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Cesar Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State University (1975) San Francisco Art Institute (1969). Paffard Keatinge-Clay (5 February 1926 – 17 March 2023) was a British-born architect in the modernist tradition who spent most of his professional life in the United States, before moving to southern Spain, where he increasingly focused on sculpture.
Viola Frey (August 15, 1933 – July 26, 2004) was an American artist working in sculpture, painting and drawing, and professor emerita at California College of the Arts. She lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area and was renowned for her larger-than-life, colorfully glazed clay sculptures of men and women, which expanded the ...
A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse. Death masks may be mementos of the dead or be used for creation of portraits. The main purpose of the death mask from the Middle Ages until the 19th century was to serve as a model for ...
Clay Theatre is a historic 1913 single screen theater building in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States. [1] It was formerly known as The Regent, The Avalon, The Clay International, and Landmark's Clay Theatre. It has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since May 6, 2022. [2]
Peter Voulkos, Noodle. stoneware sculpture, 1996, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The California Clay Movement (or American Clay Revolution) was a school of ceramic art that emerged in California in the 1950s. [1] The movement was part of the larger transition in crafts from "designer-craftsman" to "artist-craftsman".
John Mason (March 30, 1927 – January 20, 2019) was an American artist who did experimental work with ceramics. [1] Mason's work focused on exploring the physical properties of clay and its "extreme plasticity". [2]
Two former students of a Mountain View high school were awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement after they were expelled for wearing acne face masks, which were interpreted as "blackface ...
Fortunato Arriola (1827–1872) [1] was a Mexican portraitist and landscape painter, of Spanish descent. [2] He is considered one of the pioneer artists of California, [3] and his work was popular in San Francisco, where he came to live in 1857. [4]