biography of Mary Given SHEERER (1865-1954)

Birth place: Covington, KY

Addresses: New Orleans, active 1894-1931; Cincinnati, OH/Ogunquit, ME

Profession: Craftsperson, painter, teacher

Studied: Cincinnati Art Acad.; PAFA; ASL; D. Ross; A.W. Dow; F. Duveneck; H. Breckenridge; Anna M. Riis; Kenyon Cox; Henry S. Mowbray

Exhibited: New Orleans AA, 1894, 1897, 1899, 1905, 1915-18; Louisiana Purchase Expo; Pan -Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915

Member: NOAA; Cincinnati Women's AC; Cincinnati Crafters Club (pres.); Cincinnati Mus. Assn.; Am. Ceramic Soc. (fellow & delegate to Int. Expo Modern Dec. & Indus. Art, Paris, 1925); Hoover Comm.

Comments: Hired in 1894 from the Cincinnati School of Art to organize the Newcomb College pottery department. Contributor: articles, Journal of Am. Ceramic Society. Position: teacher, assistant professor, professor, asst. director, 1894-1931, Newcomb College, New Orleans. Upon her retirement she returned to Cincinnati.

Sources: WW40; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 350-51.