Recently, Princeton Alumni Weekly magazine photographed Bill and his ceramic work which appeared this month on the prestigious "Princetonians" full bleed focus page. This is quite an honor and well deserved in my opinion of course. Ricardo Barros was the photographer whose work is professionally superb; also having photographed Bill's mentor and Princeton ceramic professor Toshiko Takaezu for his own book: "Facing Sculptures". Bill has now sold two large sculptures to museums in Kansas City and Brooklyn while shipping garden seats as far as Florida.
Although Bill is also busy bringing a drug-eluting heart balloon to market at work, his diligent artistic studio efforts have never waned with Princeton University providing him opportunity to study with the best in every way. PAW page copy below.
FIRED UP: Bill Baumbach '75 *87 took his first ceramics course at Princeton with Toshiko Takeazu while working toward his undergraduate degree in biochemistry. Before beginning his graduate studies in molecular biology, he spent a year as Takaezu's apprentice. Baumbach has pursued science in parallel with art ever since. "To me, the thought processes used in science and art are very much alike," he says. "Experimentation, creativity, and technical excellence are driving forces in both areas."
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