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Prof. Türker Özdoğan was born in Izmit in 1944. He received his initial ceramics training and Master of Ceramics diploma at the Applied Fine Arts School in Istanbul. He was awarded apprenticeship at Eczacibasi Ceramic Factory and at Fürst Adolf Werkstatte Für Keramik Buckeburg in Germany. Özdoğan continued his formal studies in the United States at the Corcoran School of Art and at George Washington University, where he received his M.F.A. degree. Subsequent to a three-year faculty appointment at Federal City College, he joined the faculty at the George Washington University, establishing its Ceramics Program where he continues to serve as director. Reflecting his own ambitious and varied exploration of the ceramics medium, his demonstration methods often dictated the kind of work with which he engaged, while the ceramics program provided an exceptionally broad range of courses, encompassing functional, sculptural, architectural, and industrial ceramics. Parallel to the range of teaching, the artist’s oeuvre encompasses functional, sculptural, architectural, and industrial ceramics. He continues to explore an academic interest in Native American, Central Asian, Siberian and Anatolian cultures. As a practicing professional artist, Özdoğan has achieved national and international recognition through a variety of research grants and awards, juried expositions, and exhibitions. These have had varied venues including, most notable, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the International Monetary Fund, the World bank, Meridian House, and the United Nations Plaza, Turkevi Gallery. His ceramic art has been reviewed and featured on television, in newspapers and periodicals, as well as reproduced in texts on ceramics. Prof. Özdoğan’s works have been widely collected and contained in many public and private collections in the United States and abroad, including the George Washington University Permanent Collection, and Kale Ceramics Museum in Turkey.
Reference: kale.com.tr; home.gwu.edu; bostanciplatformu.com
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