is an independent curator. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and the University of California at Davis, she had her first clay class with California Funk artist Robert Arneson. Jefferies established the modern and contemporary collections as well as a new gallery for the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, Canada, and served as its curator for ten years. Notable exhibitions include: “Jean-Pierre Larocque: Clay Sculpture and Drawings”, “Bigger, Better, More: the Art of Viola Frey”, and “Clay Portraits: Gertraud Möhwald”. Her exhibitions of Canadian ceramics have traveled to various Asian and European countries.
