LINDA SIKORA I NEW YORK & MINNESOTA
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"Jars and teapots are at the front edge of my recent inquiry. The teapot, more demanding of specific engineering particular to its function, and the jar, a generous canvas, its criteria of containment more permissive. How I imagine, and make and reflect on each piece shapes the atmosphere it generates and influences how it becomes positions in cultural space. I am interested in pottery form for its familiarity and congeniality; its ability to disappear into private/personal activities and places. But this is only one aspect of the work which, though its intelligence of color, form and stance can also excite/awaken attention and thereby reflect back to the viewer their own imagination. Invisible or visible, or oscillating back and forth between these states, the pots foster both attention and inattention. They are insistently existent and continuously stir."

EDUCATION

1989 - 1992 Master of Fine Arts - University of Minnesota, MN
1988 - 1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts - Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, NS, Canada
1983 - Glaze Technology - University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1980 -1983 - Diploma of Fine Arts - David Thompson University Center, Nelson, BC, Canada

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1997 - Present - Associate Professor, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1996 -1997 - Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1996 summer - Emily Carr Institute of Art a& Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995 winter - Winona State University, Winona, MN
1994 fall - Winona State University, Winona, MN
1994 spring - University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1993 fall - Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1992 summer - Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Canada
1991 fall - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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