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Rick Hintze

	I became serious about making pottery in the early 1970's after beginning my career in art history. The plasticity of the material and the rhythmic process of forming pots on the wheel drew me in. For me, pottery seemed to be very much about movement, rhythm, and gesture. The fact that pots could also be used in daily life was a big bonus, providing a manner of meaningful communication within a domestic setting. I was taken with the idea that straightforward pots made simply and quickly could speak in an authentic and extraordinary way. While this approach to making pottery is still valid and meaningful to me, I have recently been developing applied patterns with wax resist and layered glazes. A recent trip to China has also piqued my interest in porcelain and celadon glazes.
			While I had worked with clay in a sculptural manner early in my ceramic education, my interests in hand-built form became serious in the late 1980's, when I began to make coiled, stoneware sculpture. Since then, I have continued to make both pottery and sculpture, extending my interests into the wood-firing process as well as into earthenware with terra sigillata slips.
	Education: M.F.A., University of Notre Dame, Ceramics M.A., University of Iowa, Art History B.A., Knox College, Art		Grants/Awards: National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship American Craft Council Award of Excellence Iowa Arts Council Artist's Project Grant Best of Show, Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts, Lincoln, CA
	Collections: Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Ripon College, Ripon WI Topeka Shawnee Public Library, Topeka, KS Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA		Teaching: Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL Carl Sandburg Community College, Galesburg, IL Dickinson State College, Dickinson, ND

140 1/2 N. Watertown St., P.O. Box 454, Johnson Creek, WI 53038 920-699-2529
rick@rickhintze.com