Professional Activity Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bacerra, Ralph, 1938-2008
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content: Ralph Bacerra papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 1, 4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959-2013
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.baceralp, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The series consists of files for Bacerra's professional activities which include the exhibitions Craft Today USA (1989-1993) and Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 (2000) containing correspondence, contracts, reports, and artist statements; material from Chouinard Art School where Bacerra was a student and later chair of the ceramics department from 1963 to 1971; and student roll books, correspondence, teaching notes containing formulas and other class notes, quizzes and student assignments, and  identification cards from Otis Art Institute. Also included are photographs of Bacerra and his work, a small amount of correspondence, and printed exhibition materials that were compiled for a legacy film project by the Otis Art Institute honoring Bacerra.