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Ryan Takaba is a material artist whose sculptures, tableaux, and installations are centered around a study of scientific reason and the power of belief, incorporating thematic materials -flowers, ash, wax, and water.
He exhibits his work throughout the United States and has participated in residencies at the European Ceramic Work Center -Netherlands, The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen -China, and was awarded a residency through Blue Star Contemporary to live and work at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin -Germany.
He earned an MFA in Ceramics from Kent State University and a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Hawaii. Ryan currently lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.
The books mentioned in the interview are Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik and The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean. The Atlantic article mentioned can be read here.
[…] Ryan Takaba joined us in November from San Antonio, Texas. In November 2020, he opened an exhibition that ran for six months in order to accommodate limited entry at the same time due to the pandemic. Takaba spends a great deal of time in his garden. He and his wife cultivate fruit trees – an apple, a few plums and a pear tree. Following the winter storm that struck Texas in 2020, spring was unusually verdant and the fruit trees produced better than ever. Takaba teaches at a small independent art school that experienced a shutdown before returning in person in the spring of 2021 with smaller class sizes. To hear more about his teaching and his own studio artwork, listen to the complete interview. […]
[…] Ryan Takaba joined us in November from San Antonio, Texas. In November 2020, he opened an exhibition that ran for six months in order to accommodate limited entry at the same time due to the pandemic. Takaba spends a great deal of time in his garden. He and his wife cultivate fruit trees – an apple, a few plums and a pear tree. Following the winter storm that struck Texas in 2020, spring was unusually verdant and the fruit trees produced better than ever. Takaba teaches at a small independent art school that experienced a shutdown before returning in person in the spring of 2021 with smaller class sizes. To hear more about his teaching and his own studio artwork, listen to the complete interview. […]
[…] Ryan Takaba joined us in November from San Antonio, Texas. In November 2020, he opened an exhibition that ran for six months in order to accommodate limited entry at the same time due to the pandemic. Takaba spends a great deal of time in his garden. He and his wife cultivate fruit trees – an apple, a few plums and a pear tree. Following the winter storm that struck Texas in 2020, spring was unusually verdant and the fruit trees produced better than ever. Takaba teaches at a small independent art school that experienced a shutdown before returning in person in the spring of 2021 with smaller class sizes. To hear more about his teaching and his own studio artwork, listen to the complete interview. […]
[…] Ryan Takaba joined us in November from San Antonio, Texas. In November 2020, he opened an exhibition that ran for six months in order to accommodate limited entry at the same time due to the pandemic. Takaba spends a great deal of time in his garden. He and his wife cultivate fruit trees – an apple, a few plums and a pear tree. Following the winter storm that struck Texas in 2020, spring was unusually verdant and the fruit trees produced better than ever. Takaba teaches at a small independent art school that experienced a shutdown before returning in person in the spring of 2021 with smaller class sizes. To hear more about his teaching and his own studio artwork, listen to the complete interview. […]