Jack M. Coelho
Jack M.Coelho has been a ceramic artist for 40 years and a fine arts educator for 26 years. Mr. Coelho's artwork has appeared in Ceramics Monthly and Craft Horizons magazines and has been included in regional and national juried exhibitions. His artwork can be found in collections worldwide.
Mr. Coelho has received state, regional and national recognition as an outstanding Fine Arts Educator. He has served as Fine Arts Curriculum Chair in two school districts in Oregon and has taught on the middle school, high school, community college, art institute, and university levels. In addition, Mr. Coelho has led accredited ceramics and art history workshops in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Jack describes his current work as three-dimensional paintings which combine deeply personal, revelatory content with images rendered in an almost whimsical, cartoon like fashion. |
"If the field of artistic ceramics can be thought of as a continuum, with functional pottery at one extreme and the free exploration of clay as a means for creative self-expression on the other, then I would have to say that I work the extremes. Being the potter, one has no choice but to be a ceramic “purist”. Things simply won’t function as they should if the media are mixed; acrylic paint won’t do for the inside of bowls. However, things are different way out on the other end of the ceramic continuum. And that is the territory I have been exploring with my ceramic sculpture." |
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