Education
Master of Fine Arts, 2008: School of Art and Art History, College of Fine Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts (Ceramics), 2005, Summa Cum Laude: State University of New York College at Fredonia
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts (Painting), 2004, Summa Cum Laude: State University of New York College at Fredonia
Honors
2020 Arizona Commission on the Arts Research and Development Grant
2011 NCECA Emerging Artist
2010 Invited Artist, Figurative Association Symposium, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2008 Virginia Alpha Scholarship
2008 ThinkTank Emerging Educator’s Fellowship
2007 University of Florida Outstanding Student Award Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Grant
2007 Niche Student Awards Finalist
2005 University of Florida Graduate Grant Scholarship
Experience
2011 - present • Faculty In Art, Gallery Director, Northland Pioneer College, Show Low Arizona
2020 - present • Council Member, Artlink Artist Council, Arizona
2023 Artist in Residence, Body Narrative Collective, Northland Pioneer College, Show Low, AZ
2023 Visiting Artist, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah
2022 Workshop Artist, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2021 Juror, 2021 Mesa Community College Student Art Show, Mesa, Arizona
2020 Artist in Residence, C.R.E.T.A. Rome, Rome, Italy
2019 Visiting Artist, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah
2019 Artist in Residence, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana
2019 Visiting Artist, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California
2018 Visiting Artist, Scott Creek Fireplace, Fredonia, New York
2018 Workshop Artist, Reitz Ranch Center for the Ceramic Arts, Clarkdale, Arizona
2017 Co-curator, ARC Contemporary Fine Art at the Manheim, Cottonwood, Arizona
2016 Visiting Artist, Yavapai College, Clarkdale, Arizona
2015 Workshop Artist/Juror, Clay Arts Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
2017 Workshop Artist, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2016 Presenting Artist: Ceramics Symposium, Word and Object, Gulf Coast State College, Panama City, Florida
2015 Artist in Residence, La Fragua, Belalcázar, Spain
2013 Visiting Artist, Cochise College, Sierra Vista, Arizona
2013 Artist in Residence, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos, Greece
2012 Ceramic Surface Forum Participant, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2011 Art Teacher, Teaching English In Poland Arts Enriched Language Camp, Załęcze Wielkie, Poland
2010 - 2011 Adjunct Instructor/Visiting Artist, Gulf Coast Community College, Department of Art, Panama City, Florida
2011 Visiting Artist, Edinboro University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania
2010 Visiting Artist, Walter State Community College, Department of Art, Morristown, Tennessee
2010 Visiting Artist, University of Central Missouri, Department of Art, Warrensburg, Missouri
2010 Visiting Artist, Western Kentucky University, Department of Art, Bowling Green, Kentucky
2009 - 2010 Resident Artist, Roswell Art Center West, Roswell, Georgia
2008 - 2009 Resident Artist, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2008 Visiting Artist, Appalachian State University, Department of Art, Boone, North Carolina
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, AZ, Celebrating 65 Years in Ceramics, (invitational)
2024 The Art Center, Grand Junction, CO, Contemporary Clay
2024 Mesa Arts Center Museum, Mesa, AZ, Mother Nature
2023 Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, Beyond Dreams: Surrealism and Its Manifestations
2023 Shape Theory Collective, online exhibition, Body Narrative
2023 Amelia Center Gallery, Gulf Coast State College, Panama City, FL, Same Old Story
2023 Park Central, Phoenix, AZ, Artlink Gala: Rays of Light
2023 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, AZ, 24th International Open
2023 I.D.E.A. Museum, Mesa, Arizona, Desert Roots
2022 San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition
2022 Park Central, Phoenix, AZ, Artlink Gala: Forces of Attraction
2021 Queen City Clay, Norwood, OH, Arrowmont Resident Artist Retrospective
2021 Mood Room, Phoenix, AZ, Artlink Artist Council Exhibition
2020 Epperson Gallery of Ceramic Arts, Crockett, CA, 2020 National Clay Competition, Third Place Award
2020 Amelia Center Gallery, Gulf Coast State College, Panama City, FL, Quarantine
2020 Practical Art, Phoenix, AZ, Here and There, solo exhibition
2019 Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ, 40th Annual Contemporary Craft, Juror’s Award
2018 Mesa Community College Art Gallery, Mesa, AZ, Ceramic +, (invitational)
2018 Practical Art, Phoenix, AZ, Human Nature, solo exhibition
2017 Verde Art Gallery, Yavapai College, Clarkdale, AZ, Insides Out, solo exhibition
2017 GVG Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Material Impulse
2017 The Manheim Gallery, Cottonwood, Arizona, Looking Inward, solo exhibition
2016 Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, Arizona, 2016 Juried Biennial: Clay
2016 Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana, Freak Show
2016 Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, Seattle, Washington, Bodies + Beings
2016 Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia, Please Touch
2016 The Manheim Gallery, Cottonwood, Arizona, Making Appearances, solo exhibition
2016 Kansas City Convention Center, NCECA 2016, Kansas City, Kansas, Ceramic Selections from 25 Years of the Arrowmont Artists-in-Residency Program
2015 Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida, Beauty and the Beasts (invitational)
2015 La Fragua, Belalcázar, Spain, Lo Consultamos Durmiendo
2015 Blueline Arts, Roseville, CA, America’s Clayfest III
2015 Yuma Fine Arts Association, Yuma, Arizona, Southwestern Invitational (traveling exhibition), Honorable Mention
2014 Pritzlaff Events Gallery, Milwauke, Wisconsin, Within the Menagerie, invitational exhibition.
2014 Victor F. Keen Gallery, Clay Arts Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, What Goes Bump in the Night, Best of Show
2014 Florence Quarter Gallery, Southwestern University of Visual Arts, Tucson, Arizona, Arizona Works
2013 Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, Three Artists, invitational exhibition.
2013 Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana, Tisdale Figurative Invitational
2013 Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana, Beyond the Brickyard
2012 Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona, Across the Divide
2012 Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, Tracy, California, Beauty....it’s not pretty
2012 Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, Maryland, Shirts and Skins
2012 Drury Art Gallery, Marlboro, Vermont, The Ceramic Surface
2012 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, At 20
2012 The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Small Favors
2011 Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Figurines
2011 The Studio @ 620, St. Petersburg, Florida, Resonace, invitational exhibition.
2011 Clayton Galleries, Tampa, Florida, Storytellers, invitational exhibition.
2011 Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana, (a) LURE, invitational exhibition.
2010 Bellamy Road, Melrose, Florida, Advice for Visionaries: When the World is Not Listening
2010 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Figurative Association Exhibition
2010 Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore Maryland, Body and Soul, Juror: Arthur Gonzalez
2010 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, Motley Moxie
2010 San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, 18th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition
2010 Wayne Art Center, Wayne Pennsylvania, Portraiture Beyond Likeness
Publications
2017 Sedona Monthly, July/August, “Bodies of Work,” Erika Ayn Finch, p. 30 - 35, work pictured.
2016 WIDEWALLS, “These Ceramic Artists Represent the New Generation in the Art of Pottery,” Nadia Herzog
web: http://www.widewalls.ch/ceramic-artists-new-generation-top-list/ (accessed 5/14/16)
2016 Sculpting Techniques, Ceramic Arts Handbook Series, Edited by Bill Jones, p.53 - 56, work pictured
2015 Ceramics Now Magazine, Issue 3, “ Self-Presentations,” Vasi Hîrdo, p. 60-63, work pictured
2014 Sculpture Review, Spring 14 Vol. LXIII, “Color in Sculpture: An Integral Component,” Kim Carpenter, p. 15-17, work pictured
2014 500 Figures, Lark Books, work pictured
2013 Ceramics Monthly, November 2013, “Silhouettes,” Randi O’Brien, p. 58-61, work pictured.
2012 Humor in Craft, Brigitte Martin, work pictured.
2011 Pottery Making Illustrated, January/February 2011, “Playing Dress Up” p. 12-15 and “Sweet Surface,” Magda Gluszek, p. 16-18, work pictured.
2011 Ceramics Monthly, January 2011, “Figurative Association: The Human Form in Clay,” Kate Lydon, p. 24-25.
2009 Ceramics Monthly, May 2009, p. 32, focus: emerging artists, work picured.
Collections
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Permanent Collection, San Angelo, TX
C.R.E.T.A. Rome Permanent Collection, Rome, Italy
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Permanent Collection, Gatlinburg, TN
Mindy Solomon Collection
Skopelos Center for the Arts Permanent Collection, Skopelos, Greece