![]() ![]() This exhibition of her lyrical, sinuous, sometimes whimsical work was the unfragmented creative expression of one human being – head, heart and hands, made available to a large public by machine production. She has said significantly, “Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.” She was also the first to teach ceramics as industrial design for mass production rather than as handcraft. ![]() She was the first designer in this country to produce an all-white dinner service, an event documented by a special exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1946. The exhibition was funded in part by The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and The County of San Diego Community Enhancement Program.Įva Zeisel has had a 75-year career and, by her own accounting, has designed more than 100,000 objects centered on the home and table – dinnerware, vases, candlesticks, dishes, tea and coffee pots, pitchers, and salt and pepper shakers. From Mingei International, the exhibition traveled to the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. Grobman in the San Francisco Bay Area and Jim Drobka in Los Angeles. Organized by Mingei International as the first major West Coast presentation of Eva Zeisel’s work, the exhibition drew on two large private California collections, those of Pat Moore and Dr. Designed by Jonathan Louie and Marliis Newsome ![]()
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