About Iggy
Michigan born and raised multimedia artist Iggy Sumnik creates ceramics, sculptures, prints, collages and more. His techniques focus on texture and balance and include an intricacy and depth that permeates his work. Sumnik received his BFA with a dual concentration in ceramics and sculpture from Detroit’s Wayne State University in 2004. He spent several years working as a sculpture instructor with Detroit’s historic Pewabic Pottery, Camp Tamakwa in Algonquin Provincial Park, and Youthville Detroit, the largest and most comprehensive youth development center in the Midwest. Sumnik completed a three-year commitment as assiduitystant at the Jun Kaneko Studio in Omaha, Nebraska in 2008. Since then he has been maintaining his own studio, showing work and teaching ceramics to youths of the community
The artist’s work has been shown in numerous regional galleries, including “Iggy Sumnik – Sculpture,” a highly successful 2010 one-man show at The New BLK in Omaha. He has been commissioned to create work for private collectors. His clothing line, Urbani, is another development in the artists expanding repertoire. Sumnik’s work, which has been said to share a similar visual aeshthetic to that of Tim Burton and Dr. Seuss, has been described as “archaic and fantastical, rife with balance and harmony.” Iggy continues to support young people in their artistic explorations through his most recent work as instructor at the Joslyn Art Museum and organizations such as WhyArts and the Bemis Center, located in Omaha, NE. He is also involved in outreach programs specifically targeted to address a demographic of youth that is “at-risk” and how art and culture can be used to help these people.