Betty Woodman

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Betty Woodman (b. 1930) is an American ceramic artist. A retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 25 – July 30, 2006. The exhibit covered her over fifty-year career working with clay and her focus on the vase form. Her daughter, Francesca Woodman, became an influential photographer after her death by suicide at the age of 22. Her husband is the artist George Woodman. Currently she lives in New York City, NY and outside Florence, Italy. For many years she taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and was instrumental in making the ceramics program [1] one of the finest in the country.

She is represented by the Max Protetch Gallery and Frank Lloyd Gallery [2]