Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Everson 157, 4 pm

Patricia Darrell Knight presents “Creative Tension: Melding Art Pottery and Commercial Design — the Life and Times of Frederick Hurten Rhead.”

Frederick Hurten Rhead is best known as the designer of Fiesta Ware. Decades earlier, as the artistic director of Arequipa Pottery near Fairfax in Marin County, he designed what have become the most avidly sought ceramics of the American Arts and Crafts movement. Patricia Knight will describe Rhead’s work, and show how his life was a balancing act between his creativity as a skilled potter and his proficiency as an expert designer. The talk will examine his ventures into studio pottery and his work at commercial factories, and it will evaluate his success in achieving his personal goals.

Sponsored by Art History, Art Studio and the Design Department