Karen Aumann

Hunebedden Urn Pair, 2018

brown: 8 x 6 D
celedon: 8.5 x 5.5. D

Karen Aumann (d. 2024) earned her BFA at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and was Associate Professor in Ceramics and Design at the Community College of Philadelphia. She exhibited at many locations nationally, and her work can currently be found in the permanent collections of The Mint Museum of Design, NC, The Wustum Art Museum, WI, the Stevens Gallery, CT, and The Clay Studio, PA. She is survived by her husband Thomas K. Kennedy, her sister Jean Aumann, and the many students, and artists whose lives she touched over her years teaching.

Aumann said of her work: nature has always influenced my work. As a potter that seems inevitable - the earth, the fire, the quartz and feldspar rocks that become my glaze. There is a perverse excitement in knowing that with however much care I make my pots and glaze them with, in the end all is in the hands of the fire and flame. They are like children who, however carefully raised, will go their own way in the end. I am not completely in charge of how they turn out; each kiln contains unexpected pleasures and disappointments. For me, this is the seductive lure of the wood kiln. These forms capture the element of chance, of change, what is now, and what is yet to come

Donated by Allen Willoughby

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