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The ceramic tablets and the large wall reliefs are about color and filled with color, 'Essentially the work could be described as paintings made of clay and glazes. My work is basically abstract but can convey to the viewer a particular feeling or sensation,such as, warmth, romance or playfulness. More than anything, I like my work to transmit qualities of good, beauty, magic, and wonder. I try to cut through time and space, excite the mind and somehow go beyond.
Margie Hughto
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Margie Hughto has examined ceramics in a non-traditional format, finding her metier in the slab or wall-mural format. Her work is characterized by shifts in color, shape and style. It includes references to landscapes and to painterly and natural abstraction.

Hughto is an internationally recognized ceramic artist with an extensive 24 year exhibition record which includes many solo as well as group exhibitions. Her artwork is included in many private, corporate, and museum collections including IBM, Kodak, Merck, Mayo Clinic, Smithsonian, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and at the Renwick Gallery.

For the past 20 years, Hughto has become involved in numerous comissioned site-specific art works and several architectural public artworks. Her most recent public art project was commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority of NYC for the Cortlandt Street subway station at World Trade Tower II. Entitled, "Trade, Treasure, and Travel." the work consists of 12 large scale ceramic tile murals in the Dey Street passageway.

Everson Museum of Art curator Peter Doroshenko calls Hughto, "a unique and paradoxical artist. Her works are alternatively monumental and intimate in scale, mute and garish in color, objectively descriptive and purely abstract in subject matter; her glaze application can be flat and smooth or thickly built-up."

From 1971-1981, Hughto worked at the Everson Museum of Art as a part-tim teacher/consultant/lecturer and Curator of Ceramics. She curated numerous shows including "New Works in Clay I, II, III", "Nine West Coast Clay Sculptors," and "A Century of Ceramics in the United States: 1878-1978." The Century Show was accompanied by a book published by E.P. Dutton which is a major reference for museum curators, collectors, teachers, and artists.

In addition, Hughto joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 1971. She is a currently professor teaching ceramics in the School of Art and Design.

Hughto earned a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and MFA degree in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Hughto lives Jamesville, New York where she has a ceramics studios and paper making studio.