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Karen Karnes was born on 17 November, 1925 in New York, New York, is an American ceramist (1925–2016). Discover Karen Karnes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 17 November 1925
Birthday 17 November
Birthplace New York, New York
Date of death 12 July, 2016
Died Place Morgan, Vermont
Nationality United States

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1925

Karen Karnes (November 17, 1925 – July 12, 2016) was an American ceramist, best known for her salt glazed, earth-toned stoneware ceramics.

Karnes was born on November 17, 1925 in New York City, where she attended art schools for children.

Her garment worker parents were Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants, and the family lived in the Bronx Coops.

Karnes applied for and was accepted to the High School of Music & Art.

As a child she was surrounded by urban realities and visual influences, but she claims that her parents' old-world ideals kept her grounded.

1946

At Brooklyn College she majored in design and graduated in 1946.

After graduating, she studied abroad in Italy, where she continued to study ceramics.

After returning from Italy, Karnes began a graduate program at Alfred University, but left before completing her degree to work at Black Mountain College.

1947

Karnes first encountered Black Mountain Collegein 1947, where she took a summer design class with Josef Albers.

1952

In 1952, she and her husband David Weinrib (whom she later divorced) moved down to North Carolina to become potters-in-residence at the Black Mountain College.

While at Black Mountain College, Karnes and Weinrib became acquainted with Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and later lived with them at the Gate Hill Community.

During the Pottery Seminar held at the college in 1952, Karnes met international potters Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, and Marguerite Wildenhain, as well as local potters Malcom Davis and Mark Shapiro.

She was involved with the Southern Highland Craft Guild (then known as the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild) during her stay in North Carolina, selling her work in downtown Asheville.

Karnes lived at Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, New York, for twenty-five years.

1954

She moved to the community in 1954, leaving Black Mountain College before its closing.

At Gate Hill, she built her own studio and kilns, and worked with M.C. Richards and a local ceramics engineer to develop and popularize a flameproof clay body.

With this clay, Karnes began making oven-top casserole dishes, a design she produced for over fifty years.

1960

Karnes continued to experiment with this form from the late 1960s until she stopped throwing.

1967

In 1967, Karnes first experimented with salt-firing at a workshop at the Penland School of Crafts.

Karnes' later work dealt with contemporary vessels, which were given different attention to design than her original pottery.[2] She made many traditionally functional forms and contemporary forms, but she also continued to produce casseroles, teapots, cups and bowls.

Another of her most well-known forms was the cut-lid jar, a form she first made at a workshop with Paulus Berensohn.

1970

In the late 1970s Karnes moved to Vermont with her partner Ann Stannard.

She decided to live the rest of her life on a farm, working with clay and using old firing practices such as wood and salt firing.

1976

In 1976 she was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council.

1998

In 1998, her house and studio burned to the ground because of a kiln fire.

With the help of donations from a large pottery sale, Karen rebuilt her country house and studio.

She received a graduate fellowship from Alfred University, and won a gold medal for the consummate craftsmanship from The American Craft Council.

2016

Karnes died on July 12, 2016, in Morgan, Vermont.

Her work is in the Asheville Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.