For thirty years George Woideck
has been developing a career as a prominent ceramic artist Trained
as a painter with time off to tour and record as a rock musician,
Mr. Woideck began working full time in clay in 1975. He initially
established a line of functional stoneware pottery. More recently,
Mr. Woideck has turned to creating individually-decorated works
in porcelain. Many of these new pieces are meant for wall display
and inclde tiles and Japanese-shaped porcelain kites and fans
decorated with colorfully airbrushed abstract and figurative
designs. He has also become well known for creating major ceramic
tile murals and mosaics installed in dozens schools and business
locations including Newton D. Baker Elementary School of the
Arts in Cleveland, the Inland Paper and Packaging Headquarters
in Streetsboro Ohio and the new Performing Arts Center at Westlake
High School in Westlake Ohio. Recently he completed a ceramic
tile kitchen for a summer home in Maine and has begun work on
a fireplace and chimney tile installation for a home in one of
the Chicago suburbs. You can see these works at artisanarchitecturalceramics.com.
When not working in his studio, George Woideck gives ceramic
workshops on new techniques to school instructors for the Teacher
Resource Center of the Cleveland Museum of Art and is writing
a book on an artist's approach to clay in the classroom. He completes
artist-in-residences in Northeast Ohio for Young Audiences of
Northeast Ohio and regularly curates and juries exhibitions.
George Woideck has been a member of the advisory committee of
the Arts Management Program of the Weatherhead School of Management
of Case Western Reserve University and in 1997 received an award
in recognition of his work in art education by the Ohio Art Education
Association, northeast region. George is a Kenedy Center Fellow
in the Initiative to Develop Effective Workshops for Teachers.
Exhibited in fine craft and art galleries. |
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