Kurt Weiser

Born: 1950, Lancing, MI
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    About
    Apprenticeships & Residencies
    1972

    Apprentice wood sculptor, Roy Setzoil, Portland, Oregon

    Primary Work Experience
    1952
    -
    1954

    Assistant to Paul Bonifas, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    1977
    -
    1989

    Director, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

    1988

    Ceramics Department Head, Herberger College School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

    2000

    Regents Professor, Arizona State University

    Other

    Public Collections

    Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

    American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

    Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana

    Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

    Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

    Carnegie Mellon Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Columbus, Ohio

    Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

    George M. Gardiner Museum of Art, Toronto, Canada

    Hamline University, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Helsinki Museum of Applied Arts,  Finland

    Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California

    Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona

    Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia

    Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Shigaraki, Japan

    National Museum of History, Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan

    Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah

    Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

    Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

    Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island

    Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

    University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska

    Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

    Washington University Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

    Winnipeg Art Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Yellowstone Arts Center, Billings, Montana

    Bibliography

    Held, Peter, ed. Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008.

    Lewing, Paul. China Paint and Overglaze. Westerville, OH: American Ceramic Society, 2007.

    Clark, Garth and Tony Cunha. The Artful Teapot. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 2001.

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    Archie Bray

    Scripps College Ceramic Annual

    Helena

    Tempe

    American Ceramic Society

    ACerS

    Center for Craft

    CfC

    American Museum of Ceramic Art

    AMOCA

    Renwick Gallery

    Citation: Kurt Weiser, "The Marks Project."
    Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/kurt-weiser

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