Doug Jeck
Visiting Artist Residency: December 17 - 21, 2008
Conversation with Artist: Sunday, December 21 at 2PM in the Theater

SHORT BIO………Doug Jeck has taught ceramics at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle since 1996.

He earned his B.F.A. at the Appalachian Center for the Arts and Crafts in Smithville, TN and his M.F.A at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Known for his large scale figurative clay sculptures, his subjects are often given body part substitutions and mis-matched limbs yet retain some realistic details. Doug has had one-person exhibitions at galleries in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta. His work is in the collections of the Internal Museum of Ceramic Art in Alfred, NY, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian, the Mind Museum of Craft and Design in North Carolina, Tacoma Art Museum and Seattle Art Museum. He has received several fellowship from the NEA and awards from LaNapoule Foundation and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation.

FOR HIS RESIDENCY………Doug has an array of ideas outlined in the attached schedule and more ideas still formulating.

Of note: on Thursday, Day 2 of his residency, Doug will cast (in sand) a sculpture created in clay by a class of young artists from the Strom Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island. The students and their parents will be present for the casting.

Liz Stockhausen Cepanec
Visiting Artist Program Manager