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Solo Exhibitions
2010 CUE Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Complications May Occur, Urban Institute For Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids MI
2008 Follies College of Wooster Art Museum, Ebert Art Center, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
Follies Zentrum Für Keramik Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007 What Color Day Is It? Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, Covington, KY
Prosthetic Ornament and the American Dream, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
2002 Prominent Features, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO.
2001 Conditioned Response, “Just Looking”, MFA Thesis Exhibit, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Paper: On and Off the Wall, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St Petersburg, FL.
2006 convergence 2006, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, Curator: Dana Self
ARTBOX, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO
Zero Gravity, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO, Curator: George Pendle
Ohio Art League Spring Juried Exhibition, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH, Juror: Claudine Ise
2005 Scenario - Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO.
Tangents: Works by Three Denison Faculty Members, University Art Gallery, Denison University, Granville, OH
Provocative Clay Series: Arts/Industry: Clay From Molds, John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan, WI
Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln CA, Juror: Rodney Mott
Materials Hard and Soft The Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX, Curator: Michael Monroe
Transformation 4: Contemporary Works in Ceramics: The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founders Prize-Exhibition,
Alcazar Gallery, Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore, MD
2004 CU Art Museum Collectors Gala Exhibition and Benefit Auction, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO.
Curator: Lisa Tamiris Becker
Placement. Displacement. Replacement, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado.
2003 Transformation 4: Contemporary Works in Ceramics: The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founders
Prize-Exhibition, (Traveling) Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, PA
Anthology, Metro State Faculty Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of
Denver, Denver, CO
Facing Off: Alternative Portraits, Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, Colorado
I-25, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado. Curator: Jina Pierce, Regional Curator: Ken Bloom
2002 Synapse, Gallarie Corriente Alterna, Lima, Peru
reMODEL, Jay Villa’s Scottsdale Condo, Scottsdale, Arizona, Curator: John D. Spiak
Education
M.F.A. 2001 University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO
B.F.A. 1995 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA
Permanent Collections
Zentrum Für Keramik, Berlin, Germany
International Ceramic Research Center Denmark, Skaelskor, Denmark
John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, Sheboygan, WI
The Kohler Company, Kohler, WI
The Woodman Collection, University of Colorado Ceramics Department, Boulder, CO
Awards/Grants/Residencies
2008 Mellon Foundation grant
Artist in Residence, Zentrum für Keramik – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2006 Annie’s Fund Award, Ohio Art League
2005 Artist in Residence, International Ceramic Research Center Denmark, Skaelskor, Denmark
2004 Artist-in-Residence, John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry program, Kohler, WI.
2001 Markell Brooks Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
Beverly Sears Foundation Grant, University of Colorado
Professional Experience
2004 – present Assistant Professor, Denison University, Granville, OH
2003 Temporary Lecturer, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
2002 – 2003 Part-Time Instructor, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO.
2002 – 2003 Education Curator, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Selected Bibliography
Courtney Baker, “Carrie Olson,” Art Papers May/June 2010, review and photographs 57-58.
Walter Lokau, “Das epidemische ornament – die ornamentale Epidemie, ” Neue Keramik/New Ceramics Issue 6 - Nov/Dec 2009, article, 30-32.
Suzanne Tourtillott, Ed., 500 Ceramic Sculptures; Contemporary Practice, Singular Works, New York: Sterling, May 2009
Sherman Hall, Ed., “Up Front”, Ceramics Monthly, February 2009, exhibition description, photographs, 22.
Kevin Regan, Christopher Howard, Enantiomorphic Chamber Blog, Oct 18, 2008
Monica Hampton, Lily Kane, Eds., Shaping the Future of Craft, New York: American Craft Council, 2007, 154.
Kyle Macmillan, “A Big Blue Bear Certainly Made People Stare: Top 10 Front Range Exhibitions,” Denver Post, December 24, 2005. Denver, CO
Lucinda Breeding, “ Material Witness,” Denton Record-Chronicle, January 27, 2005, Denton TX, Denton Time Section 10-11
Kyle Macmillan, “Audacious Installations,” The Denver Post, January 14, 2005, Denver, CO, 1FF-6FF
Graham Shearing, “Transformation,” American Craft, June/July 2004, Review and photograph, 40-43.
Noel Black, “Punch Packed: Spring Shows at Sangre de Cristo do it Again,” Colorado Springs independent, March 18, 2004, review, Colorado Springs CO
Mary Chandler, “The Road to Creativity,” Rocky Mountain News, June 10, 2003, review, Denver, Colorado
Jay Gluckstern, “Conditioned Response,” Boulder Daily Camera, November 23, 2001, review and photograph, Boulder, Colorado, 10F.
