Linda Sikora . Resume

catalog artist statement resume   biography

EDUCATION
1989 – 1992 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis – Master of Fine Arts
1988 – 1989 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Canada – Bachelor of Fine Arts
1983 University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada – Glaze Technology
1980 – 1983 David Thompson University Center, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada – Diploma of Fine Arts

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
1997 – present Alfred University, Alfred, NY (Associate Professor)(2002 Associate Professor, 2005 Division Head of Ceramic Art)
1996 – 1997 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (Assistant Professor)
1996 summer Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995 winter Winona State University, Winona, MN
1994 fall Winona State University, Winona, MN
1994 spring University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1993 fall Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1992 summer Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Canada
1991 fall University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

EXHIBITIONS
(selected)
2009
*Two Person Exhibition, Recent Work, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2008
Curated, East/West, Southwestern University Sarofim School of fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown, TX
Invitational, Southern Exposure: Atmospheric Pots and the Penland Connection, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY
Curated, Utilitarian Clay Conference Exhibition of Presenters, Sandra J Blain Gallery, Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN
Invitational, All Fired Up – A Celebration of Clay in Westchester New York, Lyndhurst Museum, Tarrytown, NY
*Two Person Exhibition, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Invitational, ‘Teapots From Subject to Object’, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO (traveling)
2007
*Two Person Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Curated, 90 Teapots, Xen Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Curated, New Alfred, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
Invitational, “Hand Held”, Main Street Art Gallery, Edwardsville, IL
Invitational, “Pots That Pour”, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Invitational, Cudgegong Gallery, Gulgong, Australia, NSW
Invitational, “Contrast: Ceramic Explorations In Black and White”, Atrium Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie ,IN
Invitational, ‘Teapots From Subject to Object’, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO (traveling)
Invitational, “SOFA NCECA”, Leslie Ferrin Gallery, Louisville, KY
Curated, “Earth and Fire: A Celebration of Clay and Ceramics – Containing
History”, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
2006
*Two Person Exhibition, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Invitational, ‘Teapots From Subject to Object’, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO (traveling)
Invitational, ‘Yumomis’, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Invitational, ‘Tea Time – The Art of the Teapot’, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Curated, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Curated, ‘Contemporary Teapots’, The Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE
Curated, “Inspired Utility: Exceptional Ceramic Vessels”, Main Line Art Center Galleries, Haverford, PA
Invitational, ‘Tea Time: The Art of the Teapot’, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Invitational, “La Mesa”, NCECA Exhibition by Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Portland, OR
Invitational, ‘Tea: Engaging the Senses’ (NCECA), White Lotus Gallery, Eugene, OR
Invitational, ‘30/30’, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
Invitational, ‘Kissed by Ash – Wood Fired Ceramics’, Paul Watkins Gallery, Winona State University, Winona, MN
2005
Invitational, “American Masters 2000-2005”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Invitational, “Karen Karnes and Brown, Shapiro, Sikora, Metz”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
Invitational, “The Visceral Vessel”, Russel Hill Roger Gallery, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
Invitational, “Cups, Cups, Cups”, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Invitational, “Ferrin Gallery at SOFA Chicago”, Chicago, IL
Invitational, “Eight Women: Eight Perspectives”, The Gallery at Red Star Studios Ceramics Center, Kansas City, MO
Invitational, “Freehand 25: Clay”, Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles,
Two Person Exhibition, “Recent Work”, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Invitational, “Table Manners – Contemporary International Ceramics”, Crafts Council, EXHIBITIONS Islington, London, UK
Invitational, “31st Annual Invitational Pottery Show and Sale”, The Art School at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
Invitational, “The Cup In The Hand”, Architecture Resource Center Gallery, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI
Invitational, “Poetry of Pottery”, NCECA Exhibition”, Maryland Federation of Art City Gallery, Baltimore ,MD
Invitational, “Gender Vessel Show”, NCECA Exhibition, Craig Flinner Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Invitational, “La Mesa”, NCECA Exhibition by Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2004

*Two-person Exhibition, ‘Summer Work”, Baltimore Clayworks Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Invitational, “ Studio Potter Invitational”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
Invitational, “Our Cups Runneth Over – Functional and Sculptural Ceramic Cup Exhibition”,The Society of Art and Crafts, Boston ,MA
Invitational, ‘Teapot Show”, Pewabic Pottery Gallery, Detroit, MI
Invitational, “Cup”, University of Miami Gallery – Wesley Foundation, Miami, FL (catalogue)
Invitational, ‘Pitcher This’, Artworks Gallery, Bozeman, MT
Invitational, ‘2004 Summer of Ceramics”, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Invitational, “Tea”, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Invitational, “Pots in the Kitchen Exhibition”, Rufford Craft Center, Nottinghamshire, UK will travel the exhibition to France, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands
‘Two-person Exhibition’, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Curated, “Old World, New World”, La Coste Gallery, Concord, MA
*Two-person Exhibition, Trax Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Curated, “Contemporary Teapots: Object as Subject”, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Invitational, “OCCC 30th Year Exhibition/Sale”, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
2003
Curated, “21st Century Ceramics”, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (catalogue)
Invitational, “Mingei Legacy”, Mingei International Museum, San Deigo, CA (monograph)
Invitational, “Pots In The Kitchen”, Rufford Craft Center, Nottinghanshire, UK (book)
2002
*One-person exhibition, “Linda Sikora”, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
Invitational, “Ceramic Exhibition – Curator: Jeff Oestrich”, Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Invitational, “Yankee Clay: Ceramic Artists of the Northeast”, The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Invitational, “North Carolina Potter’s Conference 2002 – Exhibition of Presenters (Val Cushing, Linda Sikora, Andrea Gill, Matthew Metz) and Alfred Alumni, North Carolina Pottery Center, Asheboro, NC
2001
*One-person exhibition, “Linda Sikora – Recent Work”, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Invitational, “Objects for Use – Handmade by Design” , American Craft Museum, New York, NY (publication)
Invitational, “Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object” (artists from publication: Teapots Transformed-Exploration Of An Object. Leslie Ferrin, author), Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Invitational, Feature – Alfred Faculty, SOFA Chicago – Helen Drutt Gallery, Chicago, IL
Invitational, “Visiting Artists Exhibition–2001:Clay Odyssey”, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Invitational, “Taking Measure: American Ceramic Art at the New Millennium”, World Ceramics Exposition 2001 Korea, Yoju, Korea (organized by NCECA Exhibitions Director)
Invitational, “Teapots Transformed”, Ferrin Gallery, SOFA Chicago, IL (Traveled: International 20th Century Arts Fair, New York, NY; New York
Ceramics Fair, NY)
Invitational, “National Teapot Exhibition”, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2000
Invitational, “Conversations”, Chester Springs-Schoolhouse, Chester Springs, PA
Invitational, “Small Works”, John Elder Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational, “Tureen Invitational”, Materia Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Invitational, “Mashiko Group Show 2000 – 19 American Potters Exhibition”, Moegi Gallery, Japan
Invitational, “Ten Years in Retrospect – Exhibition and Collection”, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Invitational, “Defining Moments of Contemporary Ceramics”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (Traveling: Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Tucson Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ; The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, AK)
*Two-person exhibition, “Functional Ceramics”, The Clay Place Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Juried, “Strictly Functional Pottery National”, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA (award)
1999
Invitational, “International Ceramics Exhibition”, 13th Ichon Festival, Ichon, Kyunggi Province, Korea
Invitational, “1999 China International Ceramic Invitational Exhibition” China Yaoware Ceramic Museum, Tongchuang, Xain, People’s Republic of China
Invitational, “Artists Collect”, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Invitational, “Fall Exhibition”, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Portland, ME
Invitational, “Domestic Pottery”, Materia: Hand & Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ
Invitational, “Karnes/Stannard Exhibition, The Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA
1998
Invitational, “Functional Ceramics”, John Elder Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational, “14 American Potters”, Moegi Gallery, Mashiko, Japan

VISITING ARTIST/LECTURES/PANELS/RESIDENCIES/JUROR (selected)
2009 Panel, College Art Association (CAA), Title: A Question of Depth: Collaboration and Interdisciplinary in Ceramics, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Panel/Demonstration, Utilitarian Clay Conference, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, PANELS Gatlinburg, TN
2008 Juror, History in the Making – Exhibition, Genesee Center for the Arts and Education, JUROR Rochester, NY
2008 Visiting Artist Lecture/Demonstration/Critiques, University of Lincoln, Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2007 Lecture/Demonstration, (in conjunction with exhibition) The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Lecture/Demonstrations, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
2007 Panelist, “Teaching Prototypes”, NCECA Conference, Louisville, KY
2007 Lecture/Demonstrations, The Clay Edge, Gulgong, Australia, NSW
2006 Visiting Artist, Visiting Ceramic Arts Lecture Series Meadows School of the Arts, SMU Dallas, TX
2006 Lecture/Workshop, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
2006 Master Class, Arrowmont School of Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
2005 Lecture/Critiques, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2006 Lecture/ Workshop, BC Potter’s Guild, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2004 Residency/Workshop/Lecture, Tainan National College of The Arts, Tainan, Taiwan
2003 Workshop, Trax Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2002 Demonstration / Lecture, Genesee Pottery, Rochester, NY
2002 Workshop / Lecture, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts – Summer Session
2002 Workshop / Lecture, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Demonstrator / Lecture, 15th North Carolina Potter’s Conference, Asheboro, NC
2001 Demonstrator, 2001: Clay Odyssey, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
2001 Panel, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, “Color and Fire” Exhibition
2001 Panel, SOFA Chicago (Helen Drutt Gallery)
2001 Participant, Organizer, “Conversations” Residency at Chester Springs Schoolhouse, Chester Springs, PA
2001 Panelist, “Content of Function”, NCECA Conference, Denver, CO
2001 Workshop/Lecture, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2001 Demonstrator, Utilitarian Clay III National Symposium, Gatlinburg, TN
2001 Visiting Artist / Lecture, University of Fairbanks, AK
1999 Visiting Artist / Lecture, Chunkang College of Cultural Industry, Inchun-Si, Korea
1999 Visiting Artist, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 Workshop / Lecture, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX
1998 Workshop / Lecture, Peter’s Valley Craft Education Center, Layton, NJ
1998 Visiting Artist, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON, Canada
1998 Visiting Artist, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1998 Visiting Artist, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
1998 Visiting Artist, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LO
1997 Workshop / Lecture, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
1997 Visiting Artist, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB, Canada
1997 Residency, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

CATALOGUES/BOOKS/ARTICLES/REVIEWS (selected)
2007 American Craft, Volume 68, Number2, (Exhibition Announcement), (g 49, photograph)
2007 The Masters: Porcelain-Major Works By Leading Ceramists, Lark Books – Sterling REVIEWS Publishing Company, Asheville, NC (Text and Images Pages 240 – 247) April 2007
2007 Ceramic Technical, No. 25, “C lay Edge Gulgong 2007”, November 2007 (pg 93 – 98)
2007 NCECA Journal 2007, Volume XXVIII, Panel Transcript: Teaching Prototypes and Pluralist Processes, NCECA Conference, Louisville, KY (Pages 28 – 30)
2005 The Studio Potter, vol 33, no 2(June 2005), Contemporary Functional Pottery: A Sampling of Views, Linda Sikora, guest editor, 18 – 43
2005 Ceramics Monthly, (November 2005), “The Visceral Vessel”, Diana Lyn Roberts, 17-18 (review, photograph)
2004 The Studio Potter, vol 32, no 2(June 2004), “Linda Sikora: Beneath the Surface”, Mark Shapiro, interviewer/author, 7 – 14
2004 Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface. Robin Hopper, author. Krause Publications Inc., U.S.A., 2004 (photograph, page 196)
2004 Ceramics Monthly, (October 2004), “Matthew Metz and Linda Sikora Exhibition: Baltimore Clayworks”, 16, (preview, photographs)
2004 Crart, 3 – 4 No. 29, “Trax Gallery”, Korean Publication, 2004 (photograph, page 56/7)
2003 Mingei Legacy: The Pottery of Hamada, Kawai, Leach and Their Successors. Michel L. Conroy, author. Mingei International Museum, San Deigo, CA
2003 American Contemporary Ceramics, KCPF Publisher, Seoul, Korea 2003 (page 74, 75)
2003 Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 51(2003), “Handmade by Design”, Paul J. Smith, author; 83(photograph)
2002 American Ceramics, Volume 14, Number 1, “Exhibition Review – Leopod Foulem”, Linda Sikora, author; 50 (‘Singular Abstraction – Leopold Foulem’, exhibited at Schein- Joseph Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY)
2002 Exhibition Preview, ‘”on_m” Hoon Lee’, Linda Sikora, author; Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2002 Working With Clay – 2nd Edition. Susan Peterson, author. Laurence King Publishing, UK (photograph)
2000 Objects For Use – Handmade by Design. Paul Smith, General Editor. Harry N. Abrams,Inc., Publishers, in association with the American Craft Museum, U.S.A., 2001 109 – 111 (photographs)
2000 SOFA CHICAGO – SCULPTURAL OBJECTS & FUNCTIONAL ART. exh. cat., Chicago, IL, 2001 181(photograph)
2000 The Art of Contemporary American Pottery. Kevin A. Hluch, author. Krause Publications, U.S.A., 2001 21,80,123,132 (photographs, statements)
2000 Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000, Diversity and Difference, ed. Pat Kirkham, The Barde Center for graduate Studies in the decorative Arts, Design and Culture, NY
2000 The Ceramic Spectrum. Robin Hopper, author, Krause Publications, U.S.A., 200(photographs)
2000 TAKING MEASURE, AMERICAN CERAMIC ART AT THE NEW MILLENNIUM. exh. cat., Yoju, Korea 2001 18(photograph, statement)
2000 Functional Pottery: Form and Aesthetic in Pots of Purpose. Robin Hopper, author. Krause Publications, 114 (photograph)
2000 STRICTLY FUNCTIONAL POTTERY NATIONAL. exh. cat., Lancaster, PA: The Lancaster Museum of Art, 2000, (photograph)
2000 The NCECA Journal 2000 – Higher Ground, vol 21(2000), “The Content of Function”, Linda Sikora, author, 145-147
2000 Teapots Transformed- Exploration of an Object. Leslie Ferrin, author. Guild Publishing, U.S.A., 2000 22(photograph)
2000 THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NATIONAL CERAMICS BIENNIAL 2000: FOCUS ON FUNCTION. exh. cat., Minneapolis, MN: Katherine E. Nash Gallery, The University of Minnesota, 2000 (Juror Statement)
1999 THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC ARTIST WORKSHOP & EXHIBITION. exh. cat., Ichon, Korea: Chungkang College of Cultural Industries, 23 – 24
1999 Tableware In Clay: From Studio & Workshop. Karen Ann Wood, author. The Crowood Press, UK. 150(Photograph)
1996 WALTER OSTROM: THE ADVOCACY OF POTTERY. exh. cat., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1996; 45,24 & 34
1996 The Studio Potter, vol 24, no 2 (June),”Living Pots”, Linda Sikora, author; 24
1994 American Ceramics, vol 11, no 2 (Spring), “Ceramics and Americanness”, Peter Schjeldahl, author; 40-43

AWARDS and GRANTS
2002 The Ruth Berger Rubenstein Memorial Award For Excellence in Teaching, Alfred University
2000 Strictly Functional Pottery National – Exhibition Award
1999 CLAY Award For Lifetime Achievement – The Friends of Contemporary Ceramics-Presented to NYSCC Division of Ceramic Art Faculty Past & Present
1998 Arts Leadership Award – Minnesota State Arts Board
1997 Council on Research and Creative Work, University of Colorado – Boulder

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selected)
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
College of St. Catherine – St. Paul, MN
University of Colorado – Boulder, CO
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts – Racine, WI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Los Angeles, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts – Minneapolis, MN
Northern Clay Center – Minneapolis, MN

PROFESSIONAL ENRICHMENT (selected)
2009 College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Symposium: Utilitarian Clay, Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, TN
2008 CAFA City Design School, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China
2007 Symposium: The Object and Making: Function and Meaning, Haystack Mountain School TRAVEL of Crafts, Haystack, ME
2007 Symposium: The Clay Edge, Gulgong, Australia, NSW
2007 NCECA Louisville, Kentucky
2004 London, UK (Research: including interview and visit studio: Allen Caiger-Smith)
2004 Islamic Republic of Iran (Research: Tehran, Esphahan, Shiraz, Kashan)
2004 Taiwan (Research: including residency: Tainan National College of The Arts )
2000 Millennium Conference, Amsterdam, Holland
1999 Korea (Research)including residency: Chunkang College of Cultural Industry, Inchun-Si)

AUCTION/DONATIONS (selected)
2008 Archie Bray Foundation
2006 Archie Bray Foundation
2006 Arizona State University