Paula Colton Winokur (1936–2018) was an American artist. She was one of the leading ceramic artists in the United States from the 1970s until her death in 2018. Biography Winokur was born and raised in the Philadelphia. She attended Tyler School of Art, where she was a student of Rudolf Staffel, and where she met her future husband, Robert Winokur. Paula Winokur is best known for the work she made during the 1990s through the 2010s which had an environmental focus. From the 1970s to the early 2000s, Winokur taught ceramic art at Arcadia University (formally known as Beaver College), in Glenside, Pennsylvania. In 2002 she was elected as to the College of Fellows at the American Craft Council. Collections Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibitions Material Legacy, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 2015 Fellowship in Clay, The Clay Studio, 2015 Paula Winour: A Tribute, The Clay Studio, 2019 Wave Hill, 2012 References 1936 births 2018 deaths Artists from Philadelphia American ceramists Temple University alumni 20th-century American women artists Arcadia University faculty American women academics 21st-century American women