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{{Short description|Ceramics school of SUNY Alfred University}}
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The '''New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University|url=https://www.suny.edu/campuses/ceramics/|website=[[SUNY]]}}</ref> ('''NYSCC''') is a [[Statutory college#New York|statutory college]] of the [[State University of New York]] located on the campus of [[Alfred University]] in [[Alfred (village), New York|Alfred, New York]]. There are a total of 616 students, including 536 undergraduates and 80 graduates.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.suny.edu/about/fast-facts/ |title = Fast Facts - SUNY}}</ref>

==History==
The college was founded by an act signed into law on April 11, 1900, by Governor [[Theodore Roosevelt]], establishing the New York State School of Clay-Working and Ceramics.<ref name="NYenclopedia">{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmHEm5ohoCUC&q=ny+state+college+ceramics&pg=PA1510 |title = Encyclopedia of New York State|isbn = 9780815608080|last1 = Eisenstadt|first1 = Peter|date = 2005-05-19}}</ref> This move by Alfred University to petition the New York State legislature in 1899 followed a period of crisis at the university starting in 1895, which was facing low enrollments, mounting deficits, and the recent resignation of then-president A.E. Main (1893–95). The trustees, with support from area businesses and alumni, recognized the trends in higher education toward applied sciences and technology and supported the decision to petition the legislature.<ref>{{cite book |last1=McHale |first1=Anna |title=Fusion: A Centennial History of the New York State College of Ceramics |date=2003 |publisher=The Donning Company Publishers |location=Virginia Beach, VA |isbn=1-57864-224-8 |page=22 }}</ref>

[[Charles Fergus Binns]], a British ceramist, served as the first director of the school, after completing a career at Royal Worcester Porcelain Works. In 1932 it was renamed the New York State College of Ceramics (NYSCC) with two departments, General Technology and Engineering and Applied Art.<ref name="NYenclopedia"/> The college is presently composed of the School of Art and Design, the Inamori School of Engineering<ref name="NYenclopedia"/> and the [[Scholes Library|Samuel R. Scholes Library]]. The college also houses the Inamori Museum of Fine Ceramics, one of two such collections in the world focused on technical ceramics and glass.

The Inamori School of Engineering at Alfred University offers programs in ceramics, glass, biomaterials, and materials science engineering. In addition, the programs in mechanical engineering and renewable energy engineering are offered through Alfred University, the private institution with which the NYSCC is affiliated. The School of Engineering is one of only two institutions in the U.S. that offers a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering and the only institution in the U.S. that offers degrees in glass science.

==Notable alumni==
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*[[Betty Baugh]]
*[[Margaret Boozer]]<ref name="SI-BoozerBio">{{cite web|title=Margaret Boozer|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=27563|publisher=[[Smithsonian American Art Museum]]|access-date=19 July 2013}}</ref>
*[[Cristina Córdova]]
*[[R. Guy Cowan]]
*[[Karon Doherty]]
*[[Kim Dickey]]
*[[Julia Galloway]]<ref name="biography">Galloway, Julia (2009). Julia Galloway: Biography. Retrieved October 8, 2009, from Julia Galloway: Utilitarian Pottery. Web site: http://www.juliagalloway.com/biography.html</ref>
*[[Maija Grotell]]
*[[Isaac Scott Hathaway]]
*[[Steve Heinemann]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artcn.net/worldstudio/american/StevenHeinemann/indexen.htm|title=Steven Heinemann|access-date=28 January 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417191224/http://www.artcn.net/worldstudio/american/StevenHeinemann/indexen.htm|archive-date=17 April 2009}}</ref>
*[[Otto and Vivika Heino|Vivika Heino]]<ref>{{cite web | last=Smith | first=Paul J. | title=Interview with Susan Peterson | publisher=Smithsonian Institution | date=2004-03-01 | work=Archives of American Art | url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/peters04.htm | access-date=2006-10-13 }}</ref>
*[[Ayumi Horie]]
*[[Packard Jennings]]
*[[Michael Lax]]
*[[Tony Marsh (artist)|Tony Marsh]]
*[[Walter McConnell]]
*[[Victoria MacKenzie-Childs]]
*[[Ruth Gowdy McKinley]], first potter elected to [[Royal Canadian Academy of Art]]
*[[Rebekah Modrak]]
*[[Judy Moonelis]]<ref name="HellerHeller2013">{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}}</ref>
*[[William O'Connor (artist)|William O'Connor]]
* [[Lisa Orr]]
*[[Ken Price (artist)|Ken Price]]<ref name="Ken">Price, Ken. "Personal Influences." ''Ceramics Monthly'' (September 1994) p. 31.</ref>
*[[Daniel Rhodes]]
*[[Norm Schulman]]<ref name=SMN>{{cite web|last=Smoky Mountain News|title=Norm Schulman's ceramics kick off museum's season|url=http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/08_07/08_29_07/art_schulman.html|access-date=19 March 2012|date=29 August 2007}}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*[[Robert Chapman Turner]]<ref name="themarksproject.org">{{cite web|url=http://themarksproject.org/marks/turner|title=Turner - The Marks Project|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref>
*[[Betty Woodman]]
*[[Arnold Zimmerman]]<ref name="risd">[http://www.risdmuseum.org/press-release.aspx?id=2147483859 "The RISD Museum of Art Presents Inner City: An Installation by Ceramic Sculptor Arnie Zimmerman and Architect Tiago Montepegado"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527024649/http://www.risdmuseum.org/press-release.aspx?id=2147483859 |date=May 27, 2012 }} Museum of Art, [[Rhode Island School of Design]]. Press release (September 2009). Retrieved January 26, 2012</ref>
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==Notable faculty==
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*[[Charles Fergus Binns]]<ref name="Evans">{{cite book|last1=Evans|first1=Paul|title=Art Pottery of the United States|date=1974|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|location=New York|isbn=9780684140292|page=8}}</ref>
*[[Daniel Rhodes]]
*[[Robert Chapman Turner]]<ref name="themarksproject.org"/>
*[[Walter McConnell]]
*[[Wayne Higby]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=2209|title=Wayne Higby - Smithsonian American Art Museum|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref>
*[[Andrew Deutsch]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/226504-Andrew-Deutsch|title=Andrew Deutsch|website=[[Discogs]]|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref>
*[[Paul DeMarinis]]
*[[Heather Mae Erickson]]
*[[William Underhill]]
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== References ==
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==External links==
*{{official|https://www.alfred.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-ceramics/}}

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