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EDUCATION
2007 BFA, Ceramics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
2011 MFA, Ceramics, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
APPRENTICESHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
2011-2013 The Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, Colorado
2013-2014 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2016—Cobb Mountain Arts and Ecology Project, Cobb, California
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
2011-2013 Adjunct Professor, Ceramics, Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood Springs, Colorado
2014 Studio Manager, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2017-2019 Adjunct faculty, Medocino College, Lakeport and Ukiah, California
2019-2020 Adjunct Professor, Colorado Mountain College, Aspen, Colorado
2023 - 2024 Adjunct Professor, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
BIOGRAPHY
HP Bloomer makes functional porcelain tableware, high-fired with gas, electric, and/or wood. It is often soda fired. Surface treatment includes glaze, and glazes layered with wax resist (the wax application makes the glaze resist sticking to a surface, thus the surface can have no glaze, or one glaze next to a spot where two glazes have been applied).
Influences include pattern and color in design fields (fabric, architecture, graphic, interior), and Jean Widmer, Paul Klee, Annie Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Liubov Popova.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, Houston, Texas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bloomer, HP. “Surface.” The Studio Potter 43, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2015).
Clark, Garth, and Cindy Strauss. Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Vecchio Collection. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2012.
Lawton, Jim. 500 Teapots Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design. Asheville, NC: Lark Crafts, 2013.
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Typical known mark as of February 2017, is the letters HPB are entwined, in caps, and incorporated into a hand-crafted square stamp, which is impressed into the clay on foot of pot.
Citation: "The Marks Project." Last modified July 15, 2024. http://www.themarksproject.org:443/marks/bloomer-iv