Richard Hirsch

Richard A. Hirsch (born 1944) is an American abstract ceramic sculptor.

[1] He received a BS in art education from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1956, an MFA in ceramics from the Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Craftsmen in 1971 and an honorary Ph.D. from National Taiwan University of Arts in 2008.

[2] He taught at Nazareth College (New York), Sault College (Ontario, Canada), Boston University and at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he currently holds the title of professor emeritus, College of Art and Design.

[3][4] Hirsch studied ancient Latin American and Chinese cultures, as well as traditional Japanese raku.

Ceremonial Cup #14, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates how the artist combined the form of a Shang dynasty tripod vessel with a raku ware surface.