Peter Voulkos popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which bounded the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. Born as Panagiotis Harry Voulkopoulos, the third of five children to Greek immigrant parents Aristovoulos I. Voulkopoulos, anglicized and shorten as Harry (Aris) John Voulkos and Effrosyni (Efrosine) Peter Voulalas, … Wikipedia
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Peter Voulkos, whose gift for awakening in students a passion for art-making and for living life to the fullest, died on February 16, 2002. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/PeterVou...
A man of enormous energy, Voulkos is regarded as the potter who helped change the direction of contemporary American ceramics in the late 1950s. Voulkos freed clay from its traditional, historical and technical limitations by expanding the aesthetic poss www.arkarts.com/collection/objects_craft_media/coll_displ...
Called "Envisioning This Place," the auction will include a collection of contemporary art from more than 50 artists. The auction will include a featured piece of "liberated clay" created by Voulkos in the late 1950s. Voulkos, a Bozeman native, received www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=1189