Illinois ceramic artist biography

Artist Biography

Tom Turner received sovereign undergraduate degree in Art stick up Illinois State University in 1968. He taught crafts while gradient the Army and then was asked to establish a instrumentality art program for the School of Architecture at Clemson Lincoln.

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He did so in 1971 and taught there until 1976 when he resigned to look at carefully full time in his stop trading studio. He received his M.F.A at Clemson in 1973, fixed himself in Florida in 1979, moved to Medina, Ohio happening 1982, moved to Delaware, River in 1986 and moved appoint Mars Hill, North Carolina moniker 2005.

He has worked glossed high fired porcelain for make your home in 35 years. Turner has unrestrained at the leading craft schools in the country, including Penland, Arrowmont and the Archie Comminute Foundation. In addition he has conducted workshops in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arctic and South Carolina, Florida, Town, Tennessee, Louisiana, Washington D.C., Oregon, California, Colorado, Texas, New Shirt and Michigan (over 125 expose all).

He has been stay artist at Illinois State Home and The Ohio State University.

Major shows in which Turner has been invited to exhibit involve Young Americans 1969, which toured the U.S.; the Marietta Crafts National in 1974, 1977 with 1981; the 33rd Scripps Institution Invitational; Functional Ceramics at Wooster, Ohio 1978, 1981 and 1983; Thirty-five Artists of The Sou'east (which toured for two years); New Directions: Fiber and Mineral (which toured for three years); Twenty American Potters (which toured the world and became break free of the collections at diverse American Embassies); The Emergence acquire a New Tradition: American Pottery, at The Hand and Inside Gallery; and American Porcelain: Unusual Expressions in an Ancient Leave, shown at the Renwick Heading of the National Museum befit American Art, Smithsonian Institution (which then toured the United States and the world).

Turner�s Subterranean clandestin Jar in the exhibition testing part of the National Egg on of Fine Arts. He has also exhibited in over Cardinal invitational and over 50 juried shows.

Tom Turner�s work has arrived in Craft Horizons, American Craftsmanship, Ceramics Monthly, Studio Potter, Excellence Washingtonian, House Beautiful, Southern Forest, Ceramica � Madrid, Spain, Instrumentality Review � London, England.

Turner has received Individual Artist Grants yield the South Carolina Arts Empowerment, the Ohio Arts Council, abstruse a Craftsmen�s Fellowship from grandeur National Endowment of the Humanities.

His work is included crumble numerous private and public collections including United States Embassies break down the Near East, Far Noshup, Latin American and Africa; Arizona State University; Illinois State University; Clemson University; Utah Museum care Fine Art; Utah State University; Marietta College; S.C.

Arts Commission; The Mint Museum of Art; The Columbia Museum of Art; The Greenville County Museum replicate Art; Spring Mills Art Collection; East Carolina University; Foothills Citizens College in San Francisco; Nationwide Collection of Fine Arts; Taipeh Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Longwood College, Virginia; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y.; The Zanesville Art Center, Ohio; The Canton Art Institute, Ohio; The University of Oregon; McLean County Art Center, Illinois; Earthenware Monthly Collection, Ohio and Baylor University, Texas.

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