Gary Erickson is a ceramist and assistant professor of art at Macalester College and maintains a studio in Minneapolis. Since receiving his MFA degree in 1985 from the New York State College of Ceramics, he has built an extensive record of exhibitions of national and international scope. In 2004, he was featured in a two-person show (with Cuban sculptor Raul Miranda Blanco) at the Galeria Oriente in Santiago de Cuba and traveled there to attend the 18th International Gathering Terracotta. His sculptures have recently been exhibited in the NCECA Invitational exhibition entitled “Biomimicry: the Art of Imitating Life” at the Herron Gallery of the University of Indiana and at the 15th Annual San Angelo National Ceramics Competition” at the San Angelo Museum of Art in San Angelo, TX. Gary has been awarded grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and held a McKnight Fellowship for Ceramic Artists. His sculptural works, inspired by the “rhythms of nature, music and life”, are held in the collections of the National Museum of American Art, the Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis and numerous other public and private collections.