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Curriculum Vitae

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011                "A Potter’s Perspective", Takami Gallery of Art, Treasure Valley Community College, Ontario, Oregon

 

 "A Potter’s Perspective”, Rosenthal Gallery of Art, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

1997               “Ceramic Vessels”,  Rosenthal Gallery of Art, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

“Solo Exhibition”, The Potter's Center Gallery, Boise, Idaho

 

1996               "Clay/Landscape/Vessel", Takami Gallery of Art, Treasure Valley Community College, Ontario, Oregon                  

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2022              "It's Only Clay 2022", Watermark Arts Center, Bemidji, Minnesota.  Juror: Delores Fortuna

 

                       "2022 Southern Miss Ceramics National", University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

                       Juror: George Rodriguez 

 

                       "Strictly Function Pottery National", Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Jurors: Jack Troy and Carolanne                                         Currier

 

                       "Members Exhibition", Main Gallery, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jurors: Paul Briggs and Lisa Buck

 

2021 -22        "EIGHT", Rosenthal Gallery of Art, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

2019              “Four Make Forms”, GEM Gallery, Gem Center for the Arts, Boise, Idaho

 

2017               "Faculty Exhibition”, Rosenthal Gallery of Art, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

2013               “Inter/change”, Gallery at The Linen Building, Boise, Idaho

 

2008              “Seven from the C of I”, Rosenthal Gallery of Art, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

2005             “ACI Faculty Show”, Rosenthal Gallery of Art, Albertson College (The College of Idaho), Caldwell, Idaho

 

2001              “ACI ART“, Rosenthal Gallery of Art, Albertson College (The College of Idaho), Caldwell, Idaho

 

1999              “Dislodged Symmetry”,  Stephen Fisher and George McCauley, Herrett Center for the Arts and Sciences, College of Southern                                  Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho

 

                       "Art Equinox”, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana

 

1998              “1998 Idaho Triennial”, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho

 

“Faculty Exhibition”, Rosenthal Gallery of Art, Albertson College of Idaho (The College of Idaho), Caldwell, Idaho

1997              “Oregon Clay/97 National", Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon

   

                      “Brand 27”, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, California

                      “1997 Monarch National”, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, Florence, Alabama

 

 "Companions of the Cupboard", Gallery 1021, Lill Street Studios, Chicago, Illinois

 

 "Clay Cup VI", University Museum, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, Illinois

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2023               Artist Grant, Alexa Rose Foundation, Boise, Idaho.

 

2022              Visual Arts Fellowship, Idaho Commission on the Arts, Boise, Idaho

2018               Quickart$ Project Grant, The Idaho Commission on the Arts, Boise, Idaho

 

                        Faculty Growth and Development Grant, The College of Idaho, Caldwell,

                        Idaho

 

2017                Faculty Growth and Development Grant, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

2011                Quickart$ Project Grant, The Idaho Commission on the Arts, Boise, Idaho

 

  Faculty Growth and Development Grant, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

1999                Quickart$ Professional Development Grant, The Idaho Commission on the Arts, Boise, Idaho

  Faculty Growth and Development Research Grant, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

1997                Quickart$ Professional Development Grant, Idaho Commission on the Arts., Boise, Idaho

 

  Faculty Growth and Development Grant, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

                    

  Juror’s Award, “Oregon Clay/97 National”, Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. Juror: David  Gilhooly                      

                        Juror’s Award, “Brand 27”, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, California. Juror: Philip Cornelius.

 

  Purchase Award, "Clay Cup VI", University Museum, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, Illinois. Juror: Mark Burns

                   

LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS

2024               Pottery Class (one session), The College of Idaho Staff Association, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho.

 

2023               Grants Juror, Alexa Rose Foundation, Boise, Idaho.

 

                       Ceramics Demonstration “Using Terra Sigillata”, Ceramica Art House, Boise Idaho

 

                       Presentation “Ceramics of Bernard Leach”, Ceramics Salon Group, Ceramica Art House, Boise Idaho

 

                       Pottery Class (two sessions), The College of Idaho Staff Association, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho.

 

                      Supervisor, Student Research Conference Project and Presentation (student Margo Harness), Student Research                                      Conference, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho.

 

                      Pottery Demonstration (College of Western Idaho Art Students), The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho.

 

2022              The College of Idaho 2022 Student Research Conference, Moderator, Roundtable Online Session with Artists in the                                                Exhibition “Body Politic” at Rosenthal Gallery of Art, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

2019                Ceramics Demonstration, "Half-Baked Ideas" Series of Faculty Research Presentations, The College of Idaho,

                        Caldwell, Idaho 

 

                        Ceramics Demonstration, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho

2018                Sabbatical Presentation (Lecture and Demonstration), The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

                     

                        Pottery Demonstration, Timberline High School, Boise, Idaho

 

2017                Lecture, “Writing an Artist Statement", Treasure Valley Artist Alliance, Boise Idaho

                       

                        Lecture, “Writing an Artist Statement", College of Western Idaho, Nampa, Idaho 

 

2015               Pottery Demonstration, Caldwell High School, Caldwell, Idaho

                     

                        Lecture, “Creativity and the Liberal Arts”, Liberal Arts Lecture Series, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

2011                Sabbatical Presentation, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

                       

                       Artist Lecture (Drawings), College of Western Idaho, Nampa, Idaho

 

2004              Sabbatical Presentation, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

1997               Sabbatical Presentation, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

RELATED EXPERIENCES​

2017-19          Community Ceramics Instructor, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

 

1984-7            Sculpture and Ceramics Studio Technician, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

 

1883-4            Ceramics Resident Assistant, Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho

 

COLLECTIONS

                        University Museum, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, Illinois

 

 

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE

1990-pres.      Professor of Art, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho

                        Art Department Chair 1994-2015,  Faculty President - Elect 2018-19,  Faculty President 2019-20

 

1988-90          Full-Time Instructor of Art, Palo Alto Community College, San Antonio, Texas

 

1981-83            Art Teacher, Kimball Union Academy, Meridian, New Hampshire

 

EDUCATION

 

  University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, 1987. M.F.A. in Ceramics.

 

  Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1983-84.

  Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1978. B.A. in Studio Art.

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