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Robert Briscoe

Robert Briscoe lives in rural Minnesota and has been a professional potter – focusing on functional stoneware - for over 35 years. His work is avidly collected throughout North America as well as in Japan. Selected collections include the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN, the Racine Art Museum, Racine WI, and the Margaret Harlow Collection at Bemidji State University.

Briscoe has exhibited in one-person shows, group exhibitions, and at art festivals such as the Smithsonian Craft Fair, the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, the Philadelphia Craft Fair, and the Washington Craft Show. Some of his awards include a 2001 McKnight Fellowship; Awards of Excellence from the Clay National, Penn State University, State College, PA, and ceramics awards at the Winter Park Festival of Art, Winter Park, FL, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver CO, The Collectors Award at the Washington Craft Show, and the Jerome Foundation Award, St. Paul, MN . He regularly teaches workshops throughout the US and Canada.

Born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1947, Robert graduated from Kansas State University.

portrait: Christopher Felver