| Patricia Raeder | ||
| Birth Date: 1935 |
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| Death Date: June 27, 2012 Artist Gallery |
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| Patricia Raeder graduated in 1957 from Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art, teaching art in the late 1950’s in Bedford schools. She developed an interest in ceramics when her husband surprised her one Christmas with a potter’s wheel and kiln. That interest led her to sculpture, and she created artwork for her own garden, for people she knew, and to sell. Her friends described her as “quiet, even-tempered, and giving.”
Being the daughter of a plant pathologist led Raeder to a lifetime love of gardening. Patricia and her husband owned a 5½-acre property in Cuyahoga Falls with 40 distinct garden areas, more than 500 varieties of hostas, and garden sculptures made by none other than Patricia herself.
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