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Vol. 3, No. 3 - October 17, 2003
| Ceramic Artist to Present Raab Lecture Oct. 30 Ceramic artist Richard Hirsch will present the Rosanne Brody Raab Lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, in Davis Auditorium of Palamountain Hall. The event is open without charge to the public. A professor in the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology, Hirsch has earned a number of international honors, including winning a 2002 Fulbright grant for research in Taiwan; presenting invited lectures at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and at Shanghai University in Shanghai; serving as judge at the World Crafts Competition Kanazawa in Japan; and working as the international coordinator of the International Raku Symposium in Korea. He also recently received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the arts. Museum collections featuring Hirsch’s work include the Taipei Country Yinko Ceramics Museum in Taipei, Taiwan; the Renwick Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institute; the George R. Gardner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto; and the American Crafts Museum in New York City. Over the past decade Hirsh has had work in a number of exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including “Contemporary American Ceramics” at Sotheby’s in New York City; “American Clay Art in Shanghai,” China; “Standing Room Only,” the 60th Scripps Ceramics Annual at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif; and “Grete Nash Retrospective” in Norway. In addition, his work has appeared in a number of books, including Ceramics: Ways of Creation by Richard Zakin; Clay and Glazes of the Potter by Daniel Rhodes, Contemporary Ceramics by Susan Peterson, and Ten Thousand Years of Ceramics by Emmanuel Cooper. The Rosanne Brody Raab Lecture was endowed at the College by Raab, a member of Skidmore’s Class of 1955, as a way to showcase artists working in clay, fiber, metal, and wood.
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