Edward Thomas Bettin, of Salt Lake City, is a ceramist, graphic designer, painter, and educator. He majored in art at the University of Utah, earning his undergraduate degree there in the mid-1970's. By 1977, the artist conducted classes in ceramics at the Jewish Community Center in Salt Lake City, and was also represented at the Salt Lake Public Library's Atrium Gallery with a one-man show of works in oil on canvas, ceramic, wood, and a group of numbered mix-media drawings. Many of the titles there were quite provocative in nature: They Can Never Take My Ruby Lips, Deathly Sweet Came My Mind, Death of an Artist, Prisontation, and Metaphysics. By January 1985 it was "back to nature' for Bettin ceramics, yet this too within a context ranging from mystery to the down-to-earth. Stated Bettin, "I like my pots to reflect the earth because that's where the clay comes from." In fact, his work was then being shown in a Finch Lane Gallery exhibition entitled Art for Worship Spaces.

Biography courtesy Artist of Utah