Jim
Bowling

Jim Bowling is a sculptor working in clay with mixed media; he is also a Professor of Art at Otterbein University’s Department of Art and Art History teaching in the areas of ceramics, sculpture and 3D design.  Jim is a graduate of The Ohio State University and received his MFA in ceramics from Kent State University.  He is a member of the National Council on Education in Ceramic Arts and serves as a trustee for the Ohio Designer Craftsman/Ohio Craft Museum.   As a contemporary artist working in clay and mixed media, he is rooted in the material and craft traditions of ceramics but focuses on conceptual approaches to explore the connection between surface and form in figure-based narrative works.