Paula Winokur

Sketch Vessel

1990

Daley Family Donation

6"H 5" Diameter

Paula Winokur Artist Biography

Paula Colton Winokur (1936-2018) was an American artist. She was one of the leading ceramic artists in the United States from the 1970s until her death in 2018. Paula was born and raised in Philadelphia. She attended Tyler School of Art, where she was a student of Rudolf Staffel, and where she met her future husband, Robert Winokur. Paula was a pioneer in several aspects of our clay community. Her work in porcelain was groundbreaking in its emphasis on the strength and robustness of the material, rather than the traditional emphasis on its delicacy. Paula overcame sexism in her early career, being told that as a wife and mother she did not deserve a full-time teaching position. She went on to lead the ceramics program at Arcadia University, and became a mentor to countless young women as she gained well-deserved status in the field.

In the last decades of her career she turned her artistic attention to environmental issues, using her beautiful sculptures to bring attention to global warming and the melting of the world's icebergs, the work she is now best known for.Notable were the monumental, jagged, and nuanced works shaped from huge slabs of porcelain that serve as metaphors for the calving glaciers and the melting icebergs she saw on her travels in Iceland and Greenland. The clarity of her vision and the intuitive handling of her material are tactile reminders of our eroding environment. From the 1970s to the early 2000s, Winokur taught ceramic art at Arcadia University (formally known as Beaver College), in Glenside, Pennsylvania. In 2002 she was elected to the College of Fellows at the American Craft Council. She has exhibited widely and has been collected by museums around the world - notably the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art.

This bowl is similar to those that are part of her work in the Smithsonian Museum https://americanart.si.edu/artist/paula-winokur-6285

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