Wayne Higby Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1943 -

D.Wayne Higby, born in Boulder, Colorado in 1943 attended the University of Colorado in that town and earned a B.F.A. degree in 1966. He went on to study at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he received an M.F.A. degree in 1968. He also taught there between 1966 and 1968. His teaching career includes posts at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, the Rhode Island School of Design and a professorship at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, New York. The American Craft Museum recognized Higby as one of the seven artists who are “genuine living legends representing the best of American artists in their chosen medium.” Widely honored, he is Honorary Presidend and co-founder of the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute at Jingdezhen where he holds an honorary professorship of art at both the Institute and at Shanghai University, People’s Republic of China. In addition, he is vice president of the International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva, Switzerland. Higby is best known for making earthenware vessels and sculpture that involves spatial relationships with glazed landscape elements of his pottery achieved through the raku process. He has both studied and taught in Japan and China and is an officer on the board of the Haystack Mountain School of Art, Deer Island, ME. His solo and group exhibitions are extensive. Major museums and collectors own his works internationally. See a listing in Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984.