Minnie Negoro

Minnie Negoro
Minnie Negoro and Daniel Rhodes at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming, 1943
Born27 April 1919
Los Angeles, California
DiedMay 1, 1998(1998-05-01) (aged 79)
Mason Island, Stonington, Connecticut
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
EducationUniversity of California (BA)
Alfred University (MFA)
Academic work
DisciplineCeramics
InstitutionsUniversity of Connecticut
Rhode Island School of Design
New York University
Chouinard Art Institute
Signature

Minnie Negoro (27 April, 1919 - 1 May, 1998) was a Japanese-American ceramic artist and professor. During her professional career from 1945 to 1989 Negoro worked at a number of institutions as a ceramics researcher and potter. After receiving her Masters in Fine Arts in 1954 she went on to instruct at several universities, most notably the University of Connecticut, where she taught for 24 years from 1965 to 1989.

Education

Negoro was born in 1919.[1] Negoro earned a B.A. from the University of California in 1944, and then an M.F.A. from Alfred University's New York State College of Ceramics in 1950.[1][2]

Career

During World War II, Negoro learned pottery while in an internment camp[3][4] in Wyoming.[2] Her mentor was Daniel Rhodes.[5] She was able to leave the camp in 1944 when she left to work at Glidden Pottery[4] and to attend Alfred University.[6]

In 1965 she moved to the University of Connecticut where she established a program of study centered on ceramics.[1] She would become a full professor at the University of Connecticut.[4]

Her work is in the National Museum of Asian Art[7] and the Everson Museum of Art.[8]

Negoro died in 1998.[6]

Honors and awards

In 1992 the William Benton Museum of Art coordinated a retrospective honoring Negoro.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Negoro | The Marks Project". www.themarksproject.org. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  2. ^ a b "[Eighty-Two American Ceramists and Their Work]". Design Quarterly (42/43): 2–64. 1958. doi:10.2307/4047250. ISSN 0011-9415.
  3. ^ Dusselier, Jane E. (2008-12-01). Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4642-1.
  4. ^ a b c McDermott, George L., ed. (1998). Women recall the war years : memories of World War II. Internet Archive. Chapel Hill, NC : Professional Press. pp. 165–173. ISBN 978-1-57087-460-4.
  5. ^ van Harmelen, Jonathan (2024-06-12). "How Congress Killed the Kiln, But Not the Artist—Minnie Negoro and the Heart Mountain Pottery Plant". Discover Nikkei. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  6. ^ a b "Minnie Negoro; ceramics artist". The Day. 1998-05-02. p. 12. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  7. ^ "Tenmoku-type bowl with "oil spot" glaze, made by Minnie Negoro at Alfred University, NY". Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  8. ^ "Everson Museum of Art Online Catalog: Tea services: Tea Set [48.544.1-3]". collections.everson.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  9. ^ Negoro, Minnie (1992). Minnie Negoro, a Retrospective: January 21-March 6, 1992. William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut.