Dr. Louana M. Lackey, Archaeologist And Ceramics Historian, 79

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Doctor Louana M. Lackey, a retired archaeologist and ceramics
historian, died December 9, 2005, of brain cancer at Gilchrist Center
for Hospice Care in Towson, Maryland, having been a Baltimore,
Maryland, resident, at the age of 79.

Dr. Lackey was born in Champaign, Illinois, and attended the University
of Chicago [Illinois] and the Art Students League of New York. As a
student, she held jobs as a cook, a model, a dressmaker and a makeup
artist in a mortuary. She received a bachelor's degree in 1972 and her
doctorate in 1978, both from American University.

She taught art and knitting at the Beauvoir elementary school for two
years, before becoming the art teacher at the National Cathedral School
for girls, where she taught from 1970 to 1976. She taught art history
and anthropology at Morgan State University and Coppin State University
from 1976 to 1978, and was a research associate at American University
from 1978 to 1987. She moved to Baltimore in 1987 and became a research
scholar in ceramics at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

She did research on potters and their creations in Mexico, Central
America, Spain and Italy, and wrote extensively on the work of
contemporary ceramic artists in the United States, Nepal, South Korea,
Latvia, Finland, Britain and elsewhere. Her articles and reviews
appeared in American Antiquity, Pottery Making Illustrated and numerous
other publications. She was also the author of a 2002 biography of Rudy
Autio, a Montana ceramic artist.

Dr. Lackey also worked as a real estate investor and general
contractor.

She was a member and past president of the National Council on
Education for the Ceramic Arts and was a member of the American
Anthropological Association, the International Academy of Ceramics, the
Potters Council, the Maryland Historical Society, the Society of Women
Geographers and other organizations.

Her first husband, Melvin Willard Lackey, died in 1987.

Her second husband, Dr. Michael Salovesh, died December 7, 2005.

Survivors include four daughters from her first marriage, Gwyneth
Eldred Lackey of Washburn, Wisconsin, Cora Lackey Carmody of Carlsbad,
California, Martha Gatewood Bell of Baltimore, Maryland, and Eleanor
Roberts Tessier of Milford, New Jersey; a brother; and 11
grandchildren.

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