Daniel Slack

Born in South Dakota, USA, Daniel Slack grew up a world traveler, living in the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia; along with two state side tours in San Diego and Washington D.C. Daniel currently resides on a small acreage in a semi rural area northwest of Denver, Colorado.
The foreign travels shaped Daniels' approach to making art. Unencumbered by the confines of his home cultures' parameters in what constitutes art, Daniel tapped in the uninhibited expression of romantic spiritualism seen abundantly in the native artworks of faraway lands. His choices of subject matter stay in the sublime and his use of color and texture exotic and vibrant.
Daniel likes to say he was tricked into choosing clay and glazes for his medium by his alluring high school teacher. While straining to please her with his creations, he found he had a facility with clay, enjoyed its' slippery sensuous mobility and was awed by its' transformation by fire. Put off by the competitive nature of scholastic art not to mention arts' impracticality in the job market, Daniel earned a degree in Forestry instead, which served him well for his Peace Corps tour in West Africa but not at all once he returned stateside.
Daniel easily slid back into ceramics at a l...

Bachelor of Science Forestry Xi Sigma Pi Honor Society Colorado State University 1977

Pottery Apprenticeship 1981 - 1983

EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2022 Sculpture in the Park Benson Sculpture Garden Loveland, Colorado
2022 Sculpture Tucson Brandi Fenton Memorial Park Tucson, Arizona
2021 Sculpture in the Park Benson Sculpture Garden Loveland, Colorado
2019 Studio Tour Exhibit Carnegie Center for the Arts Ft. Collins, Colorado
2018 FIRED Niza Knoll Gallery Denver, Colorado
2018 Blue Core New Art Space Denver, Colorado
2014 2018 National Ceramic Competition San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
2010 2012 2014 Contemporary Clay The Art Center Grand Junction, CO
2014 Gold Medal Show Curtis Arts Center Greenwood Village, CO
2009 All Colorado Art Show Curtis Arts Center 1st Place 3D Art
2007 2008 Holidazzle Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft Louisville, Kentucky
2004 2006 American Craft Council Shows in San Francisco and Baltimore
2003 Crafts National Lancaster Museum of Art Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2002 Colorado Clay Foothills Art Center Award for Outstanding Glaze Technique
2000 NCAA Regional Exhibit Lincoln Center Fort Collins Janie O Smith Award