Jim Budde 

Biography

Born in 1958 in Red Bud, Illinois, a small farming community forty miles away from St. Louis.

BA in Art, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1981; MA in Art, 1984 and MFA in Art, 1987, California State University, Fullerton.

Ceramics teacher at Glenn A. Wilson High School in Hacienda Heights, California from 1988 to 1994, and taught part-time at community and private colleges in Southern California.

Professor of Art at Boise State University,1994 - present.

Honors and awards including 2006 Boise State University’s College of Arts and Sciences award for distinguished creative activity in the arts and humanities, 2005 Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, Idaho Commission on the Arts.

Various Publications including Dona Z. Meilach, Teapots: Makers and Collectors, Schiffer Publications, 2005; Veronika Gunter, Five Hundred Figures in Clay, Lark Books, 2004; American Craft, OP.ED.ART, Ferrin Gallery, Oct/Nov 2004; American Style, October, 2004; Clay Times, Feats of Clay XVII, July/August, 2004.

Various Collections including Dianne and Sandy Besser, Gloria and Sonny Kamm, Arizona State University, San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, Peabody Essex Museum, World Ceramic Exposition Foundation and Boise Art Museum.

Recent exhibitions include Teapots of the Word; Delightful Teapot, Yeaju Gallery, Korea, 2005; Particles and Passion, The Art of Clay, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD, 2005; XXX, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM, 2005; OP.ED.ART, Ferrin Gallery, 2004; Democracy in America, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, 2004; Election 2004: The State of the Union, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM.