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David W. Bolton
Education
1994 MFA in Ceramics from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago
1991 BFA in Art from the University of Evansville,
Evansville, IN
Teaching Experience
August
2005 to Present Full-time
Tenure-track Ceramics Instructor, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Duties at College of lake County, Grayslake
Head Ceramics Program
Teach Advanced, Intermediate, and Beginning Ceramics Classes
Advise Students
Manage Part-time Faculty in Ceramics
November 1998 to
August 2004 North Arts Studio
Coordinator (Ceramics & Sculpture Studio Coordinator), Central Michigan
University, Mount Pleasant, MI
Duties
at Central Michigan
University
Teach
Classes and Seminars
Manage
Ceramics and Sculpture Facilities
Oversee
Graduate Assistants and Work-study Students
Service
on Graduate Critique Panels
Classes
taught at Central Michigan University
Spring
2004 Beginning Throwing (ART
210)
Spring
2000 – Fall 2003 Beginning
Ceramics (ART 110)
Fall
2001 Glaze Calculation (ART 597)
Summer
2000 Wood Kiln Building and
Firing (ART 597)
Spring
1999 – Fall 1999 Beginning Sculpture (ART 160)
Committee
Service at Central Michigan University
Spring
2002 – August 2004 Safety
Committee
Fall
2002 – August 2004
National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) Accreditation
Committee
Fall
2000 – Fall 2001 Gallery
Committee
Spring
2004-2003 Art
Department Advisory Board Member, Alma College, Alma, MI
January 2001 Visiting Artist, Incline Village High School,
Incline Village, NV
August 1996 to July
1998 Kiln Firing and
Installation Seminar Instructor, Alpine Kilns, Elk Grove Village, IL
Winter 1996 Instructor of 6 Week Ceramic Workshop for
disabled persons, Missoula Developmental Service Corporation, Missoula, MT
Summer 1994 Adjunct Professor, Multi-level Ceramics, School
of the Art Institute of Chicago
June 1994 Teaching Assistant for two-week workshop with Jim
Lawton, Penland, NC
Spring 1994 3-D Design Teaching Assistant, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago
Fall 1993 Ceramics Instructor/Teaching Assistant, School of
the Art Institute of Chicago
Additional Professional Experience
August 2004 –
Present Independent Studio
Artist
Summer 2002 –
Present Technical Consultant to
Alpine Kilns, Sturtevant, WI
January 1998 Juror, Regional Scholastic Art Contest
(High school student art contest), Mount Prospect, IL
August 1996 to July
1998 Manager, Alpine Kilns, Elk
Grove Village, IL
Duties
at Alpine Kiln
Design
new products, including key contributions to new Alpine downdraft kiln
Manage
production of kilns and pottery equipment
Service
kilns and pottery equipment
August 1994 to July
1995 Kiln Builder, Alpine Kilns,
Elk Grove Village, IL
January 1993 to May
1994 Graduate Assistant, School
of the Art Institute of Chicago
Group Exhibitions
2004 Independent Colleges Exhibition,
Representing the University of Evansville as an alumni at the Indianapolis
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference
2004 Post Industrial Romanticism (Group
Exhibition with Dan Anderson, John Goodheart, Hoss Haley, Steve Hanson, Stephen
Heywood, Ahmad Sabha, and Susanna Speirs), W.D.O. A Contemporary Craft Gallery,
Charlotte, NC
2002 Annual Faculty Exhibition, CMU, Mount
Pleasant, MI
2000 Annual Faculty Exhibition, CMU, Mount
Pleasant, MI
2000 Conceptual Vision: Three Clay Artists
(Group Exhibition with Holly Hanessian, and Marcia Polenberg), Flora Kirsch
Beck Gallery, Alma College, Alma, MI
2000 New Michigan Clay Artist (Group
Exhibition with Sam Chung, Holly Hanessian, Sadashi Inuzuka, Jae Won Lee, and
Robert Beishline), Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, Photograph of Locked Stacking
Canister published in Ceramics Monthly, April 2000
1999 Annual Faculty Exhibition, Annual
Faculty Exhibition, CMU, Mount Pleasant, MI
1999 Alumni Exhibition, University of
Evansville, Evansville, IN
1998 Teapot Exhibition, Native Soil, Evanston,
IL
1994 Alumni Exhibition, University of
Evansville, Evansville, IN
Juried National Invitational Exhibitions
2003 Functional Ceramics, (National
Juried Invitational with Randy Johnston, Liz Quackenbush, Lee Rexrode, and
others), Wooster, OH, curator: Phyllis Blair Clark
2002 DinnerWorks, Water Tower, Louisville Arts
Association, Louisville, KY, curator: Associate Professor John Guenther,
Indiana University Southeast
National Competitive Exhibitions
2002 Fourteenth San Angelo National Ceramic
Competition, Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX,
juror: Director Emeritus Jimmy Clark of the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA
2001 Feats of Clay XIV, Lincoln Arts &
Culture Foundation, Gladding McBean Pottery, Lincoln, CA, juror: Baylor
University Associate Professor Paul McCoy, (Purchase Award) Photograph of Lock Box published in Clay Times
November/December 2001
1999 USA Craft Today Third National Juried
Biennial, Silvermine
Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, juror: Senior Curator Jeremy Adamson of the
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
in Washington, DC (Award), Positive review in New York Times September 19, 1999
1994 Eight by Eight National Juried Exhibition,
Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 New Generation: Habatat/Shaw Gallery’s
Second Annual National Graduate Student Exhibition, Farmington Hills, MI
1993 New Generation: Habatat/Shaw Gallery’s
First Annual National Graduate Student Exhibition, Farmington Hills, MI (Third Place Purchase
Award)
1993 National Grad Show at the Farrell Collection,
Washington, DC, juror: Professor Val Cushing, New York State College of
Ceramics at Alfred University
Regional Competitive Exhibitions
2002-3 21st Annual MPA Traveling Ceramics
Exhibition Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Dennos Museum, Traverse
City, MI, and Space 237, Toledo, OH, jurors: Associate Professor Georgia
Strange and Professor John Goodheart from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN
(Merit Award)
2001 Celebrate Clay, Lawrence Street Gallery,
Pontiac, MI, juror: Ceramic Artist Mark Chatterly
2001 All Media Show Studio 23, Bay City, MI
2000 All Media Show Studio 23, Bay City, MI (Two
Honorable Mentions)
1996 52nd Annual Wabash Valley
Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
1995 Mid-states Craft Exhibition, Evansville
Museum, Evansville, IN
1993 49th Annual Wabash Valley
Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
1992 48th Annual Wabash Valley
Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN (Purchase Award)
1991 Mid-states Craft Exhibition, Evansville
Museum, Evansville, IN
1991 47th Annual Wabash Valley
Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN (Purchase Award)
1990 46th Annual Wabash Valley
Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
Juried Regional Invitational Exhibitions
2004 Michigan Ceramics, Saginaw Art Museum,
Saginaw, MI
2004 Spring Show, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit,
MI
Grants
2002 Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors Grant for research and creative work in bronze casting
and woodworking, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
Selected Publications
2002 500 Teapots, editor: Suzanne J. E.
Tourtillott, Three teapots featured in book published by Sterling Publications
2001 Photograph of Lock Box published in Clay Times
November/December 2001
2000 Photograph of Locked Stacking Canister published in Ceramics Monthly April
2000
1999 Positive review of “Stacking Teapot” in New York Times September 19, 1999
Honors and Awards
2002 Merit Award, 21st Annual MPA Traveling
Ceramics Exhibition Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Dennos Museum,
Traverse City, MI, and Space 237, Toledo, OH
1999 The Ethan Harry Ross Award for Ceramics, USA Craft Today Third National Juried
Biennial, Silvermine
Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
1996 Nominee for Au Kurant Exhibition - SOFA,
Chicago
1993 Third Place
Purchase Award Habatat/Shaw
Gallery’s First Annual National Graduate Student Exhibition, Farmington
Hills, MI
1993 Nominee of Ceramics Department for School of the
Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Merit Scholarship
1991 Gumberts Award
for Excellence, University of
Evansville, Evansville, IN
Public Collections
Nightwoods Teapot, Vincennes
University, Vincennes, IN
Three Lock Box, Sheldon
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
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