Blayze Buseth
Fergus Falls, MN
Visual, Media
Teach K-12, Workshops for Adults, Workshops for Children, Consultant, Serve as a Juror
From an early age I fell in love with clay. It was the medium to work in three dimensions and if you could master clay, you could create anything.
The art that inspires me are the ancient artifacts of cultures from around the world. Observing various cultural artifacts I began taking ideas from my mind and rendering them in physical, ringed reality.
I often wondered who the creators were of the sacred items found in the world. I wondered what these objects meant to the lost civilizations, and how their artifacts instilled life and meaning into their societies.
After creating my own artifacts inspired by forms of various cultures I wanted to bring the objects to life. That is what inspired the illustrations of Toms Adventure. During Tom’s Adventure and encounter with the ancient city the artifacts and their meaning are brought to life.
Bio
Blayze Buseth grew up in Minnesota and from a young age began to work with ceramics. In 2012, he was the featured artists of Downtown Fargo, ND which began his career in ceramics. In 2013, Buseth studied abroad in Jingdezhen, China, with West Virginia University’s Ceramics Program.
After returning home from the Orient, Buseth was awarded a Kiva Loan endorsed by Springboard for the Arts to open a personalized ceramic studio in Fergus Falls, where he created art full-time. His work has been featured in numerous galleries and exhibitions across the Midwest. In 2017, he was awarded a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board for a project that would allow him to meet community members and design personalized art pieces for them that shared aspects of their life. After closing his studio in 2017 Buseth traveled to New Harmony, Indiana, for his first artist residency at the New Harmony Clay Project. While in Indiana Buseth launched a Kickstarter Campaign “Tom’s Adventure” which he brought to life at the Pottery Workshop Artist Residency in Jingdezhen, China.
