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Biography
Margaret Bohls is an American potter and educator who makes hand-built pottery and vessels. Bohls has been teaching ceramics at the college level for 29 years and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has taught hands-on workshops at art centers across the US and abroad. Her work has been shown in over 100 group and solo exhibitions since 1995 and is included in the permanent collections of the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), the Weisman Museum of Art, and the Everson Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in articles in the Journal of the National Council for Education on Ceramic Arts, Pottery Making Illustrated, Ceramics Monthly, and Studio Potter.
Artist Statement
My pottery forms are inspired and informed by a study of historical ceramics and other decorative art. I have an abiding interest in the vernacular language of utilitarian forms and in the way process and material can convey abstract ideas. Work in this exhibition consists of several lines of utilitarian pottery based on a study of Modernist era designed ceramics and silver. Each style has inherent rules of form and surface that are translated from teapot to cup to bowl to pitcher to plate. I enjoy the process of designing each type of ware, establishing the parameters of edge, volume, and weight, and defining the sensibility of each different style.
More information about Margaret can be found at: margaretbohls.com