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Ferguson, Ken
| Last Name: | Ferguson |
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| First Name: | Ken |
| Dates: |
2004 (Date of Death)
*1928 (Date of Birth)
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| Biography/History: | Kenneth Ferguson was born on March 6, 1928 in Elwood, Indiana and he passed away on December 30, 2004 at home in Shawnee, KS. He received his BFA in Painting from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA in 1952 and his MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY in 1958. He served as Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation from 1957 to 1963 and together with David Shaner and Bill Sage dismantled the Voulkos-Autio hard-brick reduction kiln at the Archie Bray Foundation and built the first soft-brick kiln at the Foundation. After leaving the Archie Bray Foundation, he went to the Kansas City Art Institute in 1964 and was head of the ceramics department at Kansas City Art Institute, retiring in 1996 to become professor emeritus in ceramics. Ferguson’s preoccupation with rabbits in his work “started because it’s such a distinctive shape. You know, the head, the long ears….It grew out of organic handles that I put on baskets in the ‘70’s…The shape of a handle became a rabbit, and I remember my wife asked me ‘Are you making a rabbit that looks like a handle or a handle that looks like a rabbit?’” Ferguson says he still doesn’t know. |
| Related Objects: |
4234.11 (Sculpture, Hare Basket, 1994)
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