Richard Flores won full tuition scholarships to Brooks Institute and Santa Barbara Art Institute in Santa Barbara, as well as multiple scholarships from Los Angeles Pierce College, Cal State University Northridge and Cal Earth (California Institute of Earth Art and Ceramic Architecture) in Hesperia, California. Skilled in both two and three-dimensional fine art, Richard has worked with ceramist Beatrice Wood, and performed numerous Hot Glass workshops with Richard Marquis and William Davis. He is presently the three-dimensional studio arts professor at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California, instructing courses in all levels of ceramics, sculpture, glass and 3-D design.

"My work concerns challenging the basic and passionate connection I feel with the world and everyone in it while adventurously exploring the infinite possibilities of form, color, and texture creatively expressed through Art."