Education
2012 M.F.A Rochester Institute of Technology, School for the
American Crafts, Ceramics, Rochester NY
2010 B.F.A University of South Carolina, Columbia SC
2004 Diploma Dutch Fork High School, Columbia SC
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Redbird Studio and Gallery, “Bound”, Columbia SC
2012 Gallery V, “Extraction”, Columbia SC
2012 Fine Craft and Contemporary Art, “Volumes II”, Columbia SC
2012 The Hungerford, MFA Thesis “Post Extraction”, Rochester NY
2010 Columbia Museum of Art, BFA Thesis “Shell Shocked”, Columbia SC
2010 Solo Exhibition: USC INN and Gallery, “Torn Away”, Columbia SC
2010 Solo Exhibition: Art + Casey, “Expelled”, Columbia SC
2009 McMaster Student Gallery, “One perspective”, Columbia SC
Group Exhibition
2019 Meridan Gallery, “In Clay”, Columbia SC
2019 Koger Center for the Arts,”Generations”, Columbia SC
2019 McMaster Gallery, “Language of Clay III”, Columbia SC
2019 Upstate gallery on Main, “Language of Clay II”, Spartanburg SC
2018 LHUCA, "Clay on the Wall" , Lubbock TX
2018 Mason- Scharfenstein Museum of Art, "Southern Table", Demorest GA
2017 Gallery West, " The Art of Play", Columbia SC
2017 Lillstreet Gallery, Sculpture: Shaping Ideas, Columbia SC
2017 Sumter Gallery of Art, Ways of Creation, Sumter SC
2017 Beaufort Gallery of Art, Women in Ceramics, Beaufort SC
2016 McMaster Gallery “About Drawing”, Columbia SC
2015 Columbia Museum of Art, “Independent Spirits: Women Artist of South Carolina”, Columbia SC
2015 Vista Columbia, “Outdoor instillation series II”, Columbia SC
2015 Blythewood, “Outdoor Instillation series”, Columbia SC
2014 Rosewood Public Art, “Whispering Willows Mural”, Columbia SC
2014 Mckissick Museum, “Celebrating South Carolina Ceramics”, Columbia SC
2014 Art Fields, “Landscapes Lost”, Lake City, SC
2014 Redbird Studio & Gallery, “Landscapes Lost”, Columbia SC
2013 Artista Vista,”Install it III”, Columbia SC
2013 The Clay Studio of Missoula, “Out of the Blue”, Missoula MT
2013 Burris Hall Art Gallery, “Iron Tribe Exhibit”, Las Vegas NM
2013 NCECA“Everlast” in collaboration w/ Virginia Scotchie, Houston TX
2013 Scripps National, “Denatured” Claremont CA
2012 MP Gallery,“Totem”(collaboration) W. Henrietta NY
2012 Redheat, “Contemporary Work in Clay”, Tulsa, OK
2012 Gallery R; “Poetry, Craft and Performance”, Rochester NY
2011 Memorial Art Gallery, “Honors”, Rochester NY
2011 Saunders Gallery, “Craft to Fine Art”, Rochester NY
2011 Joe Beans, “Rochester Craft”, Rochester NY
2011 SAW, “Salem Art Works Invitational”, Salem NY
2011 The Cutting Room, “6 Mile Exhibition”, St. Louis IL
2011 Art + Cayce, “Studio Works”, Columbia SC
2011 Sloss Furnace, “Fine Art Cast Iron Invitational”, Birmingham AL
2011 Art +Cayce, “Everlast” Collaboration with Virginia Scotchie, Columbia SC
2011 The Hungerford, “Quarts Conversion”, Rochester NY
2010 McMaster Gallery, “Student Award Exhibition”, Columbia SC
2010 Frame of Mind, “In Focus”, Columbia SC
2010 Art + Cayce, “9X3”, Columbia SC
2010 Compass Five, “Feathers”, Casey SC
2010 Frame of Mind, “Framed”, Columbia SC
2009 80808 Gallery, “Kiln Opening”, Columbia SC
2009 Governor’s School for the Arts, “USC Ceramics Now”, Greenville, SC
2009 McMaster Student Gallery, “Primal”, Columbia SC
2008 McMaster Student Gallery, “Four Views in Clay”, Columbia, SC
2007 CSLA, "Student Show", Los Angeles, CA
Commissions
2015 Traditional Southern Pottery- Landrum Ware, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia SC
2014 20th Century Fox, Hieroglyphs Props, Los Angeles CA
2013 Governors Cup Race, Trophies, Columbia SC
Publications
Ceramics Art and Perception, Studio Works 2011, Issue 87, 2012 by Judit Trunkos
Ceramics Monthly, MFA Factor School for American Crafts R.I.T November 2011 issue
Featured Artist, Arts Institute, University of South Carolina, 2010
Gallery Operations and Installation
Areas of Interest in Education
Ceramics
Hand building
Pottery Wheel
Mold Making
Firing
Electric
Wood
Gas
Soda/Salt
Oxidation/Reduction
Raku
Sculpture
Metal Casting
Iron
Bronze
Aluminum
Fabrication
Welding
Forging
Stone Carving
Limestone
Soapstone
Professional Experience
2015- Present
University of South Carolina, Columbia-Studio Technician, Instructor- Ceramics
2018-2017- Cutler Jewish Day School- Art Teacher K-12
2015- 2012
Redbird Studio & Gallery, Columbia, SC
Co Owner/Studio Manager/Instructor
Boys and Girls Club of America, Volunteer Art Instructor
2013-2012
Hammond School, Columbia, SC, After School Art Instructor
2012-2010
Rochester Institute of Technology
Teaching Assistant, Ceramics, Introduction - Advanced: Wheel & Hand building
Materials Coordinator
Professional Affiliations and Presentations
2017
Visiting Artist Lecture, Conversations in Clay, Sumter SC
2017-2008
NCECA Member
2018-2010
Assistant to Rick Hirsch and Michael Rogers
Mano Project, Collaboration with Forrest Gander and C.D. Wright
Mano Project Panel Member
2012-2009
Assistant to Crucible Project
Collaboration among ceramic artists; Rick Hirsch, Scott Meyer, Kenneth Baskin and Michael Rogers
2011
Cast Member for Matthew Barney Production “Ancient Evenings: KHU”
Salem Art Works Visiting Artist, Demonstration and Residency, Inter- Collegiate Iron Pour, Salem NY
Sloss Metal Arts Conference Panel Member Material Integration, Birmingham AL
6-Mile Artist Works Residency, Cast Iron Event, St. Louis IL
Artist Residency, Outdoor Installation, Holly NY
Visiting Artist Lecture, Personal works artist talk, Mcneese State University, Lake Charles, LA
2012 M.F.A Rochester Institute of Technology, School for the
American Crafts, Ceramics, Rochester NY
2010 B.F.A University of South Carolina, Columbia SC
2004 Diploma Dutch Fork High School, Columbia SC
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Redbird Studio and Gallery, “Bound”, Columbia SC
2012 Gallery V, “Extraction”, Columbia SC
2012 Fine Craft and Contemporary Art, “Volumes II”, Columbia SC
2012 The Hungerford, MFA Thesis “Post Extraction”, Rochester NY
2010 Columbia Museum of Art, BFA Thesis “Shell Shocked”, Columbia SC
2010 Solo Exhibition: USC INN and Gallery, “Torn Away”, Columbia SC
2010 Solo Exhibition: Art + Casey, “Expelled”, Columbia SC
2009 McMaster Student Gallery, “One perspective”, Columbia SC
Group Exhibition
2019 Meridan Gallery, “In Clay”, Columbia SC
2019 Koger Center for the Arts,”Generations”, Columbia SC
2019 McMaster Gallery, “Language of Clay III”, Columbia SC
2019 Upstate gallery on Main, “Language of Clay II”, Spartanburg SC
2018 LHUCA, "Clay on the Wall" , Lubbock TX
2018 Mason- Scharfenstein Museum of Art, "Southern Table", Demorest GA
2017 Gallery West, " The Art of Play", Columbia SC
2017 Lillstreet Gallery, Sculpture: Shaping Ideas, Columbia SC
2017 Sumter Gallery of Art, Ways of Creation, Sumter SC
2017 Beaufort Gallery of Art, Women in Ceramics, Beaufort SC
2016 McMaster Gallery “About Drawing”, Columbia SC
2015 Columbia Museum of Art, “Independent Spirits: Women Artist of South Carolina”, Columbia SC
2015 Vista Columbia, “Outdoor instillation series II”, Columbia SC
2015 Blythewood, “Outdoor Instillation series”, Columbia SC
2014 Rosewood Public Art, “Whispering Willows Mural”, Columbia SC
2014 Mckissick Museum, “Celebrating South Carolina Ceramics”, Columbia SC
2014 Art Fields, “Landscapes Lost”, Lake City, SC
2014 Redbird Studio & Gallery, “Landscapes Lost”, Columbia SC
2013 Artista Vista,”Install it III”, Columbia SC
2013 The Clay Studio of Missoula, “Out of the Blue”, Missoula MT
2013 Burris Hall Art Gallery, “Iron Tribe Exhibit”, Las Vegas NM
2013 NCECA“Everlast” in collaboration w/ Virginia Scotchie, Houston TX
2013 Scripps National, “Denatured” Claremont CA
2012 MP Gallery,“Totem”(collaboration) W. Henrietta NY
2012 Redheat, “Contemporary Work in Clay”, Tulsa, OK
2012 Gallery R; “Poetry, Craft and Performance”, Rochester NY
2011 Memorial Art Gallery, “Honors”, Rochester NY
2011 Saunders Gallery, “Craft to Fine Art”, Rochester NY
2011 Joe Beans, “Rochester Craft”, Rochester NY
2011 SAW, “Salem Art Works Invitational”, Salem NY
2011 The Cutting Room, “6 Mile Exhibition”, St. Louis IL
2011 Art + Cayce, “Studio Works”, Columbia SC
2011 Sloss Furnace, “Fine Art Cast Iron Invitational”, Birmingham AL
2011 Art +Cayce, “Everlast” Collaboration with Virginia Scotchie, Columbia SC
2011 The Hungerford, “Quarts Conversion”, Rochester NY
2010 McMaster Gallery, “Student Award Exhibition”, Columbia SC
2010 Frame of Mind, “In Focus”, Columbia SC
2010 Art + Cayce, “9X3”, Columbia SC
2010 Compass Five, “Feathers”, Casey SC
2010 Frame of Mind, “Framed”, Columbia SC
2009 80808 Gallery, “Kiln Opening”, Columbia SC
2009 Governor’s School for the Arts, “USC Ceramics Now”, Greenville, SC
2009 McMaster Student Gallery, “Primal”, Columbia SC
2008 McMaster Student Gallery, “Four Views in Clay”, Columbia, SC
2007 CSLA, "Student Show", Los Angeles, CA
Commissions
2015 Traditional Southern Pottery- Landrum Ware, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia SC
2014 20th Century Fox, Hieroglyphs Props, Los Angeles CA
2013 Governors Cup Race, Trophies, Columbia SC
Publications
Ceramics Art and Perception, Studio Works 2011, Issue 87, 2012 by Judit Trunkos
Ceramics Monthly, MFA Factor School for American Crafts R.I.T November 2011 issue
Featured Artist, Arts Institute, University of South Carolina, 2010
Gallery Operations and Installation
Areas of Interest in Education
Ceramics
Hand building
Pottery Wheel
Mold Making
Firing
Electric
Wood
Gas
Soda/Salt
Oxidation/Reduction
Raku
Sculpture
Metal Casting
Iron
Bronze
Aluminum
Fabrication
Welding
Forging
Stone Carving
Limestone
Soapstone
Professional Experience
2015- Present
University of South Carolina, Columbia-Studio Technician, Instructor- Ceramics
2018-2017- Cutler Jewish Day School- Art Teacher K-12
2015- 2012
Redbird Studio & Gallery, Columbia, SC
Co Owner/Studio Manager/Instructor
Boys and Girls Club of America, Volunteer Art Instructor
2013-2012
Hammond School, Columbia, SC, After School Art Instructor
2012-2010
Rochester Institute of Technology
Teaching Assistant, Ceramics, Introduction - Advanced: Wheel & Hand building
Materials Coordinator
Professional Affiliations and Presentations
2017
Visiting Artist Lecture, Conversations in Clay, Sumter SC
2017-2008
NCECA Member
2018-2010
Assistant to Rick Hirsch and Michael Rogers
Mano Project, Collaboration with Forrest Gander and C.D. Wright
Mano Project Panel Member
2012-2009
Assistant to Crucible Project
Collaboration among ceramic artists; Rick Hirsch, Scott Meyer, Kenneth Baskin and Michael Rogers
2011
Cast Member for Matthew Barney Production “Ancient Evenings: KHU”
Salem Art Works Visiting Artist, Demonstration and Residency, Inter- Collegiate Iron Pour, Salem NY
Sloss Metal Arts Conference Panel Member Material Integration, Birmingham AL
6-Mile Artist Works Residency, Cast Iron Event, St. Louis IL
Artist Residency, Outdoor Installation, Holly NY
Visiting Artist Lecture, Personal works artist talk, Mcneese State University, Lake Charles, LA