Brooks Oliver
Denton, Texas
Biography
Brooks Oliver is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the University of North Texas and a studio artist based out of Denton, TX. He completed a long-term residency and now serves on the Board of Directors at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. In 2017 was named an Emerging Artist by the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts. He received his MFA from The Pennsylvania State University, his BFA at Southern Methodist University, and completed his post baccalaureate studies at Syracuse University. He has taught in Jindezhen, China and regularly teaches workshops in and out of university settings.
Artist Statement
The ambition of his work is to reimagine and reinterpret the familiar functional vessel and to blur the boundaries between craft, design, industry, and technology by marrying the production techniques of CAD software and rapid prototyping technologies with the creation techniques of the hand.
