Artist Demonstration with Richard W. James
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, School of Art will host artist Richard W. James for a joint lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 20, in the McCarty Auditorium of Art + Architecture, room 109. James will give two technical demonstrations at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. prior to the lecture.
Richard W. James has been working in the field of visual arts since 1996 when he began his undergraduate fine arts education at the University of Tennessee, Martin. Although he began as a painting student, James became enamored with clay immediately upon contact.
James is currently an assistant professor of sculpture and ceramics at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi. Prior to this, he held artist in resident positions at The Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT (2017-2019), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (2016-2017) in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Zhenrutang (summer 2015) in Jingdezhen, China. Richard received his BFA from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and his MFA in ceramics from the University of Kansas in 2016, where a portion of his thesis work received the 2016 Sculpture Magazine Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. He was the recipient of the James Renwick Alliance Chrysalis Award (2019) for emerging artists in the contemporary craft as well as the Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist Award (2018). He has also written for Ceramics: Art and Perception, Ceramics: Technical and Ceramics Monthly. His work is featured in numerous private collections and has exhibited across the country, as well as China and Italy.
This event is sponsored by the UT Potters Club.
Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 9:00am
Art and Architecture Building, Critique Space, outside room 131
1715 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996
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