Margaret L. Carney

Margaret L. Carney (born 1949, Iowa, USA) is a ceramic historian who holds a Ph.D. in Asian art history.

She is the founding director and curator of the International Museum of Dinnerware Design in Kingston, New York.

She has the honor of being the last student chosen to study with Laurence Sickman, director emeritus of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.

Interwoven with her academic training and passion for ceramics, is her devotion to a museum career for herself as a director and curator, and for sharing collections.

[5] This museum journey began with her first museum position in 1973 at Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, where she fell in love with the Hoover's Chinese ceramics collection and thus began her art history and studio pottery studies while she worked in the curator's office.