catalog artist statement resume   biography

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
1967-1971 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2004- 2008 Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
1998 – 2004 Department of Art, U of MN- Minneapolis, Chair
1985-1997 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Professor, Department of Art 1996, Associate Professor, Department of Art Fall-1988, Assistant Professor, Professor Department of Art 1985
1980-85 Winona State University, Winona, MN

EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2008
Invitational – Double Chamber – group exhibit – Trax Gallery (private), Berkeley, CA
Invitational – Inspired: Students of Warren MacKenzie, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (museum), Houston, TX
Invitational – Annual Art Auction (group), Anderson Ranch Art Center (non-profit), Snowmass Village, CO
Invitational – Rock ,Paper ,Scissors (three-person), Pottery Northwest (non-profit), Seattle, WA
Invitational – Seven Original Voices in American Pottery, Gail Kendall, curator – University of Nebraska (group), LUX Center for the Arts (non-profit), Lincoln, NE
Invitational – SOFA in Chicago (group) – Represented by Santa Fe Clay (private), Santa Fe, NM
Invitational – Distinctive Lines (group), Lill Street Gallery (non-profit) – Chicago, IL
2007
Form and Abstraction; A Minimalist Approach, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay, NCECA, Lexington, KY
90 Teapots that Pour, Xen Gallery, St Louis, MO
Handheld Drinking Vessels, Main Street Art Gallery, Edwardsville, IL
Conversations Revisited, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006
Everyday Masters, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
Akar Gallery, Iowa City, IA
NCECA, Pots in Portland (Curated by Dan Anderson) Portland, OR
La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay, NCECA, Portland, OR
SOFA New York, Lacoste Gallery, New York, NY
14th Annual St Croix Potters Tour, Shafer, MN
Warren MacKenzie and the Midwest Five, Gen Gallery, New York, NY
SOFA Chicago, Lacoste Gallery, Chicago, IL
Two-Person (Pharis, Oestriech) Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2005
Seven Earthenware Potters, Homewood House, NCECA Baltimore, MD
SOFA New York, Lacoste Gallery, New York, NY
Solo Exhibition, Akar Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Three-person exhibition, Trax Gallery, Berkeley, CA
American Pottery Festival, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Solo Exhibition, Lacoste Gallery, Concord MA
The Artful Teapot, 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
East Meets West: the Contemporary Asian Aesthetic, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Diverse Domain – Contemporary North American Ceramic Art, Taipei County
Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan