An interview of Paula Colton Winokur conducted 2011 July 21-22, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Winokur's home and studio, in Horsham, Pennsylvania.
Paula speaks of taking drawing and painting classes at the Graphic Sketch Club (now the Fleischer Art Memorial) in Philadelphia at age 11; her first experience handling clay at 13 or 14 when taking a class at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; when her family agreed to send her to college, providing she became a teacher, and she attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University as a painting major; the influence of her teacher Rudolf Staffel in her sophomore year when she took a ceramics class and fell in love with working in clay; meeting her husband Robert Winokur when they were students at Tyler, getting married in 1958, eventually having two sons; glaze testing to find a palette of glazes to use; moving to Massachusetts and starting Cape Street Pottery for their production pottery; her involvement with NCECA [National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts] and other professional organizations; when she began a 30-year teaching career at Beaver College in 1973 (more recently known as Arcadia University), building their ceramics department; changing from using stoneware to porcelain in 1970; making boxes and architectural forms; how she stopped making functional items when her first child was born and began creating the things she wanted to; the decision in 1982 to make landscapes and how geology, the Artic, and threats to the environment influence her work; the process she uses when creating texture; selling exclusively through the Helen Drutt Gallery beginning in 1973 until the gallery closed in 2011; the important influences in her work of artists such as Michael Heizer, Carl Andre, Richard Long, Richard Serra, Olafur Eliasson, and Steven De Staebler and others; the immense the geologic formations of Mesa Verde, the Rocky Mountains, Stonehenge, Alaska and Iceland are inspiring; various lecturing opportunities and exhibits through the years, as well as a working residency she took advantage of in Hungary in 1994; slowly moving away from glazes and instead using metallic sulfates for color; that her intention is to express the relationship between the internal part of herself and the external world for other people to experience and find something in common; the importance of a liberal arts education for art students; her gelatin and clay prints; the concern over collectors of clay art dying off and no new ones taking their places; that galleries are closing and Internet galleries are the norm; meeting photographer, Imogen Cunningham, and seeing her as a wonderful role model; and the feeling that the high cost of fuel and the invention of newer materials may end ceramic classes. Paula also recalls Lowell Nesbitt, Myrna Minter, Arlene Love, Dennis Leon, Boris Blai, Ted Randall, Val Cushing, Norm Schulman, Jim McKinnel, Gertrud Natzler, Otto Natzler, Ken Ferguson, Rose Slivka, Enrique Mestre, Sandy Simon, Wayne Higby, Richard Notkin, Graham Marks, Toshika Takaezu, Yvonne Bobrowicz, Ken Vavrek, Carol Sedestrom, Lois Moran, and Ken Shores and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Paula Colton Winokur (1935- ) is a ceramist in Horsham, Pennsylvania. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is a curator and writer from San Francisco, California.
General:
Originally recorded as 9 sound files. Duration is 6 hr., 24 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Paula Colton Winokur, 2011 July 21-22. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Container:
Box 404, Folder 2
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1921 - 1924
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Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology Search this
Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology Search this
Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology Search this
Container:
Box 80
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1890
1901-1914
undated
Scope and Contents:
Mostly letters to Hough. Includes W. J. Andrews, 4/8/08, re a collection; W. M. Borrowdale, 10/16/06, re a shipment; Kate T. Cory, 8/22/09, re Hopi "decharming" of a house struck by lightning, and 6/3/09, re request for a publication; Frederick W. Coville to L. H. Dewey, 4/9/04, transmitting prehistoric cotton seed and acknowledgement to Walter Hough for sending seed; Barkford Dean, 1/30/14, advising where to obtain a certain cloth; George A. Dorsey to Otis T. Mason, 2/4/01, re Peruvian engineering [Missing 12/14/2011]; P. G. Gates, 7/9/07 and 10/24/05, re affairs connected with his expeditions; A. J. Connell to Neil M. Judd, 11/30/12, re mummy found in Gila Cliff dwelling; Walter Hough to Agent, AT&SF Railroad, n.d., re shipment; Walter Hough to M. C. Stevenson, 9/10/09, re analysis of cord and analysis of dyes; Walter Hough to Richard Rathbun, 11/21/05, giving report of Museum-Gates Expedition of 1905; Walter Hough to J. E. Thompson, 6/14/06, requesting loan of birdlike wooden object; Walter Hough to William H. Holmes, 7/4/01, reporting on Museum Gates Expedition; Walter Hough to Dr. Grand, 10/1/90, re Egyptian lamps; Clement Hightower, 7/13/03, re ruins in Tularoso County and Socorro County; Frederick W. Hodge to Hough, n.d., with bibliographic reference; Walter Hough, part of report to museum, n.d.; Charles F. Lummis, 3/6/05, asking him to join Southwest Society of Archaeological Institute of America; F. H. Manter, 12/21/05, re "Curious Etc.—Washington, C. to Ft. Bliss, Texas"; Ed. S. Miller, 6/7/06, re Apache ruins; N. H. Harbough 7/6/06, re ruins 35 miles north of Benson, Arizona; Richard Rathbun, 5/7/01, re permit to visit Arizona and New Mexico Indian reservations; J. Frank Raynes, 3/10/05, forwarding copy of letter of G. C. Robins, 2/7/05, re ruins around Gallina, New Mexico; M. C. Stevenson, 1/9/07, re work and problems in the Southwest; A. H. Ketchem, 12/26/08, acknowledging receipt of three photographs of Mesa Verde (attached); and W. M. Ferris, 1/5/09, acknowledging a photograph of ruins on Rio Chico near Madera, Chihuahua (attached).
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Collection Citation:
Department of Anthropology Records, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Evans, H. E. 2000. Three new species of Dipoyon Fox (Subgenus Dipoyon) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Central and Western North America. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
Type Status:
Holotype
Place:
Soda Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma, Colorado, United States
Carbon copy of letter to William H. Holmes, Chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, dated Casas Grandes, New Mexico, June 12, 1906, transmitting archeological map of Mesa Verde, "previously prepared by me under your direction." 3 pages, and blueprint of map: "Preliminary Archaeological Map of Mesa Verde. Authorities, W. H. Holmes, G. Nordenskiold, Edgar L. Hewett. 190-. Scale: 1 in. = 1 mile. John B. Torbert [draftsman]. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, W. H. Holmes, Chief." Approximately 22 in. x 18 in. within margins.
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Collection Citation:
Mary Charles Collection, Accession XXXX-0011, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Includes autograph document 41 pages; typescript document 28 pages; Ink sketches, 5 pages; Drawings of ground plans and sections on tracing cloth, 7 sheets 12" x 22" and under; Pottery type distribution charts on tracing cloth, 6 sheets 23" x 18" and under; Oversize drawings and charts (filed in Map Case): "Turkey House, a small ruin 9 miles from Pueblo Bonito,"; "Slab house cluster near proto-kiva. September, 1926."; "Ruin 13"; "Ruin 3"; "A small pueblo 9 miles east of Pueblo Bonito"; "Mesa Verde House, 9 1/2 miles east of Pueblo Bonito. September, 1926"; "Proto-kiva. September, 1926.";Pottery distribution charts: "Hachure C. B, A"; "Solid and Chaco San Juan"; "Polished Black Interior, Indian Red, and Transitional Red"; "Corrugated Ware and Banded-Neck Ware";
"Degenerate Ware and Transitional Ware"; "Undecorated Culinary Vessels and Painted Wares."
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4853
Citation:
Manuscript 4853, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
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edanmdm:siris_arc_367124
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