A friend from Arizona once commented to me that she missed home because the landscape out west was very male while the landscape in the southeast was very female. I had traveled in the west so I understood that she was speaking of flat land and straight lines as opposed to rolling hills and curves. At least I thought I understood at the time...
Several years ago a horrible accident forced me to slow down. I was on crutches for half a year and had more than enough time to reflect on different aspects of my life and work. It was only then that I truly came to understand her statement and process information that had been with me all my life and bring it to my pots.
I began to notice the belly-like hills and sensual textures that had surrounded me, growing up in a farming community. Raked hay, plowed fields and graceful curvy roads took on a new visual meaning from her analogy that made other elements of my work and life make sense.
For the last ten years I have fired my pots primarily in wood kilns. There is an insane amount of work involved in this process of firing and there are many easier processes of finishing work. I am attracted to spontaneous ash deposits, flashing, and the beauty of naked clay exposed to raw flame. The mystery of unpredictable surfaces on the work intrigues me. I enjoy being physically involved in the firing process, not just doing passive turn-ups on a gas or electric kiln. I even like spending days cutting, hauling and stacking wood. They are as comfortable and familiar to me as the long, hot days I spent as a child working in my dad's tobacco and hay fields. I realized this is one of the reasons I'm so attracted to wood firing. There is an honesty and purity in intense physical labor directed toward an ultimate goal. This is the spirit I want my work to exhibit.
Although many aspects of my pots have changed, the one thing that has remained constant is my adamancy about making utilitarian pots. I've always had an immense respect for the history and tradition, required mastery of skill and intimate relationship with the user, commanded by functional pots. The exploration of the epiphany inspired by my friend's statement changed my considerations in making pots to still include, but go beyond, how a rim feels against the lips or takes the blow of a spoon. I began to look at the work in more sculptural terms.
Historically, my pots have always involved the rituals of food presentation and storage. I began to make vases that were more concerned with surface textures and relationships of forms that were directly inspired by the lush femaleness of Kentucky's farm land. I also began to make utilitarian forms that stack when not in use to form blossom-like sculptural objects. The textures on cut jars came to look like tobacco leaves. The straight lines in the liquor sets are reminiscent of the vertical planks in barns juxtaposed against the sensual curves of hills. It seemed that images from my past had begun to trickle into my work like Marc Chagall' s painting "I and the Village."
I was an anomaly in graduate school because of my background (I once had a professor on my committee ask to look at my hands to acknowledge that I had callouses from working). I was also an anomaly to my family and friends in rural Kentucky because I had become a serious, academic artist. The darkest year of my life after the accident brought an illumination that merged these two worlds in my pots. The clarity is inspiring. My work now not only reflects my sensibilities as an artist, but my own personal history as well.
EDUCATION
1995
MFA - Ceramics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
1985
BFA - Ceramics, with Art History Minor; (Cum Laude) Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre College, Danville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught advanced ceramics as Anagama firing class.
2001
Ceramics Instructor, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught advanced wheelthrowing.
2000
Art Instructor, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught 2-dimensional design and art appreciation.
1999
Art Instructor, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught 3-dimensional design and art appreciation.
1998-2003
Art Instructor, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught two sections of art appreciation.
1998
Ceramics Instructor, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught handbuilding, beginning wheelthrowing, advanced wheelthrowing. Assigned, graded and critiqued student work, including graduate students. Fired Anagama, salt, soda and gas kilns. Pitfired and rakued.
Art Instructor, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught 20th century art history, drawing II, drawing III, intro to 2-dimensional design, and two sections of art appreciation.
1996
Art Instructor, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught 3-dimensional design, drawing I, and art history.
1995-1999
Studio Potter, Liberty, KY
Revitalized abandoned pottery; made accessible to younger potters to further their studies; educate community through sales, workshops and lectures.
1995-1996
Ceramics Instructor, Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught beginning and advanced wheel throwing, beginning and advanced handbuilding, and art appreciation. Assigned, graded, and critiqued student work; mixed glazes; fired kilns; maintained clay studio. Organized Visiting Artist Workshops.
1993-1995
Ceramics Teaching Assistant, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
Responsibilities: Taught beginning ceramics classes. Created, graded, and critiqued student assignments. Mixed glazes and fired wood, gas, and salt kilns. Participated in kiln building.
1992/1996-1997 Ceramics Instructor, Center for Gifted Studies, Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught Saturday childrens classes, Exploring Ceramics, a basic introduction to hand building with clay for grades 1-3.
1985-1992 Assistant Manager/Display Artist, Record Bar/Tracks Retail Stores, Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Created window and wall displays for promotional merchandising. Executed opening and closing procedures, including bank deposits. Supervised sales clerks. Designed and illustrated all advertisements and fliers
1985
Ceramics Instructor, Warren County Community Education Board, Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Conducted summer community workshop for students grades 1-3. Organized hand building projects, and instructed students in glazing and kiln firing.
1983-1984
Graphics Assistant, WKYU/FM, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Executed paste-up and layout of monthly program guides and faculty research presentations. Rendered graphics for television cards and WKU brochures. Assisted in set construction for television productions.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
1999-Present
Supervisor, Centre College, Anagama kiln, Danville, KY.
2002
Visiting Artist, Syracuse University.
Residency, Salem Elementary School, Russell Springs, KY.
2001
Summer Art Camp Instructor, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville,KY. Residency, Leslie County High School, Hyden, KY.
Residency, Red Cross Elementary School, Glasgow, KY.
1999
Curator, Women in the Woods: Anagama Pots By Kentucky Potters. Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1998
Curator, Women in the Woods Anagama Show, Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
1995-1998
Co-supervisor, Centre College, Anagama kiln, Danville, KY
1994
Art Camp Counselor, West Virginia University Summer High School Art Camp, Jane Lew, WV.
1993
Studio Assistant, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
Participated and assisted in Clary Illians functional pottery class.
1992-1993
Studio Assistant, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN. Participated and assisted in Jack Troys Anagama firing class, Jeff Oestreichs cup class, Chuck Hindes Anagama firing class, and Bill Brouillard's cup class.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2001
Best of Show, The Hand Held Cup Show (National) Odyssey Gallery, Ashville, NC.
Third Place, Handles and Spouts: Functional Contemporary Teapots, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY.
2000
Arts In Education Artist Roster, Eligible for Kentucky Arts Council Residencies.
1998
Jurors Distinguished Mention, All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
Best of Show, Bicentennial Arts and Crafts Show, Glasgow, KY.
1996
2nd Place, Ceramics, Transfinancial Bank Art Competition,
Bowling Green, KY.
1992
New Works Series Show, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1987
1st Place, Ceramics, Fine Art Õ87, Citizens National Bank, Bowling Green, KY.
1986
Winning Selections from the Coca-Cola Art Show, Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY.
Special Jurors Merit Award, 15th Annual Coca-Cola Art Show, Elizabethtown, KY 1st & 3rd Place, Ceramics, Citizens National Bank Art Competition,Bowling Green, KY.
Purchase Award, Sixth Annual Juried Art Exhibition,Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1985
Art Department Award for Outstanding Achievement, Western Kentucky University.
1984-1985
President, Western Kentucky University Art Guild.
Biographie, Who's Who in American Colleges & Universities.
1984
Solo Exhibit, Horse Cave Theater, Horse Cave, KY. (Drawings)
New Works Series Show, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
(Ceramics and Drawings)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2002
Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Louisville, KY.
Received 3,400 dollars to build an Anagama kiln in Glasgow, KY.
McKnight Fellowship, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Received 5,000 dollar grant for three month clay residency.
2001
Fellowship, Sister Cities Commission Artist Exchange Program, Lexington, KY. Received fellowship to travel to Japan to do workshop and slide lecture.
2000
Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council.
Received 5,000 dollars to assist continued professional development
1999
Early Times Scholarship, Louisville Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY. Received 500 dollars to attend International
Wood-fire Conference, Iowa City, Iowa.
1998
Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Louisville, KY.
Received 3,000 dollars for Anagama kiln renovation and to sponsor 1998 Womens Anagama Firing
EXHIBITIONS
2003
"Third Annual National Juried Cup Show" Gallery 138, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
"Functional Review"The Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT.
"Eleventh Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National" Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA.
"An Affinity For the Cup" (National) Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2002
"Cup: The Intimate Object" (International) Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Wayne, IN.
"Five McKnight Artists" Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN.
"Bottled Spirits" (National) Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY. "Second Annual National Juried Cup Show" Gallery 138, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
"Plain Arts IV International Juried Exhibition" University Gallery, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, PA (Multimedia).
"The Vase" (National) Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI.
"Clay Currents" Artswatch Gallery, Louisville, KY.
"Artopia Faculty Show" Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY
"Fired Up Clay Invitational" Bernheim Forest Gallery, Clermont, KY
"From the Flames: Woodfired Pottery From the Anagama Dragon Kiln" Centre College Gallery, Danville, KY
2001
"The Hand Held Cup Show" (National) Odyssey Gallery, Ashville, NC (Best of Show award winner).
"Tea As Art" (National) Celadon Gallery, Water Mill, NY.
"Handles and Spouts: Functional Contemporary Teapots" (Regional) Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY. (Third place award winner).
"2001 All Kentucky Juried Exhibition" Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY. "Holidazzle" Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
"Bottled Spirits" (National Invitational) Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
"Women In the Woods IV" Wood fired pots by Kentucky Potters, Louisville Visual Art Association at Bank One, Louisville, KY.
"The Clay Cup VIII" (National) School of Art and Design,
Southern Illinois University.
"Kent State University, Gallery 138, National Juried Cup Show" Kent, Ohio. "Ninth Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National" Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA.
2000-2001
"Clay/Wood/Fire/Salt Exhibition" (National Invitational)
Folk Art Center SHCG, Asheville, NC, and Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH.
2000
"Focus On Function" (National) University of Minnesota, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
"Holidazzle" Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
"All Kentucky Juried Art Competition" Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
"Natural Materials- An Exhibition Featuring Functional and Sculptural Wood Fired Ceramics" (National) Central Michigan University, University Art Gallery. "Chef John Folse Culinary Institute Second Annual Utilitarian Ceramics National" Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA
"Women in the Woods III" Swanson Cralle Gallery, Louisville, KY.
1999
"Trans/Transitions: A Show of Western Artists with Non-Western Influences" Transylvania University, Lexington, KY.
"Firstar Juried Art Competition" First Star National Bank, Bowling Green, KY. "Women in the Woods: Anagama Pots By Kentucky Potters" Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1998-1999
"All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition" Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1998
"Women in the Woods Anagama Show" Kentucky Arts and
Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
1997
"Potter's Dinner Party/For the Table" Sugar Doe Cafe,
Louisville, KY.
"Bourbon Bottles" Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation,
Louisville, KY.
"Clay/Wood/Fire/Salt: A National Invitational"
Contemporary Artifacts Gallery, Berea, KY.
1996-1997
"Ceramic Forms: A National Invitational Exhibition"
Ronald L. Barr Gallery, Indiana University Southeast.
1996
"Holidazzle" Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation,
Louisville, KY.
1995
"The Clay Cup V" (National) Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. Selected to travel to other sites, including Bradley University and Northeastern Illinois University
"Third Annual Strictly Functional Pottery Exhibit"
(National) New Cumberland, PA.
"Functional Ceramics" Master of Fine Arts Exhibit,
Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University
"Crafts Regional 1995" John A. Logan College, Cartersville, IL.
WORKSHOPS AND SLIDE LECTURES
2003
Workshop "For the Table", Three Day Workshop on Dinnerware, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY.
2002
Slide Lecture, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN. Workshop/Lecture/Kiln Firing, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
2001
Workshop/Lecture, Town Hall, Shizunai, Japan.
2000
Workshop/Slide Lecture, Jefferson Community College, Louisville, KY.
1999
Slide Lecture, Capitol Arts Center, Houchens Gallery,
Bowling Green, KY.
Handbuilding Workshop, Ceramics Studio Supply, Louisville, KY.
Raku Workshop, Ceramics Studio Supply, Louisville, KY.
1998
Slide Lecture, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
Slide Lecture, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
Slide Lecture, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA.
1997
Slide Lecture, Midway College, Midway, KY.
1996
Slide Lecture, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY.
1995
Workshop/Lecture, West Virginia University Crafts Center, Morgantown, WV.
Several years ago a horrible accident forced me to slow down. I was on crutches for half a year and had more than enough time to reflect on different aspects of my life and work. It was only then that I truly came to understand her statement and process information that had been with me all my life and bring it to my pots.
I began to notice the belly-like hills and sensual textures that had surrounded me, growing up in a farming community. Raked hay, plowed fields and graceful curvy roads took on a new visual meaning from her analogy that made other elements of my work and life make sense.
For the last ten years I have fired my pots primarily in wood kilns. There is an insane amount of work involved in this process of firing and there are many easier processes of finishing work. I am attracted to spontaneous ash deposits, flashing, and the beauty of naked clay exposed to raw flame. The mystery of unpredictable surfaces on the work intrigues me. I enjoy being physically involved in the firing process, not just doing passive turn-ups on a gas or electric kiln. I even like spending days cutting, hauling and stacking wood. They are as comfortable and familiar to me as the long, hot days I spent as a child working in my dad's tobacco and hay fields. I realized this is one of the reasons I'm so attracted to wood firing. There is an honesty and purity in intense physical labor directed toward an ultimate goal. This is the spirit I want my work to exhibit.
Although many aspects of my pots have changed, the one thing that has remained constant is my adamancy about making utilitarian pots. I've always had an immense respect for the history and tradition, required mastery of skill and intimate relationship with the user, commanded by functional pots. The exploration of the epiphany inspired by my friend's statement changed my considerations in making pots to still include, but go beyond, how a rim feels against the lips or takes the blow of a spoon. I began to look at the work in more sculptural terms.
Historically, my pots have always involved the rituals of food presentation and storage. I began to make vases that were more concerned with surface textures and relationships of forms that were directly inspired by the lush femaleness of Kentucky's farm land. I also began to make utilitarian forms that stack when not in use to form blossom-like sculptural objects. The textures on cut jars came to look like tobacco leaves. The straight lines in the liquor sets are reminiscent of the vertical planks in barns juxtaposed against the sensual curves of hills. It seemed that images from my past had begun to trickle into my work like Marc Chagall' s painting "I and the Village."
I was an anomaly in graduate school because of my background (I once had a professor on my committee ask to look at my hands to acknowledge that I had callouses from working). I was also an anomaly to my family and friends in rural Kentucky because I had become a serious, academic artist. The darkest year of my life after the accident brought an illumination that merged these two worlds in my pots. The clarity is inspiring. My work now not only reflects my sensibilities as an artist, but my own personal history as well.
EDUCATION
1995
MFA - Ceramics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
1985
BFA - Ceramics, with Art History Minor; (Cum Laude) Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre College, Danville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught advanced ceramics as Anagama firing class.
2001
Ceramics Instructor, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught advanced wheelthrowing.
2000
Art Instructor, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught 2-dimensional design and art appreciation.
1999
Art Instructor, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught 3-dimensional design and art appreciation.
1998-2003
Art Instructor, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught two sections of art appreciation.
1998
Ceramics Instructor, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught handbuilding, beginning wheelthrowing, advanced wheelthrowing. Assigned, graded and critiqued student work, including graduate students. Fired Anagama, salt, soda and gas kilns. Pitfired and rakued.
Art Instructor, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught 20th century art history, drawing II, drawing III, intro to 2-dimensional design, and two sections of art appreciation.
1996
Art Instructor, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught 3-dimensional design, drawing I, and art history.
1995-1999
Studio Potter, Liberty, KY
Revitalized abandoned pottery; made accessible to younger potters to further their studies; educate community through sales, workshops and lectures.
1995-1996
Ceramics Instructor, Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught beginning and advanced wheel throwing, beginning and advanced handbuilding, and art appreciation. Assigned, graded, and critiqued student work; mixed glazes; fired kilns; maintained clay studio. Organized Visiting Artist Workshops.
1993-1995
Ceramics Teaching Assistant, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
Responsibilities: Taught beginning ceramics classes. Created, graded, and critiqued student assignments. Mixed glazes and fired wood, gas, and salt kilns. Participated in kiln building.
1992/1996-1997 Ceramics Instructor, Center for Gifted Studies, Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Taught Saturday childrens classes, Exploring Ceramics, a basic introduction to hand building with clay for grades 1-3.
1985-1992 Assistant Manager/Display Artist, Record Bar/Tracks Retail Stores, Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Created window and wall displays for promotional merchandising. Executed opening and closing procedures, including bank deposits. Supervised sales clerks. Designed and illustrated all advertisements and fliers
1985
Ceramics Instructor, Warren County Community Education Board, Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Conducted summer community workshop for students grades 1-3. Organized hand building projects, and instructed students in glazing and kiln firing.
1983-1984
Graphics Assistant, WKYU/FM, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.
Responsibilities: Executed paste-up and layout of monthly program guides and faculty research presentations. Rendered graphics for television cards and WKU brochures. Assisted in set construction for television productions.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
1999-Present
Supervisor, Centre College, Anagama kiln, Danville, KY.
2002
Visiting Artist, Syracuse University.
Residency, Salem Elementary School, Russell Springs, KY.
2001
Summer Art Camp Instructor, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville,KY. Residency, Leslie County High School, Hyden, KY.
Residency, Red Cross Elementary School, Glasgow, KY.
1999
Curator, Women in the Woods: Anagama Pots By Kentucky Potters. Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1998
Curator, Women in the Woods Anagama Show, Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
1995-1998
Co-supervisor, Centre College, Anagama kiln, Danville, KY
1994
Art Camp Counselor, West Virginia University Summer High School Art Camp, Jane Lew, WV.
1993
Studio Assistant, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
Participated and assisted in Clary Illians functional pottery class.
1992-1993
Studio Assistant, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN. Participated and assisted in Jack Troys Anagama firing class, Jeff Oestreichs cup class, Chuck Hindes Anagama firing class, and Bill Brouillard's cup class.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2001
Best of Show, The Hand Held Cup Show (National) Odyssey Gallery, Ashville, NC.
Third Place, Handles and Spouts: Functional Contemporary Teapots, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY.
2000
Arts In Education Artist Roster, Eligible for Kentucky Arts Council Residencies.
1998
Jurors Distinguished Mention, All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
Best of Show, Bicentennial Arts and Crafts Show, Glasgow, KY.
1996
2nd Place, Ceramics, Transfinancial Bank Art Competition,
Bowling Green, KY.
1992
New Works Series Show, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1987
1st Place, Ceramics, Fine Art Õ87, Citizens National Bank, Bowling Green, KY.
1986
Winning Selections from the Coca-Cola Art Show, Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY.
Special Jurors Merit Award, 15th Annual Coca-Cola Art Show, Elizabethtown, KY 1st & 3rd Place, Ceramics, Citizens National Bank Art Competition,Bowling Green, KY.
Purchase Award, Sixth Annual Juried Art Exhibition,Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1985
Art Department Award for Outstanding Achievement, Western Kentucky University.
1984-1985
President, Western Kentucky University Art Guild.
Biographie, Who's Who in American Colleges & Universities.
1984
Solo Exhibit, Horse Cave Theater, Horse Cave, KY. (Drawings)
New Works Series Show, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
(Ceramics and Drawings)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2002
Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Louisville, KY.
Received 3,400 dollars to build an Anagama kiln in Glasgow, KY.
McKnight Fellowship, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Received 5,000 dollar grant for three month clay residency.
2001
Fellowship, Sister Cities Commission Artist Exchange Program, Lexington, KY. Received fellowship to travel to Japan to do workshop and slide lecture.
2000
Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council.
Received 5,000 dollars to assist continued professional development
1999
Early Times Scholarship, Louisville Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY. Received 500 dollars to attend International
Wood-fire Conference, Iowa City, Iowa.
1998
Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Louisville, KY.
Received 3,000 dollars for Anagama kiln renovation and to sponsor 1998 Womens Anagama Firing
EXHIBITIONS
2003
"Third Annual National Juried Cup Show" Gallery 138, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
"Functional Review"The Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT.
"Eleventh Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National" Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA.
"An Affinity For the Cup" (National) Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2002
"Cup: The Intimate Object" (International) Charlie Cummings Clay Studio, Fort Wayne, IN.
"Five McKnight Artists" Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN.
"Bottled Spirits" (National) Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY. "Second Annual National Juried Cup Show" Gallery 138, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
"Plain Arts IV International Juried Exhibition" University Gallery, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, PA (Multimedia).
"The Vase" (National) Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI.
"Clay Currents" Artswatch Gallery, Louisville, KY.
"Artopia Faculty Show" Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY
"Fired Up Clay Invitational" Bernheim Forest Gallery, Clermont, KY
"From the Flames: Woodfired Pottery From the Anagama Dragon Kiln" Centre College Gallery, Danville, KY
2001
"The Hand Held Cup Show" (National) Odyssey Gallery, Ashville, NC (Best of Show award winner).
"Tea As Art" (National) Celadon Gallery, Water Mill, NY.
"Handles and Spouts: Functional Contemporary Teapots" (Regional) Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY. (Third place award winner).
"2001 All Kentucky Juried Exhibition" Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY. "Holidazzle" Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
"Bottled Spirits" (National Invitational) Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
"Women In the Woods IV" Wood fired pots by Kentucky Potters, Louisville Visual Art Association at Bank One, Louisville, KY.
"The Clay Cup VIII" (National) School of Art and Design,
Southern Illinois University.
"Kent State University, Gallery 138, National Juried Cup Show" Kent, Ohio. "Ninth Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National" Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA.
2000-2001
"Clay/Wood/Fire/Salt Exhibition" (National Invitational)
Folk Art Center SHCG, Asheville, NC, and Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH.
2000
"Focus On Function" (National) University of Minnesota, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
"Holidazzle" Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
"All Kentucky Juried Art Competition" Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
"Natural Materials- An Exhibition Featuring Functional and Sculptural Wood Fired Ceramics" (National) Central Michigan University, University Art Gallery. "Chef John Folse Culinary Institute Second Annual Utilitarian Ceramics National" Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA
"Women in the Woods III" Swanson Cralle Gallery, Louisville, KY.
1999
"Trans/Transitions: A Show of Western Artists with Non-Western Influences" Transylvania University, Lexington, KY.
"Firstar Juried Art Competition" First Star National Bank, Bowling Green, KY. "Women in the Woods: Anagama Pots By Kentucky Potters" Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1998-1999
"All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition" Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY.
1998
"Women in the Woods Anagama Show" Kentucky Arts and
Crafts Foundation, Louisville, KY.
1997
"Potter's Dinner Party/For the Table" Sugar Doe Cafe,
Louisville, KY.
"Bourbon Bottles" Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation,
Louisville, KY.
"Clay/Wood/Fire/Salt: A National Invitational"
Contemporary Artifacts Gallery, Berea, KY.
1996-1997
"Ceramic Forms: A National Invitational Exhibition"
Ronald L. Barr Gallery, Indiana University Southeast.
1996
"Holidazzle" Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation,
Louisville, KY.
1995
"The Clay Cup V" (National) Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. Selected to travel to other sites, including Bradley University and Northeastern Illinois University
"Third Annual Strictly Functional Pottery Exhibit"
(National) New Cumberland, PA.
"Functional Ceramics" Master of Fine Arts Exhibit,
Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University
"Crafts Regional 1995" John A. Logan College, Cartersville, IL.
WORKSHOPS AND SLIDE LECTURES
2003
Workshop "For the Table", Three Day Workshop on Dinnerware, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY.
2002
Slide Lecture, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN. Workshop/Lecture/Kiln Firing, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
2001
Workshop/Lecture, Town Hall, Shizunai, Japan.
2000
Workshop/Slide Lecture, Jefferson Community College, Louisville, KY.
1999
Slide Lecture, Capitol Arts Center, Houchens Gallery,
Bowling Green, KY.
Handbuilding Workshop, Ceramics Studio Supply, Louisville, KY.
Raku Workshop, Ceramics Studio Supply, Louisville, KY.
1998
Slide Lecture, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.
Slide Lecture, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
Slide Lecture, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA.
1997
Slide Lecture, Midway College, Midway, KY.
1996
Slide Lecture, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY.
1995
Workshop/Lecture, West Virginia University Crafts Center, Morgantown, WV.
