Burkett | The Marks Project

About

Biography

Richard Burkett makes both functional stoneware and porcelain vessels and mixed-media sculpture. His pots, ewers, cups, pitchers, bowls, vases and jars are wheel-thrown and altered or formed by the use of an extruder.

He has spent many years traveling to Ecuador, documenting indigenous potters; numerous photographs from Ecuador can be found at http://ecuadorpottery.com/EcuadorWeb/andes/index.html.

Apprenticeships & Residencies

Primary Work Experience

1973

1983

Studio Potter

1986

1989

Lecturer, Ceramics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

1989

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Professor, Art, San Diego State University, San Diego, California

1993

2000

Co-owner of Clay Art Listserv, a blog transferred to American Ceramics Society

1996

Technical Advisor for video “Jatun Molino: A Pottery Village in the Upper Amazon,” producer Joe Molinaro

1989

Hyperglaze software published, glaze calculation software

2007

2009

Director of Communications, NCECA

Other

Public Collections

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

The Bindley Collection, Madison,Wisconsin

The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

DePauw University Art Museum, Greencastle, Indiana

Haan Museum of Indiana Art, Lafayette, Indiana

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Key Corporation, Oregon

Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin

The Putnam County Museum, Greencastle, Indiana

www.rosenfieldcollection.com

Philip Sartore Collection, Richmond, Indiana

University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana

Bibliography

Baird, Daryl. The Extruder Book. Westerville OH: American Ceramic Society, 2000.

Burkett, Richard, and Joe Molinaro. Mythical Figures and Mucwas: Ceramics from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Raleigh. NC: Lulu Press, 2014.

______________. “Organic Burnout Material for Texture.” Pottery Making Illustrated (January/February 2003).

______________. “Ed Thompson’s Slip Marbling.” Pottery Making Illustrated (January/February 2003).

______________. “Industrial Worker’s Cups.” Pottery Making Illustrated, (Spring 2000).

______________. (curator). Porcelain Masters: Major Works by Leading Ceramists. New York NY: Sterling Publishing, 2008.

______________. Hyperglaze, Software Program. http://www.hyperglaze.com (1989).

Daniels, Diane, and Martha Drexler Lynn. The Vase and Beyond: The Sydney Swidler Collection of the Contemporary Vessel. Sacramento CA: Crocker Art Museum, 2010.

Nelson, Glenn, and Richard Burkett. Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook, 6th ed. Boston MA: Cengage Learning, 2001.

Ostermann, Matthias. The Ceramic Surface. Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Pancioli, Diana. Extruded Ceramics. London: A & C. Black, 2000.

Tourtillott, Suzanne J. 500 Pitchers: Contemporary Expressions of a Classical Form. Asheville NC: Sterling Publishing, 2006.

__________________. 500 Cups: Ceramic Explorations of Utility and Grace. Asheville NC: Lark Books, 2004.

Walter, Josie. Pots in the Kitchen. Marlborough, UK: Crowood Press, 2002.

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