Rimas VisGirda

Rimas VisGirda is a Lithuanian-born American ceramic artist and teacher. His work is wheel-thrown and hand-built, with a characteristic surface decoration in engobes, decals, and overglazes depicting socio-critical caricature. VisGirda cites US California underground cartoonists such as Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson and the British Punk movement as his influences. In 1988 VisGirda visited the Soviet Union as a guest of the USSR Union of Artists and has participated in a number of symposia in eastern Europe during the ensuing years. These experiences made a strong impression on him and began to manifest themselves in his work.

VisGirda has exhibited his work, given workshops in ceramics, and lectured internationally. He is represented in over thirty public and numerous private collections. His work is pictured in many books on ceramics as well as periodicals in the field. He has taught at colleges and universities on the west coast and in the Midwest since 1973. VisGirda was awarded a BA in physics and an MA in art, both from California State University, Sacramento. He also earned an MFA from Washington State University.