Betty Woodman was an American ceramic artist who lived from 1930 to 2018, known for brightly colored, large-scale ceramic works that combined vessel forms with painting and sculpture, often drawing on historical pottery traditions from ancient Greek, Chinese Tang-dynasty and Italian Baroque sources. In 2006 she became the first living artist to receive a solo ceramics exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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During seventh grade, stifled by the home economics courses to which young women were relegated at the time, she successfully fought her way into a woodshop class
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Elizabeth Woodman (née Abrahams; May 14, 1930, January 2, 2018) was an American ceramic artist.
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