above: Newcomb decorators and potter Joseph Meyer in the Washington Avenue campus ceramics studio, c. 1905–06. Newcomb Archives - Photo Archives Collection. cover: Sarah Agnes Estelle “Sadie” Irvine, artist; Franis Ford, potter, Vase with Grand Isle Design, 1933. Underglaze painting with matte glaze on sculpted white clay body, 111/2 x 8 in. Collection of Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University.
Jenni Sorkin is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at University of California, Santa Barbara. She writes on the intersections between gender, material culture, and contemporary art, working primarily on women artists and underrepresented media. She is the author of Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community (University of Chicago Press, 2016), which examines the confluence of gender, artistic labor, and the history of post-war ceramics. She received her PhD in the History of Art from Yale University in 2010 and is a member of the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Journal of Modern Craft. She is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (2014-15), the Center for Craft (2012), the Getty Research Institute (2010-11), and the ACLS/Luce Fellowship in American Art (2008). 2