Stephanie Scuris

Stephanie Scuris (born 1931) is an American artist and arts educator, known for her large-scale Constructivist sculptures. She taught at the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art located in Baltimore, MD.
Early life.
Stephanie Scuris was born in Lacedaemonos, Greece. She moved to the United States in 1947 (at age 16), just two years following the end of WWII. She studied under Josef Albers at Yale University, receiving both a BFA and a MFA from the School of Art and Architecture in the late 1950s.
Career.
Scuris was one of the select group of students Albers introduced to Madeleine and Arthur Lejwa at the Galerie Chalette. While still a student at Yale, she exhibited at their "Structured Sculptures" show of winter, 1960.
She exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, MOMA, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Yale Art School, worked on major commissions for the Bankers Trust Company and the Salk Laboratories in the 1960s.
She was recruited, along with Norman Carlberg, by noted educator and artist Eugene Leake (both
alumni of the Yale/Albers MFA program), to revive the sculpture program at the Rinehart School at the Maryland Institute of Art. That revival was, by Ms. Scuris's own account, "all about Bauhaus,” an educational approach that centered on knowledge of the physical manipulation of materials rather than strict figurative representation.
Awards, Permanent Collections.
Winterwitz Award, prize for outstanding work & alumni award, Yale Univ.; Peabody Award, 1961–62; Rinehart fellowship, 1961-64.