It Comes Around Again: A Memoir

By Rudy Autio, 2nd edition published posthumously in 2020 by Rattlesnake Valley Press. Copies available upon request.

Rudy Autio

By Louana Lackey and Rudy Autio, published in 2002 by the American Ceramic Society. Out of print.

Big Sky Journal, 2021

“History: The Matisse of Ceramics” in Big Sky Journal. Article by Aaron Parrett in 2021

Montana Centennial Portfolio

The Montana Centennial Issue was produced in 1987. Conceived as a collaborative project, it featured works by Lela Autio, Rudy Autio, Don Bunse, Bob DeWeese, Gennie DeWeese, George Gogas, Walter Hook, John Pollock, Jerry Rankin, Jay Rummel, Ben Steele and James Todd. Dennis Kern, project coordinator and printmaker

The Marks Project

Rudy Autio at The Marks Project

Smithsonian Archives Interview

Oral history interview with Rudy Autio, 1983 October 10-1984 January 28

Distinctly Montanan

Article / Interview September 2007

CV

Rudy’s CV, PDF

1992 International Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art

Catalog in Chinese

CV

Rudy’s CV, PDF

Montana Historical Society: Preservation designer Jared Schmitz profiles the public artworks of Montana’s most famous ceramic artist and sculptor.

The first video in a series of artist portraits inspired by the Missoula Art Museum Collections in MIssoula, Montana.

Nexus: Lela and Rudy Autio at the Missoula Art Museum

The Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives continues its Brown Bag Lunch series on with a presentation by Lisa Autio about the memoir by her father Rudy Autio, “It Comes Around Again.” Rudy Autio (1926-2007) was an internationally-known artist who was born in Butte to Finnish parents in 1926 and lived in his native state throughout most of his career. He graduated from Butte High School in 1944 and served in the Navy during WWII before attending Montana State University. He headed the ceramics area at the University of Montana for twenty-eight years and retired as Professor Emeritus of the School of Fine Arts. Prior to his appointment at the University of Montana, Autio was a founding resident artist at the Archie Bray Ceramics Foundation and worked on the Montana Historical Society Museum in the 1950s. While Autio's best known work is figurative ceramic vessels, he has worked in a variety of materials and other media. In addition to commissions in ceramic relief and tile murals, he has worked in bronze, concrete, glass, fabricated metal sculpture, and design of colorful Rya tapestries. Notable works in Butte include a commissioned sculpture in the U.S. Bank Lobby and the bas relief facade of Gold Hill Lutheran Church.