Steve Rolf

EDUCATION

1988 BS Broad Area Arts,   University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin

1992 BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

1994 MFA New York State College of Ceramic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

APPRENTICESHIPS AND RESIDENCIES

—Apprenticed under Wang Hui Ming, Master Painter, Wood Engraver

2006 Residency, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1988—Studio Potter

 

Steve Rolf is known for making a full line of thrown functional wares.  When leather hard the forms are layered with wet clays which are often further altered, engraved, carved, cut and re assembled. 

Public Collections

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

rosenfieldcollection.com

Ulsan City Museum, Ulsan, Korea

Bibliography

“Doing it Right.” Ceramics Monthly (December 2004).

"Focus on Function." National Ceramic Biennial Internet and Show Catalog, (2000).

“Functional Ceramics 2006” show catalog. Wooster, OH: Wayne Center for the Arts, 2006.

Hemachandra, Ray. 500 Vases: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Form. Asheville, NC: Lark Ceramics, 2010.

rosenfieldcollection.com

“Starting Out.” The Studio Potter 33, no.1 (December 2004).

 

Website: www.scrolfpotter.com

 

 

 

	This research was supported by a Craft Research Fund grant from The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Inc.
	The Archive of the Southern Highland Craft Guild.