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Ralph Bacerra papers, 1957-2015

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Series 2: Professional Activity Files , 1959-2013
0.4 Linear feet
Boxes 1, 4

The series consists of files for Bacerra's professional activities which include the exhibitions Craft Today USA (1989-1993) and Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 (2000) containing correspondence, contracts, reports, and artist statements; material from Chouinard Art School where Bacerra was a student and later chair of the ceramics department from 1963 to 1971; and student roll books, correspondence, teaching notes containing formulas and other class notes, quizzes and student assignments, and identification cards from Otis Art Institute. Also included are photographs of Bacerra and his work, a small amount of correspondence, and printed exhibition materials that were compiled for a legacy film project by the Otis Art Institute honoring Bacerra.
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Chouinard Art School, 1959-1972
1
11-13
Craft Today USA (1989-1993) European Tour, Report by Paul J. Smith, 1989-1993
1
14
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Contemporary Ceramics: The Artist's Viewpoint (1977) Artist Statement, 1977
1
15
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 (2000), 2000
1
16
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 (2000), Collage, circa 2000
4
1
Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth-Century Decorative Art (1997), 1996-1997
1
17
Otis College of Art, 1960-1994
1
18-20
Otis College of Art, Legacy Film Material, 1963-2013
Folder 22 includes letters from Eudorah "Eudie" Moore.
1
21-24
Otis College of Art, Legacy Film Material, circa 1971
5
National Council on Education for the Ceramics Arts (NCECA), Honorary Membership Award, 1997-1998
Includes a speech draft about Bacerra by Garth Clarks.
1
25

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