Arnold Zimmerman, also known as Arnie Zimmerman, is an American ceramic artist who was born December 13, 1954 in Poughkeepsie, New York. He received a bachelor's degree from the Kansas City Art Institute

Kansas City Art Institute

The Kansas City Art Institute is a private, independent, four-year college of fine arts and design founded in 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri....

 and a master’s degree from the New York State College of Ceramics

New York State College of Ceramics

The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred is a statutory college of the State University of New York . It is divided into the School of Art and Design and the Inamori School of Engineering. Although the School of Engineering is nominally administered by NYSCC, the...

 at Alfred University

Alfred University

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. He rose to prominence with large-scale carved vessels that resemble totem poles. About 1996, he started focusing on salt-fired

Salt glaze pottery

Salt glaze pottery is stoneware with a glaze of glossy, translucent and slightly orange-peel-like texture which was formed by throwing common salt into the kiln during the higher temperature part of the firing process. Sodium from the salt reacts with silica in the clay body to form a glassy...

 porcelain

Porcelain

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 figurines which he modeled, rather than carved. The latter are primarily tableaus of many figures engaging in sex or violence. In 2005, he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation was founded in 1918 by Louis Comfort Tiffany to operate his estate, Laurelton Hall, in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. It was designed to be a summer retreat for artists and craftspeople...

. Zimmerman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

The Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

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, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

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, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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, Nacional Museu do Azulejo (Portugal) and the Runnymede Sculpture Farm (Woodside, California) are among the public collections holding work by Arnold Zimmerman.