Selected Exhibits, Collections, Ceramic Residencies, Teaching, Grant, Published Ceramics, and Highlights of My Illustration Career
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Selected Exhibits
2022 – Newport Museum of Art, Newport Biennial 2022 – HOPE
Celebration of Black Storytelling – Collaboration between my friend Jamaal Eversley and myself New Art Center, Newton, MA
2022 – R.E.A.L. F.R.I.E.N.D.S. several artist collaborations created with Jamaal Eversley
2021 – Artaxis.org – international organization of ceramic artists-new juried member on-line updates
2021 – Digital Fire Website by Tony Hanson: my lithophanes.
2021 – International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI – Exhibition: “Breakfast” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, MA.
2021 – Small Favors – Baa Baa Light Sheep, Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington, MA,
2021 – The State of Clay
2020 – Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA “Speak Up” group exhibit
2020 – Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA “Friends” honoring my friend Jamaal Eversley
2020 – The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA “100 Women 100 Years” celebrating women’s right to vote
2020 – Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Schuylerville, N.Y. “Lip Service”
2020 – The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA-“Small Favors “Lexington Arts and Crafts, Lexington, MA: The State of Clay-Massachusetts Ceramic Artists
2019 – The Blair Museum of Lithophanes – All About Eggs – Solo Exhibition Toledo Blade Review
2019 – Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp, Belgium: Rootszoekers – translation: Rootseekers featuring my family immigration story from Antwerp to Ellis Island, with my ceramic tiles.
2019 – Mugshots, during NCECA conference Minneapolis, MN at Mojo Coffee Gallery
2019 – Cato Institute, Washington DC: Freedom: Art as the Messenger
2019 – Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp, Belgium – Immigration Tile and Exhibit about my dad’s immigration on a red Star Line Ship to Ellis Island
2018 – Blair Museum of Lithophanes, Schedel Arboretum and Gardens, Elmore, ohio – Turtle Landscape Lithophane
2018 Ignite – Fuller Craft Museum- invited artist – slide show sharing my Lithophane technique
2018 Fuller Craft Museum Juried Members Exhibit, Brockton, MA
2018 Sweet Suggestions – Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
2018 San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas
2018 Contemporary Clay 2018 – Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
2018 Revolution in the Making: The Pussyhat Project – Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA – January 21 – May 20, 2018
2018 delecTABLE: The Fine Art of Dining-Fourth Biennial National Functional Ceramics
2018 Art Students League of Denver, CO
2018 Small Favors: Think Inside the Box, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2018 International Ceramic Artists Network Exhibition, National Ceramic Educational Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 State of Clay : 10th Biennial, Lexington Arts and Crafts, MA
Farenheit 2018 American Museum of Ceramic Art AMOCA – Patti Warashina juror – Pomona, CA – March 10 – July 22, 2018
2018 International Cup 2018, Clay Studio, Missoula, MT
2018 On the Rocks, Pewabic Gallery, Detroit, MI
2017 Small Favors: Think Inside the Box – juried by Michael C. McMillan The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA
2017 AccessCeramics – Juried on-line resource of ceramic artist works
2017 ArtsyShark Featured Artist
2016 Cake Exhibition – Heather Anne Leavitt, Juror – The Dinnerware Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
2016 At Your Service – Linda Arbuckle, Juror – Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, Maryland
2015 Art in Clay: Origins – Juror, Judith Schwartz – Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn. N.Y.
2015 Clay In A Certain Kind Of Way: A Tribute to Stanley Rosen – my first ceramics professor at Bennington College – Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill, NY
2015 Providence Art Club Group Show curated by Allison Newsome
Turtle Dinnerware – Honorable Mention – Providence, R.I.
2015 ClayFest III – Jurors: Tip Toland and Peter Held – Lincoln, CA
2015 Beyond the Brickyard – Juror Mark Hewitt – Annual Juried Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation, North Gallery, Helena, MT
2015 State of Clay – Pushing Boundaries Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2015 The Diverse Vessel – Juror Steven Branfman – Ten Massachusetts
Clayworkers Share Their Expression – Gorse Mill Gallery, Needham, MA
2014 The Art of High Chair Fine Dining, Dinnerware Museum, Ann Arbor, MI
Second Place Award
2014 Harvard Ceramic Program – Holiday Show and Sale, Allston, MA
2014 State of Clay – Linda Arbuckle, juror
Amaco Prize – American Art Clay Co., Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington, MA
2014 Small Favors IX – The Clay Studio – Juror Garth Johnson – Philadelphia, PA
2014 America’s ClayFest II – Candice Groot, Juror – Lincoln, CA
2014 20th San Angelo National Ceramics Competition – Juror, Leopold Foulem – San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
2014 Ceramic World Cup Tournament HYART Gallery, Madison,WI
2014 Small Favors VIII – An invitational and Juried Exhibition of works that fit inside a 4″ x 4″ x 4″ cube, Garth Johnson, Juror The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2009 – Present – Resident Artist Ceramics Program Office for the Arts at Harvard
2013 Silver City Clay Festival, Silver City, New Mexico
Public PröJECT: A screening of images from the collaborative murals at the Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA
2013 America’s ClayFest, Roseville, California
2012 Silver City Clay Festive, Silver City, NM Tile Art Award
2012 Big Fish, Small Pot – Teapot show at AMOCA (American Museum of Ceramic Art), Pomona, California
2012 State of Clay, Lexington, MA
2011 Ceramics Studio Show and Sale – Program Office for the Arts at Harvard University
2010 Salt National V – Clay Studio Gallery, Missoula Montana
Honorable Mention Award juried by Julia Galloway
2010 Heritage Foundation Show: “Tell-Tale Tiles & Fractured Fantasies” – Philadelphia Magic Gardens, Pennsylvania
2007 Stars in the Heavens – donated mini famous figures Watershed Gala at Art Institute of Chicago
2007 Roots & Branches – Gallery/Torpedo Factory Art Center – Alexandria, Virginia
2006 Clay Squared to Infinity Gallery, Minneapolis, MN – “One Square Foot” juried tile show
2006 Looking Back, Looking Forward Craft Museum, Brockton, MA – “” The State of Clay in Massachusetts
2006 Crafts National Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA juried by Gretchen Keyworth
2006 La Petite XIII Alder Gallery, Coburg, OR
2005 Craft USA – 2005 National Craft Triennial – Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT – curator by Gail Brown
2005 Family Matters national juried show, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, Maryland
2001 – 2006 Ceramics Studio Show and Sale
Ceramics Program Office for the Arts at Harvard Allston, MA – December and May studio show and sale
2004 The State of Clay, Massachusetts’s Ceramic Artists and Crafts Guild, Lexington, MA
2003 Boston Symphony Orchestra Shop, Boston, MA ceramic Violin and French Horn tiles
Collections
2022 – International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bluebird Teapot in their Teapot collection.
2017 Needham Historical Society, Needham, MA
The Barber of Seville in My Home Town – a stage design inspired by the Longwood Opera Company production, cast with young opera singers
2017 International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI
Lithophane Turtle Dinnerware for Children – plates and cups
2017 AccessCeramics.org – new juried member
2016 The International Ceramics Center
Kecskemét, Hungary – Porcelain Lithophanes
2015 Statue of Liberty National Monument Ellis Island Museum
My Family Odyssey: Voyage to America on the S. S. Finland
2014 International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, MI
Ba Ba Blue Sheep Dinnerware for Children
2013 Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA
Architectural Ceramic Mural Celebrating Life with Children : “It’s a Wonderful World”
Ceramic Artist-In-Residence & Teaching
2017 The International Ceramics Center, Kecskemét, Hungary
Second Ceramic Artist-In-Residence
2016 The International Ceramics Center, Kecskemét, Hungary
Ceramic Artist-In-Residence
2014-2018 Ceramics Program for the Arts at Harvard University
Resident Artist – 224 Western Avenue, Allston, MA
2014 Medalta Ceramics, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Artist-In-Residence
2012 Guldagergaard Ceramic Research Center , Skælskør, Denmark
Artist-In-Residence, September and October
Print Symposium with Paul Scott
2011 Guldagergaard Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark
Ceramic Artist-In-Residence
2006 – 2012 Babson College, Wellesley, MA
Manager/Ceramic Instructor to students from Babson, Olin and Wellesley Colleges
Ceramic Artist-In-Residence 2006 – 2008 Wellesley, MA
2006 Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine
Artist-In-Residence Kiln God Award
2007 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Teaching clay hand-building workshops
Grants
2012 BOW Mellon Presidential Project Grant – Spring Semester
Created bas-relief tile murals with students from Babson and Wellesley Colleges, Sustainability Theme on their campuses.
Babson College Ceramic Studio, Wellesley, MA.
Published Ceramic Work
2022 – Ceramic Monthly Magazine, A New Path to Lithophanes
2021 – Tile Artistry Coloring Book ~ by Ceramic Tile Education Foundation & Tile Heritage Foundation Tile Heritage Foundation Art Tile America ~ From Sea to Shining Sea
2016 Uppercase Magazine – article about me and my Performance Art
2015 Cover Design for Tile Heritage Foundation Directory
2013 “500 Prints on Clay”, Lark Publications
2008 “500 Tiles”, Lark Publications
2007 “500 Animals in Clay”, Lark Publications
2006 “500 Pitchers”, Lark Publications
Book Illustration Career Highlights 1972 – 1999
CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND TEXTBOOKS;
FLORA & FAUNA; COOKBOOKS; EDITORIAL;
STAFF ILLUSTRATOR NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM, BOSTON, MA
STARTED ILLUSTRATING PART-TIME WHILE IN GRAD SCHOOL
1999 Henson Productions and Workman Publishers, New York, NY Big Book of Muppet Crafts –
500 line art drawings for 101 Projects”
1998 Rodale Press – Perennials for Every Purpose
1998 Simon & Schuster –“ Complete Book of Small Breads” B. Clayton, Jr.
1996-98 Wildlife Conservation Society Newsletter, Bronx Zoo, NY
1993-94 New York Daily News editorial still-life illustration Wednesday food pages
1993 Ovations Electric Guitars – a series of ads for this guitar making company
1992 Doubleday Publishers cookbook “Working a Duck” scratchboard endpaper
1992 Warner Books “Faye Levy’s International Chicken Cookbook“
1992 Simon and Schuster – book cover for “The Moosewood Kitchen Garden”
1991-94 Boston Globe – food pages several articles in pen and ink illustration
1991 Random House – “Adventures in the Kitchen with Wolfgang Puck“
1982 Knopf Publishers – “Cooking With Lydie Marshall” French cookbook
1982 Simon and Schuster -“The Complete Book of Soups and Stews”, B.Clayton, Jr.
1982 Nova and WGBH – animation work on nature film
1981 Little Brown & Co. Publishers “Drinking Straw Construction“, B. Zubrowski, The Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA
1981 WGBH and Little Brown & Co. “This Old House,” by Bob Villa
1980 Harper Collins Publishers -“All About Eggs,” by Millicent Selsam ©illustrations by Stephanie Fleischer Osser
NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION AWARD “Outstanding Science Books for Children” in 1980.
1979-80 New York Times Magazine – Sunday Food Page – 7 articles
Full color still-life food illustrations and step-by-step instructional line drawings
1976–80 Horticulture Magazine, Boston, MA, illustration for articles
1980 UNICEF Artist for their Calendar – my illustration Blackfoot Native American Baby Carrier made of leather and intricate beading pattern from my work at the University of Montana Anthropology Department collections
1974-79 Staff Illustrator for The New England Aquarium, Boston, MA B & W line drawings of fish for identification over each aquarium exhibit
1972-73 Illustrator for Graduate student thesis work in fields of Anthropology & Wildlife, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana – my first illustration job while a graduate student there in ceramics, studying with Rudy Autio