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WAUKESHA – Retired from teaching but not from
creating, internationally known ceramicist Dan Anderson will speak
at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Friday, April 25, at noon
in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, located in the Fine Arts Building on
campus at 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha. Admission is free, and
the public is welcome.
Anderson understands that most of his
“rootstocks” have a Midwestern tinge – factories, barns, silos,
storage tanks, granaries, water towers – and an architectural
influence. He, too, is Midwestern. Born in St. Paul, he earned a BS
in art education from UW-River Falls and MFA from Cranbrook Academy
in Bloomfield Hills, MI. In addition, for 32 years, he taught at the
University of Illinois-Edwardsville, where he headed the ceramics
program. He continues to live and work in Edwardsville, near St.
Louis, and fires his own Anagama-type kiln at his Old Poag Road Clay
& Glass studio twice a year.
He will be on hand when student work is
unloaded from a similar kiln at the UW-Waukesha Field Station,
located on Waterville Road in Oconomowoc, Saturday, April 26, and
will offer constructive critiques to the budding artists.
A frequent workshop presenter, Anderson has
lectured and demonstrated at more than 150 venues during the past
four decades, including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in
Deerfield, ME; Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN; Peters Valley Craft
Center, Layton, NJ; Penland School in NC; Anderson Ranch Art Center,
Snowmass Village, CO; Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts,
Newcastle, ME; and Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts,
Helena, MT.
He has received multiple grants, including an
NEA Artist Fellowship, 12 Illinois Arts Council grants, and a Ford
Foundation grant, and has participated in invitational exhibitions
of his work throughout the Midwest and from California to Canada. He
serves as the vice president of the board of directors of the Archie
Bray Foundation, MT, and president of Edwardsville Arts Center
board.
Major galleries
represent him across the US, and his work is in numerous private and
permanent collections including the Philadelphia Art Museum; the
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; the Mint Museum of Craft & Design,
Charlotte, NC; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; Racine Art
Museum, WI; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and the
Cranbrook Museum of Art.
UW-Waukesha has the largest enrollment among the 13
freshman-sophomore University of Wisconsin Colleges campuses,
offering associate of arts & science degrees and the best start on a
college degree and unlimited career opportunities. For information
about programs, admission or financial aid, contact the Student
Services office at 888-2UW-WAUK (888-289-9285) or
visit the Web at
waukesha.uwc.edu.
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