Edith Heath

Edith Heath (née Edith Kiertzner) was a profoundly influential ceramicist whose tableware designs reflected how the artistic, political and social shifts in post-war America came to manifest in domestic life. Characterized by her interest in local materials and scientific methods, as well as her entrepreneurial spirit, Edith Heath was a figure who complicated the boundaries separating craft from industrial design. Born in 1911, Edith Heath was raised in a small farming town in Iowa by her Danish immigrant parents and had the early the aspiration of becoming a teacher in a small, mid-west schoolhouse. While attending the Chicago Norman School, which offered a Bachelor of Education, she was highly... more.

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