Sfn Blizzard had contracted black lung and lost one of her lungs.[2] Her husband was crippled in an accident in a coal mine and eventually their marriage failed.[2] Her husband died in 1954.Шаблон:Sfn Blizzard developed paranoid schizophrenia after these events and her art helped her deal with visions she saw and the feelings she needed to work through.[2]
She began making art for sale in the late 1950s and sold her pottery in her daughter, Mary's, store.[4] In the early 1980s, her neighbor, Michael Martin, contacted a friend to take some of Blizzard's work to a gallery in Buckhead run by Judith Alexander where Jonathan Williams discovered her work.Шаблон:Sfn
Blizzard died in Glade Springs on June 2, 2002.[2]
Work
Blizzard's pottery is hand-built.[4] She used to find the material to create her ceramic art in the creek behind her house in the Appalachian hills.[5] At first, she used a coal kiln built by her neighbor, Michael Martin, but later in life used an electric kiln.Шаблон:Sfn
She is a self-taught artist.[6] Her art "expressed her memories, surroundings, and religious views."[3] The work is dark in terms of theme, as Jonathan Williams describes it, "they make you think twice about human despair."Шаблон:Sfn
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] the American Folk Art Museum,[7] the Milwaukee Art Museum,[8] the Asheville Art Museum, the High Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum.[2]
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- The Life and Times of Georgia Blizzard (2011 video)
- Английская Википедия
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- American potters
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- People from Saltville, Virginia
- 20th-century American ceramists
- 20th-century American women artists
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