Jacob Koster
After 32 years of teaching with the public schools, I retired and
began to work on my art interests full time. For the past three years, I
have been working as a ceramic artist in the ceramic studios of
the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids. My focus is on hand built
pottery using both slab and coil construction with occasional wheel
thrown additions. My
background in art is studio painting; ceramics is a
recent area of exploration.
I like to use the surface of the clay as a three dimensional
canvas for my imagery.
Recently I have done a number of ceramic pieces with fish
themes. I also like to
work with images of flowering garden plants, crows, and the human
figure.
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