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oil painting, Jerome Ackerman, 1949.

While neither Evelyn nor Jerome grew up in a home that fostered artistic expression, both recall loving to draw from an early age. After taking basic art classes in high school, they each pursued an undergraduate art degree in college, Evelyn with an emphasis on fine arts and illustration and Jerry with a focus on commercial art [...]

A traditional potter by training, Jerome was influenced by Chinese Sung Dynasty pottery and developed a unique style with a simple, honest approach to form, function, and decoration. In 1953 he began work on his first group of slip cast ceramics. He spent that year creating shapes, making molds, and developing glazes at the Jenev Design Studio [...]

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