Forrest Sincoff Gard

Forrest Sincoff Gard is an artist and an educator. He received his BFA in
Ceramics from Ohio University in 2009, completed post-baccaleaute studies at
the University of Florida in 2011, and earned his MFA in Studio Art from Louisiana
State University in 2014. From 2014–2018, Forrest worked as an associate editor
for Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated. Currently, Forrest teaches
ceramics, 3D design, and Art Appreciation at the University of North Georgia as
well as community classes at the Oconee Cultural Arts Center in Watkinsville,
Georgia. He has previously taught in Cortona, Italy, as part of the University of
Georgia’s study abroad program and at The Ohio State University in Columbus,
Ohio.
Forrest has shown his ceramic art and interactive installations in exhibitions
across the United States, Europe, and South Korea, including the 8th Gyeonggi
International Ceramic Biennale at the Icheon World Ceramics Center in South
Korea; and at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Ponoma, California; The
Clay Studio in Philadelphia; the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in
Helena, Montana; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee.
Forrest has completed a number of short- and long-term artist residencies,
including the NCECA International Residency at ASP in Wroclaw, Poland, as well
as residencies at Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Montana, Arrowmont
School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and at the Mill Hill
Community Arts Center in Macon, Georgia, where he received a $25,000 grant to
install a large-scale public artwork.