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Victor Spinsky
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    Obituary. American Craft Council, January 23, 2013

    Remembering Victor Spinski

    Victor Spinski, a leading figure in the avant-garde ceramics movement of the 1960s and 70s died on Monday, January 21, 2013, at the age of 72.

    Spinski was born on October 10, 1940. He attended the Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia, Kansas, where he earned a B.S.E. in Art and Foreign Languages in 1963. He went on to earn an MFA in Ceramics with minors in jewelry and photography from Indiana University in Bloomington. Following graduation from his master's program in 1967, Spinski became a full-time faculty member in the art department at the University of Delaware in Newark, where he served as a professor until his ret...

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