Aurore Chabot was born on 1949 and is an American ceramist who creates sculptures, wheel-thrown pieces using porcelain and terra cotta, and ceramic tile murals.
11 Facts About Aurore Chabot
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Aurore Chabot received her bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Pratt Institute in 1971.
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Aurore Chabot studied with Regis Brodie at Skidmore College in 1974, completing a Raku program.
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Aurore Chabot then earned a master of fine arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1981.
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Aurore Chabot began her post college work as a ceramicist in a studio on the Bowery, in New York City, which she shared with Peggy DuPont.
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Aurore Chabot had moved to Broadalbin, NY with her then husband, Douglas Kabat, who she separated from in ~1975 and divorced in ~1978.
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Aurore Chabot has taught at the University of Vermont, and since 1988 has been a professor at the University of Arizona, where she headed the ceramics program.
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Aurore Chabot has long been active with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, serving as Director at Large from 1999 until 2001 and Publications Director from 2001 until 2004 and being appointed to the Nominations Committee for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013.
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Aurore Chabot has successfully finished two significant national public art projects, and has been invited to several visiting artist programs.
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Aurore Chabot received a Governor's Arts Award in 1990, and has exhibited widely during her career, winning numerous honors and awards including a pair of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Aurore Chabot's artwork has been featured in over a hundred national and international exhibitions, as well as various books and periodicals.