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Edris Eckhardt (1/28/1905 – 4/27/1998) was a American artist associated with the Cleveland School. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Eckhardt was trained at the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art), studying at the same time as ceramicist and industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost. While still a student, she was employed as an artist and designer at the noted Cleveland ceramics firm Cowan Pottery. Early in her career she changed her first name from Edythe to the more androgynous Edris in order to counter bias against female artists.

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  • Edris Eckhardt
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  • Edris Eckhardt (1/28/1905 – 4/27/1998) was a American artist associated with the Cleveland School. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Eckhardt was trained at the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art), studying at the same time as ceramicist and industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost. While still a student, she was employed as an artist and designer at the noted Cleveland ceramics firm Cowan Pottery. Early in her career she changed her first name from Edythe to the more androgynous Edris in order to counter bias against female artists.
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Name
  • Eckhardt, Edris
Alternative Names
  • Eckardt, Edythe
Date of Death
  • 1998(xsd:integer)
Place of Birth
  • Cleveland
Place of death
  • Cleveland Heights
Date of Birth
  • 1905(xsd:integer)
Short Description
  • artist, ceramicist, glass sculptor
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  • Edris Eckhardt (1/28/1905 – 4/27/1998) was a American artist associated with the Cleveland School. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Eckhardt was trained at the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art), studying at the same time as ceramicist and industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost. While still a student, she was employed as an artist and designer at the noted Cleveland ceramics firm Cowan Pottery. Early in her career she changed her first name from Edythe to the more androgynous Edris in order to counter bias against female artists. Federal Arts funding funded much of her artistic output during the 1930s. She created a serious of ceramic sculpture illustrating children’s literature for public libraries thanks to grants from the Public Work of Art Project. Eckhardt would then serve as the head of the Ceramics and Sculpture division of the Federal Arts Project of Cleveland from 1935-1942. During the 1930s, Eckhardt’s ceramics were exhibited widely. She showed at the Cleveland Museum of Art in each of its annual May Show’s from 1933 to 1945. She also showed at the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco and in the 1939 New York World's Fair. Throughout her career, Eckhardt taught at the university level. She began teaching ceramics at the Cleveland School of Art in 1932 serving on the faculty for the following 30 years. She held teaching positions at Cleveland College from 1940-1956, Western Reserve University from 1947-1957, University of California, Berkeley from 1962-1963, and Notre Dame College from 1950-1970. Along with her formal teaching, Eckhardt educated the public on ceramics in articles for Ceramics Monthly starting in 1954. After World War II, Eckhardt explored glass making and eventually bronze casting. Her work in studio glass garnered her two John Simon Guggenheim Awards for Fine Arts, first in 1955 and 1959. Along with those awards, her glass work earned her the Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship in 1956. While her early career was focused on ceramics, her 1971 Cleveland Arts Prize Special Citation for Distinguished Service to the Art highlighted her pioneering role in the field of glass sculpture.
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