Meet Carol Ray (BA69)

After graduating from the University of Iowa, Ray moved to Missouri to teach. In the early 1970s artist and St. Louis native Richard Zane Smith first encountered ceramics in Ray's high school art class in University City, MO. She remembers Smith as an intuitive student and craftsman with a deep interest in the natural world.

Ray’s career as an art and art history teacher took her from St. Louis to the Twin Cities. Now retired and living near Iowa City, Ray is thrilled to see her former student’s work at the Stanley.

A woman with short grey hair wearing black pants and a grey, long-sleeve top with a black scarf stands next to two red, ceramic pots
Photo by Josh Grothe

 

Red, earthenware post with wavy diagonal lines across the surface
A Boy and His Snake, 2012
Earthenware
11 1/4 x 12 x 12 in. (28.58 x 30.48 x 30.48 cm)
Stanley Education Partners, 2019.54 and 2019.55
Richard Zane Smith (American, 1955– )
Red, earthenware pot with black and dark orange geometric designs across the surface
Edge and Flow, 2012
Earthenware
20 x 14 x 14 in. (50.8 x 35.56 x 35.56 cm)
Stanley Education Partners, 2019.54 and 2019.55
Richard Zane Smith (American, 1955– )