Mark Gordon, M.F.A.

Associate Professor of Art

B.A., Oberlin College
M.F.A., The Ohio State University

Case Art Building
mgordon@barton.edu | 800-345-4973 x6474

A native of Rochester, N.Y., Gordon serves as an associate professor of art at Barton College where he has taught in the Department of Art since 1999.

Gordon has presented over 100 lectures and workshops in 19 states and seven foreign countries. He has been recognized with numerous awards and grants. He has held numerous art residencies across the nation as well as in Caracas, Venezuela; Cairo, Egypt; Madrid, Spain; Jerusalem, Israel; and La Romana, Dominican Republic.  Gordon was a Fulbright Lecturer at the Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional in Obera, Argentina, in 1991.

From 1980 to 1983, Gordon taught at Altos de Chavón in La Romana, Dominican Republic, creating a vocational workshop for local youth. Next, for 18 months, he traveled throughout the Mediterranean, observing and documenting traditional pottery and brickmaking.  Gordon had the opportunity to return to the Dominican Republic in the fall of 2006, invited by the Igneri Foundation to jury the Third International Elit-Tile Ceramics Triennial.

Gordon’s undergraduate studies included Bachelor of Arts degrees in both philosophy and physical education at Oberlin College in Ohio, and his graduate studies culminated in a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State.

Gordon’s work has been featured on the cover of Pottery Making Illustrated magazine with an article “Pushing the Envelope” on his process of wet/dry clay assembly.  He was featured in a career profile interview and images of his artwork were included in the Davis Publications textbook Experience Clay by Maureen Mackey. Gordon’s work has appeared in American Ceramics; Ceramics Monthly; The New York Times; American Craft;  Clay Times: The Journal of Ceramic Trends and Technique; Revista Internacional Cerámica [Spain]; and Ceramics: Art and Perception [Australia].