14 Facts About Betty Woodman

Elizabeth Woodman was an American ceramic artist.

Betty Woodman was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, to Minnie and Henry Abrahams.

Betty Woodman's parents were progressive socialists and her mother promoted a feminist viewpoint.

Betty Woodman started pottery classes at age 16 and immediately took to clay.

Betty Woodman attended the School for American Craftsmen at Alfred University in New York from 1948 until 1950.

Betty Woodman began her career in the 1950s as a production potter.

Betty Woodman's career moved from functional pottery to fresh and exuberant art culminating in a retrospective show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2006, the first such retrospective for a living, female ceramicist, and a solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2016 with the title Theatre of the Domestic.

Betty Woodman was a professor of art at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1978 to 1998.

Betty Woodman received an honorary doctorate from CU in 2007.

Betty Woodman convinced city of Boulder officials in the 1950s to fund the Pottery Lab, making it one of the first recreational pottery programs in the US Her vision was to have students make pottery for fun but develop their craft into a career.

Betty Woodman met George Woodman in a pottery class she was teaching in Boston in 1950.

Betty Woodman headed the University of Colorado Boulder art department.

Betty Woodman exhibited at museums and galleries in the US and internationally, including:.

In 2006 the monograph, Betty Woodman, was produced in conjunction with her retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it includes curatorial essays by Janet Koplos, Barry Schwabsky, and Arthur Danto.