VINCE PITELKA

Tennessee Technological University - Appalachian Center for Crafts
1560 Crafts Center Drive, Smithville, TN 37166
615/597-6801 Ext. 111, FAX - 615/597-6803, wpitelka@tntech.edu
Home - 615/597-5376, vpitelka@DeKalb.net

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1988 - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, M.F.A. in Ceramics.
1971 - Humboldt State University, B.A. in Art.

Vessel/Shrine series in progress

1994 to the present - Tennessee Technological University, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN - Associate Professor of Clay; Head, Clay Studio: Intro to Clay, Intermediate Handbuilding, Throwing, Advanced Clay Studio, Clay and Glaze Chemistry, Kilns and Equipment, Ceramic History, 3-D Design.

1991 to 1994 - North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND: Coordinator, Department of Visual Arts, Assistant Professor of Art: Intro, Intermed. and Advanced Ceramics, Survey of Western Art, Art Appreciation, Drawing.

1989-91 - University of Massachusetts, Art Department, Ceramics Area: Studio Manager, Technician.

1988-91 - Northeastern University, Department of Art and Architecture, Adjunct Faculty: 2-D Design, 3-D Design, Drawing, Color Theory.

1987-91 - Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Division of Continuing Education, Instructor: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Ceramics, Primitive Ceramics.

1971 to present - Design/construction of ceramic kilns/equipment.

1974-85 - Studio Potter, Blue Lake, California - wheel-thrown utilitarian stoneware.

"Vessel/Shrine to the
Great Bolt"
16" tall x 6" wide x 4" deep

2000 - TTU - Member, Art Department Steering Committee

2000 - Appalachian Center for Crafts - organized "Bowlathon" to make 750 bowls for "Empty Bowls" fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity

1999 - Juror: Spring Exhibition, Tennessee Association of Craft Artists, Nashville

1999 - Juror: Arts Alive Exhibition/Fair, Kennedy-Douglas Center for the Arts, Florence AL

1999 - Chair, search committee for tenure-track fibers faculty at App. Ctr. for Crafts

1999 - Appalachian Center for Crafts - organized "Bowlathon" to make 500 bowls for "Empty Bowls" fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity

1998 to the present - Member, TTU University Art Gallery Committee

1998 - Appalachian Center for Crafts - organized "Bowlathon" to make 500 bowls for "Empty Bowls" fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity

1997 - Initial planning, Tennessee Clay Conference.

1997 - Juror, Fall Exhibitions, Nashville and Chattanooga - Tennessee Association of Craft Artists.

1994 to the present - TTU, Department of Music and Art Curriculum and Standards Committee.

1994 to the present - TTU, Appalachian Center for Crafts, share responsibilities for organization and operation of year-around workshop program.

1995 - Vanderbilt University, Juror, Hamblet Visual Arts Fellowship.

1992-94 - NDSU, Chair, faculty committee designing/teaching interdisciplinary course "Spatial Conflicts in Global Society."

1991-94 - NDSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences Student Progress Committee.

1991-94 - NDSU Interactive Video Network Advisory Committee.

1991-92 - NDSU Coordinator, Fargo-Moorhead Visual Artists Network.

1990 - Northeastern University, Dodge Gallery: Curator, "Art and Architecture" - NU art faculty exhibition.

1986-88 - Univ. of MA: Fine Arts Center Advisory Board.

"Vessel/Shrine to the
Wheels of Industry"
18" tall x 8" wide x 4" deep

2001 - Appalachian Center for Crafts - scheduled workshops: "Slab-Constructed Boxes," "Ancient Clay: Handbuilding, Terra Sigillata, Bonfiring"

2001 - McDowell Studios, Ferndale WA - scheduled workshops: "Handbuilding: Extravaganza", "Decorating With Slips"

2001 - Armory Center for the Arts, West Palm Beach FL - scheduled workshop: "Slip Decorating Techniques"

2001 - Interlaken School for the Arts, Stockbridge MA - scheduled workshop: "Form and Imagery with Colored Clays"

2001 - Murrells Inlet Community Center, Murrells Inlet SC - scheduled workshop: "Slip Decorating Techniques"

2000 - TTU Music/Art Appreciation class - gallery lecture: "TTU Faculty Art Exhibition: Contemporary Art and Fine Craft"

2000 - McDowell Studios, Ferndale WA - workshops - "Handbuilding, Tricks of the Trade," "Ancient Clay"

2000 - Skaggit Valley Potter's Assn., Sedro-Wooley WA - slide lectures: "Tool Doctors," "Evolution of West Coast Clay"

2000 - Appalachian Center for Crafts - workshops: "Colored Clay Imagery," "Raku Slab Masks"

2000 - Murrells Inlet Community Center, Murrells Inlet SC - workshop: "Ancient Clay"

2000 - NCECA (National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts) conference presenter - "Tool Doctors"

2000 - Alabama Clay Conference, featured presenter - "Ancient Clay and Bonfiring"

1999 - Murrells Inlet Community Center, Murrells Inlet SC - workshop:"Colored Clay Imagery"

1999 - Appalachian Center for Crafts - workshop: "Ancient Clay"

1999 - Ceramic Design Group, Steamboat Springs CO - workshop: "Colored Clay Imagery"

1999 - McDowell Studios, Ferndale WA - workshops: "Colored Clay Imagery," "Ancient Clay"

1999 - Bellingham Museum of Art, Bellingham WA - slide lecture

1998 - Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN - slide lecture, demonstration: "Colored Clay Imagery"

1998 - Parker Street Studios, Vancouver B.C. - workshop: "Colored Clay Imagery"

1998 - Millersville University, Millersville PA - slide lecture

1998 - Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby BC - slide lecture

1998 - Skaggit Valley Potter's Assn., Sedro-Wooley WA - slide lecture: Ancient Clay

1998 - McDowell Studios, Ferndale WA - workshops: "Ancient Clay," "Slip-decoration"

1998 - Appalachian Center for Crafts - workshop: "Ancient Clay"

1998 - Lebanon Valley College, Annville PA - slide lecture, workshop: "Colored Clay Imagery"

1998 - Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA - slide lecture

1997 - Virginia Technological University, Blacksburg, colored clay workshop and slide lecture.

1997 - McDowell Studios, Ferndale WA, "Ancient Clay" workshop

1997 - TTU - workshops: "Slab Construction with Colored Clays," "Ancient Clay."

1996 - University of Tennessee, Martin, colored clay workshop and slide lecture.

1996 - Humboldt State University, colored clay workshop and slide lecture.

1996 - TTU - workshops: "Form and Surface in Colored Clays." "Ancient Clay."

1996 - Austin Peay State University, colored clay workshop and slide lecture.

1996, '95, '94 - TTU Dept. of Music and Art, Art Appr., lecture - "Contemp. American Ceramics."

1995 - Maryville University, St. Louis, colored clay workshop and slide lecture.

1995 - TTU - workshops: "Form and Surface in Colored Clays." "Ancient Clay."

1995 - Vanderbilt University, Department of Studio Art, slide lecture.

1994 - ND SU Architecture. Dept., Environmental Design, lecture - " 3 -D Form in Space."

1993 - NDSU Architecture. Dept., Advanced Studio, lecture - "Sculptural Form."

1993 - Fargo Unitarian Fellowship, lecture - "Censorship and Government Funding of The Arts.

1993, 1992 - NDSU History. Dept., World Civ., lecture - "Art in World Civilization."

1993, 1992, 1991 - NDSU Div. Of Fine Arts, Intro to Fine Arts, lecture - "California Funk Ceramics. "

1992 - NDSU chapter, American Inst. of Architecture Students, lecture - "The Formation of an Artist. "

1992 - Plains Art Museum, Moorhead Minnesota, "Evolution of Contemporary American Ceramics. "

1987-1991 - University of Massachusetts, workshops: "Primitive Ceramics."

1988-89 - National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist's Fellowship.

2001 - "Tool Times" bi-monthly column for Clay Times magazine, covering clay studio tools and equipment, beginning January 2001

2001 - Clay: A Studio Handbook, American Ceramic Society, to be released spring, 2001

2000 - "Tennessee Clay Ways" by Susan Demay - Ceramic Art and Perception

1999 - "Ceramics at the Millennium" - "Up Front" section, Ceramics Monthly, November 1999

1990 - "Ex Post Factory: Images in Colored Clay Marquetry" Ceramics Monthly October, 1990, feature article.

1989 - "National Endowment Fellowships" Ceramics Monthly February, 1989.

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

Tennessee Association of Craft Artists

American Association of University Professors

1999 - "A Pattern of Clay" Art Center of Cannon County, Woodbury TN

1998 - "New Ceramic Work" - Ceramics Gallery, Millersville University, PA

1998 - "Recent Ceramic Work" - Gallery 303, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA.

1996 - "The Color of Clay" Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Tennessee, Martin.

1995 - "Recent Ceramic Work" Maryville University Art Gallery, St. Louis.

1990 - "The Industrial Revelation" Hampden Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1989 - "Ex Post Factory: Industrial Shards" Ferrin Gallery, Northampton NM.

1988 - "Recent Work" Fine Arts Center Gallery, Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, MA.

1988 - "Machine-Scapes" Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

1987 - "Desert Dreams/Night Machines" Wheeler Gallery, University of Massachusetts

"Vessel/Shrine
to the Blacksmith"
15" tall x 12" wide x 6" deep

2001 - "Workshop Faculty Exhibition"- Armory Center for the Arts, West Palm Beach FL

2000 - "Summer Workshop Faculty Exhibition" - Appalachian Center for Crafts

2000 - "Art Department Faculty Exhibition"- Tennessee Tech University

2000 - "National Ceramics Invitational" - Texas A&M University, Commerce

2000 - "Colored Clay" - Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT

2000 - "Revisions and Reformations: New Work from Old Traditions" The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA

2000 - "Presenters Exhibition" Alabama Clay Conference

1999 - "Tennessee Clay Invitational" - Austin Peay State University, Clarksville TN

1999 - "Armory National Invitational" - Armory Center for the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL

1999 - "Ceramics at the Millennium" - Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood, CO

1997 - "Holiday Exhibition" - Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN.

1997 - "TTU Art Faculty" - Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN.

1997 - "Banking on the Arts" Cookeville, TN.

1996 - "Art for the Table" Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN.

1996 - "Banking on the Arts", Cookeville, TN.

1995 - "Artists Abound" Causeway Gallery. Nashville International Airport.

1995 - "TTU Art Faculty" Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN.

1994 - "TTU Art Faculty" University Center Gallery, Tennessee Technological University.

1994 - "Honorable Mentors" Woodbury Art Center, Woodbury, TN.

1994 - "25th Northwestem Invitational" Rourke Art Gallery, Moorhead, MN.

1993 - "NDSU Art Faculty" Memorial Union Gallery, North Dakota State University.

1993 - "University of Massachusetts Ceramics Alumni" Center Gallery, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke NM.

1992 - "23rd Midwestem Invitational" Rourke Art Gallery, Moorhead, MN.

1992 - "NDSU Art Faculty" Memorial Union Gallery, North Dakota State University.

1991 - "Crafts National 25" Zoller Gallery, Penn State University.

1990 - "Art and Architecture" Northeastern University Gallery, Boston, MA. 1990 - "Treasure Boxes" Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, NM. 1989 - "Bewitched by Craft" American Craft MuseutA New York NY.

1989 - "Clay/Nfixed Media" Warwick Museum, Warwick RI.

1989 - "Surface and Substance: an Exploration of Texture in Craft" The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA.

1989 - "House" Northfield-Mount Herman Academy Alt Gallery, Mount Herman MA.

1988 - "New Directions in American Crafts" Leverett Art Center, Leverett MA. Catalog.

1988 - "ArtQuest'8811 Los Angeles, CA. Catalog.

1988 - "Color and Clay" The Hand Workshop, Richmond VA.

1986 - "Gradworks" University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA.

1984 - "Best of Clay" Candy Stick Gallery, Ferndale, CA.

1984, 1983 - "Northern California Ceramic Exhibition" Humboldt County Cultural Center, Eureka, CA.

1978-85 - Annual two-person exhibitions - Candy Stick Gallery, Ferndale, CA.