Beth Lo
Colby Charpentier makes both functional wheel-thrown stoneware vessels and sculptures which are high-fired in a wood kiln. His vessels are true to utility but, like those of Val Cushing, remain sculptural. Champentier?s ...
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Colby Charpentier makes both functional wheel-thrown stoneware vessels and sculptures which are high-fired in a wood kiln. His vessels are true to utility but, like those of Val Cushing, remain sculptural. Champentier?s sculptural work can reference monumental industrial machinery components or complex scale like stands for vessel forms. Charpentier studied ceramics and glass at Alfred University.
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2012
Women in the Ceramic Arts Lecturer and Visiting Artist, Arizona State University Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona
1997Visiting Artist, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, New York
1997Visiting Artist, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas
1997Visiting Artist New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2009Resident Artist, Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
- Primary Work Experience
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1985—
Professor of Art, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
1974—Studio Potter
Other
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Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
Arizona State University, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona
Hallmark Card Corporation Ceramics Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana
Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, Washington
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
- Bibliography
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Biskeborn, Susan. Artists at Work: Twenty-five Northwest Glassmakers, Ceramists and Jewelers. Eugene, OR: Pacific Northwest Publishing, 2001.
Lo, Ginnie and Beth Lo. Mahjong All Day Long. New York, NY: Walker Books, 2005.
__, Ginnie and Beth Lo. Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic. New York, NY: Lee and Low Books, 2012.
Newby, Rick. "Beth Lo: Taking Stock of Familial Relationships - Exploring her Chinese Roots with Delicacy and Humor, the Montana Ceramist Plays with Notions of "cute", One of Contemporary Art's Last Taboos". American Craft 59, no.3 (1999).
Reintjes, Brandon. “Breath, Beth Lo in Korea.” Ceramic Art and Perception, no. 97 (2014).
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- Website(s)
Citation: Beth Lo, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/beth-lo
Objects
Collections
rosenfieldcollection.com
Dallas, Texas
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