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Marsha Silverman was born in New York City in 1943 and moved upstate to Schenectady, NY. She trained as a ballerina, and even now, movement is implicit in her forms.
Marsha left home at 16 and moved back to New York, where she finished high school at the Professional Children's School while studying ballet at the old Metropolitan Opera and Joffrey Ballet. After deciding ballet was not going to be her career, she enrolled in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she majored in ceramics. She was awarded the Boit Prize and the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship in 1971.
She set up her first studio in Rexford, New York, in 1972. After marrying in 1975, she moved her studio to Anchorage, Kentucky. Her studio was then located in Miami, Florida, where she lived and worked until she retired in 2024 to Tysons, VA.
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Joan B Thomas
October 28, 2024
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Stan Rifkin
October 27, 2024
Marsha loved to laugh and had a contagious laugh herself.
She was, above all, a craftsperson, in all she did. Best known for her pioneering ceramics materials and designs, she was also an excellent cook and artist. Her patience was renown: she could place what seemed like a million dots on each of her pieces. Or a million little strokes along invisible lines on a tiny vase. Or, ...
Precision was one of Marsha's hallmarks, along with her well-known, celebrated colors.
Marsha was also versatile in ceramics and had definite periods in her work, time intervals when she would experiment in depth with size, shape, color, texture and its alternations.
She also had an eye for art created by other artists. The house that she & Jack shared was a veritable museum of pieces in all media and styles. Often they were the results of Marsha trading her works with those of other artists. A artist's artist.
It is worth mentioning in any tribute to Marsha that the biggest fan was her husband, who cheered her many sides & experiments, and provided the resources for her to be free to create.
We shall all miss a bright light.
- Stan Rifkin
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