george whitten collection
Featured Work
Shaman Dream
60" x 60"
Temple Vessel
Raku Sculpture
Abstract #64
30" x 30"
Raku Vessel
Raku Vessel
Abstract #1
60" x 72"
Arc Vessel
Raku Sculpture
George Whitten
Mansfield, Ohio
George has an extensive background as a professional artist and arts educator, with an MFA from Wichita State University, a BFA from Florida Atlantic University, Washington State University and Memphis Academy of Art. George has been a Visiting Artist at several universities and taught Studio Arts and Art History at Findlay University. He has served on the Ohio Designer Craftsmen Board of Directors and is the Director of the Boston Mills ArtFest. His pieces have been in exhibits all over the world and many are currently in fine art collections not only in the United States, but also in Italy, Israel, South Africa, Canada and Mexico.
selected exhibition
American Museum of Ceramic Art
Institute for Contemporary Arts
Columbus Ohio
Ohio Designer Craftsman at Renwick Gallery
Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Ceramics International
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Carsley Gallery Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Invitational Exhibition-Ran Gallery
Tel Aviv, Israel
Neville Nowell
San Francisco, CA
Canton Art Institute
Canton, OH
Charlemagne International
Minneapolis, MN
Opus II
New York, NY
Beverly Gordon Fine Arts Gallery
Dallas, TX
Mandel and Company
Los Angeles, CA
Woodbourne Gallery
Dayton, OH
Gallery 323
Madison, WI
ZYZYX Gallery
Washington, D.C.
Elements Gallery
Bellvue, WA
Luxe Gallery
Miami, FL
fine art collections
Canton Art Institute
Canton, OH
Ohio Arts Council Collection
Columbus OH
Monroe County Community College
Monroe, MI
Ashland University
Ashland, OH
Memphis Academy of Arts
Memphis, TN
Saks Fifth Avenue
Cincinnati, OH
Poly America Corporation
Grand Prairie, TX
Grand Hyatt Hotel
Manhattan, NY
Martin Design International
Livonia, MI
McDonald’s – H.D. Management Corporation
Vineland, NJ
The Berni Corporation
Greenwich, CT
Group 243 Incorporated
Ann Arbor, MI
American Ceramic Society Collection
Columbus, OH
Cleveland Industrial Drum Service Inc.
Akron, OH
School Board of Dallas
Dallas, TX
Sergio Valente-English Sportswear Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
Northwestern Mutual Insurance
Milwaukee, WI
Kraft Inc.
Chicago, IL
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
Zanesville Art Center
Zanesville, OH
publications & film
Ceramics Monthly
2000
Who’s Who in the South?, Florida Design Quarterly
Design South 1986
National Broadcasting Corporation, Miami Vice, TV Series 1985
New York, NY
Ceramic Art of the World 1973
Rothman Ltd., Canada
The Guild 1988, Kraus Sikes Inc.
New York, NY
American Craft Magazine
January 1979
American Craft Council
New York City, NY
Art in America, Guide to Galleries and Museum Artists, 1986-1989
New York, NY
American Craft, Guide to Craft Galleries, 1988-1989
New York, NY
Del’s Folk’s Raku Pottery, WKYC TV-3, 1982 & 2000
Cleveland, OH
Studio Potter, Daniel Clark Foundation, Vol. 10, No .2, 1982
United States of America
Zephyr Broken Arrow Press, 1971
Photography
American Craft Gallery, American Craft Council
January 1980
Mansfield News Journal, December 13, 1981
Sunday Magazine Cover Feature
Functional Ceramics, The College of Wooster Art Museum
1979, OH
Contemporary Ceramics Today, Springfield Museum
Springfield, MA, 1985
Ceramics in the U.S.A., Media Show, Australia, U.S.S.R.
New Zealand, 1985
Leon I Nigrosh, Claywork, Form and Idea in Ceramic Design,
Davis Publications
Worcester, MA, 1985
Leon I Nigrosh, Lowfire-Other Ways to Work in Clay, Davis Publications
Worcester MA, 1987