Roberto Lugo
Roberto Lugo is known for experience driven activist surface narrative. Ceramic forms are often derived from classic Middle Eastern and historic ceramics. He uses various clays including stoneware, terracotta, and porcelain. His ...
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Roberto Lugo is known for experience driven activist surface narrative. Ceramic forms are often derived from classic Middle Eastern and historic ceramics. He uses various clays including stoneware, terracotta, and porcelain. His work is thrown or hand-built. Typical forms include ginger jars, vases, teapots, and plates. His surfaces may be finished with slip, china paint, and lusters.
Lugo says, ?I am a potter, social activist, culture-maker, rapper, spoken word poet, and educator. All of these roles that 'I am' are rooted in my childhood. I am from the ghetto; self-referentially I am a ghetto potter. The word ghetto can be a negative but I equate ?ghetto? with the word ?resourceful?. Although my history is filled with adversity, racism, and sheer bad luck; I celebrate these moments in my work, I could not make art without the experiences they have offered to me.?
" - Apprenticeships & Residencies
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2016
Artist in Residence, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, Maryland
2011Tom Jones Residency, Clay City, Foley, AL
2012Artist in residence, International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary
2013Artist in residence, International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary IAH resident artist, Penn State University, State College, PA
2016Guest Artist in Residence, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Primary Work Experience
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2009-2012
Assistant Teacher to Paul Donnelly, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
2012-2014Beginning Ceramics Instructor, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
2015Professor of Art, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont
Other
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The Belger Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Department of Fine Arts, Seminole State College, Sanford, Florida
Juniata College Museum of Art, Juniata, Pennsylvania
Ken Ferguson Teaching Collection, Ceramics Department Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
West Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Bibliography
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Ceramics Monthly (September 2012).
Dunlop, Beth. “Spring 2016: From the Editor.” Modern (February 24, 2016).
Essner, Elizabeth. “Roberto Lugo is Changing the World One Teapot at a Time” Modern (March 29, 2016).
Lovelace, Joyce. “Agent of Change.” American Craft (April/May 2016).
Schulman, B. ”Roberto Lugo : Not Fearing the Message.” Ceramics Art and Perception 98(2014).
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- Website(s)
Citation: Roberto Lugo, "The Marks Project."
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