George Woideck

George Woideck trained as a painter and took time off to tour and record as a rock musician before launching a career as a ceramic artist, learning from national master ceramic artists. Since then he has been an artist-in-residence in schools throughout Ohio and Michigan.

George has been named a National Young Audiences Artist of the Year and his work as a teaching artist has been recognized by the Ohio Art Education Association. He participates in long term residencies for the TeachArtsOhio program of the Ohio Arts Council and is a roster artist for the Center for Arts-Inspired Learning. George is also well-versed in creating online content centered around visual arts integration for distance and remote learning.

Each summer George teaches courses in mosaic at Chautauqua. His studio work has been seen in galleries and museums in Chicago, Cleveland and New York and his public art installations can be viewed in businesses, libraries, performing arts centers and hospitals in Ohio and elsewhere. George also creates mosaic and tile installations for homes.

He has been the keynote speaker at a national conference on architectural ceramics and has served on the boards of several arts organizations. He publishes a blog for educators at Tile, Mosaic+Clay. Visit his website at Tile and Clay Art and view his studio work and public art installations at Artisan Architectural Ceramics.

George recently published a young adult, urban fantasy novel set in New York City titled Brooke and Piper. A sequel, Brooke and Piper: The Room with No Door, is scheduled for publication in 2024.

George recently published his young adult, urban fantasy novel, Brooke and Piper, which is now available on Amazon here.

RECENT PROJECTS: “Creating Raku Pottery and the Japanese Tea Ceremony,” John Marshall High School (Cleveland). Ceramic students made Japanese style tea bowls from clay, glazed them, and then fired them in an outdoor, fuel burning kiln. The residency concluded with a recreation of the Japanese Tea Ceremony with participants sitting on bamboo floor mats and enjoying drinking Matcha tea from their cups along with sweets and conversation.

Sculptural Glass Tile Mosaic on the theme of Diversity, Andrews Osborne Academy (Willoughby).  At this international K-12 boarding school, students from various grades completed a four foot high, eight foot wide mosaic now on permanent display. This piece joins an earlier work as part of a proposed five part installation representing the school’s core values.

“From Geometry to Escher,” McCormick Middle School, (Wellington). Worked with several gifted classes to unlock the secrets of how Dutch artist, M. C. Escher created his mind baffling tessellations by analyzing his processes and making our own.

 

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Westlake Porter Public Library Tile Entrance Way (detail). Image courtesy of the teaching artist.

John Marshall HS Art Teacher and Students Firing Raku Pottery