Karl Burkheimer, M.F.A. ’96, was named one of the 2016 Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts by The Ford Family Foundation. The Foundation awards up to five unrestricted Hallie Ford Fellowships in the Visual Arts per calendar year, each in the amount of $25,000, to Oregon visual artists who have demonstrated a depth of sophisticated practice and potential for significant future accomplishment.
“My students hold a mirror to my artistic growth. They silently ask me to reflect upon my practiced rhetoric, requiring that I also risk failure, striving beyond the known and learning by doing.”
Burkheimer is a professor at Oregon College of Art and Craft and serves as the chair of the M.F.A. in craft program. Prior to joining OCAC’s faculty, he taught at VCUQatar. His work has been exhibited nationally, including recent exhibitions at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland and the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, among several others.
He earned his M.F.A. from VCUarts and a B.E.D.A. from North Carolina State University.
Image and Text: The Ford Family Foundation
Photo: Harold Hutchinson
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