John Rhoades

421 Kensington Road
Norman, OK 73072
(405) 659-4109 (day)
(405) 364-5547 (evening)
E-mail: johnr319@cox.net

Discipline:
Visual Art: pottery/ceramics

Participants:
Childhood, Adolescents, Adults, and Older Adults

Sites:
Schools: Elementary
Community Sites: Parks and Recreation Centers, Arts Centers, Senior Centers

Availability: Central Oklahoma; year-round

John Rhoads is an accomplished artist who has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Oklahoma. Rhoads has been part owner in several art galleries and a studio potter for 20 years. He has taught for the Oklahoma City Arts Council for the last four years and in the Oklahoma Arts Council Teaching Artist program for the past six years. He enjoys helping students develop their artistic expression working with clay.

Arts Learning Goals

Learn basic clay techniques
Develop artistic expression
Develop an idea and forming that idea into a work of art
Understand the history of clay as an art form