Multidisciplinary Artist, Educator, and Journalist
Resume:
Christopher A. García
Prairie Village, KS
+1-937-***-**** (cell)
********@*****.***
Nationality: American
EDUCATION
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Master of Fine Arts Degree, December 1992
Studio Arts/Ceramics
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, June 1990
Studio Art (Ceramics)/Creative Writing
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Chris is an accomplished artist, writer, and educator with 30+ years of professional experience. He is a world traveler, and a published journalist and photojournalist. García is fluent in English and Spanish, and has taught all levels of studio art, and art history in the United States and abroad. Chris is currently working as a studio artist and a freelance journalist for Ceramics Art and Perception Magazine, Australia.
EXPERIENCE
THE CALHOUN SCHOOL 2008-2022
New York, NY
Upper School Art Teacher for a progressive private school.
Teaching all levels of high school art.
ANTIOCH COLLEGE 1998-2008
Yellow Springs, OH
Associate Professor of Art (tenured)/Scholar in Residence.
LESLEY UNIVERSITY. 2006
Cambridge, Massachusetts
One on one mentor for the low residency MFA program.
SYDVAST UNIVERSITY
(Yrkeshögskolan Sydväst) 2005
Ekenas, Finland
Visiting Professor of Sculptural Ceramics.
BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Moses Lake, Washington 1996-1998
Department Chair (tenure track)
Teaching all levels of art.
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
Itta Bena, MS. 1995-1996
Instructor of Fine Arts
(tenure track)
PUBLICATIONS
“Always the Bridesmaid: Ceramics and the Still Life in Art”
Ceramics Art and Perception Magazine 2025
“Brick by Brick: The History of Brick-Making in Kansas, USA”
Ceramics Art and Perception Magazine 2024
“Puerto Rico’s, La Piedra Escrita,
A Re-inspiration in Clay” Ceramics Art and Perception Magazine 2023
“The Origins of Clay” Ceramics Art and Perception Magazine 2022
https://www.mansfieldceramics.com/cap-articles/the-origins-of-clay/
“The Ceramics Reader” 2017
Chapter in a book edited by Kevin Petrie and Andrew Livingstone.
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic, London.
A collection of essays and text extracts from ceramic books, journals and magazines which cover the last 100 years of ceramics.
“Caiman” 2017
Mixed media sculpture appearing in Portfolio #9
Woitsart Art Journal
"Sculpting in Yerevan" 2012
Ceramics Technical Magazine.
“Fire, Ice and Clay: 2011
Ceramics in Iceland”
Ceramics Art and Perception Magazine.
“Redact This! - Artists and Writers Against Torture” 2010
As an offshoot of
WarCriminalsWatch.org, this book features
the work of various artists and writers dealing with the issues of torture as it pertains to the “War on Terror”. The overarching message of this book is that artists and writers are some of the only individuals capable of expressing outrage for the actions of their government.
“10K Jars”
Images of work and writing appearing in
Issue 48, 2010, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. 2010
"Zentrum fur Keramic-Berlin" 2009
Ceramics Technical Magazine.
"A Practical and Educational Synthesis of Cobalt Carbonate" 2008
co-written with David Kammler, Ph.D. Ceramics Technical Magazine.
“Survival in Ceramics: A Survey of Art Students 5 years to 30+ 2007
Years Later”
Ceramics Art and Perception Magazine.
“A Ceramic Re-Charge in Finland” 2006
Ceramics Monthly Magazine
View online: http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/expandedcontent/2005-12/garcia.asp
"Minor Works by Major Ceramists II 2005
A Mail Art Protect”
Ceramics Technical Magazine.
“Death and Clay: Cultural and. 2005
Personal Interpretations in Ceramics”
Ceramics Technical Magazine.
“Ceramics in Ometepe, Nicaragua” 2005
Ceramics Technical Magazine.
“Ceramics in the Burren of Ireland” 2005
Ceramics Technical Magazine.
“Adobe Art: In Touch with the Earth” 2004
Ceramics Technical Magazine.
“A Clay Workshop at Hacienda
Mosaico, Mexico” 2004
Pottery Making Illustrated Magazine.
“Ceramics in Deruta, Italy” 2004
Ceramics Monthly Magazine.
“The Residency Program at Philadelphia’s Clay Studio” 2004
Ceramics Monthly Magazine.
"Willis 'Bing' Davis: 2002
A Community Artist"
Ceramics Monthly Magazine.
"Minor Works by Major Ceramists,
A Mail Art Protect," 2002
Clay Times Magazine.
"The Mansion is Optional" 2001
Salida Magazine
"Jim Leedy: A Retrospective" 2000
Clay Times Magazine.
"Spone" 2000
Clay Times Magazine
"Chicago Art Cows" 2000
Clay Times Magazine.
"Down on the Art Farm" 1999
Clay Times Magazine.
"Poggi Ugo: Terra-cotta. 1999
in Impruneta, Italy"
Clay Times Magazine.
"The International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary" 1999
Clay Times Magazine.
"Building an Accessible Ceramics
Studio for People with
Disabilities” 1999
Clay Times Magazine.
"Seattle's Streetlife Gallery" 1998
Clay Times Magazine.
"International Potters 1997
Festival in Wales"
Clay Times Magazine.
"Altos de Chavon:
Dominican Pottery" 1995
Clay Times Magazine.
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