Mary Scheier

[1] After a brief advertising career in Paris, she returned to Virginia and married Edwin Scheier in August 1937.

She was head of a WPA gallery at Big Stone Gap, Virginia when they met during the Great Depression.

Combining her products with Edwin's applied designs and custom created glazes gained the couple wide recognition.

[3] Mary focused on themes concerning primitive and biblical imagery, including topics of "human behaviour from Adam and Eve, birth, temptation to protection, motherhood and coupling with some of the designs showing people within people, womb-like or within animals.

"[4] Mary Goldsmith and husband Scheier were the subjects of Ken Browne's film Four Hands, One Heart, which aired repeatedly on PBS stations.