Mary Chase Perry Stratton
Born in the Upper Peninsula, she co-founded Pewabic Pottery and put its glazes into landmark buildings.
This artist's work is shown through the museum and artist links on this page while it remains under copyright or awaits a permission-cleared image.
Stratton was born in Hancock in 1867 and grew up in Ann Arbor and the Detroit area. She took her first art classes at the Art School of the Detroit Museum of Art and studied for two years at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
In 1903 she co-founded Pewabic Pottery in Detroit with Horace James Caulkins. In 1907 the pottery moved into its Jefferson Avenue building, designed by William Stratton. Its iridescent glazes went into the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, the Fisher Building and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
She established the ceramics department at the University of Michigan and received the Charles Fergus Binns Medal in 1947. Pewabic is a National Historic Landmark and still offers classes and workshops.