William Brouillard

William Brouillard is Professor of Ceramic Art at the Cleveland Institute of Art where he has taught for the last 32 years. He did his undergraduate work at The State University of Wisconsin, Stout, at Menomonie, WI. He completed his graduate work in ceramics and received an MFA, in Ceramic Art, from S.U.N.Y., at Alfred, NY, in 1976. After a residency at the Penland School for Crafts, he moved to Cleveland and began teaching at CIA in 1980. His studio is in the old steel making district in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. He was recently awarded a Creative Workforce Fellow ship in 2010-2011, an Ohio Arts Council Grant, Individual Excellence award, 2007, and The Cleveland Arts Prize for Lifetime Achievement, 2009. He spends three days each week teaching at the Art Institute and the rest making pots and doing commission work in his Tremont studio. His work draws from the landscape of Ohio heavy industry and the collision of the Industrial Age with the Digital Age. He works in earthenware, stoneware and porcelain at a variety of temperatures.