Yvonne Edwards Tucker

Yvonne Edwards Tucker, also known as Yvonne Edwards–Tucker (born 1941) is an American artist, known as a potter, sculptor, and educator. She has taught at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee since 1973.[1]

Yvonne Edwards Tucker
Born
Yvonne Edwards

1941
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationSouth Side Community Art Center, Art Institute of Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urban–Champaign, Otis Art Institute

About

Yvonne Edwards is African-American and was raised in the South Side area of Chicago, Illinois.[2] She studied in her early youth at the South Side Community Art Center, and Art Institute of Chicago.[2] She continued her art studies into college and graduated in 1962 from University of Illinois at Urban–Champaign.[2][3] While attending University of Illinois at Urban–Champaign she took her first ceramics course and met her future husband, Curtis Tucker (1939–1992).[4][3]

Tucker began her graduate studies at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) between 1962 and 1964, and later transferred to nearby Otis Art Institute to study ceramics where she graduated with a MFA degree in 1968.[2][3] She studied with Helen Watson, Charles White, Joseph Mugnaini, Herman "Kofi" Bailey, and Michael Frimkess.[2]

Together husband and wife team, Yvonne and Curtis collaborated on sculptures for over 20 years, until his death in 1992.[1][5] They moved to Tallahassee, Florida in 1968.[3] Together they developed a new technique called "Afro-Raku", combining contemporary, Native American, Eastern Asian, and African traditional ceramics methods.[5][6]

See also

References
  1. Copelon, Dianne (1996-02-11). "Artisans Shape Visions of Black History, Culture". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  2. Fitzgerald, Sharon (March 2001). "Yvonne Edwards Tucker". The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. Vol. 108, No. 2: 37. ISSN 0011-1422 – via Google Books.
  3. "Tucker, Yvonne and Curtis papers, 1960-2002". The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Amistad Research Center, Tulane University. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  4. Copelon, Dianne (1994-01-20). "7 Artists Relate to African Heritage". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  5. "Florida Crossroads: Double Visions: Yvonne & Curtis Tucker". The Florida Channel. 1998-02-02. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  6. Lewis, Samella S. (2003). African American Art and Artists. Floyd Coleman, Mary Jane Hewitt. University of California Press. p. 230. ISBN 9780520239357.
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