Rosette Gault Ph.D, MFA
In Brief:
Rosette Gault, Ph.D., M.F.A. is world known for her seminal discoveries in paperclay ceramic art and sustainable materials. Her contribution includes a US patent, ceramic and visual art (more than 130 exhibitions), writing (4 books and more than 40 articles), music, and teaching (more than 100 workshops and masterclasses in ceramic and paperclay) here and abroad.
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Rosette Gault, Ph.D. and M.F.A. is the world known art and design innovator who, after nearly 20 years of search and struggle to solve technical problems in ceramics, published advantages and best use for her paperclay compounds in 1990. Her methods would subsequently change 85% of traditional ceramics practice. Artists worldwide adopted enough of these to build museum quality art never possible to build in traditional clay. A field of paperclay ceramic art and design developed. She is an exhibited artist, published author, sustainable materials researcher, master teacher, visionary, and composer.
Her contribution includes more than 130 exhibitions 4 books to help studio artists and designers bring their dreams to reality in a tangible practical way, a (now expired) US Patent 5,726,111, DVD, websites and and more than 40 journal articles. She has inspired generations of artists and teachers at prominent institutions worldwide leading to establishment of a field of paperclay ceramic media and opened the doors to significant advance in art and design, engineering with sustainable materials. Paperclay Art and Practice: The New Ceramics (UPenn/Bloomsbury) appeared in 2014 and was translated to simplified Chinese in 2023. Her newest project Healing Clay will update the latest research.
Her company, New Century Arts, Inc. is based in Seattle with studios on Bainbridge Island, Kingston WA and seasonal Maine.
Born in New York City she grew up in Princeton, NJ and Maine she was exposed to art from youth.
Nowadays she divides time between Canada, Maine and the Pacific Northwest. She's been a nominated elected member of Northwest Designer Craftartists since 1983.
Present
She is in preparation of a book Healing Clay as a call for research in sustainable materials integrated design technologies of paperclay remedies in applications beyond the field of art.