Mark Schoenbaum, M.F.A. Indiana State University
Adjunct Instructor
Mark William Schoenbaum holds a BS from the University of Southern Indiana and an MFA from Indiana State University. He has taught at Memorial High School since 1988 and teaches ceramics at the University of Evansville. Recently his ceramic art has been exhibited at Georgia Southern University, Oakland City College, Indiana State University, Nebraska Wesleyan University, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, Saint Mary of the Woods College, Concord College, and the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science. Mr. Schoenbaum's work is also in the Smithsonian permanent slide collection (America's 100 potters who make platters), and two of his works have been published in The Extruder Book (2000) by the American Ceramic Society.
When he was a child, Mr. Schoenbaum spent an immense amount of time building objects. His ceramic architectonic forms offer him the opportunity to re-experience the satisfaction of playing with his childhood creations. Through completing, disassembling, and reconstructing his sculptures, he is able to revisit his youth. Presently his sculptures reflect stress, tension, emotional stability or instability through the placement of extruded clay forms in precarious or stable environments.
Mr. Schoenbaum's sculptures, because of their modularity, grant him the opportunity to combine and recombine the elements in endless variations. It's as if the sculptures can be reassembled to fit his stress level or mood.
Mr. Schoenbaum's sculptures are generally serendipitous because of the environment in which they are placed. His pieces, affected by wind, snow, and rain, can change in their environment as often as the stress levels change within his life.
