NWDC Living Treasures: Robert Sperry - A Northwest Master

ROBERT SPERRY - A Northwest Master 1998, time:28:31 “the biggest inspiration has been that I’ve been able to combine the ideas of art with the ideas of science into something that makes visual sense to me“. Robert Sperry was an artist profoundly interested in new understanding and new ways of seeing the world. In the Northwest, his bright creative imagination lit the way for other artists to follow, as teacher, mentor and friend. Robert Sperry was an extraordinary risk-taker in the arts. He was intensely interested in visual ideas and their evolution, and he was fascinated with the interaction of materials. Although best known as a ceramic artist, Robert Sperry was also a printmaker, a painter, and a film maker, producing documentary, narrative, and experimental pieces. This video documentary gives us a brief impression of his remarkable journey - his life, his work, his thoughts, his times and his humanity - as related to us through his voice and the Robert Sperry ceram