Tunick lives and works in New York City. She received her MFA and BA from Bennington College. Her paintings, sculptures and drawings have been exhibited in many museums and galleries. Her ceramic mosaic commissions include three locations in the New York City Subway System (Brighton Line, Brooklyn, NY). She is the author of several books, including “Terra-Cotta Skyline” (1997); “Paris and the Legacy of French Architectural Ceramics” (1997), and “Terra Cotta: Don’t Take it for Granite” (1995). She has contributed essays for several books, and her articles have appeared in Studio Potter, American Ceramics, Ceramics Monthly, Historic Preservation, the APT Bulletin, Paris Notes and The New York Times. She is also president of Friends of Terra Cotta, a national preservation organization.
The presentation will focus on the remarkable number of locations in the Bronx which have terra-cotta plaques and sculptures such as the entrance to the Park Plaza Apartments on Jerome Avenue in the Highbridge section, the Winter House for Eagles at the Bronx Zoo and of course, most notably in Parkchester. There will be a review of terra-cotta manufactures as well as details about the artists and artisans who helped create these works. The Federal Seaboard Terra Cotta Corporation was the last East Coast manufacturers to remain active until the early 1960s. They were responsible for the work at Parkchester and many other projects, a few of which we will look at briefly.
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