Women played a central role in the American Art Pottery movement, both as leaders like Pauline Jacobus and as workers like Lulu Deveraux Dixon.
Art Pottery
The Pauline Pottery
Chicago-born artist and entrepreneur Pauline Jacobus was the central figure of Edgerton, Wisconsin’s art pottery movement. In 1888, Jacobus and her husband Oscar relocated the Pauline Pottery from Chicago to Edgerton to take advantage of the area’s quality clay.