Resume

Education

1972 Bennington College, Bennington, VT. B.A., Art.
1968-69 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Studied sculpture.

Professional Experience

1973 – present Studio artist
2003 -2014 Editor, The Studio Potter journal

Selected Exhibitions

One- and Two-Person Shows

Plinth Gallery, Denver CO, 2016
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT, 2012
Hartmann Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, 2009
Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO, 2008
Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2008
Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 2007
AKAR Art and Design, Iowa City, IA, 2006, 2004
Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, 2004
Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA, 2003
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2002
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, 2000
Fresh Pond Clay Works, Cambridge, MA, 1999
Hammond Gallery, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA, 1998
Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT, 1997, 1995, 1993
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, 1996
Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1995
Worth Gallery, Taos, NM, 1994
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 1993
Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME, 1992, 1989
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT, 1991
Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT, 1990
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, 1989
The Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994, 1990, 1989
M.S. Gallery, Hartford, CT, 1988, 1986, 1984
Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1988
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 1986
Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1980
Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT, 1979

Juried and Group Shows

State of the Art 2013-14: National Ceramics Biennial, Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, IL, 2013*
Seven Original Voices in American Pottery, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE, 2008
Longevity: Eleven Careers in Ceramics, Charlie Cummings Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN, 2007
Style and Function: National Ceramics Invitational, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC, 2006
Surface Matters, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, 2005
Minimal, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
Contemporary Ceramics from New England, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, 2004
The Nature of Craft, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 2004
Twenty-first Century Ceramics, CCAD, Columbus, OH, 2003
Intent: Work from Electric-Fired Kilns, Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, MA, 2002 (curator)
Blind Collaboration, PABA Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2001
Taking Measure: American Ceramic Art, World Ceramic Expo, Korea, 2001*
Focus on Function, Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2000.
A Glimpse of the Invisible, Arvada Center, Arvada, CO, 2000*
Sublime Servers, traveling show, curated by Gail Brown, 2000
Strictly Functional, Market House Craft Center, Ephrata, PA, 1998
Functional Ceramics Invitational, John Elder Gallery, New York, NY, 1998
Fletcher Challenge, Auckland Museum, Auckland, NZ, 1997*
Sculptural Ceramics in New England, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA, 1997*
Clay Invitational, CPCC, Charlotte, NC, 1995
Contemporary Clay, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, 1993
The Domestic Object, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA (traveling), 1993
Containers Revisited, NCECA Clay National, Philadelphia, PA, 1992*
Built, Thrown, and Touched, Traveling National Show, 1992-1995*
Nine Massachusetts Potters, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 1992
Artists on their Own, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, 1992
Personal Mythologies, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA, 1991
Common Ground, Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts, Winston-Salem, NC, 1991*
New Work, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI, 1990
13th Anniversary Show, Contemporary Porcelain, New York, NY, 1990
Small Works, Artists Foundation, Boston, MA, 1989
Surface and Substance, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 1989
Wyoming Clay Show, Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, WY, 1989
The Eclectic Vessel, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 1987
Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT, 1986*
National Crafts Exhibition, Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH, 1981
National Paper and Clay Exhibition, Memphis, TN, 1980
Women in Clay, Women’s Interart Center, New York, NY, 1975

Teaching

University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT: Visiting Lecturer, 1997
Ohio University, Athens, OH: Visiting Lecturer, 1996
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Visiting Artist, 1995
Harvard Ceramics Studio: Lecturer in Ceramic History, 1995
Ohio State University: Visiting Lecturer, 1993-1994
Greater Hartford Community College: Lecturer in ceramics, 1982-1988
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME
Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, CT
Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN
James Renwick Alliance, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
92 St. Y, New York, NY
Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ
Penland School for Crafts, Penland, NC
Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Touchstone Center for Crafts, Uniontown, PA
Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
Wesleyan Potters, Middletown, CT
Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, CT
Park Street Potters, Hartford, CT.

*Catalogue available

Visiting Artist

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 2001
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2001
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2001
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 1999
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 1999
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1998
University of Akron, Akron, OH, 1993
Portland School of Art, Portland, ME, 1992
UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, 1989, 1990
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, North Edgecomb, ME, 1988, 1990
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1986
Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, 1986, 1988
Artpark, Lewiston, NY, 1983
Hartford Public Schools, Hartford, CT, 1979-1983
Hartford Conservatory, Hartford, CT, 1978, 1979
Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 1980

Awards and Collections

American Museum of Ceramic Art, La Jolla, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
New England Foundation for the Arts: Artist’s Fellowship, 1993
C.R. Gibson Award Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT, 1986
Connecticut Commission on the Arts: Individual artist’s grant, 1979
Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
Ceramics Collection, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
Permanent Collection, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Private Collections in Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina

Publications

The Penland Book of Ceramics, Lark Books, 2003
The Ceramic Surface, Matthias Ostermann, A&C Black, 2002
The Spirit of Clay, Robert Piepenburg, Pebble Press, 1995
Electric Kiln Ceramics, Richard Zakin, Chilton, 1993
Ceramics: Mastering the Craft, Richard Zakin, Chilton, 1990

Writings

The Social Life of Pouring Pots, catalogue essay, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2005
Creating, catalogue essay, Northern Clay Center Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 2001
North American Legacies by life in general, catalogue essay, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000
Working Spaces, The Studio Potter, Volume 28, Number 1, 1999

References and images furnished upon request.