Francisco "Pancho" Jiménez
C e r a m i c   S c u l p t u r e
Pancho received his Masters of Fine Arts from San
Francisco State University and his undergraduate degree
with a double major in Studio Art and History from Santa
Clara University. He also studied in at the Universidad
Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City.

Pancho has exhibited extensively in the San Francisco Bay
Area and nationally at museums, colleges, universities,
private galleries and civic spaces. His work is part of the
permanent collection of the University of San Francisco and
has been featured in Ceramics Monthly and in three Lark
Book publications,
The Ceramic Design Book, Extruded
Ceramics
and 500 Ceramic Sculptures. He has taught
courses at San Francisco State University, West Valley
College and has been a lecturer Santa Clara University since
1999.
   

His work experience has taken him in and around the field of
art. He has worked as a product manager and designer for
the Alternative Product Division of Mission Clay Company.
During his graduate studies at San Francisco State
University, he was the graduate assistant for the Ceramics
Department and a teaching assistant in various levels of
ceramics courses. He spent a year in the Jesuit Volunteer
Corps working for the Capital Area Community Food Bank
where he coordinated a nutrition and life skills course. In
addition, Pancho has worked at New Langton Arts in San
Francisco, and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, and he has taught art courses for children. Currently he
works at Santa Clara University, where he is a lecturer in the
Art and Art History Department as well as
Academic
Advisor in the Drahmann Academic Advising & Learning
Resources Center.