Charles Krafft
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 1999
Charles Krafft (1947-2020) was a painter and porcelain artist as well as a poet and essayist. He studied meditation and spiritual practice at the Ananda Forest School in India and established an artist colony in Fishtown, Washington, focused on Buddhist meditation and mystic art practices. Krafft additionally founded The Mystic Sons of Morris Graves, a quasi-masonic order in the tradition of the Northwest mystics.
He received a grant jointly from the NEA, the Citizens Exchange Council, and the Soros Foundation. Kraff’s word has been exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, Bayard Gallery (New York), Metropolitan Mobile Museum (Seattle), Davidson Galleries (Seattle), Bess Cutler Gallery (New York), and Kirkland Arts Center (Kirkland, WA), among others. He was awarded the Arts Liunk/Citizen’s Exchange Council Grant, the D.B. Huston Literary Award, and the Reginald A. Fessenden Foundation Grant, among many more. Krafft’s work has been featured in Harper’s, Artforum, and The New Yorker.
