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Cranbrook Academy of Art Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Ceramics Department Anders Ruhwald has been awarded a 2009 Artist Grant from the Danish Arts Foundation. The native of Denmark was appointed artist-in-residence and head of Cranbrook Academy’s ceramics department in 2008.

For the last eight years, Ruhwald has enjoyed an active international exhibition career that has spanned Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. He has won critical acclaim for his conceptual work exploring the boundaries of the ceramic medium as an idea and a material.

Educated at the Glass and Ceramics School in Bornholm, Denmark, and the Royal College of Art in London, Ruhwald was awarded the Sotheby Prize from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2007. He also was the recipient of the Annie and Otto Johannes Detlef award for young, experimental ceramic artists from Denmark’s Museum of Art & Design. Ruhwald earned the Biennial Award in 2002 in the Danish Biennial for Craft and Design.

The Danish Arts Foundation was established by the Danish government in 1964. Its role is to promote Danish creative arts including the visual arts, literature, music, crafts and design, architecture, cinema, theatre and other comparable forms of creative art that do not have other avenues of state support.