M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
Courses currently taught at SANTA MONICA COLLEGE:
Ceramics, all levels. Art 52 a, b, c, Independent Studies, Mentor Program
Other Courses taught in the past at SANTA MONICA COLLEGE:
Design I and II
Drawing I and II
Sculpture:
beginning Figure
Franklyn Phillips’s primary artistic medium is ceramics where he has continued to redefine himself for the past forty two years as a professional studio artist, ceramic sculptor and ceramic painter. His earlier large scale sculptures were influenced by previous undergraduate studies in Biology and Comparative Anatomy while later ceramic paintings and sculptures evolved as expressions of his growing involvement with the mysteries of meditation, metamorphosis and the hidden drama of nature while stylistically exploring the fringes of indeterminate reality. Technical experimentation endures throughout all his work and teaching.
Over the past thirty one years he has taught Ceramics and Ceramics Sculpture at L.A. Pierce College, Mission College, Cerritos College, and Otis Art Institute. In 2006, Phillips was appointed head of the Ceramics Department at Santa Monica College.
His work in Ceramics has taken him to an apprenticeship in Spain, a factory in Southern Sweden, a workshop in Sifnos, Greece and more recently, Southwestern Costa Rica at the tip of the Osa Peninsula, where he designed and built three homes and a Ceramic Art studio, around which he is currently offering "Sustainable" Ceramics workshops every January.
His concurrent pursuit of architectural design has lead him to the opposite extreme of the tropical environment: a California building site at 9800 feet in the high country of the Eastern Sierras.
LINKS WORTH VISITING:
phillips_franklyn@smc.edu or kapu@earthlink.net
CERAMICS DEPARTMENT OFFICE TEL: 310-434-4874, FAX: 310-434-3673
