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Crocker names curator of ceramics Elizabeth Baidoo Crocker Art Museum SACRAMENTO — The Crocker Art Museum announces Rachel Gotlieb, Ph.D., as the first Ruth Rippon Curator of Ceramics. The Crocker’s international ceramics collection is one of the largest in the United States and includes works dating from prehistoric to contemporary periods. Gotlieb, a leading ceramics specialist, will oversee acquisitions, exhibitions and scholarship and help bring the collection to even greater prominence nationally and internationally. Gotlieb’s role is a new position established through the generosity of Anne and Malcolm McHenry in honor of Ruth Rippon (b. 1927, Sacramento), the influential California State University, Sacramento, professor who has long been integral in shaping the Northern California ceramics tradition. “The Sacramento region has long played an important role in the
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Rachel Gotlieb will oversee the Crocker’s ceramics collection. development of ceramic arts and especially today as clay has emerged as one of the most exciting media in contemporary art, we are pleased to welcome Rachel to the museum,” said Lial A. Jones, the museum’s Mort and Marcy Friedman director & CEO. “She will further the Crocker’s collecting
and scholarship in this area and will support the elevation of ceramics as one of the museum’s key focus areas.” “The ceramics collection at the Crocker precedes itself, as it is well known among scholars, curators, collectors and enthusiasts throughout North America,” said
Gotlieb, a modern and contemporary specialist with a particular interest in 19th-century ceramics. “I think what differentiates the collection is that it is embedded in a prestigious California museum and I look forward to increasing access to its diverse and expansive collection.” Previously, Gotlieb was the adjunct curator and the former chief curator at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, among the few museums globally to be focused on ceramics, where she advised on acquisitions and donations and lectured on 19th-century, modern and contemporary ceramics and design. Notably, she directed the installation of a monumental glazed ceramic sculpture in front of the Gardiner by artist Jun Kaneko; curated Piece by Piece (2015), the first museum presentation in Canada of acclaimed British ceramic artist Clare Twomey; True Nordic (2016-17), a landmark survey ■
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