SUNY Potsdam Art Professor Marc Leuthold Displays Work Across Globe

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SUNY Potsdam Professor of Art Marc Leuthold holds one of the sculptures he created while completing the Voulkos Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana.

• One of many sculptures that SUNY Potsdam Professor of Art Marc Leuthold created during his sabbatical, when he traveled to complete and display works in China, Germany, Montana and Vermont.

POTSDAM, NY (10/17/2016)(readMedia)-- SUNY Potsdam Professor of Art Marc Leuthold has returned to campus after a whirlwind Spring 2016 sabbatical, which he spent traveling the U.S. and the globe, displaying his work, collaborating with other artists and teaching.

He began his sabbatical in January 2016, by completing the two-month Voulkos Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation campus in Montana. In March, he served as the visiting critic at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt., and he was also invited to critique student artworks at the Rochester Institute of Technology, working with his former student and SUNY Potsdam alumna, Emily Glass '06, who is a visiting assistant professor there.

In April, Leuthold was invited to teach at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, in a month-long residency. While in China, he made art and taught a modern ceramics course to upper-level art students. He followed this opportunity by serving as artist-in-residence at the Yingge Museum in Taipei, in June and July, where Leuthold also displayed a sculpture during the museum's international ceramic biennial. Over the course of seven weeks, Leuthold created 25 sculptures, of which he donated a third to the Yingge Museum. He finished up his summer with a fellowship at the ShangYu International Art Center, where he worked with artists from Turkey, the Netherlands and Israel. Once again, he donated half of the artworks created there to the center itself.

The Marianne Heller Gallery in Heidelberg, Germany, displayed 23 of the sculptures that Leuthold created during his Montana fellowship in an exhibit that ran from July to September. The two-person exhibit also featured works by Peter Callas. A review of the exhibit, including an image of one of Leuthold's famous discs, was the cover article for New Ceramics, Europe's leading ceramic journal.

About the artist:

Marc Leuthold's sculptures have entered the collections of the Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums and the Museum of Art and Design. Critic John Perreault has remarked: "One looks and looks for artists who break up history, who bend the descent, who force one to connect the dots in new ways, even turn away from some. Leuthold is one of these." The son of European immigrants, Leuthold is interested in cross-cultural experiences. His work reflects the influence of the arts of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean. Leuthold is a professor of art at SUNY Potsdam and has taught at Princeton University and the Parsons School of Design. He is one of 40 Americans who is an elected lifetime member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

SUNY Potsdam art graduates have gone on to pursue professions in the fine arts, art administration, art therapy, digital design, K-12 and university teaching, museum curation, audio/visual administration, publishing, gallery ownership, interior design, architecture, commercial printing, pattern making, photojournalism and studio ceramics.

Art students at SUNY Potsdam live and create in a unique art environment, within the context of a stimulating liberal arts tradition. For more information, visit www.potsdam.edu/art.

Founded in 1816, The State University of New York at Potsdam is one of only three arts campuses in the entire SUNY system. SUNY Potsdam's arts curriculum offers the full palette: music, theatre, dance, fine arts and creative writing. No matter the discipline, people from all backgrounds can find their creative compass at Potsdam, with myriad arts immersion experiences available for both campus and community.

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