Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016

Gerit Grimm Assistant Professor UW–Madison Department of Art, since 2012 Ceramics 2004 Master of Fine Arts, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University 2002 Master of Arts, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan 2001 Diploma, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany Recent achievements 2017 Wheel-Thrown Figurative Ensembles Workshop, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC 2016 Recognizable Forms with the Pottery Wheel Workshop, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME 2016 Women Working with Clay Symposium, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA 2015 Gerit Grimm: Keramische Plastiken, solo show, Terra Rossa Gallery, Leipzig, Germany 2015 Throwing Hands Workshop, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY 2015 Thrown Figures Workshop, C.R.E.T.A Rome 2015 Pre-Conference Workshop, Iowa Clay Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA 2014 Feature, March issue, Neue Keramik 2014 Gerit Grimm: Restposten, solo show, Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IN 2014 Blumen für Berlin, Residency, Center for Ceramics, Berlin, Germany 2014 Jahreszeiten, solo show, Terra Rossa Gallery, Leipzig, Germany Artist’s statement Gerit Grimm was born and grew up in Halle, German Democratic Republic. In 1995, she finished her apprenticeship, learning the traditional German trade as a potter at the “Altbürgeler blau-weiss GmbH” in Bürgel, Germany and worked as a journeyman for Joachim Jung in Glashagen, Germany. She taught at California State Univer- 28 Quadrennial 2016 | Faculty sity, Long Beach; Pitzer College; Doane College; and Montana State University in Bozeman. Her residencies include McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry program, and Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. In 2009, Grimm was featured in the Nebraska Public Television series Nebraska Stories: Fantasia in Clay. Grimm was the lead demonstrator at Houston’s National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference and in 2014, NCECA released the 2013 Demonstrating Artist Gerit Grimm DVD. In recent years, Grimm has taught and attended workshops and symposia such as New Energy, International Ceramics Studio (ICS), Kecskemét, Hungary, C.R.E.T.A Rome, Center for Ceramics, Berlin, and Burg Giebichenstein, Germany. Last summer Grimm studied realistic sculpting techniques at the Florence Academy of Art, Italy. Work in the show Gerit Grimm (German, b. 1973) Tree of Love, 2014 Stoneware 36 x 32 x 32 in. (Illus

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