The Glen Lukens Award is an annual cash scholarship

Scholarship

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 given to the "Outstanding Studio Artist" at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 School of Fine Arts.

The award honors Missouri-born ceramist, jewelry designer, and glassmaker, Glen William Lukens, of the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 in Los Angeles. He was influential in the Studio pottery

Studio pottery

Studio pottery is made by modern artists working alone or in small groups, producing unique items of pottery in small quantities, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by one individual. Much studio pottery is tableware or cookware but an increasing number of studio potters produce...

movement in the United States and taught ceramics, metalwork and jewelry making in the 1930s.