Dennis Parks

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    About
    Apprenticeships & Residencies
    Primary Work Experience
    1965
    -
    1967

    Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois

    1966

    Founded Tuscarora School of Ceramics, Tuscarora, Nevada

    1966

    Tuscarora School of Ceramics, Tuscarora, Nevada

    1968
    -
    1972

    Pitzer College, Claremont, California

    Other

    Public Collections

    Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

    Moukhina Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada

    Scripps College, Claremont, California

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

    Bibliography

    Brodie, Regis. The Energy Efficient Potter. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 1982.

    Hopper, Robin. The Ceramic Spectrum. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co., 1983.

    Lewenstein, Eileen and Emanuel Cooper. Ceramic Review Book of Clay Bodies and Glaze Recipes. London, England: Ceramic Review Publishing, 1983.

    Mansfield, Janet. Pottery. Sydney, Australia: Fontana/Collins, * 1983.

    Nigrosh, Leon. Clay Work. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1975.

    Speight, Charlotte. Hands in Clay, second edition. Mayfield Publications, Inc., 1989.

    Parks, Dennis. A Potter’s Guide to Raw Glazing and Firing. New York, NY: Scribner’s, 1980.

    __________. Living in the Country Growing Weird. *The University of Nevada Press, 2001.

    __________. “Collecting Ceramics: the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah.”  American Craft (December 1991/January 1992).

    __________. “Single Fire Ceramics.” Ceramic Review (September/October 1983).

    __________.“Firing With Waste Drain Oil.” NCECA Journal 2, no. 1 (1981).

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    Citation: Dennis Parks, "The Marks Project."
    Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/dennis-parks

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