Feb 5
Married in Minimalism: an artist talk with Maggie and Tom Jaszczak
This talk proudly sponsored by the Christopher U. Light Lectureship in the Arts with support from the Mary Leigh Miller Fund for Ceramics
Maggie and Tom will also be giving demos for the Ceramics classes on February 5; anyone is welcome to stop by. Those will be in the Boliou Ceramics studio, room 46, from 8:30am-10:30am, and again from 1-3pm.
Maggie Jaszczak is a potter and mixed media artist from Ontario, Canada. After completing her undergraduate studies at Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC and Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, AB she received her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 2013. She has taught classes and workshops in Canada and the United States and has participated in ceramic residency programs at Penland School of Craft in Penland, NC, Yingge Ceramics Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan, the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL, Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, and Medalta Potteries in Medicine Hat, AB.
Originally from Minnesota, Tom received a BA in Visual Art and a BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Bemidji State University. He was a summer resident and a long-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation. In the fall of 2015 Tom began a 3-year residency with his wife Maggie Jaszczak at the Penland School of Craft. In 2018 Tom and Maggie put down permanent roots in Shafer, MN where they live in a farmhouse and work in a barn style studio. Tom has received several awards and honors including, a Jerome Projects Grant, ECRAC Essential Artist Award, Emerging Artist Award through NCECA, as well as Ceramics Monthly, Lincoln and Lil Street Fellowships through the Archie Bray Foundation and in the summer of 2014, Tom was an Honored Maker at the Maker’s Faire at the White House in Washington D.C under the Obama presidency. Tom’s current body of work are a range of pots made of red earthenware that explore minimalism and are finished with a surface solution that uses a soda ash atmosphere and fired to cone 2.