Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Autio, Rudy |
Other names |
Autio, Arne Rudolph |
Nationality or Tribal Affiliation |
American |
Dates & places of birth and death |
Born October 8,1926 in Butte, Montana Died June 20, 2007 in Missoula, Montana |
Education |
1946 - 1950: B.S. Applied Art, Montana State College, Bozeman, MT 1952: M.F.A. Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1986: Honorary Doctorate, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
Places of residence |
1926 - 1944: Butte, Montana 1944 - 1946: U.S. Navy Service, stationed in California and Fallon, Nevada 1946 - 1950: Bozeman, Montana (BA at Montana State U.) 1950 - 1951: Helena, Montana (Archie Bray) 1952: Pullman, Washington (MFA at Washington State U.) 1952 - 1957: Helena, Montana (Archie Bray & MT Museum and Historical Society) 1957 - 2007: Missoula, Montana 1981, 1982: Helsinki, Finland (Visiting Artist & Lecturer) 1987: Boca Raton, Florida (Visiting Eminent Scholar of Art) |
Notes |
Born in Butte, Montana, Rudy Autio served for two years in the Navy during WWII. Following the war, he studied art at Montana State University in Bozeman on the GI Bill, where he met Peter Voulkos. In 1952, the two became the founding resident artists at the Archie Bray Ceramics Foundation. Autio remained at the Bray until 1957, when he moved to Missoula to found the ceramics department at The University of Montana. He served as head of the department and taught for 28 years. Autio received a Tiffany Award in Crafts in 1963, the American Ceramic Society Art Award in 1978, and a National Endowment grant in 1980. In 1981 he was the first recipient of the Governor's Award and named outstanding visual artist in the state of Montana. He is a Fellow of the American Crafts Council, Honorary member of the National Council of Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), and recipient of the American Craftsman's Gold Medal Award in 1999. For more information, please visit the artist's website at http://www.rudyautio.com/ |
