Sana Musasama
120-56 193rd Street St. Albans, New York 11412
P: 646.361.3861
E-mail: musasama@hotmail.com
Web site: www.sana-musasama.com
CV Download: SanaMusasama_CV_2024
Solo Exhibitions
2024 “Sana Musasama: Returning to Ourselves,”Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2024 “Not Alone,” Juanita Harvey Art Gallery, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX
2022 “I Never Played With Dolls,” Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 “Sana Musasama: Sculpture,” Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH
2018 “Work”, Grace Albrecht Gallery, Bluffton, OH
2014 “Unspeakable Series”, Studio 550 Art Center, Manchester, NH
“Whispers and Echoes”, Thomas Hunter Projects, Hunter College, New York, NY
“Two Views”, Galerie 43, Paris, France
2013 “Conversations”, Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
“Unspeakable Series”, Weiss Center for the Arts, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
“My Journey”, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2010 “Unknown/Unnamed”, June Kelly Gallery, NYC
“The Hand”, Meta House Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2009 “Women”, Chatham University, Pittsburgh. PA
“Ceramic Sculpture”, Robert Hughes Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2008 “Outer Beauty/Inner Anguish”, Suffolk Community College, Long Island, NY
2007 “A Season of Abundance: The Maple Tree Series of Sana Musasama”, Chief curator, David Revere McFadden, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
“Unspeakable”, Weems Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
2006 “ETHOS, Social Consciousness and Craft”, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
“The Maple Tree Series”, Coppin College, Baltimore, MD
2005 “Shhh…Secrets, Status, Society”, June Kelly Gallery, NYC
“Unspeakable Series”, Vergette Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
“The Maple Tree Series”, NCECA, Coppin College, Baltimore, MD
“The Maple Tree Series”, Courtney Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2004-05 “Works In Clay”, Barrows Rotunda Gallery, Dartmouth College, NH
2002 “Unspeakable”, Lang Gallery Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
“Unspeakable” Noel Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2001 “Outer Beauty/Inner Anguish”, June Kelly Gallery, NYC
“Unspeakable”, Rush Arts Gallery, NYC
“The Maple Tree Series”, New Jersey City University, NJ
1998 “Maple Tree Series”, Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY
1995 “Maple Tree Series I”, June Kelly Gallery, NYC
“Maple Tree Series II”, June Kelly Gallery, NYC
1994 “Legacy”, curated by Jim Richards, Sewickley Academy, Pittsburgh, PA
1992 Ceramic Sculpture, curated by Josh Green, Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
1991 “Introductions”, June Kelly Gallery, NYC
1989 “Uncoverings/Ceramic Sculptures”, curated by Nouk Bassomb, SoHo 20 Gallery, NYC
“Echoes & Excavations”, Manchester Craftsman Guild, Manchester, PA
1987 “The Garden Series”, curated by Deidre Bibby, Cinque Gallery, NYC
1986 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, curated by Robert Miller, Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, NY
1985 “Montana Series”, curated by Deidre Bibby, Cinque Gallery, NYC
“The House Series”, The Studio Museum, Harlem, NYC
1984 From the Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist-in-Residence, 1984, curated by Schroeder Cherry, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
“A Review of 10 Years”, Sewickley Academy, Pittsburgh, PA
Group Exhibitions
2024 “Women Working in Clay,” NCECA, Richmond, VA
2024 “Like The Dust Settles in Layers, So Does The Story,” Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA
2024 “The Medium is the Message,” Southside Contemporary Gallery, Richmond, VA
2023 “1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair,” Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY
2023 “Beauty of Summer,” Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2023 “Crafting Freedom,” New York Historical Society, New York, NY
2023 “(Mostly) Women (Mostly) Abstract PT. II,” Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY
2023 “Women Working with Clay Symposium,” Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2023 “The Art Show,” Eric Firestone Gallery at Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY
2022 “Conversations,” The Davidow Art Gallery at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
2022 “Art Basel,” Eric Firestone Gallery, Miami, FL
2022 “A Show About Nothing,” Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2022 “The Art Fair at Jacob Javits Art Center,” Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY
2022 “Who Writes History,” Arts Westchester, White Plains, NY
2022 “The Universe Within,” Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2022 “Cultivated Space,” Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
2020-21 “Behold”, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 “Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety”, Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY
2020 “Polycentric, Dialogical and Relational”, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, New York, NY
2020 “Claytopian New York”, The Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City Artists, Long Island City, NY
2019 “Domestic Matters: The Uncommon Apron”, Sally D. Francisco Gallery, Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
2019 “More Than That:Diversity Within Diversity”, Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield Minnesota, MN
2019 “Art and Social Activism Festival”, 32 Orchard Street, New York, NY
2018 “Visual Voices: Truth Narratives”, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
“Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus Of Moving Points”, York College Fine Arts Gallery,
2016 “InForm: Sculptural Ceramics”, Rockland Art Center, West Nyack, NY
“Rivers and Tides: Ceramics along the Hudson”, Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill, NY
“Art Prize 8”, Fountain St. Church, Grand Rapids, MI
“50 Women-A Celebration of Women’s Contribution to Ceramics”, American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, MO
2015 “Art Prize 7”, Fountain St. Church, Grand Rapids, MI
“Human Moments”, Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI
“After Afropolitan”, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY
“Embodying Deference, Empowering Difference”, Roberta A. Fiskum Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
“Curator’s Choice-Black Life Matters”, Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC
2014 “6 X 6 Ceramic Tile Exhibition”, 5th Ceramic Tile International Triennial, The Project Space at Julio Valdez Studio, New York, NY
“elit-tile”, La Quinta Trienal Mundial del Tile Cerámico, International Artist Mention, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
“40 and Counting”, 40th Anniversary Celebration, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
“In Residence-Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth”, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
2013 “Reawakening: A Celebration in Clay of Nature and Renewal”, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
“Body & Soul”, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, NY
“Convergency”, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
“Art of Five: Queens”, The Interchurch Center, New York, NY
“History, Haunting and Palimpsests”, Anya & Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, NY
“Small Work”, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2009-10 “Fertile Ground”, NCECA, Philadelphia, PA
“Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth” Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, NH
2009 “Confrontational Clay”, Westchester Art Council, Westchester, NY
“Faculty Show”, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2008 “Conversations”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
“New Works” John Malloy Gallery, NYC
“Bilingual Spaces”, Cleveland, OH
2006 “Edges of Grace”, Fuller Craft Museum, Boston, MA
2005 “Social Concerns”, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
“NCECA 2005 Tour de Clay”, James Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2004 “Unity in Diversity”, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD
“Honoring Our Roots”, Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD
2003 “Traditions: The Blessing & The Curse” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002-2000 “Ceramic National 2000”, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
“New Works” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
“Wo-men” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
“New Works” Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
2002 “Small Works”, Hunter College, NYC
2001 “Five Ceramics”, Suffolk County College, Long Island, NY
“Florence Biennale”, Florence, Italy
“Unspeakable”, Rush Arts Gallery, NYC
“Five African American Artists”, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
“Twenty Years”, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY
“Clay On The Wall”, Gallery 128, NYC
“Selected Works from the Permanent Gallery”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
1999-01 “Stop Asking We Exist” Traveling Exhibit, The Society of Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA, American Craft Museum, NYC; New Bedford Museum, New Bedford, MA, The Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
1999-00 “Annual Show”, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, NYC
“Faculty Show City College”, Eisner Gallery, NYC
“Passages” Traveling Exhibition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
“Contemporary Ceramics 1999: The Work of Africa African American Artist”,
North Carolina, Central University Durham NC
1999 “On Fire”, School House Gallery, Peekskill, NY
“Cultural Influences in Craft”, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC
“Watershed Benefit”, Turtle Gallery, Newcastle, ME
“Haystack Faculty Show”, Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
“Secret Objects, Concealed Spaces”, Paramount Art Center, NYC
“Viewpoint Ceramic 1999”, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossman College, El Cajon, CA
“Multiple Hues and Multiple Voices”, Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Black New York Artist of the 20th Century”, Schomburg Center, NYC
“Introductions”, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“On Fire”, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD
1997 “Faculty Auction”, Leobsdorf Gallery, NYC
1995-96 “In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the 90’s”, Staten Island University, Staten Island, NY
“Exploring a Movement”, Feminist Visions in Clay, The Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
“New York Clay”, International Traveling Exhibition
1994 “Uncommon Beauty”, American Craft Museum, NYC
1993 “Former Resident”, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
“Clay Today”, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC
“2 African American Craft Artist”, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
1992 “Maternal Evidence”, Alcazar Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“6 African American Clay Artists”, The African-American Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
“The Garden Series”, The French Consulate, NYC
1991 “Residence Show”, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC
Publications & Reviews
Mitchell, Kerrie. “Communing with Commeraw: Artist Sana Musasama on Her Connection to the 19th-Century Potter.” New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, May 15, 2023
Brown, Gerald. “Clay, Water, Memory.” Unraveling Podcast, April 2023
Carter, Ben. “460: Sana Musasama on her art and activism.” Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast, March 2023
Stewart, Alison with Musasama, Sana. “The Story of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw.” WNYC, February 22, 2023
Beach, Laura. “Thomas W. Commeraw: How Groundbreaking Research Restored A Master New York Potter To Prominence.” Antique and the Arts Weekly, January 17, 2024
“New York Historical Society reveals the extraordinary story of a Black artisan in post-revolutionary New York.” ArtDaily, February 22, 2023
Wade, Sumaiyah. “This week in Black Art and Culture: Black History Exhibitions, Celia Cruz Coins and QC Holdings Sells to HYBE.” Sugar Cane, February 2023
Sutphin, Eric. “Art Review: Finding the Message in the Medium at Colby-Sawyer Gallery Exhibit.” Valley News, November 16, 2022
“Episode #66: Inspire. Commit. Act. The Art and Heart of Sana Musasama.” The Rose Woman, April 14, 2022
“Black Clay Artists Everyone Should Know.” Design Miami, February 2022
“Polycentric, Dialogical, and Relational.” John Jay Publication, John Jay College, Fall 2021
Noor Brara. “Artists on Artists to Watch, and Maybe Even Collect.” New York Times, June 14, 2021
“Interview with Visiting Ceramic Artist Sana Musasama,” Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, March 2021
Goodalle, Stephanie E. “Oral History Project: Janet Olivia Henry & Sana Musasama” BOMB Magazine, 28 Sept. 2019
Carrigan, Margaret. “Pushing the Limits of NYC’s Periphery at the Southeast Queens Biennial.” Hyperallergic, March 2018
Hocker, Cliff. “If I Can Help Somebody Sana Musasama’s Art of Healing.” IRAAT, 12 Sept. 2016
“Working Women: 36 Contemporary Women Artists,” Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Colby Sawyer College, November 2015
“In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth,” Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Spring 2014, p. 80
“Remarqųes Théoriques Sur La Céramique Contemporaine“, Artpress2, Nov/Dec 2013/Jan 2014, p.39
“Crisis and Catharsis in Clay: An Interview with Sana Musasama“, Studio International, November 21, 2013
“Body & Soul, New International Ceramics”, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, p.86-89
“My Journey, Sana Musasama”, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
“Sana Musasama Shares Life Experiences at WAA”, The Housatonic Times, October 2012, p. A7
“Art as Activism in Washington”, The Litchfield County Times, October 2012, p. A15
“Musasama Makes Art Talk About the Unspeakable”, The Chautauquan Daily, July 2012, p.3
“One Million Bones”, Swarthmore College, April 2012,p. 5
“Trade Winds”, Ceramic Art and Perception, March 2011, p. 85
“Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art“, Hood Museum of Art, 2009
“Confrontational Clay”, New York Times, 28 November 2008
“Conversations in Clay“, Katonah Gallery, 2008
“Sana Musasama: Ambivalent Beauty”, Dartmouth College, NH, 2007
“American Ceramics”, Review, Fall 2006, p. 71
“African American Art: The Long Struggle“, New Line Books, 2006
“The Baltimore Sun”, Review, 2005
“The American Craft Magazine”, Review, March 2002
“New York Arts Magazine”, Vol. 5 No.5, Review
“Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition“, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2000
“Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas“, Greenwood Press, 1999, p.295
“American Ceramics”, Vol. 13, Review, January 2001, p. 47
“American Ceramics”, Vol. 3, Review, January 1998, p. 10
“Art News”, January 1998, June Kelly Gallery, p. 28
“Art Guide”, The New York Times, January 1998
“Art Review”, The New York Times, March 1998
“From the Studio”, East Hampton Star, March 1998
“African American Sculptor”, Sag Harbor Express, February 1998
“At Galleries”, East Hampton Star, February 1998
“Mirror, Mirror”, Village Voice, January 1998
“Voices of Color: Art and Society in the Americas“, Dr. Phoebe Farris-Dufrene, Humanity Books, 1997, Chapter 12
“5 African-American Ceramists”, Studio Potter, Vol. 26, No. 1, December 1997
“National Conference on the Education of the Ceramics Arts Journal”, Spring 1997, p. 52
“Positive Pathways”, Baltimore City Sun, July 1997
“The Stars of Today Pick the Stars of Tomorrow”, ARTNews, March 1997, p. 99
“Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Woman“, Rutgers University Press, 1996
“African American Art: The Long Struggle”, Smithmark Publishers, New York, 1996, p. 112
“Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthropology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists”, Midmarch Arts Press, 1995
“Adventurous Women”, Essence Magazine, July 1992
Public Collections
Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH
Museum of Art and Design (MAD Museum), New York, Unspeakable Series
El Museo De Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Givat Haviva, Israel
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Tuscarora Historical Museum, Tuscarora, NV
The African American Design Archive, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC
Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
European Ceramic Center, Hertogenbosch, Holland
Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Atlanta, GA
Awards
2022 Life Honorary Membership Award, NCECA, Sacramento, CA
2018 Outstanding Achievement Award, NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA
2015 Art Prize 7, Fountain St. Church, Civil Liberties Award of Michigan
2014 CET CUNY Faculty Research Award
2013 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Grant Nominee
2008 CUNY Faculty Incentive Award
2007 Dartmouth Exhibition Studio Award
2002 Heiman Fellow, Swarthmore, Swarthmore, PA
Anonymous Was a Woman Award 2002
2000 Empire State Craft Alliance, Saratoga, NY
1998 Artist As Catalyst, Mid Atlantic Grant
1995-96 Perspectives in African American Art, Seagram’s Gin Award
1995 New York Foundation Fellowship
1993 The Dalton School Summer Research Grant, Thailand
1992 Empire State Craft Alliance Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NYC
1990 Mid-Atlantic Grant, Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
Mid-Atlantic Grant, Baltimore, MD
Excellence Award, The Dalton School, NYC
1989 Empire State Craft Alliance Grant, Saratoga, NY
1987-88 Atlantic Life Insurance Company, Atlanta, GA
Education
1987 MFA, Alfred State College of Ceramics, Alfred, New York
1974 BA, The City College of New York (ceramics/education), New York
Specialized Studies
1985 The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
1982-84 Artist in Residence, The City College of New York, New York
1981 Gakiun Designer College, Tokyo, Japan
1978-79 Tuscarora International School of Ceramics, Tuscarora, NV
1975-76 Mende Pottery, Mendeland, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Professional Experience
2023 Visiting Artist, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
2021 Visiting Artist, Hunter College, MFA Program, New York, NY
2021 Visiting Artist, Alabama Ceramic Conference, Alabama
2021 Visiting Artist, Colorado University, Colorado
2015 – Present Visiting Artist, Facing History High School, New York, Ceramics
2011-Present
Adjunct Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, Ceramics
Adjunct Professor, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, Ceramics
2008-Present Instructor, Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, NY
1995-2021 Associate Adjunct Professor, Hunter College, New York, NY, Ceramics
2007 92nd St. Y, New York, NY
1999 Craft Student League at the Y, New York, NY
1994 Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
1995-2009 CASES (Alternative-to-Incarceration Center) New York, NY, Mixed Media Art
1990-2002 Assistant Adjunct Professor, City College of New York, New York, NY, Ceramics
1995 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Ceramics
1992 Community College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Ceramics
Residencies, Workshops and Lectures
2024 Township10, Western North Carolina
2023 Alfred University School of Ceramics, Alfred, New York
2021 Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Edgecomb, Maine
2018 “Who are They” Symposium, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Visiting Artist, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Visiting Artist, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2017 Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Visiting Artist, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
2015 Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, NY, Panel Discussion, Of Human Bondage
2014 Queens College, NY, Lecture, Visiting Artist
Cite Des Arts, Paris, France, Artist Residency
“Art and Activism,” Hood Museum of Art Auditorium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Lecture
Artists Without Walls, The Cell Theater, NYC, Lecture
My Journey, The Human Rights Institute at Kean University, Union, NJ, Lecture
My, Journey, One World Institute, Port Chester, NY, Lecture
2013 Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, Artist Residency
2013 The Center for a Shared Society, Givat Haviva, Israel, Artist Residency
2011-13 Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua NY, Lecture/Instructor
Maryland Institute of College of Art, My Journey, Lecture
Soaring Gardens, PA, Artist Residency
Dickinson College, PA, My Journey Cambodia, Lecture
2012 Swarthmore College, PA, My Journey Cambodia, Lecture
Washington Art Association, CT, Lecture, Workshop
Watershed, Newcastle, Maine, Artist Residency
YMCA, NYC, My Cambodia Journey, Lecture
The Clay Studio, My Journey Cambodia, Lecture
Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, NY, Instructor
2007 Dartmouth Studio Fellowship, Dartmouth College, NH, Artist Residency
2005 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, Workshop
2003 Arrowmont School of Crafts, TN, Workshop
2001 La Suerte Studio Space, Limon, Costa Rico, Artist Residency
Wadastick Art Center, El Potrero, Mexico, Artist Residency
2000 Lasuente Studio Space, Costa Rica, Artist Residency
Women in Ceramics, Sotheby’s –NYC, Lecture
1999 Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, Artist Residency
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Artist Residency
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN, Workshop
Watershed, “Artist Invite Artist”, Newcastle, Maine, Artist Residency
Haystack School of Arts, Deer Isle, Maine, Workshop
1998 Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, Workshop/Lecture
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, Artist Residency
1997 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, Workshop
National Conference for the Education of the Ceramics Arts, Las Vegas, NV, Workshop
1996 Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Lecture
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, Art Forum Lecture Series
1994 Cite Des Arts, Paris, France, Artist Residency
Sewickley Academy, Pittsburgh, PA, Workshop/Lecture
1992 The College of New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, Lecture
Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Guest Lecture Residency
Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore, MD, Lecture
1991 Watershed Ceramic Center, Newcastle, ME, Residency
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA, Lecture
Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, Lecture
1990 Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, Lecture
1985 The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
1982-84 Artist in Residence, The City College of New York, New York
1981 Gakiun Designer College, Tokyo, Japan
1978-79 Tuscarora International School of Ceramics, Tuscarora, NV
1975-76 Mende Pottery, Mendeland, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Travel Research
2023 Cambodia
2007-21 Cambodia
2010 Givat Haviva Peace Center, Israel
2007 Cusco, Peru
2006 Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
2001 Costa Rica
Tuscany, Italy
2000 Costa, Rica
Kondimini, Dogon Country, Mali, West Africa
1999 Segou, Mali, West Africa
1998 China and Tibet: Yixing International Conference
1994 Paris, France
1992-95 Southern Vietnam, Thailand and Yunnan, China
1992 Hertogenbosch, Holland
1988 Southern India
1986-88 France
1981 Bizen and Shigaraki, Japan
1975-76 West Africa