John Gargano Gong Fu Cha Teapot

John Gargano Gong Fu Cha Teapot

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Porcelain
Wood-Fired and Reduction Cooled


John Gargano is a ceramic artist and professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has consistently exhibited his work at museums and galleries for over 31 years and received awards, grants and multiple Artist Fellowships in Ohio and Louisiana. Primarily a ceramics sculptor, John engages in atmospheric firing processes, particularly wood, soda and reduction cooling techniques with his pottery. Professor Gargano earned a B.F.A. with Honors from The Center for Creative Studies in 1992 and an M.F.A. From The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

In 2021 Mr. Gargano’s ceramic sculpture was juried into the Korean International Ceramic Biennale 2021 at the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art(G-MoCCA), Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea. John has participated in an international residency at The Historic Medalta Potteries in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 2015 and at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, New Castle, Maine in 2011. He has given numerous Workshops/Lectures at regional universities and at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York and The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. John spends his free time playing music with his band, Cones of Uncertainty, and is often surfing or riding motocross bikes.