RESUME
Teaching Experience
2017-present Professor, Ceramics, School of Art + Design, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2018-present Area Chairperson, Ceramics School of Art + Design, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2014 – 16 Area Chairperson, Ceramics, School of Art + Design, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2011 Director: Study Abroad Program, Ohio University in Hungary, The International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemét, Hungary
2010 – 16 Associate Professor, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2009 – 10 Assistant Professor, Ceramics, School of Art + Design, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2007 – 09 Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Invited Summer Faculty Positions
2017 Assembling the Figure: A Point of Departure Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2012 Constructing the Figure Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2011 Director: Travel Abroad Program, Ohio University in Hungary, The International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemét, Hungary
Kent Blossom Art, Ceramics Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2010 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
“Narrative Figure in the Ceramic Form,” Otterbein Summer Ceramic Institute, Otterbein College Westerville, OH
2008 Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Artist’s Residencies and Symposia
2017 Guest Artist in Residence, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
Fellowship Artist in Residence, Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO
2014 Invited, Mid-Career, McKnight Artist Residency The Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2012 BGSU Ceramics Symposium: Identity, Sustenance, and Environment, Bowling Green, OH
Ceramic Surface Forum, Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
2011 Two month Artist in Residence, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
2009 Artist in Residence, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
Artist’s Lectures and Workshops
2017 Workshop and Artist Lecture Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
Visiting Artist, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
Visiting Artist, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana
2016 Museum Talk, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Visiting Artist and Artist Lecture, Concord University, Athens, WV
Workshop Presenter, Ohio Ceramic Open House, Multi-Firing Surface Techniques, Ravenna, OH
Museum Talk, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Workshop Presenter, Ohio Ceramic Supply, Multi-Firing Surface Techniques, Ravenna, OH
2015 Visiting Artist, Oxbow (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Saugatuck, MI
Visiting Artist, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
2014 Artist Lecture, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Visiting Artist, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND
Visiting Artist, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Visiting Artist, The Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
2013 Gallery Talk and Demo, Ohio University-Ironton, Ironton, OH
Visiting Artist, Central Michigan University, MT Pleasant, MI
Visiting Artist, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
2013 Artist Lecture and Demo, BGSU Ceramics Symposium, Bowling Green, OH
Summer Faculty Lecture, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Artist Lecture and Demo, Ceramic Surface Forum, Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
Visiting Artist, University of Northern Iowa, Waterloo, IA
2011 Artist’s Lecture, The International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary
Artist Lecture, Kent Blossom Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Visiting Artist, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
Artist Lecture, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
2010 Museum Talk and Panel, Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Lecture, Inside Outside Art Talk, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH
Presenter, Ceramics Symposium, The Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
Symposium Panel: The Psychological Effect” To what extent does it drive figurative work,? “Figurative Association:
xThe Human Form in Clay,” Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN Moderator-Peter Beaseker)
Symposium Presenter/Demonstrator, “Figurative Association: The Human Form in Clay,” Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft,
Gatlinburg, TN
Presenter, NCECA Pre-Conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Workshop and Artist Lecture: “Narrative Figure in the Ceramic Form,” Otterbein Summer Ceramic Institute, Otterbein College,
Westerville, OH
Workshop and Artist Lecture, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Visiting Artist, Penland School of Craft, Cristina Cordova -Figurative Concentration, Penland, NC
Artist Lecture, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
Visiting Artist, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Artist Lecture, University of Alaska, Anchorage
2009 Artist Lecture, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
Artist Lecture, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
Participant, Panel: “Collaboration and Cooperation in Contemporary Ceramics,” International Ceramics Symposium:
Chinese Porcelain – From Tradition to Today, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2009 Visiting Artist, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Artist Lecture and Demonstration, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio
2008 Artist’s Lecture and Demonstration, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
Artist Lecture, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Artist Lecture, The Roswell Visual Arts Center, Rosewell, GA
Artist’s Lecture, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Artist’s Lecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Artist’s Lecture, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Roscoe Ceramic Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017 The Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
2016 Ohio University-Chillicothe, OH
Concord University, Arthur Butcher Gallery, Athens, WV
Roscoe Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014 SMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Memento,” Ohio University-Ironton, Ironton, OH
2012 Crimson Laurel Gallery, Bakersville, NC
Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
2008 Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
Fertility Objects, Gloria Singletary Gallery, The Living Arts and Science Center Lexington, KY
Selected Invitational Exhibitions
2018 Invitational Group Exhibition, Pittsburgh International Airport, Art in the Airport program, 2018 NCECA
Curated Exhibition, Appalachian Dirt, Blakey Center, Pittsburgh, PA
National Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Ellen Nelson Gallery, ArtSpace Lima, Lina, OH
Featured Artist October/November, Northern Clay Center Sales Gallery, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Kent State University Alumni Show, Kent State Downtown Art Gallery, Kent, Ohio 44240
Ceramics Invitational, River Gallery, Rocky River, OH
2017 Visiting Artist Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
Invitational Exhibition: Fluid: The Changing Face of Gender Identity, Idyllwild Arts, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild, CA
Invitational Exhibition, We the People: Serving Notice, AMOCA – American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Ugly Clay, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
MONSTER, Invitational Exhibition, Majestic Galleries, Nelsonville, OH
Ceramics Invitational, Abel Contemporary Gallery, Paoli, WI
Invitational Exhibition, ARC Contemporary Fine Art, The Manheim Gallery, Cottonwood, AZ
Featured Artist October/November, Northern Clay Center Sales Gallery, Northern Clay, Center, Minneapolis, MN
Featured Artist, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR
Collaboration, Group Exhibit, Abel Contemporary, Paoli, WI
Ceramics Invitational, River Gallery, Rocky River, OH
Faculty Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2016 Curated Exhibition, “Freak Show,”, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
McKnight Foundation Exhibition, Gallery M, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Invitational Exhibition, “Small Treasures,” Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Appalachian Dirt, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, Marshall University Visual Arts Center, Huntington, WV
Curated Exhibition, “Artist as Teacher,” Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Invitational Exhibition, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Invitational Figurative Exhibition, Caldwell Arts Council Gallery, Lenoir, NC
Invitational Exhibition, “701 Louisiana,” Cider Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Invitational Exhibit, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
2015 Curated Exhibition, “Taboo: Sexuality and Sexual Identity in Ceramics,” Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Glass and Ceramics Invitational, Hocking College Galleries, Nelsonville, OH
2014 National Invitational Exhibition, The Figure in Clay, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
A Home for Joe, Invitational Vessel Exhibition, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH
2013 National Invitational Exhibition
Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA
Figurative Invitational Exhibition, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
“Toy” Exhibition, Artisan Gallery, Belleville, WI
10th Annual Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Artisan Gallery, Belleville, WI
Invitational Exhibition, Artisan Gallery, Belleville, WI
2012 Aqua Art Miami, Jerod Fergeson Gallery, Miami, FL
National Ceramics Invitational Exhibit, Artisan Gallery, Paoli, WI
By Example: NC Potters and Their Mentors, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
“Modern Motives,” Invitational, Group Exhibition, University of Northern Iowa, Waterloo, IA
Group Invitational Exhibition, AMACO (American Art Clay Company), Indianapolis, IN
Contemporary Clay Invitational, J. Fergeson Gallery, Farmville, VA
A Show of Heads, The Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
Small Favors VII, Invitational Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
“Part & Parcel, The Deconstruction of the Female Form in Contemporary Art, Arts Guild New Jersey, Rahway, NJ
Figurative Ceramics Exhibition, Artisan Gallery, Paoli, WI
“Figure It Out: National Invitational Exhibition,” Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Invitational Exhibition, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2011 Fresh Figurines: A New Look at An Historic Art Form, The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (Gail M. Brown, Curator of
Contemporary Craft)
“Obsessive Allegories,” Gallery One Eleven, Wiscasset, ME (curator – Paula Winokur)
“Texas Influenced,” Invitational Exhibition, The Buddy Holly Museum, Lubbock, TX
“Creeping Out The Doll House,” Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
Invitational Exhibition, “Reinterpreting the Figure,” The Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton NJ
“Form, Function and Figure: Contemporary Ohio Ceramics,” The Zanesville Museum of Art Zanesville, OH (traveling Exhibition)
“Figurines, a National Invitational Exhibition,” Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2010 “The Human Form in Clay,” Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
“Body Awareness,” Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
National Invitational Exhibition, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL (Curator-Jacob Foran)
“The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories,” Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany,New York, (Touring Exhibition)
“Form, Function and Figure: Contemporary Ohio Ceramics,” The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
(traveling Exhibition)(traveling Exhibition)
“Form, Function and Figure: Contemporary Ohio Ceramics,” The Canton Museum of Art Canton, OH (travelling Exhibition)
“Form, Function and Figure: Contemporary Ohio Ceramics,” The Springfield Museum of Art, (traveling Exhibition)
2009 “Figuration to Fragmentation,” Transylvania University, Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY
Invitational Master Artist Exhibition, Colaciello Gallery, The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
2008 Urban Clay Invitational, International Sculpture Conference, (UICA) Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
“Greatest Show on Earth,” Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh PA (NCECA Conference Exhibition)
2008 “Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride,” Sante Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
“A Human Impulse: Figuration From the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection,” Arizona State University
Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona, Curator- Peter Held
Selected 2 – 3 Person Exhibitions
2016 South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
2015 Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
University of Notre Dame, IN
2012 Motley Crew Ceramics and Paintings by Tom Bartel and Rachel Clark, Gallerie Hertz, Louisville, KY
2010 Group Exhibition, WVU, Ceramics Production Gallery, Morgantown, WV
2009 Tom Bartel and Scott Dooley, The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio
2008 The Human Form in Clay: Tom Bartel and Janis Mars Wunderlich, Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY
Three of a Kind: Tom Bartel, Kirk Mangus, Candy Depew, Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Group Exhibition, Recent Acquisitions to the Archie Bray Permanent Collection Bray North Gallery,
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
Residential: Group Exhibition, The Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Invited Group Exhibition, NCECA EXPO, Represented by the Northern Clay Center (MN), David L. Lawrence Convention Center,
Pittsburgh, PA
2017 Epics, Myths, Fables, Meyer Gallery, Park City, UT
The Thomas Arlen Wagner Collection, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH
NCECA Gallery EXPO, Represented by the Northern Clay Center, Portland Convention Center, Portland, OR
2017-16 McKnight Foundation, Traveling Exhibition, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN
McKnight Foundation, Traveling Exhibition, Winona State University, Winona, MN
McKnight Foundation, Traveling Exhibition, Macrostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN
2016Faculty Biennial, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH
NCECA EXPO, Group Exhibition, Featured Artist-Red Lodge Clay Center, Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City, MO
Colloquy, Group Exhibition, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH
2015 Group Exhibition, Starbrick Gallery, Nelsonville, OH
2014 Contemporary Figurative Ceramics, Artisan Gallery, Belleville, WI
2013 NCECA EXPO, Featured Artist-Red Lodge Clay Center, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX
2012 Penland Faculty Exhibition, Penland Gallery, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
“Modern Motives”, Invitational, Group Exhibition, University of Northern Iowa, Waterloo, IA
Group Exhibition, Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
Surface Forum Group Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
Group Exhibition, AMACO (American Art Clay Company), Indianapolis, IN
Group Exhibition, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2011 Group Exhibition, The International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary
2010 “Corporal Manifestations,” Invitational, NCECA Exhibition, The Mütter Museum, Philidelphia, PA,
(In conjunction with the 44th Annual NCECA Conference)
Represented by Sherrie Gallerie, NCECA Gallery Expo, 44th Annual NCECA Conference, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Contemporary Monsters: Surrealism in the Ceramic Arts, (Tom Bartel, John de Fazio, Cynthia Consentino, Arthur
Gonzalez, Michael Lucero), Northern Clay Center Minneapolis, MN (Curator – Edith Garcia)
2008 Group Exhibition, Nostic Pallace, Prague, Czech Republic (Supported by the Ministry of Culture)
Group Exhibition, “PINK,” Moreau Art Galleries, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
“Strange Bedfellows,” Goldesberry Gallery, Houston, TX
“Transformations,” Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2018 Fahrenheit 2018, AMoCA (American Museum of Ceramic Art), Pomona, CA
Clown Show, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
2014 Transformations 9: Contemporary Works in Ceramics, The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize Society for
Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2013 The Figure/Sculpture in Ceramics, Nassauische Sparkasse Talent Award, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany
NCECA 2013 Biennial, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC), Houston, TX
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, New Taipei City Yingee Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Beyond the Brickyard, 2nd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
2011 “Alchemy, From Dust to Form,” Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
The Eighteenth San Angelo National Ceramic Exhibition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art San Angelo, TX
“The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories,” The Nicolaysen Museum in Casper, WY
Gallery Representation
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR
Roscoe Ceramics Gallery, Oakland, CA
Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
Abel Contemporary, Paoli, WI
Gallerie Hertz, Louisville, KY
In Tandem Gallery, Bakersville, NC
ARC Contemporary Fine Art, Cottonwood, AZ
Signature Contemporary Craft Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Public Collections
AMoCA, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pamona, CA
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
New Taipei City Yingee Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
The Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks ND
Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China
International Museum of Ceramics, Bechyne, Czech Republic
FuLe International Ceramic Art Museum, Fuping, China
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio
The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Ox-Bow, (SAIC) Saugatuck, MI
The University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne, IN
Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea
The San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX
Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA
Red Star/Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Education
1996Master of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1993Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kent State University, Kent, OH