Workshop:
Ben Buswell
Saturday, March 15, 2025
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
SOU DeBoer Sculpture Building
Free, Registration Required | Limited Space
SOLD OUT – Community Members
Please email sma@sou.edu to be placed on the waiting list.
About the Workshop
Explore materials and process through a guided exploration of sculptural form with our winter exhibiting artist, Ben Buswell.
What to Bring
Participants are to bring in a stick found in nature. Your stick will be combined with materials provided by the Schneider Museum of Art. This process will discuss repetitive transformation, drilling, carving, wrapping, and more. As a group, watch the process of adding and combining materials to create an imaginative 3D form unfold and bring this gift home with you.
About the Artist
Ben Buswell (b. 1974 in Dallas, Oregon) is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Buswell’s sculptural work spans diverse media, encompassing ceramics, metals, resins, incised photographs, and more. He subjects these materials to physical processes (such as scratching, piercing, melting and tearing) wherein the of accumulation of small, repetitive gestures builds into complex wholes. With a recent move toward a long-term project located in the high desert of southeastern Oregon, Buswell’s practice continues to evolve.
Buswell is a Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts (2015), a three-time recipient of the Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation (2011, 2014, and 2025), and was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission (2018). Notable solo exhibitions have been presented by Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Samuel Freeman in Los Angeles; CoCA Seattle; and in Portland, Oregon at Upfor, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, and TILT Gallery and Project Space. Notable group exhibitions include What Needs to be Said: Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts (curated by Diana Nawi), Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art presented by Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, and the final iteration of The Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum. Collections that house his work include The Portland Art Museum, The Schneider Museum of Art, Portland Community College, Western Oregon University, The University of Oregon, the Collaborative Life Sciences Building at Oregon Health and Science University, and many private collections, including that of Jan and Patricia de Bont. Buswell received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and BFA from Oregon State University. Learn more at benbuswell.com
