Potsketch by Arthur Gonzalez
Media: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 5x 5"

Arthur Gonzalez is an internationally exhibiting artist with over fifty one-person shows in the last forty years, including eight in Manhattan, New York. He has received many awards including the Virginia Groot Foundation twice and is an unprecedented four-time recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship within a ten-year period. He is in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art in Gifu, Japan, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Goodwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College New York, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and most recently, the Holter Museum in Helena MT. He is the author of "The Art of Rejection" an autobiography of a career through reaction drawings on rejection letters. He is a tenured Professor at the California College of the Arts. Gonzalez has been an artist-in-residence in many places including University of Georgia, Athens, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Penland School of Craft, North Carolina, University of Akron in Ohio, Tainan National University in Taiwan, Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington, and the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.