Richard Moquin

Richard Moquin received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from San Francisco State University in California. Since 1969, he has been teaching in the Community College District, San Francisco, CA. He has participated in invitational shows at the Oakland Museum, CA; Elements Gallery, NY; and the San Francisco Museum, CA, as well as having one-person shows with Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, and Ames Gallery, Berkeley, both in California. His work has been reviewed in several California newspapers as well as in Craft Horizons and Ceramics Monthly magazines. When Richard was an Arts/Industry resident, he learned that working in a factory is much different from a typical studio situation. Not only are there opportunities but also frustrations. For instance, the factory is huge. Transporting work from the studio space to the kilns can, at times, require some ingenuity. For the slab constructions he created during his residency, Richard made effective use of the setters, the large tiles on which production ware is fired. He also learned the mold-making and slip-casting processes and still uses some of the techniques in his teaching.