October 16, 2003

Artist Richard Notkin To Offer Ceramic Workshop At Boise State

Visiting ceramic artist Richard Notkin will present a workshop at Boise State University from 9:30 a.m. -5 p.m. Oct. 30 and 31 in Room 150 of the Liberal Arts Building. The workshop is free to Boise State students, faculty and staff. Others may attend for a fee of $25 for both days. One credit is available through the Division of Extended Studies for an additional fee. For more information contact Jim Budde in the art department at 426-3608. Notkin’s series of Yixing (China)-inspired teapots and ceramic sculptures have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan. He has conducted over 150 workshops throughout the world. Among his awards, Notkin has received three fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Notkin is a full-time studio artist who lives and works in Helena, Mont. He received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1970, and an MFA from the University of California, Davis in 1973. -30- Contact Jim Budde Department of art 208 426-3608 Media Contact Kathleen Craven communications and marketing 208 426-3275