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Born in New York City in 1931. Majored in Art at Bennington College
with interest in ceramics. Accompanying her husband and two small children
to Germany in 1956, she continued her studies in ceramics in a Munich
studio. Returning to Virginia in 1961, she set up her own studio in Hollin
Hills, a community of contemporary houses in Alexandria. When the Corcoran
School of Art started its ceramics program, Solveig worked with Teru
Hara in the mid-1960's. Since then she has studied at weekend workshops,
courses at Penland and Haystack, and on sojourns to Latin America, Europe,
Turkey and Japan.
In the 1960's when the American Crafts Council started to hold major
craft fairs, Solveig was in the third one at Mt. Snow in Vermont. She
launched her wholesale business there. She has continued to exhibit with
them through the years and built a business that has sold work to more
than 100 shops and galleries across the country.
Ever since 1974, when Solveig was one of the first potters to join,
she has shared a group pottery studio in the Torpedo Factory Art Center
in Old Town Alexandria.
The cat image has recurred in her art work since childhood and for the
last twenty years has been the major theme of her pottery. She lives
with her husband and two cats upstairs over the glass-walled studio where
she works every day. Her cats are tigers, one orange and one ginger:
Ellsworth and Sedgwick, named after towns near their vacation house on
the coast of Maine.
Solveig has served on several boards including The Fairfax County Council
of the Arts, The Athenaeum in Alexandria, The Torpedo Factory Artists
Association and the Smithsonian's James Renwick Alliance.
Below are a few of the galleries where Solveig's work is shown:
- Animalia, Farmington hills, MI
- N.W. Bareet, Portsmouth, NH
- Compliments, Kennebunkport, ME
- Craftworks Oak Bluffs, MA
- Earthenworks, Port Townsend, WA
- Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
- Heather Gallery, Aspen, CO
- Jurus Ltd., Baltimore, MD
- Spectrum, Brewster, MA
- Timothys, Winter Park, FL
- Virginia
Museum Shop, Richmond, VA
- Helen Winnemores, Columbus, OH
Solveig Cox
Solveig Cox Pottery
7419 Hopa Court
Alexandria, VA 22306-
(703) 765-2132
E-Mail: catpottery@mac.com
Web Site: http://catpottery.com
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