Karen Karnes was an American ceramist, best known for her salt glazed, earth-toned stoneware ceramics.
10 Facts About Karen Karnes
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Karen Karnes first encountered Black Mountain Collegein 1947, where she took a summer design class with Josef Albers.
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Karen Karnes was involved with the Southern Highland Craft Guild during her stay in North Carolina, selling her work in downtown Asheville.
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Karen Karnes lived at Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, New York, for twenty-five years.
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Karen Karnes moved to the community in 1954, leaving Black Mountain College before its closing.
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In 1967, Karen Karnes first experimented with salt-firing at a workshop at the Penland School of Crafts.
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Karen Karnes continued to experiment with this form from the late 1960s until she stopped throwing.
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Karen Karnes decided to live the rest of her life on a farm, working with clay and using old firing practices such as wood and salt firing.
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Karen Karnes received a graduate fellowship from Alfred University, and won a gold medal for the consummate craftsmanship from The American Craft Council.
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Karen Karnes's work is in the Asheville Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.