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Working in her Berkeley, California, studio, Schatz arranged “inclusions”—or pieces of wire, bright metal, and tinted plastic—between two sheets of Plexiglas. To add color, she painted layers in translucent, opaque, and metallic pigments. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #ZaharaSchatz This tweet was posted on February 15, 2023.

Zahara Schatz created modern decorative arts from metal and laminated plastic. From the 1940s–70s, Schatz experimented with Plexiglas, an aircraft-grade plastic that offered optical clarity and opportunities to explore color & reflection. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #ZaharaSchatz This tweet was posted on February 15, 2023.

See “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/RGair4BImp #CaliforniaModernistWomen #California #womenartists #modernism #EileenReynolds This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.

Reynolds worked with native materials & developed unique glazes. Her semi-translucent glazes accentuated the natural qualities of clay. Perhaps the most striking was “Pebble White,” a textured glaze that bubbled in the kiln & created lava-like effects. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.

Eileen Reynolds’ work was inspired by the graceful forms of classical Chinese ceramics, along with the simple lines of traditional, stoneware jugs and bowls from the Ohio River Valley in Indiana where Eileen was raised. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.

Eileen Reynolds Curtis was a San Francisco Bay Area studio potter who was known for hand-thrown ceramics with unique and distinctive glazes. By 1945, Reynolds had established a pottery studio on Russian Hill in SF and was producing ceramics full-time. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.

See “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/RGair4jz8h #CaliforniaModernistWomen #MargueriteWildenhain #California #womenartists #modernism #pottery This tweet was posted on October 31, 2022.

Although, the collaborative dissolved during the 1950s, Marguerite Wildenhain continued at Pond Farm, where she made studio ceramics and held annual summer workshops, teaching select students to master wheel-thrown pottery. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #MargueriteWildenhain This tweet was posted on October 31, 2022.

Two years later in 1942, she was the first resident at Pond Farm, an art colony and refuge for European artists near Guerneville in the Russian River Valley of Northern California. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #MargueriteWildenhain This tweet was posted on October 31, 2022.

In 1933, Marguerite Wildenhain and her husband Frans moved from Germany to the Netherlands and opened a pottery. When Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, she immigrated to the U.S. and taught at the @CACollegeofArts in Oakland. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #MargueriteWildenhain This tweet was posted on October 31, 2022.

See “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/RGair4BImp #CaliforniaModernistWomen #MargueriteWildenhain #California #womenartists #modernism This tweet was posted on October 24, 2022.

Wildenhain studied sculpture under master potters Gerhard Marcks and Max Krehan, and after a seven-year apprenticeship-in-residence, she became the first woman in Germany to achieve master potter status. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on October 24, 2022.