Richard Saxton

Richard Saxton earned his MFA from Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Post-Studio Practice at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His creative practice is interdisciplinary, and he is a member of M12 studio, a group of artists, designers, writers, and researchers whose collaborative work encompasses public rural space and culture.

M12 projects have been featured in numerous publications and earned awards such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Gates Family Foundation. Works by M12 have shown at The 13^th International Venice Architecture Biennale (Italy), The Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland), The Santa Fe Art Institue (NM), and The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CA).

As a former member of municipalWORKSHOP, Saxton created M.I.K.E. at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. M.I.K.E. functions as a recording studio and performance stage and is the centerpiece of JMKAC’s summer concert series.

During his Arts/Industry residency Saxton focused on a concept he called “archolage,” which he defined as a combination of architecture and bricolage. He used materials and technologies that were wholly dependent on and influenced by Kohler Co. industrial processes and materials.