Roberta Klein

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Member since 1992

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Roberta received her BA from Cornell University. She studied drawing, painting and anatomy at the School of Visual Arts and the Arts Students League in NYC. Roberta took her first ceramics class from Elsbeth Woody while getting her Masters in Painting and Art Education at Columbia University and with other potters built a catenary arch cross-draft kiln in upstate NY. She moved to London in 1972 and worked as a studio potter for Emmanual Cooper and Michael Crosby-Jones. She was introduced to Bernard Leach at his retrospective at the V&A Museum. He asked about her work and said “Have fun!”
In the ‘70’s, Roberta was in and out of San Diego.  She took glaze chemistry at the UCSD Craft Center and fired at Rhoda Lopez’s Clay Dimensions. She moved here in 1979.
She works in high fire porcelain and stoneware producing what she hopes is well-crafted handsomely designed functional ware and individual pieces. Form and subtle surface interest her; she makes her own glazes and tweaks formulas and kiln atmosphere for something a little different.

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