Hiroshi Sueyoshi Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-259

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, exhibition catalogues, advertisements and invitations, and newspaper articles relating to the career of Hiroshi Sueyoshi. It also contains sketched plans for his 'Harmony' sculpture that is on display at the Cameron Art Museum.

Dates

1975-2007

Creator

Sueyoshi, Hiroshi, 1946- (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for resource use.

Copyright Statement

Copyright retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Biographical Note

Hiroshi Sueyoshi was born in 1946 in Tokyo, Japan. He arrived in the United States in 1971 to help build Humble Mill Pottery in Asheboro, NC. After additional study in Virginia, he returned to North Carolina in 1974 to work as a production potter in Seagrove at Seagrove Pottery. Sueyoshi has taught at the Sampson Technical Institute in Sampson County, Wilson Technical Institute in Wilson County, and Cape Fear Community College in New Hanover County. He primarily works with porcelain using the Japanese techniques of neriage and nerikomi. Sueyoshi has exhibited his work and won numerous awards in exhibitions across the United States. His work is in private, corporate, and institutional collections including the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery. Sueyoshi is a graduate of Tokyo Aeronautical College and the Ochanomizu Design School in Tokyo.