Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics
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Scope and Contents
This collection consists of artist files and exhibition catalogs collected by Elaine Levin, art historian, writer, lecturer, and curator in ceramics. This includes ceramic exhibition catalogs from the 1950s to the 2000s, as well as alphabetized folders of ceramic artists' work via resume, clippings, slides, and recorded interviews. See series and file scope and content notes for more information about the slides in this collection. Boxes 42 and 43 also include inventories of contents.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1950s-2000s
Creator
- Levin, Elaine (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
Elaine Levin is an art historian, writer, lecturer, and curator in ceramics. She received her undergraduate degree in history from Grinnell College and her master's in art history at the California State University, Northridge. Levin began teaching courses in American ceramic history as a lecturer in 1985 at the University of California, Los Angeles, at Otis College of Art and Design, and at the California State University, Long Beach, and taught intermittently until 1993.
Elaine Levin has lectured on ceramics at colleges, galleries, art schools, and conferences around the U. S, as well as in Norway, Finland, and Canada. She has curated or co-curated fourteen ceramic exhibits and has served as moderator or panel member for twelve symposia and conferences. She has participated in three documentary films on ceramic artists. Levin has served as a juror for eight art exhibits. Her essays on ceramics have been published in twenty-three catalogs, and her articles have been published in ceramic magazines in the U.S., Australia, Great Britain, Greece, Switzerland, and Spain.
Extent
23.6 Linear Feet (43 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of artist files and exhibition catalogs collected by Elaine Levin, art historian, writer, lecturer, and curator in ceramics.
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed.
Processing Information
The USC Libraries Architecture & Fine Arts Library transferred custody of the Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics to the USC Libraries Special Collections unit on April 19, 2024. The collection's box labels still list the Architecture & Fine Arts Library as the holding repository.
Subject
- Levin, Elaine -- Archives (Person)
- Title
- Finding aid for the Elaine Levin collection on American ceramics
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Marissa Chavez and Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2023 April
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- April 2024: Stella Castillo transferred the resource record from the Architecture and Fine Arts Library repository to the Special Collections repository to reflect a transfer of custody between the USC Libraries units.
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu