Carrie Yoffe Taylor

Carrie Yoffe was reportedly born on February 9, 1926 in Norfolk, Virginia and married research psychologist John H. Taylor in 1948 in Middletown, Connecticut.

The La Jolla-based ceramist showed at Art Center in La Jolla at the 1957 All Media Membership Exhibition alongside painters John Baldessari, Dan Dickey, Ethel Greene, Fred Holle, Sheldon Kirby and Guy Williams, photographer Lynn Fayman, enamelists June Schwarcz, Kay Whitcomb and Ellamarie & Jackson Woolley, as well as ceramists Stan Bitters, Marg Loring, and Malcolm McClain.

Taylor also showed her work again in 1963 alongside Jean Balmer, Winetta Childs, Jack Hopkins, Martha Longenecker, Betty Newkirk, Toza Radakovich, Joan Thorbun, and Kay Whitcomb at the Security First National Bank in La Jolla.

By 1969 she was teaching art classes to children at the La Jolla Museum of Art. Also a painter, Mrs. Taylor reportedly leveraged her painterly talents to her glaze designs. Taylor also exhibited mirror work alongside Kay Whitcomb in 1979 at Gallery Eight in La Jolla.

Carrie Taylor died on March 22, 1989 San Diego.