10 Facts About Richard Marquis

Richard "Dick" Marquis was born on 1945 and is an American studio glass artist.

Richard Marquis is considered a pioneer of American contemporary glass art, and is noted for his quirky, playful work that incorporates flawless technique and underlying seriousness about form and color.

Richard Marquis was born on September 17,1945, in Bumble Bee, Arizona, the second son of an itinerant grocery-store worker and a ceramics-hobbying mother.

Richard Marquis became more and more interested in ceramics, studying with Peter Voulkos and Ron Nagle.

Richard Marquis earned his BA degree at Berkeley in 1969.

In 1969, Richard Marquis was awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to work on Murano, in Venice, Italy.

Richard Marquis's thesis was on the making of murrine and their use, and for his exhibition he made two canes that could be cut into murrine: one of the American flag, and the second a remarkable and complex word-cane of the entire Lord's Prayer.

For several years, Richard Marquis included Lord's Prayer murrine of various sizes in his work.

Richard Marquis engaged in collaboration with other artists including Therman Statom and Dante Marioni, learning and perfecting new techniques and approaches, which were then reflected in his own work; and at the same time teaching, and influencing the work of those with whom he collaborated.

Richard Marquis married Johanna Nitzke, a painter and former arts administrator and gallery director, in 1987.