By: Ricardo Lardizabal
Angelo Garzio was an Italian-American educator, ceramic artist and musician. He received four Fulbright Senior Lectureships during the course of his career and was Professor emeritus at Kansas State University at the time of his death. At the age of 70, Garzio acted as a U.S. State Department Cultural Arts Visiting Ceramic Lecturer to Santa Cruz and Sucre, Bolivia. His ceramic work is included in collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. Garzio's ceramic work was exhibited in over fifty national and international exhibitions during his lifetime. He was a member of the Mid-West Designer Craftsmen, the Kansas Designer/Craftsmen Association and the Phi Mu Alpha Music Honorary. He produced essays for arts and crafts publications, including American Craft, Bolletino del Museo Internozionale della Ceramiche de Faenza, Cerámica, Ceramics Monthly, Korea Journal, and New Zealand Potter. Garzio was also a book reviewer for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
Garzio attended Syracuse University, earning dual bachelor degrees in Library Science and Music, Art and Literature in He worked briefly as a reference librarian and played the French horn professionally with symphony orchestras in Syracuse, Utica and Rochester, New York and Bridgeport, Connecticut. In 1950, Garzio earned a Diploma de Proffito in Art History at the University of Florence. He received an M.A. in art history at the University of Iowa in 1954 and an M.F. A. in Ceramics in He was a Guest Potter at the internationally known Arabia Potteries in Helsinki, Finland in Garzio joined the faculty at Kansas State University as an assistant professor of ceramics in 1957, and was promoted to full professor in In 1972, Garzio received the institution's Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award. He taught at the university until shortly before his death on January 20th, 2008.
Material: Porcelain Displayed at Kansas State University Art museum Coil Vase
Material: Porcelain Displayed at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City Coil Jar
Material: Porcelain Displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Coil Vase
Material: Porcelain Displayed at the Kansas State University Art Museum Slab tea pot
Material: Porcelain Displayed at the Kansas State University Art Museum Coil Vase
Inspired by: Untitled Tea Pot Slab Pot
Inspired by: Spike Jar Coil Jar
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