Information provided by the Artist: Beverly Mayeri is a studio artist living in the Bay Area. She earned her BA from UC Berkeley and her MA in sculpture at San Francisco State University. She had early exposure to painting watching her mother paint landscapes and her father paint vignettes with humorous characters. She has had solo shows of her ceramic sculpture in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. She has received two NEA Visual Artist Individual Fellowships, a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, a Marin Arts Council Fine Arts Individual Artist Grant and a residency at the de Young Museum. Her work is represented in the Crocker's permanent collection.