Rodger Lang
Rodger Lang'sprimary interest was in sculpture that he often created using mixed media, including clay and glass (which he had studied with Harvey Littleton). Lang?s most important work, The Old Pecos Museum, ...
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Rodger Lang'sprimary interest was in sculpture that he often created using mixed media, including clay and glass (which he had studied with Harvey Littleton). Lang?s most important work, The Old Pecos Museum, was begun in 1973 and was worked on for several years.Lang was interested in vessels as objects rather than as functional wares.
A fascination with pie resulted in a series of tongue-in-cheek works with pie imagery.
Lang studied ceramics with Tom McLaughlin at Cornell College then with Don Reitz and Norm Schulman at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1970 he joined the faculty at Metropolitan State College in Denver where over the next 30 years he built a ceramic department. Lang continued as its chair until his death.
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1965-1966
Milton College, Milton, Wisconsin
1966-1970Ceramics Head, Cleveland Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
1970-2000Metropolitan State College, Denver, Colorado
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- Bibliography
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Breeden, Robert L. “The Craftsman in America.” National Geographic Society, 1975.
Kulasiewicz, Frank. Glassblowing. New York, New York: Watson-Guptill, 1974.
Lang, Rodger. “Nan and Jim McKinnell” Craft Horizons (October 1975).
Nordness, Lee. Objects: USA. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1970.
“Rodger Lang.” Ceramics Monthly 48, no. 6 (June-August 2000).
Schlosser, Elizabeth. Modern Clay in Denver (1948-1972): Twelve Ceramic Artists. Denver, CO: Gallup House Publishing, 2005.
Slivka, Rose. “Laugh-in In Clay.” Craft Horizons (October 1971).
Swartz, Mim. “Pie Turns Him On Any Way You Slice It.” The Lakewood Sentinel, July 1, 1971.
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Citation: Rodger Lang, "The Marks Project."
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