Judith Salomon (b 1952 )

The earthenware work is distinctive in its imaginative shapes, vibrant color and aggressive sizes. Salomon has taught ceramics at the Cleveland Institute of Art since 1977. Her work has been collected worldwide and has noted in more than twenty publications. Here it can be seen in many public and private collections. Salomon's work has been seen in more than two dozen shows including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Cleveland Museum of Art as well as national and international traveling exhibitions. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , England , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Lannan Fundation in Los Angeles , and many collections across the country In homage to the respect she commands in the world ceramists, her work has been written about in the major publication on American Ceramics. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council and has lectured and been a panelist many times at places like Anderson Ranch, Aspen, Colorado and Tsukamoto Gakuin University in Osaka, Japan.