Artist Talk: George Rodriguez

George Rodriguez is a Seattle-based ceramic artist and sculptor who, throughout his career, has used oversized ceramic personalities he creates to tell universal stories. Rodriguez was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. He received a BFA in ceramics from the University of Texas and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington. He combines his Chicano heritage with Thai, Peruvian, Bolivian, Mongolian, Egyptian, Taiwanese, and Indonesian civilization and mythologies. His work is the manifestation of the individual against the backdrop of community, and the modern world against the backdrop of the ancient.

Rodriguez is featured in our upcoming episode STORYTELLERS, which airs on December 11th on PBS (check local listings).

This talk is presented in conjunction with the Craft in America Center exhibition, Democracy 2020: Craft & the Election, on view through Jan 2, 2021.

Live-streamed: DECEMBER 4, 2020

The talk will be streamed live via Zoom and Facebook. To register for the Zoom Webinar, please click here.

You will be able to view the talk on our Facebook page as well. Please email center@craftinamerica.org for any more information about this event or if you are having difficulty registering.

George Rodriguez, Narmer. Courtesy of the artist. Craft in America STORYTELLERS — George Rodriguez, Narmer. Courtesy of the artist

George Rodriguez, Offering in White, 2014. Courtesy of the artist. Craft in America STORYTELLERS — George Rodriguez, Narmer. Courtesy of the artist

About the artist:

George Rodriguez is a Seattle-based ceramic artist and sculptor who, throughout his career, has used oversized ceramic personalities he creates to tell universal stories. He was born and raised in El Paso, where he received a BFA in ceramics from the University of Texas. He received a Bonderman Travel Fellowship, in 2009 through which he traveled extensively, expanding his studies of global culture and ceremony.

He combines his Chicano heritage with Thai, Peruvian, Bolivian, Mongolian, Egyptian, Taiwanese, and Indonesian civilization and mythologies. His work is the manifestation of the individual against the backdrop of community, and the modern world against the backdrop of the ancient. He holds an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington, and his work has been widely exhibited in museums in the Pacific Northwest, including the Foster White Gallery in Seattle, The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, and can be found Eutectic Gallery in Portland and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.

The Craft in America Center is supported in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

The Craft in America Center is supported in part by a grant from the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov

Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Craft in America

The Craft in America Center is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.

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