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AWARDS

2003    Madison Art Fair on the Square, Invitational Award, Madison, WI

2003    100 Best American Artists Merit Award, Taste of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

2003    United States Pottery Olympics 2^nd place award, Cambridge, WI

2003    Cambridge Pottery Festival Aesthetic award, Cambridge, WI

2002    ARAC McKnight Artist Fellowship, Duluth MN

2000    Career Development Grant, ARAC, Duluth, MN

1999    Cambridge Pottery Festival 2^nd Place Invitational Award Winner, Cambridge, WI

1999    Kruk Gallery Exhibition, 2^nd Place award winner, Superior, WI

1998    The Aesthetics Award, Cambridge Pottery Festival, Cambridge, WI

1998    Cambridge Pottery Festival 1st Place Invitational Award Winner, Cambridge, WI

1995    American Multi‑Cultural Student Leadership Conference 2^nd place winner in poetry, La Crosse, WI

1995    Student/Faculty Undergraduate Collaborative Research Grant – Ceramics, Eau Claire, WI

1995    Graduation with Honors‑‑B.A. Cum Laude, University of Wisconsin‑Eau Claire

1995    Henry Aaron Graduate Academic Merit Scholarship award winner

 

 

PUBLICATIONS/EXHIBITIONS

2003    “Found Objects”  Washington Galleries, Duluth, MN

2003    Japanese Lantern Festival, St. Paul, MN

2003    Madison Art Fair on the Square, Madison, WI

2003    Taste of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

2003    Cambridge Pottery Festival, Cambridge, WI                          

2003    “Elements” Art Collective, Minneapolis, MN

2003    “Down & Dirty” a ceramics invitational, Siverston’s Gallery, Duluth, MN

2003    Art Resources Exhibition, St. Paul, MN

2003    “La Piedra Comunica” – The Stone Communicate, Washington Galleries, Duluth, MN

2002    Minnesota State Fair Juried Exhibition, St. Paul MN

2002    “Tony Ferguson, Exhibition” Waters of Superior Gallery, Duluth, MN

2002    Cambridge Pottery Festival Exhibitor, Cambridge, WI                                  

2002    Washington Studios Group Spring Art Exhibition, Duluth MN

2002    Aquarius Art Gallery, Virtual Exhibit, World Wide Web

2001    Midwest Salute to the Masters Festival of Fine Arts, St Louis, IL

2001    Exhibition of Anagama Wood fired Works, Washington, Studios, Duluth, MN

2001    Madison Art Fair on the Square, Madison, WI

2001    Cambridge Pottery Festival Exhibitor, Cambridge, WI

2001    Washington Studios Group Spring Art Exhibition, Duluth MN

2001    Aquarius Art Gallery, Virtual Exhibit, World Wide Web

2000    Pottery For all Kind of Places, Solo Exhibition, Washington Studios, Duluth, MN

1999    Washington Studios Fall Art Exhibition, Duluth MN

1999    Duluth Depot Art Fair, Duluth, MN

1999    Powder-Horn Park Festival of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN

1999    Cambridge Pottery Festival Exhibitor, Cambridge, WI                                  

1999    Kruk Gallery Spring Juried Art Exhibition, 2^nd Place award, “Coming and Going Into Being”

1999    “Contents Hot” 1^st Annual Washington Studios Tea Pot Art Exhibition, Duluth MN

1999    Washington Studios Spring Art Exhibition, Duluth MN

1998    Cambridge Pottery Festival Exhibitor, Cambridge, WI

1998    Powder Horn Park Festival of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN

1998    Chef John Folse Culinary Institute National Juried Utilitarian Ceramics Competition, “Mantis”

1998    1998 Washington Studios Fall Art Exhibition, Duluth MN

1997    Fred Wells 21 National Juried Exhibition, Wood fired Stoneware Vase “Marked”

1996    Glen Sheen, Exhibitor, Duluth, MN

1995    Marine on the St. Croix Harvest Fest, Scandia, MN

1995    “Cult of Clay” Art exhibition, Eau Claire, WI

1993    Juried Art Show, Foster Gallery, Raku Stoneware “Nanak”

 

 

PRESENTATIONS/DEMONSTRATION

2003    Raku Firing Demonstration, Japanese Lantern Festival, Minneapolis, MN

2003    Raku Firing Demonstration, Art Collective Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2003    Raku Firing Demonstration, Osceola, WI

2002    International Folk Festival, Duluth, MN

2001    International Folk Festival, Duluth, MN

1999    “Trip to Korea 1995” slide presentation to 1^st Lutheran Church, Duluth

1998+ Art Space Clay Studio, Studio Artist in Residence, Duluth, MN

1998    “Survey of Onggi Pottery,” slide presentation, Washington Studios

1996    “Building an Anagama Kiln,” slide presentation, University of Wisconsin-Superior

1996    “Building an Anagama Kiln,” slide presentation, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

1995    “American Forming Techniques” Demonstration‑‑Chonju Art Exhibition, Iri City, South Korea

1995    Slide Presentation: “Anagama Wood fire with Mike Weber,” WoN Kwang University, South Korea

 

 

RESIDENCIES

2004    Feb, Freund Studios, 10 day creative development, glaze application, and firing residency, Miami, Florida

2004    Neighborhood Youth Services, East Central Hillside Clay Project, Duluth, MN 55806

2003    Oct, Hayward Tribal High School, Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation (1 week, raku workshop), Hayward, WI

2003    Feb – July, UDAC, Special Needs Artists, Duluth, MN

2003    Aug, Camp Miller YMCA, (1 week, pottery & sculpture, Raku & primitive firing), Sturgeon Lake, MN

2002    Aug, Camp Miller YMCA, (1 week, pottery & sculpture, Raku & primitive firing), Sturgeon Lake, MN

2001    Aug, Camp Miller YMCA, (1 week, pottery & sculpture, Raku & primitive firing), Sturgeon Lake, MN

2001    June/July, Duluth Art Institute Summer Camp, Duluth, MN

 

 

WORKSHOPS DELIVERED

2003    Antioch Pottery Workshop, Springfield, IL

2002    Art Space Artist’s Cooperative, Duluth, Minnesota

2001    Portable Raku Kiln Building Workshop, Washington Galleries, Duluth, Minnesota

2001    Anagama Glazing, Firing and Single Firing Workshop, Osceola, Wisconsin

2000    Portable Raku Kiln Building Workshop, Washington Galleries, Duluth, Minnesota

1997    Minnetonka Art Center Anagama Firing Workshop, Osceola, Wisconsin

1992-   Many High Schools

 

 

ARTICLES/PUBLISHED IMAGES

2004    Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, Giffin Grip Advertisement

2003    Ceramics Today, Raku Firing on the Web:  http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/hb_raku.htm

2003    Clay Times,  September/October, “Cambridge Pottery Festival”

2003    Pottery Making Illustrated, July/August, “Teaching By Choice”

2003    Ceramics Today, Mystery Maker "Pot of the Week"  http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/ferguson.htm

2003    Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, Giffin Grip Advertisement

2002    Smart Conseil, "Raku Kiln Building Workshop"

2002    Singapore “Fourwalls” Essential Home Guide of Singapore, Keypoint, Singapore

 

 

INTERNSHIPS

1995    Internship in Art, South Korea ‑ Study of Korean Ceramic Arts and Techniques

1993    The Wisconsin English Journal, Eau Claire, WI

 

 

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Tweed Museum, Duluth MN