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Gerry Williams Obituary

DUNBARTON – Gerry Williams, master potter, magazine editor, teacher, mentor, passed away Sunday, August 24, , after a battle with Parkinson's disease.

A longtime resident of Dunbarton, Williams was the co-founder of Studio Potter magazine and Phoenix Workshops, and has been a model and source of inspiration for ceramic artists around the world. Williams was selected as New Hampshire's first Artist Laureate by Governor Jeanne Shaheen in , and in was honored with New Hampshire's Lotte Jacobi Living Treasure Award. Williams once wrote, "Potter is what I do, who I am, where I come from."

Born Frederick Gerald Williams in in Asanol, Bengal, India, the son of American educational missionaries, who befriended Mahatma Gandhi, young Williams embraced the Indian leader's philosophy of pacifism. Returning to the United States to attend Cornell College in Iowa in , Williams refused to serve in World War II as a conscientious objector and spent several years in alternate war service, first as a Malaria test victim on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, and then clearing roads at CPS Camp in Tennessee. His refusal to register for the draft

Gerry Williams

Born Asanol, Bengal, India

Died Goffstown, New Hampshire

EDUCATION

— Cornell College (Honorary Doctorate), Mt. Vernon, Iowa

 

Gerry Williams is known using stoneware or porcelain to create vessels that are thrown and also for coil built sculptures.

In the s, Gerry Williams began working in the Black Hills area of Concord, New Hampshire with the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. He cites David Campbell, the director, as well as other potters working at the League, such as Vivika Heino, John Butler, and Richard Moll, as influential in his study. During this time, he focused on wheel-thrown pottery techniques, but soon became known for his architectural forms in porcelain and stoneware. By the s, Williams was well-known and respected, and was well-versed in innovative wet-fire techniques and photoresist processes for adding images to ceramic forms. He began working with large stoneware bowls and coil-building urns. He also mastered the Copper Red Glaze during this time. As his work began to shift towards stoneware and porcelain, he created a body of well-known political sculptures, known as “Political Constructions”, which included g

Gerry Williams: Influential New Hampshire Studio Potter, Part One

By Rick Russack - October 25,

Who was Gerry Williams ()? He was, perhaps, one of the most creative, influential and successful utilitarian/functional studio potters of the second half of the 20th century. He lived and worked in Dunbarton, N.H., for more than 50 years. There were numerous solo exhibitions of his work. His works were also included in several prestigious international shows, including one at the Victoria and Albert Museum in His works are presently in several museum collections. In , a documentary film was devoted to his life and work and distributed by the Public Broadcasting System. Two years later in , he was interviewed for the Smithsonians Archives of American Art oral history project, one of fewer than potters who have been interviewed. He would later conduct interviews of other potters for the Smithsonian. In , the governor of New Hampshire designated him as the states first Artist Laureate. He was the recipient of numerous other awards and prizes. He experimented endlessly, developing hard-to-master glazes and a technique for printing photographs directly on pottery. In , he founded, and

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