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Ken Ferguson (1928 - 2004) received an M.F.A. in 1954 from Alfred University, and went on to become one of the most influential teachers and artists in his field of pottery. From 1964 until 1996, when he was named Professor Emeritus, Ferguson was Head of the Ceramics Department at the Kansas City Art Institute.
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He served in the army with the First Calvary at Camp Sendai, Japan, and then went on to the New York State School of Ceramics in Alfred, New York, to study under the GI Bill, earning a master’s degree in fine arts in 1958.
Ferguson is most known for his stoneware with hare sculptures, such as Vessel with Hares in the Honolulu Museum of Art’s collection. Ken began his pottery career as a completely practical potter. In this new generation of art, his work is still anchored in usefulness, but his platters and teapots have grown into wholly different beings than they we...
The Brooklyn MuseumThe Carnegie Museums of PittsburghCharles A. Wustum Museum of Fine ArtsEverson Museum of ArtKen Ferguson is known for wheel thrown and slab built pots. His work embodies the mid-20 th century aesthetic shift away from purely functional vessel forms to a more expressive pot that references the functional vessel.
As a graduate student at Alfred University, resident potter and studio manager at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, and through years of teaching, Ferguson mastered the craft of functional pottery, developing formidable skills on the wheel and in handling glazes that integrally inform his work today.
Each piece finds its own equilibrium as Ferguson successfully melds figurative and vessel elements into a unified whole. His newer pots, while they respect their functional roots and draw on ceramic tradition, have flair and dynamism all their own.
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