Shaping the Field: Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art

Ceramics has been foundational to Cranbrook Academy of Art since its inception. In 1928, founder George Gough Booth established arts and crafts workshops that included ceramics. In 1938, Finnish-born artist Maija Grotell was appointed as head of the department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, which would prove a serendipitous move. Though Academy President Eliel Saarinen insisted on an equivalence between the […]