Weston and Brenda Andersen begin Andersen Studio Stoneware in 1951. Akron Ohio USA

Weston and Brenda Andersen in Akron Ohio in 1951 displaying their first ceramic functional design forms

Weston Neil Andersen was raised in Primgar, a small town in Iowa. Weston graduated from the department of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York Brenda Amy Rose Nash grew up in London where she attended art school and worked as a photographers assistant Weston and Brenda met at a dance during WWII. Weston and Brenda Andersen were emerging artist-designers in the mid-century urban designer movement. Weston Andersen studied ceramic production under Eva Zeisel in a landmark ceramic production class at Pratt Institute. The Andersen’s received a young designers award in Living magazine for their egg shaped vase with lip. Andersen stoneware took it’s own unique path when it Andersen ceramics arrived with a line of mid-century classic ceramic stoneware vases, bowls and functional designs. The natural environment of Maine inspired a line of wildlife ceramic stoneware sculpture and ceramic art including ceramic bird sculpture, ceramic animal sculpture, and ceramic marine life sculpture. Ceramics by Andersen became the Andersen Studio retail ceramic art gallery and Andersen Design, the wholesale line of classic stoneware ceramic art and designs. The Andersen’s pioneered a ceramic studio industry in the Boothbay Region on the coast of Maine Brenda died on Sept 11, 1994

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