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Currently the Department Head of Ceramics at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston/Glassell School of Art, Jeff Forster has participated in exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His work has won awards in a number of these exhibitions including a Juror’s Choice Award in “Ceramic Object/Conceptual Material” and the Luis Jimenez Award for First Place in the “Sculpture on Campus Exhibition” at Southern Illinois University. Additionally, Jeff was awarded the Helen Drutt Studio Fellowship in conjunction with his residency at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Besides this residency, Jeff has completed residencies at Atelierhaus Hilmsen in Germany, Lone Star College-North Harris, the Armory Arts Center in West Palm Beach Florida and most recently at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center.

Besides over-seeing the Glassell Ceramics studio and maintaining an active studio practice Jeff has contributed on several boards and committees. He currently sits on the A.I.R. Committee at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, has served on the Fresh Arts Artist Advisory Committee in Houston, was the President of the ClayHouston organization and served on the NCECA board for two years as the On-Site Conference Liaison for the 2013 Houston Conference. Jeff received a BA in Art from Saint John’s University in 1998 and a M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville in 2007.

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