Experience and Exhibition History
Experience
1993-present Studio potter and sculptor in Homer, AK.
2004 1% for Public Art Commission from the City of Homer to design and install a story grove for the children’s room of the new Homer Public Library.
2002-2003 1% for Public Art Commission from the Municipality of Anchorage. Installed six sculptures at the Columbarium in the Anchorage Municipal Cemetery.
1996-2002 Ceramics Instructor at Kenai Peninsula College, Homer.
1998-2000 Curator of the Pratt Museum's Spring Juried Art Show, Homer.
1997 Curator of Déjà vu at the Lighthouse Gallery, Homer.
1992-1993 Ceramics instructor at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
1991-1992 Studio potter and sculptural work at Bird Creek, AK. Built a 40 cu. ft. salt kiln.
1991 Two-month Artist-in-Residency at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
1988-1990 Studio potter, sculptural work and private teaching at Kodiak, AK.
1984 Studio potter at the Glenn Echo Pottery, Maryland.
1982-1985 Ceramics Instructor at the Kodiak Community College.
1978 One-year apprenticeship to Toshiko Takaezu, Quakertown, New Jersey.
1976-1977 Studied under Toshiko Takaezu at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Permanent Collection Acquisitions
2005 Anchorage Museum of History and Art “Beautiful Gravity”
2004 Anchorage Museum of History and Art “Untitled”
Artist-in-the-Schools Residencies
2001-2004 Various schools in Homer, AK
1991 Tatitlek, Prince William Sound, AK
1999 White Mountain, AK
1986 Ceramics teacher, Kodiak High School
1993 Yakutat, AK
1985 Kodiak Public Schools, Kodiak, AK
Workshops
2001 Malcolm Davis– Porcelain throwing
1991 Steve Tater - Glass casting
2000 Jeff Oestrich – Thrown and altered forms Paulus Berensohn - Pottery & sculpture
1999 Martin Tagseth - Advanced throwing
1990 Yukio Yamamoto and Don Bendel – Kevin Smith - Slide taking Hand-building, throwing & calligraphy
1995 Clary Illian – Pottery Don Reitz & Don Bendel - Noborigama John Leach – Pottery
1984 Hosted Toshiko Takaezu at Kodiak Libby Platus - The business of art
1982 Garron Alexander - Wood fire raku
1994 Peter Bevis - Mold making
1981 David Shaner - Pottery
1993 Hosted Clary Illian at U.A.A.
1978 Peter Voulkos – Clay Sculpture
1992 Fresh Produce – Improvisation K. Sakazume & Kirk Mangus – Anagama
Exhibitions
2005
- Ocean Art, Pratt Museum, Homer, AK.
- Friends of Alex, Pratt Museum, Homer.
2004
- Masters of Mud, Anchorage Museum of History and Art (AMHA)., Anchorage, AK.
- Pratt Museum Spring Juried Art Show, Homer.
2003
- Alaska Clay Exhibit, Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer.
2002
- Big Pot Show, regional invitational, Alaska Glass Gallery, Anchorage AK.
2000
- Honorable Mention Award, Kenai Potter's Guild Juried Clay Show, Kenai, AK.
- New Works solo sculpture exhibition at Picture Alaska Art Gallery, Homer. AK.
- Honorable Mention Award, Alaska Statewide Juried Clay Exhibition, Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, AK.
1999
- Table, national invitational exhibit, Bunnell Street Gallery.
- Small Steps, solo sculpture exhibition, Carr Gottstein Gallery, Alaska Pacific University.
- Facing the Elements V, group outdoor sculpture show, Pratt Museum.
1998
- Exteriors, group exhibition at Bunnell Street Gallery.
1997
- Recent Work by a Very Lucky Man, solo exhibition at Ptarmigan Arts Backroom Gallery, Homer, AK.
1996
- Wood Fired In Alaska, group show of wood fired ceramics at Alaskaland Gallery, Fairbanks, AK.
- Facing the Elements II, group outdoor sculpture show, Pratt Museum.
- All-Alaska Juried Clay Exhibition, Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer and Morris Decker Gallery, Anchorage, AK.
- Let It Show, two-person exhibition with photographer Aleda Yourdon, Grant Hall, A.P.U. campus, Anchorage, AK.
1995
- Let It Show, Bunnell Street Gallery.
- Pratt Museum Spring Juried Art Show.
- Facing the Elements I, group sculpture show, Pratt Museum.
- Group show Metamorphosis, Bunnell Street Gallery.
- Group show, Illuminations, Bunnell Street Gallery.
1994
- Pratt Museum Spring Juried Art Show.
- XXV All Alaska Juried Art Exhibition, AMHA.
1993
- Jurors award, Kenai Potters Guild All Clay Show.
- Victims, University of Alaska, Anchorage National Invitational Group Show.
- Earth, Fire and Fiber Show, AMHA.
1991
- Craft as Art Invitational, Visual Arts Center, Anchorage.
- Jurors award, Kenai Potters Guild All Clay Show.
- Earth, Fire and Fiber Show, AMHA.
1990
- Sculpture shown at the Stonington and Artique Galleries, Anchorage.
1987 & 1988
- Kodiak Visual Arts League Spring Art Show, Kodiak.