March 8 – Bill Brouillard, Guest Artist Lecture @ 5:30pm, Room 100, Lee Hall, Art Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
The Department of Art is pleased to host Bill Brouillard as a Visiting Artist for the 2012 Spring Clemson Anagama firing. Bill is a professor in the Ceramics Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he has taught since 1980, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cleveland Arts Prize in 2009. He earned his MFA in Ceramic Art from The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1976. Currently, his collections are represented by more than 15 institutions, including The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Detroit Museum of Art, The University of Southern Illinois, Tokyo National Museum, and Lerner Tower at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. Brouillard has held residency positions at Watershed, Archie Bray, and Penland; in 2003 he completed a 3-month McKnight Residency at Northern Clay Center.
In his recent series "Remonstrations from the Iconic Rustbelt," Brouillard creates unique, ceramic vessels and large scale platters which tell critical stories of the industrial age. Brouillard incorporates the tin-glaze tradition of Majolica work that began in the Middle East and traveled through Italy and Spain to England and the Netherlands -- replacing traditional/ historical repeated patterns with machine age imagery.
