This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| A jewelry maker and teacher of arts and crafts in the Evansville,
Indiana public schools from 1927 to 1955 and in the Evansville College
from 1947 to 1955.
From 1954 to 1963, she spent her summers in Cherokee, North Carolina
teaching jewelry making and conducting craft surveys for the Ford
Foundation. From 1959 to 1963, she was Education Director of the
Southern Appalachian Studies program of the Southern Highlands and
lived in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Bernice Stevens has also contributed articles to Creative Crafts and
Craftsman magazines. She took her art studies at Evansville
College, where she earned a BS degree, and the University of Tennessee
at Gatlinburg where she earned an MS Degree in Crafts. She also
studied at the Ringling School of Art and the Saugatuck School of
Painting.
She was a member of the Hoosier Craft Association and the Highland Handicraft Guild.
Exhibition venues include National Jewelry Exhibitions, Hoosier Craft
Guild, Louisville, John Herron Art Institute and Fort Wayne traveling
exhibitions,
Awards:
Delta Kappa Gamma Fellowship, 1955
Ford Foundation, 1955-56
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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