Stoneware
Black Piece (#24)
Blue Piece (#19)
Untitled
Cubed Rings
Vase and Stand
Ferguson was Chairman of the Kansas City Art Institute Ceramics Department for more than thirty years. Voted one of the 12 greatest living potters in 1981 by readers of Ceramics Monthly, Ferguson has received numerous honors over the years. The recipient of two National Endowments for the Arts grants for craftsmen, a Mid-America College Arts Award for Studio Art, a Tiffany grant and an Alliance of Independent Colleges of Arts grant he has received demonstrate how he has been recognized as much for his teaching as his art work. He has a reputation for inspiring his students to develop their own idiosyncratic styles while simultaneously instilling a respect for the medium of clay and its history. He has had over 100 exhibitions worldwide including a retrospective exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in 1995. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the American Craft Museum in New York City are among the numerous public and private collections worldwide that include works by Ferguson.
White Metamorphosis
Stacks
#916
Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1976, 1980 and 1986, DeVore was installed as ?Fellow,? of the American Craft Council in 1987. His work can be found among the public collections of the American Craft Museum, New York, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Victoria and Albert Museum, London England; and the National Collection of Contemporary Art, Paris, France. During the 1970s DeVore experimented with pushing traditional ceramic forms such as the vessel into new aesthetic expressions. His minimalist works have hidden spaces inside their interiors that reveal openings. These openings draw the viewer?s gaze into the interiors of the sensuous vessel forms. The vessels often elude eroticism and #905 and #916 in the Daum?s collection are no exception. One vessel suggests the male form and the other the female form.
#905
Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1976, 1980 and 1986, DeVore was installed as ?Fellow,? of the American Craft Council in 1987. His work can be found among the public collections of the American Craft Museum, New York, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Victoria and Albert Museum, London England; and the National Collection of Contemporary Art, Paris, France. During the 1970s DeVore experimented with pushing traditional ceramic forms such as the vessel into new aesthetic expressions. His minimalist works have hidden spaces inside their interiors that reveal openings. These openings draw the viewer?s gaze into the interiors of the sensuous vessel forms. The vessels often elude eroticism and #905 and #916 in the Daum?s collection are no exception. One vessel suggests the male form and the other the female form.