Arthur received his BFA in ceramics from Maine College of Art in 2007. After graduation he moved back home to Boston and was brought on to teach at Mudflat Studios in Somerville MA. Starting with kids classes and eventually to include teens and adults. Arthur has has taken workshops and assisted instructors at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Arthur has recently started teaching handbuilding classes at the Harvard Ceramics Studio in Allston MA while still maintaining his studio at Mudflat and working full time. His work is represented nationally including Mudflat Gallery in Cambridge MA, Red Star Studio in Kansas City MO and also Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge MT. More of his work can be seen at arthurhalvorsenceramics.com, and Instagram: arthurhalvorsen
Throughout my life I have always been attracted to things, people and places that are over the top. The lavish and the excess feed my creative soul, which I take and interpret the same attention to detail into my studio practice. My work evolves through creative repetition; making the same form over and over, tweaking it with sprinkles of spontaneity. The best pleasure is the creativity, not expecting the ordinary.
Vivienne Westwood once said “I’m not trying to do something different, I’m trying to do the same thing but in a different way.” This quote resonates with me. I’m not trying to reinvent plates, cups or bowls, but to make pieces infused with my own flavor and put my mark on the world. My pieces contain this essence of fun and joy. Nothing succeeds like excess and so I decorate over the top; layering patterns with images of animals and objects that I have a connection and infinity to are critical in my studio practice.