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Richard Ritter was born on 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American studio glass artist (born 1940). Discover Richard Ritter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Occupation Glass artist, teacher
Age 84 years old
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Born 1940
Birthday 1940
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan
Nationality United States

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1930

His first experience with hot glass came in that year, when another instructor, Gilbert Johnson (b. 1930) built a glass workshop at the school.

1940

Richard Ritter (born 1940) is an American studio glass artist who lives in North Carolina.

Ritter was born in Detroit, but grew up in the then rural Michigan town of Novi.

1959

He was inspired to pursue a career in art by his high school art teacher and in 1959 on to study at the Society of Arts and Crafts (later renamed the Center for Creative Studies) in Detroit, Michigan.

1962

In 1962, Ritter left school to take a job with an advertising firm, returning in 1968 to the Society of Arts and Crafts to continue his studies and teach advertising there.

1969

Ritter graduated from the Society of Arts and Crafts in 1969 and went to the Bloomfield Art Association in Birmingham, Michigan, to teach glassblowing.

1971

In 1971 he enrolled in a summer session class at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, where his instructor was glass artist Mark Peiser.

Ritter soon afterward took a class with Richard Marquis.

1973

He then returned to the Penland school the following summer to teach, and in 1973 was named artist-in-residence at Penland School of Crafts, a position that he held until 1978.

He continued to return to the school to teach and give workshops in subsequent years.

1977

Richard Ritter has been married to glass artist Jan Williams since 1977.

1978

Ritter moved to Cass, Michigan in 1978.

As a professional glass artist he was at this time making murrini vessels and paperweights.

A commission from Joan Mondale, wife to then-Vice President Walter Mondale for dessert plates led Ritter to experiment with open platter forms containing murrini and lattacino.

1979

His earliest international group exhibition was “American Glass Now” (1979) in Tokyo, Japan.

1980

In 1980, Ritter purchased a small farm near Bakersville, North Carolina where he built a studio.

In the mid-1980s he began working on his “Triolet” series of large glass sculptures.

Other notable group exhibitions in which the artist’s work has been seen include shows at Western Carolina University in 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986; at Habatat Galleries in Michigan in 1981, 1983 1984 and in Habatat Galleries in Florida in 1992.

1982

In 1982 Ritter’s work was part of “Detroit Collects” at Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; “Contemporary Blown Glass by Southeastern Artists at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida and “World Glass Now ‘82” at the Hokkaidō Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan.

1984

In 1984 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship.

Ritter’s work is in the permanent collections of the Asheville Art Museum (Asheville, North Carolina), High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Georgia), Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, North Carolina), Hunter Museum of Art (Chattanooga, Tennessee), Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, New York), Detroit Institute of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC) and St. Louis Art Museum.

Alfred Berkowitz Gallery (University of Michigan- Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan)

1990

Exhibitions of Ritter's work at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee and at the University of Michigan, Dearborn celebrated the artist's thirtieth year in glass in 1990.

1993

In 1993 and 1994 he created the 26 art works of his “Grail” series; blown discs to which a faceted solid base was attached.

These pieces often displayed etched and copper electroformed surface decoration.

In 1993 the artist was one of 70 artists whose work was selected for “The White House Collection of Craft,” a traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution.

2000

Ritter was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan in 2000.

He received a North Carolina Artist Fellowship Grant 2000-2001.

2002

He produced 136 glass sculptures in his “Floral Core” series between the years 2002 and 2009; the artist’s "Mandala and Florescence" series was produced in the years 1997 through 2001.

Ritter has been honored with four retrospective exhibitions.

2009

In 2009, the fortieth anniversary of his career in glass art was celebrated by an exhibition of 75 works at Toe River Arts Council in Spruce Pine, North Carolina; the exhibition travelled to Western Carolina University in 2010.

Lenders to the exhibition included Ritter's colleagues in North Carolina glass Harvey Littleton and Kate Vogel and John Littleton.