Jenni Sorkin NCECA 2026

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About

Art historian, author, and ceramics scholar. Professor & Chair of History of Art & Architecture at UC Santa Barbara. PhD Yale University, MA Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Author of 'Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community' (U of Chicago Press, 2016), 'Art in California' (Thames & Hudson, 2021). 2025 Archie Bray Foundation resident. Co-Executive Editor of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Visiting critic at Cranbrook, Colorado State, Michigan State, SAIC, and Yale. NCECA 2026 Headliner.

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Studied at (3)

→ Bard College institution

→ School of the Art Institute of Chicago institution

→ Yale University institution BA

Faculty (1)

← University of California, Santa Barbara institution

Artist in Residence (1)

→ Archie Bray Foundation institution 2025

Headliner (1)

→ NCECA 2026 event NCECA 2026 Headliner 2026

Co-residency (3)

→ Austin Coudriet person

→ Chenlu Hou person

→ Julia Galloway person

Keynote (1)

→ NCECA 2026 event Closing Lecture: It Was Women Ceramists Who Modeled the Values We Need Now 2026