Mike Fowle
PO Box 676
Hartsville, SC 29551
(843).332.8474
Mike Fowle is a self-taught contempory visual artist working in multiple 2D and 3D mediums. He is an approved artist for the South Carolina Arts Commission and maintains a working studio where he creates art for public and private collections. Fowle is an active member of the Sumter Artists Guild, the Florence Visual Arts Guild and a Lifetime member of the Florence Museum.
Mike Fowle began art studies with Ceramics instructor Yosuke Haruta, with an emphasis in traditional wheel thrown pottery and glaze calculation at Jackson College, Jackson Michigan in 1979.
For International Professional Development in 2005 Mike Fowle traveled to Tokyo, Japan where he enjoyed the experience of staying in a traditional Japanese home. While in Japan Mike visited and studied the peoples and cultures of urban and rural Japan. Visits included excursions to the Historic Pottery village of Mashiko, Japan where Mike researched traditional Japanese Potteries.
In 2005 Mike Fowle assisted Patz Fowle in an International Artists-in-Residence at the American School in Japan in Nomizu Chofu-shi, Tokyo, Japan.
In 2008 Fowle was commissioned to create a permanent Wall Installation Sculpture commemorating the Enviromental Discovery Center at the Lynches River County Park in South Carolina.
Mike also had a sculpture in the Palmetto Hands 2008-2009 traveling Exhibition sponsored by the South Carolina State Museum. Mikes Sculpture titled "New Blue Shirt" was also exhibited in the South Carolina State Museum.
