Artist: Kirk Mangus

 

Kirk Mangus, 1952 - 2013

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From Kent State: 

Mangus had served as head of ceramics at Kent State since 1985. He also taught at Alfred University Summer School, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the University of Georgia’s Cortona (Italy) program, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Appalachian Center for Craft, Penland School of Crafts, Peters Valley Craft Center and numerous other institutions. He was a lecturer, visiting artist and resident artist in China, Japan, Korea, France, Italy, Finland, Lithuania, Canada and throughout the United States.

Mangus was a prolific artist whose ceramics and drawings have been exhibited and collected worldwide for over 35 years. He was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, four Ohio Arts Council fellowships, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship, and a McKnight fellowship residency at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis.

He is survived by his wife, Eva Kwong, a part-time faculty member in ceramics at Kent State, as well as his son Jasper and daughter Una.

 

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KIRK MANGUS
1952 Born in Greenville, PA
2013 Died in Kent, OH

 

EDUCATION

1979 M.F.A. Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1975 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1976 Earth, Air, Fire and Water Summer Workshops, Grass Valley, CA

1972 Summer Workshops, Penland Island of Crafts, NC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 Kirk Mangus: A pot, a joke, a rhythm, a theory, James Cohan, New York, NY
2014 Kirk Mangus: Things Love, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
2013 Kirk Mangus & Eva Kwong, Marlboro College, VT
2012 Kirk Mangus: Dog Tales-New Drawings and Ceramics, Canton Museum of Art, OH
2008 Kirk Mangus: Heads, Eells Gallery, Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
2005 Kirk Mangus, University of Texas at Brownsville, TX
1998 Kirk Mangus & Eva Kwong, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO
1997 Kirk Mangus: Wood-Fired Ceramics, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1996 Kirk Mangus: Recent Drawings, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
Eva Kwong and Kirk Mangus, Carlton College, Northfield, MN
1994 Kirk Mangus: Recent Monoprints, Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville, IL
1993 Kirk Mangus: Ceramics & Drawings, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1992 Kirk Mangus: Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington
1989 Kirk Mangus: Femmes, Demons & Drawings, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
1988 Kirk Mangus, Manchester Craftsman’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
1986 Kirk Mangus: Works from
1980-1986, University of Akron, OH
1984 Kirk Mangus/Eva Kwong, Massillon Museum, OH
Kirk Mangus/Eva Kwong, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1983 Kirk Mangus, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
1977 Kirk Mangus: New Work, The Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA

1974 Eva Kwong & Kirk Mangus, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 40th Anniversary of the Clay Studio, NCECA Conference, Milwaukee, WI; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Riding the Waves: 30 Years of Firing the Peters Valley Anagama, Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ
Ceramics from the Kolva-Sullivan Collection, Washington State University Art Museum, Pullman, WA
2011 Then and Now: Archie Bray Foundation 60th Anniversary Invitational, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Some Like It Hot, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010 OxBow Centennial Exhibition, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
2009 Monumental Idea in Miniature Book I & II, US, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Italy, China, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Canada
International Ceramics, Sanbao Ceramic Institute and Museum, Jingdezhen, China
Potters and Prints, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2007 Ceramic Invitational, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
2006 International Wood-Fire Exhibition and Conference, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
2005 New Master Drawings, Akron Art Museum / Summit Art Space, Akron, OH NCECA Clay National, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, Purchase Award
2004 The Naked Truth: 2004 International Wood-Fired Invitational, Coe College, Coe, IA
Clay at Penn, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Six McKnight Artists, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2003 From the Collection: Selected Gifts, The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
Donna Moog Teapot Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
2002 Couples: Side by Side in the Studio, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus
2001 Taking Measure-American Art at the New Millennium, World Ceramics EXPO
2001 Korea, Yoju, Korea 13th International Ceramic Symposium Exhibition, Civic Art Gallery, Panevezys, Lithuania
A Ceramic Continuum: 50 years of the Archie Bay Influence, Holter Museum Art, Helena, MT
2000 Focus on Function, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1999 Transcending Traditions: Ohio Artists in Clay and Fiber, Riffe Gallery, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
Different Strokes: International Woodfire Exhibition, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
1998 Wall Stories: Tales of Anxiety, Prophecy and Reclamation, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Howling at the Edge of a Renaissance: SPACES and Alternative Art in Cleveland 1978- 1998, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
Pittsburgh Collects Clay, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1997 American Wood-Fired Ceramics, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, WI
Intersections: Drawings by 4 Ceramic Artists, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
1996 Ohio Perspectives: Explorations in Clay, Akron Art Museum, OH 1995 NCECA
1995 Clay National, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, MN
Radical Ink, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
1994 3rd Invitational Jinro Ceramic Workshop Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Ohio Ceramics, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus
Works Born at the Park, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
1993 Fiction, Function, Figuration: 29th Clay National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
The Legacy of Archie Bray Foundation: A Celebration of Ceramic Art 1951-1992, Bellevue Art Museum, WA; Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
The 1993 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
On the Wall, Cleveland State University, OH
1992 Off the Wall, The American Craft Museum, New York City, NY
1991 American Woodfire ’91 Invitational, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Clay & Drawings from 4 artists, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
1991 NCECA Clay National, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
The Invitational: Artists of Northeast Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1990 Eccentric Visions, NCECA Conference, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
1989 Mostra, University of Georgia, Athens; Universita della Georgia, Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy
American Clay Artists, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Sur La Table, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1987 Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Birthday Cake, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1986 American Ceramics, Seoul National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Clay Az Art International Ceramics Conference Invitational Exhibition, Gummeson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; Finnish Craft Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Lakeside Studios Resident Artists, New Art Forms Expo, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Architecture of the Vessel, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
1985 Potters and Prints, Sun Valley Art Center, Sun Valley, ID
Clay, Every Day plus Sunday, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1983 The Raw Edge: Ceramics of the Eighties, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, NY; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

39th Scripps Invitational, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

1981-82 Fire and Ashes, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA, curated with Eva Kwong

SELECTED AWARDS/HONORS

2014 Past Masters, NCECA Conference, Milwaukee, WI
2006 National Endowment for the Arts, Challenge America: Reaching Every Community, The Mural Project, Akron, OH
2003 McKnight Fellowship Residency, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
1999 Ohio Arts Council Fellowship (also awarded in 1996, 1990, 1987)
1984 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship

1982 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 4

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Amsterdam Municipal Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Benedictine Park, Vilnius, Lithuania
BP, Cleveland, OH
BW Rogers, Akron, OH
Canton Art Museum, Canton, OH
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
City of Panevesys Civic Art Gallery, Panevesys, Lithuania
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
DeYoung Museum, Sandy Besser Collection, San Francisco, CA
Eli & Edythe Board Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Finnish Craft Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Gerry Eskin Ceramics Collection, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Inchon World Ceramics Center, Suwon, Kyonggi Province, Korea
Jinro International Ceramics Workshop, Seoul, Korea
John Sinker Study Collection, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
HAP Pottery, Beijing, China
The School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Lakeside Studios, Lakeside, MI
Malone Advertising/JWT Action, Akron, OH
Musee-atelier du verre a Sars Poteries, Sars Poteries, France
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
National Council on the Education of Ceramic Arts, Erie, CO
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Presidential Palace Grounds, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Pottery Workshop, Shanghai and Jingdezhen, China
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Art Museum, Shigaraki, Japan
South Bend Regional Art Museum, South Bend, IN
South Texas College, McAllen, TX
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL
Sun Valley Art Center, Sun Valley, ID

University of Akron Print Collection, Akron, OH 5