Rudy Autio

Rudy Autio
Rudy Autio

Rudy Autio

American, 1926–2007
Birth placeButte, Montana, United States
Death placeMissoula, Montana, United States
BiographyBorn Arne Rudolph Autio to a family of Finnish immigrants in Butte, Montana.
In 1952, Autio was a founding resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation. In 1957, Autio started the ceramics department at the University of Montana in Missoula and taught there for twenty-eight years, then retired as Professor Emeritus.


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