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Education 1980 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MAT 1975 University of Connecticut, Storrs, BFA, Painting
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2006 Mara Superior: Selections from the Collection of Melinda and Paul Sullivan, New Britain Museum of Art 2003 Souvenirs D’Italia, Fuller Musuem of Art, Brockton, MA 2002 Souvenirs D' Italia, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA 1991 De Cordova Museum, New England Artists Series, Lincoln, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions 2006 “Animal Kingdom”, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA Life Insight: The Human Experience, The Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY The Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft”, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA “The Curious Teapot”, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2005 SOFA Chicago, Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, IL The Navigators: Art + Science + History + Travel, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA “Portraiture: Patron, Artist, Subject”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA A Tale to Tell, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2004 “Salutations: New Space, New Art”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA “This Splendid Table: Fantastic Dishes for Food, Kentucky Museum of Arts & Design, Louisville, KY
2003 After Pallissy”, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA “Great Pots! Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy”, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ Subject-Me-Object: Autobiographical Ceramic Art”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA “Short Stories”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox MA
2001 31st Annual Ceramics Exhibit; Crossman Gallery; University of Wisconsin; March 2001; Whitewater, WI Teapots Transformed, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2000 Defining Moments , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Traveling Museum Exhibition
1999 Erotica in Ceramic Art, Ferrin Gallery, SOFA New York, NY; Northampton, MA 20th Anniversary Teapot Exhibition, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
1998 Contemporary Teapots Exhibition, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
1995-1998 The Whitehouse Collection of American Crafts, Traveling Museum Exhibition
1995 Let's Play House, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI The Nude in Clay, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 The Tureen Show, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 The Narrative Vessel, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
1990-1993 Art That Works; The Decorative Arts of the Eighties Crafted in America Lloyd Herman, curator, Traveling museum exhibit
1980-1993 A Tea Party, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA
Juried Exhibitions 1993 -1994 Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Arts, Syracuse, NY Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 1992 NCECA Show Containers Revisited, Tyler School of Art Elkings Park, PA
Selected Public and Corporate Collections Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Smithsonian Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC The Whitehouse Collection of American Crafts, Washington, D.C. American Craft Museum, New York, NY University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA New Britain museum of American Art
Selected Publications Women Ceramic Artists, Scholastic Art, Dec./Jan., 2005 500 Figures in Clay, Editor, Veronika Alice Gunter, Lark Books, New York, NY, 2004 Color an Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950–2000; Jo Lauria; 2000; Rizzoli Intern'l Publications, NY, NY Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object; Leslie Ferrin; 2000; GUILD Publishing; Madison, WI Telling Stories In Porcelain, Claire Whitcomb; April 2000; Victoria vol. 14 # 4 The White House Collection of American Crafts, Harry N. Abrams, Publisher, 1995 The Clinton Collection, Heidi C. Berry; Washington Home; April 27, 1995 Contemporary Crafts Find a Home in the White House, Phil Patton, p. 52, Smithsonian June 1995 Hand and Home:The Homes of American Craftsmen, Tommy Simpson w/Lisa Hammel; 1994; Little Brown & Co., NY, NY Porcelain with a Past; p.85 Bostonia, Spring 1994 Crafts at the White House; American Craft June/July 1994 Fiction, Function, Figuration: The 29th Ceramic National; Ceramics Monthly vol.4 #9, November 1993 Exhibitions, Mara Superior ; Angela Fina; American Ceramics
Grants, Fellowships and Awards 2005 Artist Grant for Excellence in Crafts, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council 1992 Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council 1991, 1998 Fellowship, Massachusetts Artists Fellowship 1990 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts | ||
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