O Magazine August, 2018
CURRICULUM VITA
G R E G O R Y R O B E R T S
Professor Emeritus of Ceramics, Department of Art and Art History
Sonoma State University
Studiogr7@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MFA Ceramic Sculpture. Mills College Oakland, CA, 1994
BFA Cum Laude, College of Ceramics, School of Art & Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1991
Johnson State College, Department of Art, Johnson, VT, 1987-88
EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION
2012-2021 Professor of Ceramics, Art and Art History, SSU, Rohnert Park, CA
Served two terms as Department Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Sonoma State University, 2010-2013 & 2016-2018. Awarded one-year Sabbatical 2015-2016
2006-2012 Associate Professor of Ceramics, Art and Art History, SSU, Rohnert Park, CA
2001-2006 Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Art and Art History, SSU, Rohnert Park, CA
2000-2002 Instructor, Extended Education Department California College of Arts and Crafts. Oakland, CA (summer sessions)
2000-2001 Lecturer, California State University at Hayward, Hayward, CA Faculty advisor to the CSUH Ceramics Guild
2000-2001 Instructor, Civic Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA
1999-2000 Lecturer, California State University at Hayward, Hayward, CA
1998-2000 Ceramics Studio Manager, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1996-1998 Ceramics Instructor, National Institute of Art and Disabilities, Richmond, CA
Staff Liaison to the Board of Directors 6/97-6/98
1995 Artist-in-Residence, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts. Portland, OR
SERVICE TO SONOMA STATE AND THE COMMUNITY
University Service, 2010-2018
Commencement Planning Committee 2017-2018
Tenure-Track Hiring Committee 2018 (Painting)
Visiting Artists Hiring Committee 2017
Tech Hiring Committee 2015
Development Hiring Committee 2012 & 2014
Advising Subcommittee, member since 2012 - 2014
Professional Development Subcommittee, 2009 - 2011
Humanities Council of Department Chairs Committee, 2010 – 2013 & 2016 - 2018
School of Arts and Humanities Curriculum Committee, 2013
Chair related Art Department Service to the University, 2010-2018
Development Activities as Chair; producer of multiple department PR materials for student recruitment and development purposes; designer for annual Arts and Humanities Scholarship & Creative Achievement program 2017 & 2018; designed Envision document for the office of the provost 2014; developed a multi-departmental campaign materials, Building Inspiration 2012; created a State of the Art [Department] report submitted to the Presidents office addressing strategic funding and development in areas of technology and curriculum improvements; maintained funding for Visiting Artists Lecture Series via the SSU Instructionally Related Activities Fund 2007 – 2018
Major Administrative Activities; Completed Curriculum revision for BA program 2018 currently up for university review Fall 2018; finalized the successful completion of the NASAD 10 year review for accreditation; coordinated GE course review in Art History; Curriculum Revision in Art History and Studio Arts, approved 2014; and developed new curriculum for the Art Studio foundations program 2012
Faculty Retreat Coordinator; initiated and designed a departmental retreat to address curricular and other issues, August 2010 & 2016
Department Retention Tenure and Promotion (RTP) Committees, Chair 2009, 2011; Member, 2012, 2016, 2017
Coordinator, Visiting Artists Lecture Series 2007-2017, the IRA and privately funded Visiting Artists Lecture Series provide our students with valuable insight and exposure to art professionals and their work (one unit, credit/no credit class, and taught as an FTE overload).
Faculty Advisor, Sonoma State University Ceramics Guild (since 2001), the Guild is an opportunity for all students at attending Sonoma State University to experience ceramics and sell their work at the two Guild sales held per year. The proceeds from the sale are used by the guild to purchase equipment, fund lectures and most recently to provide an opportunity to participate in the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art held each year in Davis, CA.
SSU Coordinator, California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, each spring 2006 - 2014, I have organized and helped dedicated ceramic students mount exhibitions of their creative work in Davis CA as part of the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art. During this three-day conference, students transform a donated space into a temporary art gallery.
Community Service 2008-2018
Sonoma Ash Project After the destruction of last year’s Sonoma County wildfires launched the Sonoma Ash Project, wherein the ashes from people homes are into meaningful ceramics. Roberts asked his neighbors to donate ash from the wildfires they personally experienced. More than 140 people have given their ashes thus far, some leaving notes explaining the value of what they left with him. The diversity of color and texture is astonishing. Roberts’s goal is to give everyone back an object, base on the historic Round Barn, glazed with the ashes they saved. The Museums of Sonoma County will be exhibiting the project in its entirety in the October 2018 commemorative exhibition and is the fiscal sponsor. For more details see: https://www.facebook.com/ashglaz/
Media Coverage
ABC: https://abc7news.com/4464056/
https://abc7news.com/ashes-from-north-bay-fires-turned-into-art/3018731/
Radio Interview: http://www.kalw.org/post/sandip-roy-village-potter#stream/0
Channel2 (Fox) News: http://www.ktvu.com/news/366023152-video
Selections Committee Member, Castro Valley Boulevard Public Art Project, the Selection committee chose Miriam Klein Stahl to be awarded the contract for the Alameda County Redevelopment Agency's Castro Valley Boulevard Streetscape Improvement Project. For more information and to watch a short video about the project, see: http://acgov.org/arts/html/whats_new.html
Member of California Ceramics Cooperative, 2011 this group is responsible for mounting the Ceramics Annual of America (CAA), an ambitious exhibition and art fair spotlighting the quality and diversity of contemporary ceramics from around the world including works from China, Korea, Mexico, Australia, and Italy. The goal is to encourage public education and enrichment, cultivate a fertile art market, and foster dialog among collectors and makers of ceramic sculpture. For more information on the CAA, see: www.ceramicsannual.org
Team Leader, Visual AIDS, Big Deal, a fundraising event held at SOMA. 2006-2011
Past University Service
Graduate thesis committee, for Eileen Jungwirth, 2008
Student Affairs Committee, 2003-2005
Scholarship Committee, 2005
Fee Advisory Committee, 2004-2005
Graduate thesis committee, for Osanna Rosa, 2005
Past Art Department Service
Departmental RTP Committee, 2007-2008, and 2010-2011
Tenure-Track Search Committee, Spring 2007
Chair, Part Time Hiring Committee, 2005
Decal Workshop, ArtS 498, fall 2005, taught as an academic overload.
Kiln Firing Workshop for students with an emphasis in ceramics. This course was offered again in the spring of 2004 after the new kilns were installed and fully operational. (taught as an academic overload).
Gift acquisition. Coordinated a $60,000 donation to the Art Department from Deborah Hatfield, BA’03. This gift raised the ceramics studio technology from 1960’s to 2000’s with the purchase and installation of three new large kilns, allowing students to create work that could not be done with the previous equipment.
Kiln Firing Workshop, ArtS 498 fall 2003, for students with an emphasis in ceramics.
Initiated a student exhibition, OUTCAST, attended by students, faculty and guests, held at the end of spring ‘03 in the ceramics studio.
Represented SSU at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference (NCECA) in San Diego, CA
Part-time faculty hiring committee, Reviewed and interviewed artists and art historians to create a lecturer pool to be used by the department for future part-time faculty, 2002
Coordinator of Visiting Artist, Internationally recognized artist, Hedi Ernst, was a visiting artist in ceramics in the fall of 2002 and in the spring of 2003 in preparation for her residency and subsequent sculpture installation at the Paradise Ridge Sculpture Garden.
Faculty advisor to the Creative Collective, 2002
Gift acquisition. Arranged for the donation of a substantial equipment gift to the Art Department of a computer-controlled kiln from Hedi Ernst. 2002
Curriculum Development wrote and implemented three new courses for the 2002-2004 SSU Course Catalog: Large Scale Clay and Installation, Form and Function and Ceramic Materials. These courses were added to bring a greater depth of knowledge to the SSU ceramics students. 2001
Past Community Service
Hungry Bowls. The SSU Ceramics Guild conducted an extra emergency relief sale to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. I organized a benefit sale to help artists and artisans get back on their feet after the devastations. Proceeds were donated to the Emergency Craft Relief Fund. October 2005
Gallery Flux. Volunteer for a community performance at 18th and Castro, San Francisco September 2005
Member, Board of Directors. The Center For Ceramic Arts, Berkeley CA, a Bay Area organization with the goal of becoming an artist-in-residence and exhibition venue to serve the Northern California ceramics community. Activities included coordinating the first ever Northern California Ceramic Faculty Summit, which occurred on October 2002
Volunteer Visiting Artist. Continuum, San Francisco, CA, an HIV/AIDS day service organization designed to serve populations at risk of alcohol and drug abuse. 2002
SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLICATION
Curatorial
2017 Guest Curator, The University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University exhibition, Two Scale: Large-Scale and Mixed Media Ceramics. The exhibition included approximately 45 works by an exciting group of 6 Bay Area artists: Todd Barricklow, Woody De Othello, Victoria Jang, Nathan Lynch, Mark Messenger, and Nancy Selvin. Exhibition accompanied by a 24-page catalog produced and designed by Gregory Roberts.
2016 Guest Curator, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Third Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition, Healdsburg, CA
2015 August, Opened Gregory Roberts Studio C2
StudioC2 was a unique gallery and workshop dedicated to bringing innovative ceramic art to the North Bay. Held monthly exhibitions of contemporary ceramics from the Northern Bay Area. See https://www.facebook.com/gregoryrobertsstudioC2/ Closed February 2016
2004 Guest Curator, Outcast, University Library Gallery, Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center. An exhibition of ceramic sculpture by SSU students juried by advanced ceramic students.
2003 Art Coordinator, SSU Now, 2003, University Library Gallery, Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center. A student-curated exhibition.
Guest Curator, Transcending Envy, Awe and, Loathing (The Bird Show), 2003, University Library Gallery, Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center. Three artists—printmaker Joseph Sheer, mixed media sculptor Katherine Spence and ceramic sculptor Monica Van den Dool—exhibited their work in conjunction with the lecture series, Fight of Imagination: Inspiration From Birds.
2002 Guest Curator, Biological Mutiny, 2002, University Art Gallery. This exhibit featured the work of eleven internationally recognized ceramic artists.
Solo, Two-Person and, Three-Person Exhibitions
2011 PICK YOUR POISON, solo exhibition, Roscoe Gallery, Oakland, CA
HOMELY, solo exhibition, Gallery 300, Santa Rosa, CA
2009 SUCK ON THIS, solo exhibition. The Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
2005 Pollen-nation 2005, A LOVE STORY, solo exhibition, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004 Gregory Roberts: Same But Different, a retrospective of Roberts's work, Dominican University of California Gallery. San Rafael, CA (catalog)
Subtraction and Addition: CERAMIC SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATIONS, artists: Bean Finneran, Jane Grimm and, Gregory Roberts. Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
2001 DOTS AND DOLLS, two-person exhibition with Kim Tucker, Nexus Gallery. Berkeley, CA
2000 New Work, three-person show: Gregory Roberts, Sergei Isupov and Keisuke Mizuno, Dorothy Weiss Gallery. San Francisco, CA
DOT CON, solo exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts. San Francisco, CA
1998 GREGORY ROBERTS & STEVE THURSTON, two-person show, Pewabic Pottery. Detroit, MI
1997 INNER ALIEN, solo exhibition, Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Portland, OR
1996 THIRST, solo exhibition, Dorothy Weiss Gallery. San Francisco, CA
1995 SMALL BUSINESS, solo exhibition, Butters Gallery, Ltd., Portland, OR
1994 JOB SECURITY, a performance sculptures in four parts, sponsored and funded by San Francisco Arts Commission's Market Street Art in Transit program, San Francisco, CA
INTRODUCTIONS '94, two-person show with Laurence Labianca, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Artist Spring: The Fire and the Rose are One, Sofie Contemporary, Calistoga CA
Room For Thought, Space 151 & Levy Art & Architecture, San Francisco, CA (Juror Jack Fischer)
2017 The University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University, Biennial SSU Art Studio Faculty Exhibition, Rohnert Park, CA
2016 Cloud Terrace: a Pollinator-Friendly Garden, in collaboration with lead designer Chih-Wei G.V. Chang. First showing of the Phono~Phone for the San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2015 The University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University, Biennial SSU Art Studio Faculty Exhibition, Rohnert Park, CA
2013 The University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University, Biennial SSU Art Studio Faculty Exhibition, Rohnert Park, CA
2011 Ceramics Annual of America, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA (Catalog)
Summer Group Show; Gallery Artists, Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
Faculty Exhibition, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2010 50 Gravy Boats, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Valley, CA (online Catalog)
Gallery Artists, Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle WA
Pearl: Inspiring Design and Desire, GUMPS, gallery exhibition with 12 participating artists and designers, San Francisco CA
2009Margins, The Icehouse, held in conjunction with NCECA, Phoenix conference, AZ (Catalog)
30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA (Catalog)
2008 Sculptural Ceramics, St. Joseph Gallerie, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Faculty Exhibition, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
CCACA 2008, California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
SOFA, New York, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
Treasured Vessels: Art of the Teapot. GUMP’s, San Francisco, CA
2007 The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2007 Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Co-curated by Kate Bonansinga and Vincent Burke. Opened for the NCECA conference 2006, Portland OR. Traveled to; Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso; San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX; Landmark Arts, Lubbock, TX; Southwest School of Arts and Crafts, San Antonio, TX (catalog)
2006 Faculty Exhibition, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
Indoor Sculpture Exhibition, Shelburne Art Center, Shelburne, VT
The Family of Clay, Oliver Art Center, California College of Art, Oakland, CA
2005 The Magnificent Seven: Sonoma County Sculptors, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
Watershed Kiln Gods, Looking Back – 1997-2003, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, MD
2004 Jack Lenor Larsen: Creator and Collector, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY. A traveling exhibition: Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (May 10-June 22, 2005) and Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania (September 8-January 5, 2006). Exhibition catalog: JACK LENOR LARSEN: Creator and Collector.
Beginnings, Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
Love Peculiar, Bio-Pop-Curiosity in Clay, L2Kontemporary Gallery, Los Angles, CA
Faculty Exhibition, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2002- The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection. A traveling survey
2004 exhibition from the Sonny and Gloria Kamm collection, curated by Garth Clark.The exhibition opened in May, 2002 at COPIA, the American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California and traveled to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto Canada, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design. Exhibition catalog: The Artful Teapot by Garth Clark.
2003 Watershed Residence Invitational, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, New Castle, ME
27 @ 999: A teapot Invitational, The Publication's Art Gallery 999. San Diego, CA
Northern California Clay, NCECA Conference. San Diego, CA
2002 The Art Of Clay: Contemporary Ceramics of the West Coast, Santa Rosa College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
Faculty Exhibition, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
Formal Beauty, Odyssey Gallery, Ashville, NC
International Infusion IV, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2001 National Ceramics Invitational, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Annual Faculty Exhibition, University Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, CA
International Infusion III, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2000 SOFA Chicago. Represented by Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ceramics Soup: New work from Bay Area Artists, Louie Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
Annual Faculty Exhibition, University Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, CA
1999 Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Great Balancing Act, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Pacific Craft Show, Orange County Museum of Fine Art, Newport Beach, CA
(Chairman's Award)
1998 Spinning Tales, Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
Myths, Metaphors, & Icons, Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ (Juror's Award).
1997 Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Forms And Transformations, Current expressions in ceramics, Queens Library Gallery. Judith Shwartz, Curator, Queens, NY
The Ubiquitous Bowl III, Vermont State Craft Center, Burlington, VT
SOFA Chicago, Represented by Dorothy Weiss Gallery, Chicago, IL
Conspicuous Applications of Advanced Ceramics, International Museum of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Seattle Art Fair, Represented by Butters Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 Talentbörse Handwerk, an international invitational competition for design and technology for emerging artists. Munich, Germany. (Juror's Award. Catalog entries 1995 & 1996)
Teapot Invitational, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
Old Glory: New Story, Flagging the 21st Century, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Traveling exhibition, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
MFA Exhibition, Mills College Art Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA
High Tech / Low Tech, invitational exhibit Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Feats Of Clay, national competition and exhibition, Lincoln Art Center, Lincoln CA
1993 Clay On The Wall, invitational, University of Eastern Washington, Cheney WA
Feats Of Clay, national competition and exhibition, Lincoln Art Center, Lincoln CA (First prize, Patty Warashina, juror)
1990 Nobody Treats You Better Than Mom, Robert Turner student gallery, Alfred University. A collaborative installation with Donald Lipski via faxes and phone. Alfred, NY
Auctions
2002-17 Art From the Heart, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
2003 The Curatorial Eye: Fifteen Perspectives, SMOVA's sixth annual fundraiser and auction, Santa Rosa, CA
2001 Art for AIDS, Art Auction for the UCSF AIDS Health Program, San Francisco, CA
1995-97 New Langton Annual Art Auction, San Francisco, CA
Reviews and Citations
Media
2018 O, The Oprah Magazine, August 2018 Issue, in the “We Like this Guy” section.
The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa Sculptor Turns Ashes Into Art For Fire Victims, By
Hannah Beausang May 10, 2018
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8300759-181/santa-rosa-sculptor-turns-ashes
Writemore.in, Gregory Roberts’ Sonoma Ash Project: Bridging the gap between tragedy and what comes after www.writemore.in/2018/02/16/gregory-roberts-sonoma-ash-project-bridging-the-gap-between-tragedy-and-what-comes-after/ February 16, 2018
Atlas Obscura.com, Making Pottery From the Ashes of the Sonoma Wildfires; A ceramicist is offering people who lost their homes a way to remember—and look to the future. By Jessica Leigh Hester February 14, 2018
Ashes from North Bay fires turned into art | abc7news.com
Feb 1, 2018 - Members of the Santa Rosa community are dropping off bags of ash collected from there homes... Hence, the genesis of Gregory's Sonoma Ash Project.
2003 Television Interview with CBC News World for the opening of THE ARTFUL TEAPOT, the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, February 5, 2003, Toronto, Canada
Appearances in Books
2010 JACK LENOR LARSEN'S LongHouse, by Molly Chappellet p. 104 (partial view)
2004 Jack Larson, Creator and Collector. Published by Merrill Holberton.
2001 THE ARTFUL TEAPOT. Garth Clark. Paperback edition first published by Thames and Hudson, London, for Exhibitions International to accompany the traveling exhibition entitled “The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions form the Kamm Collection”. pp. 99, 105, 242 & back cover (bold indicates color image) Hardbound edition first published in the United States by Watson-Guptill Publications, pp. 99, 105, 242
THE CERAMIC GLAZE HANDBOOK. Mark Burleson, Published by Lark Books p. 113
CERAMIC EXTRUDING. Tom Latka, Published by Krause Publications p. 103
MAKE IT IN CLAY. Charlotte F. Seight & John Toki, Second Edition, Mayfield Publishing Company pp. 77, 140, pl. 17
Exhibition Catalogs
2011 CERAMICS ANNUAL OF AMERICA, John Natsoulas Press, Davis CA
2009 30 CERAMIC ARTISTS, John Natsoulas Press, Davis CA
2007 The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2009 The Margins, an exhibition held in conjunction with NCECA conference, The Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ
2006 MULTIPLICITY: CONTEMPORARY CERAMIC SCULPTURE, Co-curated by Kate Bonansinga and Vincent Burke, opened for the NCECA conference 2006, Portland OR. Traveled to: Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso; San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX; Landmark Arts, Lubbock, TX; Southwest School of Arts and Crafts, San Antonio, TX
1996 TALENTE '96 (catalog) Munich, Germany. p.11
1995 TALENTE '95 (catalog) Munich, Germany. pp. 124-125
Periodicals
2009 The WEEKLY, North Tahoe/Squaw Valley/Truckee, CA (two issues: February 11 & 25)
2008 SURFACE: Annual Design Issue, New York, NY (p.37)
CERAMICS MONTHLY, February. Columbus, OH
2006 ARTLIES, summer, Houston, TX
CERAMICS MONTHLY, March. Columbus, OH
2004 ARTWEEK (review) by Colin Berry July/August Volume 35 Issue 6
A REPORT, Museum of Craft & Folk Art, edited by Karen Nelson Vol. 20 no. 1
2003 SONOMA INSIGHTS, Fall 2003, Vol. XI No. 1, Rohnert Park, CA
POTPOURRI, (cover image) Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Membership Newsletter Winter-Spring
2002 SONOMA STATE STAR, Vol.47, Issue 7 Rohnert Park, CA
2001 MOUNTAIN EXPRESS, Vol. 8 No.39 Ashville, NC
2000 CERAMICS ART AND PERCEPTION, Issue 40 June, Australia
1999 CERAMICS ART AND PERCEPTION, (cover image) Issue 37 September, Australia
1997 AMERICAN CRAFT MAGAZINE, October/November, New York, NY
AMERICAN CRAFT MAGAZINE, February/March, New York, NY
CERAMICS MONTHLY, January. Columbus, OH
1996 INDIA CURRENTS, October, San Jose, CA
ART TALK, October, CA
1995 REFLEX, November, vol. 9 No. 10. Seattle, WA
WILLAMETTE WEEK, September 13-19. Portland, OR
KUNSTHANDWERK AND DESIGN, January/February. Germany
1995 TALENTE '95, (Catalog) Munich, Germany
1994 ART WEEK, August. Vol. 25, number 15. CA
SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, September 21. San Francisco, CA
CERAMICS MONTHLY, October, Columbus, OH
1993 THE STUDIO POTTER, December Vol. 22, Number 1. NH
THE PRESS TRIBUNE, May 21, Sacramento, CA
Visiting Artist/Speaking Appearances
2018 Sonoma Ash Project, Museum of Craft and Design, MAKE event, San Francisco, CA
Sonoma Ash Project, Sustainable SSU Conference, Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, CA
Sonoma Ash Project, Rotary Club of Santa Rosa, Local Hero’s event, Santa Rosa, CA
2009 Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
2004 Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco CA, slide lecture
2003 Santa Rosa Junior College, slide lecture
2002 San Jose State University, slide lecture & graduate student studio visits
College of Marin, slide lecture & demonstration
2001 The Oxbow School, slide lecture and discussion with Stephen Galloway for potential students
2000 CSU Hayward, slide lecture
Ohlone College, slide lecture and panel in conjunction with the exhibition, Ceramic Soup.
1999 California College of Arts and Crafts, slide lecture
1998 California College of Arts and Crafts, slide lecture
1995 Berkeley Art Center, slide lecture
Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, slide lecture and artist talk
AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
1999 Chairman's Award, Pacific Craft Show, Orange County Museum of Fine Art, Newport Beach, CA
1998 Funded residency, Kiln God Award, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
Juror's Award, Myths, Metaphors & Icons, Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ.
1995 First Place, TALENTBÖRSE Handwerk, International invitational competition for design and technology for emerging artists, Munich, Germany
1994 Commission, The San Francisco Arts Commission, Market Street Art In Transit Program, San Francisco, CA
Award of Merit, Lincoln Art Center, Feats of Clay, Lincoln, CA
1993 Cadogan Award for Sculpture, The San Francisco Foundation Scholarship
Ceramics Scholarship, Departmental Scholarship, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Eleanor Crum Prize, Ceramics Award, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Laguna Award, California Collegiate Ceramic Competition
Best of Show, Lincoln Art Center, Feats of Clay, Lincoln, CA
Award of Merit, ACCI Gallery, Images and Objects. Sculpture
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Susan Beech, private collection, CA
Sandy Besser, private collection, NM
Sonny Kamm, private collection, CA
The International Museum of Ceramic Art at N.Y. S.C.C. at Alfred University. Alfred NY.
Microsoft Corporate Collection
Jack Lenor Larsen, private collection, East Hampton, NY
Carl Djerassi, private collection, CA
Eastern Washington University Gallery Collection, Cheney, WA
Saks Fifth Avenue, Corporate Collection
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, AZ
Marvin Fang, Beacon Company, private collection, Taiwan
Roger Ford, private collection, NJ
Arthur Williams, private collection, NY
Mary Keesling private collection, CA
Joe Blank, private collection, NY
Gene Ramey Fine Arts, CA
Oscar Feldman, private collection, MI
Paul Hertz, private collection, NY
Maureen Barrett, private collection, NV