Paul Miklowski
Birth Date: 1946

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Cleveland, Ohio native Paul Miklowski currently teaches art history at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) and has been there since 1985. He is assistant professor and faculty coordinator for the visual art program at the college’s Metropolitan Campus. Miklowski is a former a lecturer in ceramics at Case Western Reserve University. As an artist, Miklowski works in a variety of media but principally ceramics. His pottery work is strongly influenced by the Bernard Leach-Shoji Hamada school that came to prominence in the United States during the 1960s. Miklowski’s work is represented in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Art Association, the Canton Museum of Art, and private collections. Miklowski is an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship recipient and twice received first place in ceramics and sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show. His work is published in the Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ceramics Monthly, and Peter Lane’s, Ceramic Form, which surveys the work of contemporary ceramic artists. Miklowski studied ceramics, painting, and printmaking at the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland and holds an MA in the History of Art from the Cleveland State University. Miklowski received a Fulbright-Hays-GPA grant to China for curriculum development in non-western art. His travels include Japan, China, Israel, and Western Europe.