B. 1941, USA. Aebersold received her BFA from Newcomb Art School, Tulane University in 1969 and her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1971, where she studied with Dan Rhodes, Val Cushing and Robert Turner. She has maintained a private studio from 1972 through the present time, living and working in Vermont, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Oklahoma. She was a member of the studio arts faculty at Bennington College in Vermont from 1972 to 1993. She has been a member of the University of Oklahoma School of Art faculty since 2000. Aebersold's work is firmly centered in the vessel tradition. From the early 1970's through the mid 1990's she worked primarily in two series: thrown, manipulated gestural vase forms and slab formed architectonic vessels. The combining elements in both these series are the vessel (vase) format and her rich palette of lustre glazes. Her current work continues the vase format: large vases are coil built or coiled and thrown. Her palette now includes an infinite variety of colored slips and glazes, sometimes in conjunction with lustre, but more often not. Aebersold is recognized nationally and internationally. She has shown her work widely and her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C., the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and other public and private collections.
