Lucille Nutt

born 1908; died Arizona, 1996

BiographyLucille Nutt received her Bachelor of Arts from University of Arizona and trained in ceramics and metalwork at the University of Washington. She taught Ceramic Engineering at the University of Washington and at the Edison Technical School. She was president of the Clay Club and a member of the Northwest Designer Craftsmen, exhibiting regularly with them, at the Henry Art Gallery, and in the Oregon Ceramic Annuals.

She made a specialty of working with crystalline ceramic glazes and particularly with their application on porcelain. She also worked in stoneware. In the 1960s she began studying the Japanese arts of bonsai and ikebana and made a number of unique containers for use in these artforms.

She and her husband established the David Evans & Lucille Collins Nutt Scholarship in the Humanities at the University of Arizona.

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