Kurt Weiser

American, b. 1950

Born in Lansing, Michigan, in 1950, Weiser attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Michigan, where he obtained his MFA degree in 1976. He served as the director of the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, for almost a decade in the 1970s and is currently a regents professor at Arizona State University, where he started teaching in 1988. Initially he decorated pottery in an abstract way, but in the 1990s, as he adopted china painting, he developed his signature figurative style.