Peter Beasecker - potter

Artist Statement

Peter Beasecker joined the faculty of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2009 after a seventeen-year tenure at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Beasecker is a Professor of Art teaching ceramics and graduate studies.  He has received numerous awards and distinctions in his career, most recently being named a NYFA Fellow for 2015.  Beasecker has exhibited extensively in national and international venues, and his work is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Mint Museum in North Carolina.  He has been a visiting artist and workshop leader at over sixty institutions, including Anderson Ranch, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Penland School of Crafts.  Beasecker has been the co-coordinator of the Utilitarian Clay Symposium at Arrowmont since 1996.  He currently maintains a studio in Cazenovia, New York.

Artistic Process

All of my work is made from high-fired porcelain and stoneware and is predominantly wheel thrown. The actual processes are quite simple and have been developed over years of making. The majority of the clay I mix myself, however I do use a commercial claybodies from time to time. The pieces are fired in a gas kiln and on occasion an atmospheric kiln seen as a wood kiln.

You can see more of Peter's work at his site peterbeasecker.com.

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