POTSDAM -- SUNY Potsdam Professor of Art Marc Leuthold has returned to campus after traveling the country and the globe displaying his work, collaborating with other artists, and teaching.

Leuthold began a sabbatical last January by completing the two-month Voulkos Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation campus in Montana.

In March, he served as the visiting critic at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt., and he was also invited to critique student artworks at the Rochester Institute of Technology, working with his former student and SUNY Potsdam alumna, Emily Glass, who is a visiting assistant professor at RIT.

In April, Leuthold was invited to teach at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, in a month-long residency.

While in China, he made art and taught a modern ceramics course to upper-level art students.

Leuthold followed this opportunity by serving as artist-in-residence at the Yingge Museum in Taipei in June and July, where he also displayed a sculpture during the museum's international ceramic biennial. Over the course of seven weeks, Leuthold created 25 sculptures, some of which were donated to the Yingge Museum.

Leuthold finished up the summer with a fellowship at the ShangYu International Art Center, where he worked with artists from Turkey, the Netherlands and Israel. Once again, he donated half of the artworks created there to the center itself.

The Marianne Heller Gallery in Heidelberg, Germany, displayed 23 of the sculptures that Leuthold created during his Montana fellowship in an exhibit that ran from July to September.

The two-person exhibit also featured works by Peter Callas. A review of the exhibit, including an image of one of Leuthold's famous discs, was the cover article for New Ceramics, Europe's leading ceramic journal.