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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005 Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California. Featured artist by curator invitation.
2004-present King’s Mountain Art Festival, Woodside, California. Invitational juried group show.
2004 American Craft Council, San Francisco, California. Peer review and juried group show.
2002-present Gump’s Gallery, “mastercraft” Exhibition of Contemporary and Traditional Works by Leading International Craft Artists”, San Francisco, California. Juried exhibitions.
2001 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, California. Juried show. Exhibitor.
2000-present Bruno Kark Ceramics Studio, Emeryville, California. Workshop, design studio and ongoing exhibition of new work.
1999 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, California. Juried show. Exhibitor.
1989-present Association of Clay and Glass Artists (ACGA), Palo Alto, California. Juried exhibitions. Featured artist.
1995-2003 American Craft Enterprises (ACE), San Francisco, California. Juried shows. Featured artist.
1990 Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Inc. Gallery (ACCI), Berkeley, California. “Design and Craft - the New Decade”. Group show, juried by Lia Cook, Susan Cummins, and Richard Shaw.
1989 Warden Gallery, San Francisco, California. Solo exhibition.
1988-2000 Earthworks Pottery Collective, Berkeley, California. Workshop and exhibition.
1989 Richmond Fine Arts and Craft Show, Richmond, Virginia. Juried group show.
1987-present Ikebana International, Golden Gate Park Hall of Flowers, San Francisco, California. Association honoring Japanese Art of Flower Arrangement. Guest exhibitor and featured artist.
1987,88,89 Tenmaya Gallery, Okayama, Japan. “Isezaki Jun Ichi Mon Ten Show of Apprentices”. Juried group show.
1985 “Okayama Prefecture”, Okayama, Japan. Juried show.
1984 Nathan Hart Gallery, San Francisco, California. Solo exhibition.
1983 The Store Front Gallery of Linda Trunzo, San Francisco, California. Solo exhibition.
 
SELECTED GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
 
2006 M.H. de Young Museum (Museum Shop), San Francisco, California
1997-1999 Fort Mason Folk Craft Museum (Museum Shop), San Francisco, California. Featured artist.
1995-present Asian Art Museum (Museum Shop), San Francisco, California
1995-present F. Dorian Gallery, San Francisco, California. Gallery artist.
1995-2003 Kay Crowley Pacific Designs, San Anselmo, California. Gallery artist.
1992-2004 Fumiki Fine Arts, San Francisco, California. Gallery artist.
1990-present NOMA Gallery, Gualala, California. Gallery artist.
1990-2000 Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Inc. Gallery (ACCI), Berkeley, California. Featured artist.
 
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
 
1995-2000 Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Inc. (ACCI), Berkeley, California
1989-present Association of Clay and Glass Artists (ACGA), Palo Alto, California
1987-present Ikebana International, San Francisco, California
 
TEACHING, WORKSHOPS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
 
2006 San Joaquin Clay & Glass Association, Fresno, California. Guest instructor.
2005 San Joaquin Potters Guild, Stockton, California. Guest instructor.
2005 Sharon Arts, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California. Guest instructor.
2002 Ikebana International, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, “East Bay Artists’ Studios”, Emeryville, California. Hands-on workshop.
2000-present Rossmoor Ceramics Group, Rossmoor, California. Guest instructor.
1994-present Walnut Creek Civic Arts Program, Walnut Creek, California. Teacher.
1989-present Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California. Teacher.
· Advanced wheel-throwing and hand building
· Wheel-thrown forms
· High-temperature glazing
· Throwing tall cylinders
1988-1989 Parsons School of Design, New York, New York. Teacher’s assistant to Jeff Shapiro. (Bizen-style Anagama hill-climbing, wood-fired kiln.)
1987 The Museum Art School, San Francisco, California. Teacher’s assistant to John Delois. (Ceramics)
 
PROFESSIONAL INTERIOR DESIGN AFFILIATIONS
 
2005 Applegate Tran Interiors, Vernon Applegate, San Francisco, California
1997-present Kay Hannah Associates, Kay Hannah, San Francisco, California
1995-present Werner Design, Jeffrey Werner, Redwood City, California
 
EDUCATION AND APPRENTICESHIPS
 
1987 International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy. Invited observer.
1984-1986 Isezaki Jun, Bizen, Japan - Apprenticeship. (Bizen Yakishime wood ash effect from Anagama and Noborigama-style hill climbing kilns.)
1984 Parsons School of Design, New York, New York. “Parsons in Japan Tour for Potters”, lead by Jeff Shapiro. Invited participant.
1983-1984 Norstad Potter, Richmond, California. Full-time apprentice potter to Eric Norstad.
1982-1989 Large Wheel-Thrown Forms, College of Marin, Kentfield, California. David Kuroka, workshop instructor.
1982 Ceramics student of Rob MacConnell, Galileo High School, San Francisco, California
1982 Pescadero Beach Raku, Pescadero, California. Lead by Bill Abright and David Kuroka. Invited participant.
1982-1984 College of Marin, Kentfield, California. Student of Bill Abright.
1974-1982 M.H. de Young Museum Art School. Instruction by Jim Stevenson, Richard Fong and Tad Sekino. (Art/Ceramics)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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