Background
Parker-Fairbanks, Dixie was born on August 1, 1936 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Daughter of James N. and Mary Louise (Mussell) Parker.
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Washington State potter Richard Fairbanks and his wife, painter Dixie Parker-Fairbanks, embarked on a sabbatical research trip to Eastern Europe in 1986. Making daring forays into remote mountain villages and tirelessly exploring the great cities in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary, they found the folk art and artists they searched for. The Fairbankses painstakingly gathered a huge archival photographic record of the last villages where people continued to create and live with breathtaking ornamentation in their everyday lives - in architecture, household items, clothing, and rituals.
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Parker-Fairbanks, Dixie was born on August 1, 1936 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Daughter of James N. and Mary Louise (Mussell) Parker.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drake University, 1958. Master of Fine Arts, Drake University, 1959.
Craft instructor State of Wisconsin, Waukesha, 1960—1961. Assistant director department education Des Moines Art Center, 1961—1966. Art lecturer Central Washington University, Ellensburg, 1967—1969.
Director Junior Art Museum Des Moines Art Center, 1965—1966, director docent program, 1963—1966. Director Community Art Gallery, Ellensburg, 1968—1972. Coord./director Richard Fairbanks Project, Ellensburg, 1991-1995.
Guest curator, Richard Fairbanks Retrospective, Nordic Heritage Museum, Ballard, Washington, 1995. Guest speaker, Networks in Ceramics, University Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, 1966. Curator/director Richard Fairbanks American Potter Foundation, 2005.
(Washington State potter Richard Fairbanks and his wife, p...)
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Established, director Richard Fairbanks: American Potter Foundation, since 2005.
Married Richard Fairbanks, August 26, 1966 (deceased March 1989).