Randy deals Johnston Stoneware Mug, Studio Pottery Mug, Warren MacKenzie Student, Multi Award Winning Potter Randy Johnston

Randy Johnston mug with chop mark.

Just a nice hearty coffee mug by the master. This is not fragile. Nice beefy but comfortable handle, straight forward loose form.

Randy Johnston is very highly regarded in the studio ceramics world, he is especially recognized in the wood firing field. Currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Randy was once a student of Warren MacKenzie, at the University of Minnesota. Randy Johnston pottery is very highly regarded, sought after and collected. I could go on and on, but his resume listed below says plenty.

3-7/8" tall and 3" across the lip.

Excellent condition with no chips or cracks.


Abbreviated Resume:

(From his website)

Randy Johnston has been working in ceramics in his Wisconsin studio for more than thirty five years. He is recognized internationally as an artist who has pursued functional expression and brought a fresh aesthetic vision to contemporary form, and for his many contributions to the development of wood kiln technology in the United States. He is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls, where he teaches ceramics and drawing.

His work is exhibited internationally and he is the recipient of numerous awards including the Bush Artist Fellowship granted by the Bush foundation in Minnesota and two Visual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Johnston received his MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota where he studied with Warren MacKenzie. He also studied in Japan at the pottery of Shimaoka Tatsuzo who was a student of Shoji Hamada.

Johnston has presented hundreds of lectures and guest artist presentations worldwide. He has work in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Art Institute, Boston Museum of fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum, Nelson Aitkins Museum and numerous International Public and Private collections.

EDUCATION
Master of Fine deals Arts, 1990
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
Bachelor of Fine Arts/Studio Arts, 1972
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Pottery of Shimaoka Tatsuzo, February - August, 1975
Shimaoka Tatsuzo was a student of Shoji Hamada Mashiko, Japan.
Shimaoka was Awarded Title of Living National Treasure 1997

AWARDS
1998Bush Artists Fellowship, Bush Foundation, Saint Paul, MN
1990-1991Visual Arts Senior Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1983Individual Artist Fellowship, Project Grant, Wisconsin Arts Board
1978-1979Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1978-1979Apprenticeship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

PUBLIC - PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Nelson Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Natalie and Gregory Fitzgerald, Sante Fe, NM
Roger Mandel Collection, Chicago, IL
Victoria Schonfeld Collection, New York, NY
Emison Art Center, Greencastle, IN
Gary Portnoy Collection, New York, NY
Weisman Museum Collection, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN
Stephan Albert, Boston, MA
Dustin and Lisa Hoffman, Los Angeles, CA
GTE Telecommunications Corporation, Dallas, TX
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Mary Jackson Burke Foundation, NY
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Barbara and Ed Okum, Santa Fe NM
Banff School of Art, Alberta, Canada
Hamada Shoji Foundation, Japan
Government of Norway
Sentry Insurance Corporate Offices, Stevens Point, WI
First Bank Systems, Minneapolis, MN
WCCO Communications, Minneapolis, MN
Northrop Collection, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Donna Moog Collection, St. Louis, MO
Garth Clark, Los Angeles, CA & New York, NY
Los Angles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Wustum Museum of Art, RAM Racine ,WI
Rhode Island School of Art Museum, RI

Randy's lists of Guest Artist, Lectures, Exhibitions and Curator is quite extensive and just too long to list here.