Peter Beasecker

Peter Beasecker – returning guest artist

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Peter Beasecker started teaching in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2009, after a 17-year career at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Peter is a Professor of Art teaching ceramics and graduate studies.  He has received numerous awards and distinctions in his career, including being NYFA Fellow.  Peter has exhibited extensively in national and international venues, and his work is included in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, The Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Mint Museum in North Carolina.  He has been a visiting artist and workshop leader at over sixty institutions, including Anderson Ranch, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Curaumilla Art Centre (Chile), Golden Bridge Pottery (India), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Penland School of Crafts.  Peter was the co-coordinator of the Utilitarian Clay Symposium at Arrowmont from 1996 - 2016.  He currently maintains a studio in Cazenovia, New York. 

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"I am working on a range of objects for the counter, table and mantle.  My sources are varied, from abstracted landscapes to minimalist gestures found in architecture and mid-century design objects.  Porcelain remains the constant thread through my work, as I continue to be captivated by it’s silky, bare skin and the magical luminosity it lends to the glazed surface."

 

​peterbeasecker

prbeasec@syr.edu

​Cazenovia, New York