Ethel Julia Bouffleur

Ethel Julia Bouffleur is known for stoneware pottery with decorative natural imagery, such as landscapes, trees, and leaves glazed with solid matte colors.

In the 1920s, Bouffleur helped develop the ceramics program at Iowa State College, now Iowa State University. Her interest in childhood education is shown in her work with both Professor Erwin Christensen and Theodore Karwoski of the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Bouffleur received The Julia C. G. Piatt Memorial Fellowship, which was used to study elementary art education in France and the school of Professor Granz Cizek, Vienna, Austria to develop technique of approach to free expression in children’s art.

SOURCE - https://www.themarksproject.org/marks/bouffleaur (Sept, 2025)

Since 1915 work has been given to students of the Division of Home Economics and others in modeled pottery. Miss Ethel J. Bouflleur from the University of Washington was selected to conduct these courses [at Iowa State College]. There have been from 10 to 14 students entered for the four-year course the past three years, and there have been as many as 60 students per quarter from other departments for work in modeled pottery. There has never been fewer than 20 enrolled for this popular course.

Journal of the American Ceramic Society, DEPARTMENT OF CERAMIC ENGINEERING OF IOWA STATE COLLEGE. Author Paul E. Cox. First published: January 1923. vol. 6