ARtist Bio

James Brashear is Professor Emeritus from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). His career spans 34 years of teaching at UAF, Syracuse University, and Clarion University of Pennsylvania. James earned his Masters of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University. He currently resides in Fairbanks, Alaska with his wife and two children.  

 

James has exhibited, lectured and taught throughout the United States. He was awarded the Peter Voulkos Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana. He was also awarded an artist in residence at the LH Project, Joseph, Oregon, the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, New Castle, Maine, and the Red Lodge Center for the Ceramic Arts, Red Lodge, Montana. He has been an invited instructor at The Arrowmont Center for Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and an invited presenter at numerous universities in Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, Kansas, Wyoming and Montana.

 

Brashear’s works are in numerous private collections and public collections including The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, Alaska, and the University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, Alaska.