| EDUCATION | |
| 1986 | M.F.A., Montana State University |
| 1981 | B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute |
| 1975 | University of Michigan School of Art |
| 1974 | University of Michigan School of Engineering |
| 1998 | Train the Trainer, National Coalition Building Institute's prejudice reduction model, training to become a diversity workshop leader |
| 1995 | Rubber Mold Making Seminar, J. Reynolds Company Houston Texas |
| 1996 | Anagama, Noborigama Kiln Firing Workshop Flagstaff, Arizona |
| 2002 | Eduprise WebCT Training |
| EMPLOYMENT | |
| 2000-present | Associate Professor |
| 1994-2000 | Assistant Professor, Ceramics Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 1992-1994 | Assistant Manager, Product Development Archie Bray Foundation Clay Business, Helena, Montana |
| 1992 | Instructor, Ceramics, Helena Art Center, Helena, Montana, Beginning Ceramics |
| 1991-1992 | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia Writing Intensive Art Appreciation |
| 1990-1991 | Visiting Artist, Assistant Professor, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, Advanced and Graduate Ceramics and Sculpture, beginning, drawing, Graduate Seminar |
| 1990 winter | Guest Artist, Arizona State University, |
| 1988-1989 | Fulbright Scholar, "The Folk Pottery of Thailand," funded by the Southeast Asian Regional Research Program |
| 1988 | Visiting Professor, Faculty of Art Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 1988 winter | Visiting Assistant Professor of Ceramics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, all levels of Ceramics |
| 1986-1988 | Resident Artist, Community Class Instructor, Clay Business Assistant Manager, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana |
| 1985 July-August | Visiting Artist, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, August Manhattan, New York |
| 1984-1986 | Competitive Teaching Assistantship, Montana State University Introduction to Art for non-majors |
| 1981-1982 | Operation of personal ceramics studio, Shannock, Rhode Island |
| 1973-1981 | Ceramics Lab Coordinator, Staff Member,Counselor, Fresh Air Society, Ortinville, Michigan, summer-camp ceramics |
| 1975-1976 | Ceramics Lab Assistant, University of Michigan, Arbor, Michigan |
| SELECT EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2002 Spring | Five Octaves a performance as part of the TRAX Exhibition, Union Station, Kansas City |
| 2001 summer | 2001: Clay Odyssey, Demonstrator, "A Visit by the Pipe Organ Repairman" Archie Bray Foundation |
| 2001 spring | Performance, "A Visit by the Pipe Organ Repairman" , Texas A&M University-CC |
| 2001 | Archie Bray Foundation Demonstrating Artists Exhibition |
| 2000 | South Texas Institute of the Arts, Juried Art Exhibit |
| 1999 | Terra Incognita, Wilhelmi-Holland Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 1999 | Lighten Up, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio |
| 1999 | Landing of Aliens TAMU-CC Campus, collaboration with Don Luna, Flicka Rahn, and Keith Rowley |
| 1998 | Form Function and the Boogie-Woogie Blues Third Floor Gallery, University of Texas of Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas |
| 1998 | Director, and Producer,Mercator Projections, a monologue by Mamet, Performed by Camera Obscura Projection for the Texas Association of Educators of Art (TAEA) annual conference |
| 1998 | Invitation Exhibit in Conjunction with the TAEA conference, Peoples Art Space, Nueces County, Texas |
| 1998 | Deep in the Clay of Texas Invitational, Tyler Museum of Art Tyler Texas |
| 1998 | Engagement Performance for Jason Hagensick, Collaborative effort with Don Luna for Sam Logsdon's Music Appreciation Class |
| 1998 | Within the Borders, Curated Exhibition Meadows Gallery, University of Texas Tyler, |
| 1997 | Alice, Multimedia Performance Collaboration with Don Luna and Keith Rowley performed at Baley's Casino, Las Vegas, for the National Council on Education For the Ceramic Arts Conference |
| 1997 | Grit, Solo Exhibition, Simon Michael Art Gallery, Bee County College, Beeville, Texas |
| 1997 | Fire and Fiber, group show , Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas |
| 1996 | Cup and Goblet, group exhibition, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland Oregon |
| 1996 | Alternative Barbie Exhibit, Peoples Art Space, Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 1996 | Southwest Texas Junior College Library, group show, Uvalde, Texas |
| 1995 | Jim Edwards, Louis Katz, Barbara Riley, Weil Gallery, Texas A&M Corpus Christi |
| 1994 | Wihelmi Holland Gallery Winter Exhibition, Corpus Christi Texas |
| 1994 | Performance of The Rhythm of Plastic Skin, Producer/ Director, Wilson Studio Theatre, Corpus Christi TX |
| 1993 | The Whole Truth, Solo Exhibition, Myrna Loy Center, Helena, Montana |
| 1993 | Montana Bray Clay, Myrna Loy Center, Helena, Montana |
| 1993 | 2nd Annual Benefit Exhibit for the Archie Bray Foundation" in conjunction with National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Conference International Gallery, San Diego, California |
| 1993 | Mardi Gras Edible Art Exhibition, "The Plain of Jars" in cast chocolate Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana |
| 1993 | Montana State University Centennial Invitational Alumni Exhibition Haynes Fine Art Gallery, Bozeman, Montana |
| 1993 | Helena Art Club Exhibition, Myrna Loy Gallery, Helena, Montana |
| 1992 | Artist Generated Toys and Games, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana |
| 1992 | Lecturers Exhibition, 1992 Malispina College Seminar, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada |
| 1992 | "Grand Illuminations" Salem Art Association, A.N. Bush Gallery, Salem Oregon |
| 1991 | Faculty Exhibition, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia |
| 1991 | "The Whole Truth" invitational , Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Tennessee |
| 1991 | "Six States of Clay", Kansas City Artists' Coalition Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1991 | Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 1991 | "Former Artists in Residence", Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona |
| 1990 | Performance of "Kiln for Itawamba", Itawamba Community College, Fulton Mississippi |
| 1990 | "Memphis State University Sculpture", Itawamba Community College, Fulton, Mississipp |
| 1990 | "Exhibition of Fulbright Excellence", American Association, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 1989 | "Archie Bray Foundation Residents", exhibition in conjunction with the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Conference, Central Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1988 | "Archie Bray International", Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana |
| 1988 | "Residents of the Archie Bray Foundation", Gallery, Missoula, Montana |
| 1987 | "Invitational Teapot Show", Sales Area, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana |
| 1987 | "Gail Busch, Helen Farron, Louis Katz", Artifacts Gallery, Bozeman, Montana |
| 1987 | "Residents of the Archie Bray Foundation", Paxon Gallery, Missoula, Montana |
| 1986-87 | DeWeese Gallery, Bozeman, Montana |
| 1985 | Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California |
| 1985 | "Lenexa National 3-D Art Show", Legler Museum, Lenexa, Kansas |
| 1985 | "Fifth Biennial Paper and Clay National", Gallery, Memphis Tennessee |
| 1985 | "National Small Image and Object", 100% Realart Gallery, Spokane, Washington |
| 1984 | "Sweet Pea Exhibition", Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana |
| 1982 | "Chicago and Vicinity Clay III", Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1981 | "NCECA Student Invitational Exhibition", Wichita, Kansas |
| 1977 | Artforms Gallery, Detroit, Michigan |
| LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, | |
| 2001 | Short Lecture on Site Specific and Performance Art, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena Montana |
| 2001 | Large Scale Coil Throwing, Vanderbuilt High School, Vanderbuilt, TX |
| 2001 | Retrospective slide lecture,Victoria College, Victoria, TX |
| 2001 | Bulk Image Processing, Organizing and Handling, for TAMU-CC Art Faculty |
| 2001 | Participation in Raku workshop, demostration of simple forced air coal firing,Victoria College, Victoria, TX |
| 2001 | Publishing Databases on the Web, Center for Teaching Excellence, TAMU-CC |
| 2000 | Publishing Databases on the Web, Center for Teaching Excellence, TAMU-CC |
| 2000 | Bulk Image Processing workshop, Center for teaching Excellence, TAMU-CC |
| 1999 | Nottingham Center for the Arts, week long workshop on textured clay bodies and rudimentary kiln construction |
| 1999 | Getting it up on the Web. Center for Teaching Excellence, TAMU-CC |
| 1998 | Organizer OSO Bay BIENNIAL XI; The Elephant and the Bear, Texas A&M University, Corpus, Texas |
| 1998 | Curator, OSO Bay BIENNIAL XI Exhibition, Texas A&M University, Corpus, Texas |
| Raku Workshop, Texas Art Education Association | |
| Slide Documentation of Small Scale Art, presented for the Society of Evolving Artists, TAMU-CC | |
| Slide Lecture on my work, Laredo Community College, Laredo, Texas | |
| Demonstration, Slide Presentation and Lecture, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas | |
| 1994,'95,'97,'99 | Being Jewish in America, Discussions with Race and Ethnic Relations Class, TAMUCC |
| 1999 | Nigunim, workshoplet for the TAMU-CC Music Department |
| 1998 | Why Dankwean? slide lecture for Korat Technological College, Thailand |
| 1998 | Pronounciation of English Final Consonants, a lesson given at two elementary schools in Thailand. Ampoe Kirimat, Sukhothai, and Baan Non Muang , Dankwean |
| 1998 | Camera Obscuras and Pinhole Photography, an in-service workshop for Corpus Christi Independent School District art teachers |
| 1998 | Rockport Fulton High, Introspective slide lecture |
| 1998 | Photographing 3-D Artwork, Southwest Sculpture Society |
| 1997 | Thoughts on Thailand, Closed Circuit TV PResentation for Travis Elementary School Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 1997 | Lecture Thai Culture and Art, William Travis Elementary, CCISD |
| 1997 | Pinhole Photography, Lecture for photography students at Winn Seale Academy of Fine Arts |
| 1997 | Introspective Slide Lecture, Bee County College, Beeville, Texas |
| 1996 | Jim Berman's Core Seminar, Bonfire Workshop |
| 1996 | Southwestern University Art Department, Georgetown, Texas Lecture and Firing of "Glazed Cylindrical Scove" |
| 1995 | Lecture, Metamorphosis in Dankwean: of Faxes and Ceramics Council on Thai Studies Annual Meeting University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 1995 | Lectures, San Diego State University Conceptual Veins, Changes in Dankwean Ceramics |
| 1995 | Workshop Organizer, Umdang at TAMUCC Texas A&M University Corpus Christi |
| 1995 | Curator, Oso Bay Biennial IX Exhibition Weil Gallery, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi |
| 1995 | Workshop Presenter, CCISD in-service training, The making and firing of bonfired wares in one day. Del Mar College |
| 1995 | The Crafts of Thailand, a slide presentation Corpus Christi Water Color Society |
| 1995 | The Crafts of Thailand, a slide presentation Corpus Christi Water Color Society |
| 1995 | Glaze Doctor, National Council on Education For the Ceramic Arts Conference, Minneapolis Minnesota |
| 1994 | Workshop Presenter, University of Montana Missoula, Montana |
| 1994 | Presenter for Thai Potters, 1994 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D |
| 1993 | Lecture: Rock, Scissors, Paper, Clay: Changes in Traditional Thai Crafts, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana |
| 1992 | "Louis Katz, A Function of Form", and "Traditional Thai Pottery" 1992 Malispina College Seminar, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada |
| 1991 | Lecture: "Traditional Thai Pottery", National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Conference (NCECA), Tempe Arizona |
| 1991 | "Changing Sexual Roles in Pottery Making Villages of Thailand", Extension Services, Thai- U.S. Exchange Program, University of Missouri, Columbia |
| 1991 | Translator, Commentator, Thai Folk Pottery Demonstrations, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Conference (NCECA), Tempe, Arizona |
| 1991 | "Traditional Pottery of Thailand", screening of rough cut video footage, American Woodfire 91 Conference, Iowa City, Iowa |
| 1990 | "The Folk Pottery of Thailand", Itawamba Community College, Fulton Mississippi |
| 1989 | Ten Lectures "The Folk Pottery of Thailand", Nagano Craftsmen Association, Nagano, Japan Montana State University, Kansas City Art Institute, Archie Bray Foundation, Bemis Project, Detroit Center for Creative Studies, Alfred University, C.W. Post College, and Philadelphia College of Art |
| 1989 | Guest Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Silicate Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, and Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 1985 | "Louis Katz, Forms of Function" The New School, Manhattan, New York, in conjunction with the New York Experimental Glass Workshop |
| AWARDS, GRANTS, REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS, BOARD POSITIONS, BOOK CREDITS | |
| 2001 | Five Octaves, Video Documentary on fire breathing organ performance in Helena Montana by Ethan Notkin http://www.eozeo.com/videos/octaves.html |
| 2001 | Ceramics a Potter's Handbook, by Glenn Nelson and Richard Burkett, page 196 image of Cylindrical Scove |
| 2001 | A Ceramic Spectrum by Robin Hopper. image and credits |
| 2001 | A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence, by Peter Held , page 177 image of Brickyard Kiln |
| 2001 | Mastering the Craft, by Richard Zakin, pages 133, 196, 197 images of "Kilns as Art" and pots |
| 2001 | Playing With Fire, Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper, April 26 2001, B-8 Center, article on A Visit by the Pipe Organ Repairman |
| 2001 | The Sound and the Fiery, Helena Independent Record newspaper, June 17, 2001, C-1 fullpage, article on A Visit by the Pipe Organ Repairman |
| 2001 | Three A&M Publications, The Island University Alumini Magazine Volume 6 Number 1 page 11, Great Balls of Fire, University Curents, Volume IV, Number 8 page 4, Louis Katz and his Fire-Breathing Organ, A&M System News, "Great Balls of Fire", June 2001, reprint from The Island University Alumni Magazine |
| 2001-2002 June | National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Technology Consultant and Webmaster |
| 2001 | Island Waves Interview |
| 2001 | The New World Chapter 7: Final Training, video short by Clay Kronke, former student. Credit. |
| 1999-2001 | ad hoc Director of Electronic Communication, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts |
| 2001 | Revision of "English-Thai Potters' Dictionary and Quick Guide to Thai Potteries" |
| 2000 | Louis Katz, a chapter in Ways of Creation Richard Zakin pages 48-53 |
| 2000 | Acknowledgement in Clay and Glazes for the Potter, Robin Hopper, page 19 |
| 1999 | Grant writer for Fulbright Scholar is Residence Grant of Suwanee Natewong. |
| 1999 | Grant writer, Internal Grant for the purchase of Nikon Bulk Slide Scanner |
| 1999 | Slides of Slipcast Glass, were used as a significant portion of a lecture on Inovation in the Ceramic Arts for the American Ceramics Society by Oveido Giberga |
| 1997-1999 | Director At Large, elected by the General Membership of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts after a nomination from the floor |
| 1997 | "ALICE", paper for the Journal of the Nation Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, V18 Page 100. |
| 1997 | Image and quote appear in "clay/words: High Ground goes to the Bray" Published by: High Ground PO Box 8961, Moscow Idaho |
| 1996 | Ceramics Monthly Magazine, March page 43, "Louis Katz", article on work in the faculty exhibition of spring of 1995 |
| 1996 | Caller Times Newspaper, "Teapottery", January 20, 1996 |
| 1996-1998 | "Ask The Doctor", Technical column writer National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Newsletter |
| 1995 | Calcia oh Calcia, paper, National Council on Education For the Ceramic Arts Journal |
| 1995-1998 | Technical column Consultant/Writer, Questions Column, Ceramics Monthly Magazine |
| 1995 | Art Journeys, Journey into Clay Art, Televised Interview, Museum of South Texas and KEDT |
| 1995 | Luminaria Magazine, Edwards, Katz, Riley, Volume 2, Issue 8 |
| 1994 | Luminaria Magazine, Rhythm of Plastic Skin, Volume 2, Issue 6 |
| 1994 | "The Rise and Fall of Cast Glaze", January, Ceramics Monthly Magazine |
| 1993 | Grand Prize, Mardi Gras Edible Art Exhibition, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana |
| 1993 | Costume Award 3rd place, "Head of the Caterpillar", Helena Community School Halloween Dance, Helena, Montana |
| 1992 | Costume Award 3rd place, "Montana Exterminator",Rose's Cantina Halloween Dance, Helena, Montana |
| 1992 | "Traditional Thai Pottery", Video Documentary, Melted Man Productions |
| 1992 | Ceramics Monthly Magazine, December, video review ,"Thai Folk Pottery" |
| 1992 | Independent Record Newspaper, Helena Montana, December 18 review and picture of "Party Hats" from Artist Generated Toy Exhibit" |
| 1991 | "Thai Folk Pottery", September , Ceramics Monthly Magazine |
| 1991 | "English-Thai Potters' Dictionary and Quick Guide to Thai Potteries", Melted Man Productions |
| 1991 | "A Former Mortar Maker Comments" National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Journal, Volume 12, 1991 |
| 1991 | Number Magazine, Memphis, Tennessee, Summer , review of "Whole Truth" exhibition |
| 1991 | Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia Missouri, September 26, picture of slipcast teapot |
| 1990 | Chieftain Newspaper, Itawamba Mississippi, October 22 review and picture of installation of "Kiln for Itawamba" |
| 1989 | Fulbright Research Grant, "The Folk Pottery of Thailand" |
| 1989 | Korat TV, Thailand, "Artist Juggles at Dankwean Folk Pottery Festival" |
| 1987 | "Firing Scientifically," October, Ceramics Monthly Magazine |
| 1987 | Independent Record Newspaper, Helena Montana, August 5, "His Passion for Clay" feature article |
| 1985 | "Unloading," September, Ceramics Monthly Magazine |
| 1984 | Research in Creativity Grant, Montana State University |
| 1984 | Sweet Pea Exhibition 2nd Place, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana |
| 1975 | Michigan Daily Newspaper, Ann Arbor, April 2, picture of "Tooth-decay" Costume |
| 1975 | Good Morning Michigan Newspaper, Ann Arbor, April 2, picture of "Tooth-decay" Costume |
| CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE, JURORING | |
| 2001 | Clay Odyssey, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana |
| 2000 | Co-Juror of the Ray High School Student Art Competition |
| 1999 | "Different Stokes", attendee, translator and assistant to Suwanee Natewong University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa |
| 1999 | Juror of San Antonio Potter's Guild Annual Exhibition |
| 1998 | Juror and Presenter of 1998 Emerging Talent Presentations, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Conference, Forth Worth, Texas |
| 1997 | Tradition in Transition, attendee, Symposium, Asheville, NC |
| 1984-present | National Council On Education For The . Ceramic Arts attendee or participant each year except 1989 |
| 1997 | December Treasure Box Co-Juror, Art Center of Corpus Christi |
| 1995 | Juror, Tri-Group Exhibition, South Texas Art League Joseph A. Cain Memorial Art Gallery, Delmar College |
| 1994 | Juror, Dimension 1994, The Art Center of Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 1991 | American Woodfire 91 Conference, Iowa City, Iowa |