Anne Currier

Born 1950 in Louisville, Kentucky, Anne Currier is a ceramic artist and Professor of Professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. Her compelling sculptures are studied use of mass and volume, light and shadow; intersecting shapes that altogether can bare resemblance to the body and architectural fragments. Currier earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972 and an MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1974. She has won numerous fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was also awarded a recognition grant from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation in 1991 and twice received the Joseph Kruson Trust Fund Award for Excellence in Teaching at Alfred University, where she has been a professor since 1986. Currier’s work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Watch a video and read about Anne in American Craft. View more information on Anne in our digital collections. Learn more about the 2012 American Craft Council award winners. Join us at SOFA Chicago this fall for "Among Fellows," a special exhibition of the winners' work.