Dragonfly+Dance

Date: 2000
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/2000/2000.51_1a.jpg&max=460 width="269" height="270" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=51106"]] || Title: **Dragonfly Dance**

Artist: Chris Kroupa Born: Tonasket, Washington 1948

Medium: wheel-thrown, glazed, airbrushed, and painted porcelain with sgrafitto Dimensions: 1 1/4 x 14 3/8 in. (3.1 x 36.6 cm) diam. Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the artist

Accession: 2000.51 || -Washington State University.BFA 1970 -Michigan State University.MFA 1976
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Chris has been a professional potter since 1972. His work has been displayed in galleries in Michigan, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington State. Articles about him and his work have appeared in //Ceramics Monthly//, //Air Brush Digest//, //American Crafts//, and various newspapers including the //Oregonian//. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR., and the Renwick Gellery in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His studio is located in Curlew, WA. Near his grandfather’s original homestead.

Artist Biography SAAM Collections Page
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