Vernon Brejcha
(born 1942)
Vernon Lee Brejcha is active/lives in Kansas, Tennessee. Vernon Brejcha is known for Teaching Art.
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Biography Vernon Brejcha
Brejcha was born in Ellsworth, Kansas on January 30, 1942. Grew up in Holyrood, Kansas. Attended Fort Hays State Univ. completing his undergraduate degree in 1964 and a Masters of
Science in 1967. Brejcha taught art at Circle High School in Towanda before studying glass and earning his MFA at the Univ. of Wisconsin in 1972 under Harvey K. Littleton. From 1969-72, while working on his MFA, he taught at Edgewood College in Madison, WI. In 1972, Brejcha took a position as Assistant Prof. of Art at Tusculum College in Greenville, TN then returned to Kansas in 1976, to open the glass program at the Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence. Brejcha directed the glass program at KU from 1976 to 1991, when it was closed. From 1991
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Lawrence Journal World (Oct. 21, 2001); Oread (Nov. 16, 1991); Topeka Public Library. Kansas Artists List. (Mar. 11, 1988).; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936-1982; Wichita Art Museum’s Library Artists’ Files.;
Kansas! (3rd issue, 1978).
This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas.
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