Robert Hasselle

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Robert Hasselle has been pursuing a career as a sculptor and potter for over forty years. He has a well-rounded education including an MFA in Sculpture from Tulane University and a BA in Philosophy and Art from Rhodes College. In the 1960s, Haselle was on the faculty at Ohio State University where he ran the bronze foundry. In the 1970s, he was head of the sculpture department at the Cincinnati Art Academy where he started the ceramics program. Teaching allowed the artist access and opportunity to further his own craft and his work today reflects his dedication and years of experience.

Throughout his career, Robert Hasselle has received numerous honors, the most noteworthy of which have been museum purchase awards. His work now resides in the permanent collections of the Huntington Museum, WV, the Mobile Museum of Ar, AL, The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH; the Tulane University Collection; the Ohio State University Collection; and the Cincinnati Art Museum, IL. Robert has also been written about in several articles in Ceramics Monthly, the premier publication on pottery and ceramics.

In 2001 Robert Hasselle relocated from the mid-west to the Charlotte, North Carolina area where he continues to create dynamic artwork and teach his craft in his pottery school and studio. The artist is also regularly asked to share his expertise and has been an Artist in Residence at Fairmont State University in West Virginia, taught on faculty at Winthrop University in South Carolina and has conducted numerous workshops on pottery and sculpture in university and community settings here in the South. For more information on Robert Hasselle, please read his vitae.