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Education
MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY: 2013
BS, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY: magna cum laude 2010
Residencies, Awards, and Publications
2022 Inclusion in “The Beginners Guide to Handbuilding, functional and sculptural projects for the home potter”, by Sunshine Cobb (pp. 61, 109)
2020 Penland Winter Residency
2019 Exposure, Ceramics Monthly; May Issue
2019 inclusion in “Terra Sigillata: Contemporary Techniques”, by Rhonda Willers (pp. 65)
2017 “NCECA’s Emerging Artist Exhibition” Ceramics Monthly; February pp. 56-59
2015 Exposure, Ceramics Monthly; June, July, August Issue
2016 NCECA Emerging Artist Award, Kansas City Mo.
2015-2016 Short term resident at RIT School for American Crafts
2013 Visiting Artist at Tainan National University of the Arts and Assistant to Hsu Yung Hsu; Tainan, Taiwan
2012 Haystack Art School Collaborative, Haystack Mountain School for Crafts, ME
Presentations
2023 Colored Clay Collage Workshop, with Kala Stein (online, ongoing)
2021 Azusa Pacific University, CA
2016 NCECA Emerging Artist Talk, Kansas City MO
2014 RIT School for American Crafts Ceramics Department
2013 Tainan National University of the Arts
2013 PetchaKutcha
2012-2013 RIT Ceramics Contemporary & Historical Ceramic Art Lectures
2012 Annual Haystack Art School Collaborative
2010 Roberts Wesleyan College Convocation Speaker
Exhibitions
2023 Clay National XVII: The Autobiography of an Object, Carbondale Clay Center, CO
2023 Lines and Other Forms, Dodomu Gallery
2023 A Ripple in the Garden, Soft Times Gallery, (Serena Corson, Joanna Poag, Mariana Varela) San Francisco California
2022 Color and Geometry, Ubique Art
2022 Works from the Permanent Collection, Davison Gallery, NY
2022 Object Lounge, Collar Works, NY
2022 Catharsis, The Holy Art, London
2022 Adorned, Ann Marie Sculpture Garden and Gallery, Solomon MD
2022 Small and Mighty, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
2021 Metro Montage, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, GA
2021 Small Works, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Form and Function, Applied Contemporary, Oakland CA
2020 Small Works, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2020 Constructed Ceramics, Applied Contemporary, Oakland CA
2019 Small Works, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2019 Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
2019 Faculty Exhibition, Davison Gallery, Rochester NY
2019 Black/White Invitational, Rochester City Arts Center, Rochester NY
2019 Structured, Textile Center, Minneapolis MN (invitational)
2018 Shifts in Balance, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY (solo)
2017 Studies in Entropy, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion IN (solo)
2017 Sacred Curiosities, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY (invitational)
2017 Faculty Exhibition, Davison Gallery, Rochester NY
2016 NCECA Emerging Artist Exhibition, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City MO
2015 Faculty Exhibition, Davison Gallery, Rochester NY
2015 Transformations, RIT’s Bevier Gallery, Rochester NY (invitational)
2015 Upstate NY Ceramics Invitational, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2015 30 Under 30, Memorial Art Gallery Store, Rochester NY (invitational)
2015 Flourish, Genesee Firehouse Gallery, Rochester, NY (solo)
2015 Faculty Exhibition, Davison Gallery, Rochester, NY
2015 Makers and Mentors, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY (invitational)
2014 New Work by Kala Stein and Joanna Poag, Cornerstone Gallery, Honeoye, NY
2014 Different Point of View, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan (group exhibition)
2013 Encompassed, Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan Taiwan (solo)
2013 Echoed Contours, Davison Gallery, Rochester NY (invitational)
2013 Art Kudos International Competition
2013 Four Points Contemporary, online exhibition (Special Merit Award)
2012 MFA Thesis Solo Exhibition, The Harvester Center, Batavia NY
2012 Gallery r Process Show, Rochester NY
2012 Memorial Art Gallery Student Honors Fine Craft Show
2012 Red Heat Show, University of Tulsa, Tulsa OK (juried)
2012 Deans Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY
Experience
Assistant Professor of Art, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2015-Present
Davison Gallery Director, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2017-2022
Juror-Structurally Speaking: A National Juried Exhibition, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs NY (May 2015)
Adjunct Professor (3-D and Ceramics), Roberts Wesleyan College, 2014-2015
Assistant to Peter Pincus, 2014-2015
Studio Manager and Resident Artist Coordinator, Flower City Pottery, (Genesee Pottery) 2014-2015
Teaching Assistantship in Ceramics, RIT, 2012-2013.