Robert Briscoe lives in rural Harris, Minnesota, and has been a potter for over 44 years making functional stoneware. His work is collected throughout North America. Selected collections include the Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis Minnesota; the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the Racine Art Museum, Racine Wisconsin; the Margaret Harlow Collection, at Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota; the Coleen and Dennis Bindley Collection of Wisconsin; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; and The Arizona State Ceramic Research Center. Briscoe has exhibited in numerous one-person shows, group exhibitions and at art festivals such as the Smithsonian Craft Fair; the Cherry Creek Arts Festival; the Philadelphia Craft Fair; as well as the Washington Craft Show. Some of his awards include 2001 and 2006 McKnight Fellowships; Awards of Excellence from the Clay National Exhibition, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania; and ceramics awards at the Winter Park Festival of Art; Winter Park, Florida; Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver Colorado; The Founders award at the American Craft Expo, Evanston, Illinois; The Collectors Award at the Washington Craft Show, Washington DC; and the Jerome Foundation Award, St. Paul, Minnesota. He regularly teaches workshops throughout the US and Canada.