Occupation: Ceramist, Sculptor Media: Porcelain. Born Schenectady, New York, June 27, 1927.
Education Mannes Coll Music. Hunter Coll, sculpture with Irma Rothstein. Donald Mavros Studio, 4 yr apprenticeship, 64, Chinese Brush painting with Jongsoon Chung, Kiln Building and pottery with Gerry Williams. Glaze Chemistry with Yvonne LaFean & Dr Louis Navias.
Honorary Degrees Master Craftsmen/Educator, Soc for Connecticut Crafts, Connecticut.
Teaching Positions Wheel, hand methods, sculpture, carving porcelain & painting with underglazes, Rescue: Vis Artist Prog, Danbury & Southbury, Connecticut, 69; carving porcelain, Brookfield Craft Center, Connecticut, 81-82; demonstrator Netsuke carving, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, 84; Phoenix Workshop, Goffstown, New Hampshire ; co-instr with Gerry Williams, The Kick Wheel Studio, New Fairfield, Connecticut.
Public Works Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Smithsonian Institution Hist & Technol Department, Washington, DC; Mus Art & Archeol, Univ Missouri, Columbia; Mus Haaretz, Ceramics Mus, Tel Aviv, Israel; Everson Mus Art, Syracuse, New York; Yale Univ Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Martin Luther King Jr Center Non-Violent Social Change, Atlanta; Hammond Mus, North Salem, New York; Southern Connecticut, New Haven; Schenectady Mus, New York; Housatonic Mus Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Cyrenius Booth Libr, Newton, Connecticut.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, Hammond Mus, North Salem, New York, 75, 77, 82, 85, 88-89, 93-95, 99, 2001, Silvermine Guild, New Caanan, Director's Choice Invitational, Connecticut, 76 & 2000, The Galerie, Chester, Connecticut, 81 & 82, GWS Gallery, Southport, Connecticut, 87, Atelier Gallery, New Milford, Connecticut, 89, Weslayan Potters, Middletown, Connecticut, 89 & Variations, Riverton, Connecticut, 92; Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut, 76-; Mark Twain Libr Art Show, Redding, Connecticut, 84-91; Mendelson Gallery, Washington Depot, Connecticut, 87; Exhib Contemporary Netsuke, Yamada Co, Tokyo, Japan, 88; Ceramics - The Oriental Influence, Farmington Valley Center, Fisher Gallery, 89; Cyreniws Booth Lib, Newtown, Connecticut, 2003; and others.
Bibliography Betty K Leavitt (author), Netsuke-She, J Int Netsuke Collectors Soc, 83; Betty K Leavitt & C Randall (coauths), Netsuke: Superlative Pieces, Netsuke Kenkyukai Conv, 83; Diane Dowling (director), Artist Jean Mann (film), Commerce Cast, 89; and others.
Publications Author, Tools for Carving Porcelain, Vol 4 No 1, 78, winter 75-76 & Highfired Copper Reds on Porcelain, Vol 8 No 1, 23, winter 79-80, The Studio Potter; photo & ltr, Arts of Asia, 9-10/92; interview & photo, The Studio Potter, Vol 25 No 1, 97, 12/96.
Honors and Awards Artist Award, The Galerie, Connecticut Comn Arts, 81; Master Craftsman & Educator, Soc Connecticut Crafts, 96; Society of Creative Arts of Newtown Award, SCAN Annual Juried Show, 2004; Andrew J Alexander Award, Candlewood League of Artists, 2006.
Memberships Silvermine Guild; America Crafts Coun; Brookfield Craft Center; Soc Connecticut Crafts; New Haven Paint & Clay Club; Oriental Brush Artists Guild; Candlewood Leagus of Artists; Kent Art Assoc.
Areas of Interest Carving, reading, photography.
Address care of The Kick Wheel 154 Route 39 New Fairfield CT 06812-4203
