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Biography
David
Beumée, named one of the ten most significant
Colorado artists at the Kirkland Museum in Denver.
--Denver
Post, December 21, 2003
I grew
up in Billings and Red Lodge, Montana and completed my
education
in 1979 with a B.A. in Art from Montana State University.
At the time of graduation I maintained a studio
in Bozeman and began
producing wheel thrown porcelain, fired to
cone 6 in an electric kiln. I
also taught pottery classes and
worked full and part time jobs until I
moved to Boulder, Colorado
in 1981. I shared a studio in Boulder until
I
relocated to
Lafayette, Colorado
and my present surroundings. In 1983 I began my effort to
produce wheel thrown porcelain as a sole means of support. I
continued producing oxidation-fired pottery in an electric kiln
until 1990, when I acquired a large gas-fired kiln. Since that
time I have fired to cone 10 and 11 in a reducing atmosphere, a
change that has opened new worlds of subtlety of glaze color
possibilities. In December 1997 I realized a long-term dream and
occupied a new studio and gallery built over the site of my
original Lafayette studio. In 1999 I founded the East Boulder
County Studio Tour, an annual self-guided tour of artist studios
in the Colorado cities of Lafayette, Louisville, Longmont, Erie,
and Superior.
www.ebcacolorado.org
□ David
Beumée resume in downloadable PDF format
Innovative Expressions of Function & Style
Published by Lark
Books, 2008
pages 98 and 125
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