Title: Untitled [Silent Witness]
Artist: Mary Bowron
Date: c. 1970 - 1990
Medium: Stoneware and glaze
Credit Line: Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art. Gift of Mary Bowron and Kohler Foundation, Inc.

Item description: Wood fired ceramic head.

Mary Bowron is a ceramic artist from Boyds, Maryland. Her body of work, primarily heads, is part of the Silent Witness Series that Bowron produced over many years. Each piece is approximately 10 inches tall and they were created by a variety of clays and glazes. Having grown up in the south during a time of racial tension and unease, the heads reflect Mary’s passion for human rights and equality. In speaking of the heads, Mary has said, “all have no mouth for fear of speaking what they say and hear. This fear is a plague on us all.” She also refers to the heads as a “crowd of silence and fear.”