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Mary Scheier (May 9, 1908 – May 14, 2007) was a noted American ceramicist, and the wife and artistic partner of Edwin Scheier. ==Career== Born Mary Goldsmith in Salem, Virginia, she moved to New York City in 1925 and studied art at the Art Students League of New York, the Grand Central School of Art and the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts.〔Heydarpour, Roja (Mary Scheier, 99, Creator of Elegant Pottery, Is Dead. )''New York Times'', May 19, 2007. Accessed May 19, 2007.〕 After a brief advertising career in Paris, she returned to Virginia and married Edwin Scheier. She was head of a WPA gallery at Big Stone Gap, Virginia when they met during the Great Depression. In 1939, the Scheiers set up their first studio, ''Hillcrock Pottery'', in Glade Spring, VA, making small sculptures and functional pottery using local clays. In 1940, they moved to Durham, New Hampshire, and both taught at the University of New Hampshire until 1968. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, during the 1940s and 1950s.〔 They then moved to the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Mary stopped producing pottery in the 1960s, when arthritis and health conditions prevented her from continuing. They finally moved to Green Valley, Arizona.〔 She died in Tucson, Arizona. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Scheier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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