Bio
Tammie Rubin is a sculptor and installation artist whose practice considers power objects, coded symbols, Black American migration and citizenry, rituals, and magical thinking. Rubin employs ceramic conical forms, raised maps, and murals to create spaces of metaphysical, physical, and spiritual escape. Using imagery and objects of the familiar, she contemplates ideas of authenticity and inherited meanings while inviting new considerations that open dream-like spaces of unexpected associations and dislocations. Rubin holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington in Seattle and a BFA in both Ceramics and Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Rubin has exhibited widely; selections include Project Row Houses, Houston, TX., the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY., George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX., Mulvane Art Museum, KS., Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN., The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX., Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX., and grayDuck Gallery, Austin, TX., and Rivalry Projects Buffalo, NY. Rubin is represented by C24 Gallery, New York, NY., and Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX.
Rubin's artwork has received reviews in online and print publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, Glasstire, Austin American- Statesman, Austin Chronicle, Sightlines, fields, Conflict of Interest, Arts, and Culture Texas, Ceramics: Art & Perception, and Ceramics Monthly. She founded Black Mountain Project along with fellow Austin-based artists Adrian Aguilera and Betelhem Makonnen, and she is a member of ICOSA Collective, a non-profit cooperative gallery. Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an Associate Professor of Ceramics & Sculpture at St. Edward's University.
Teaching Philosophy
"I view myself as a facilitator, guiding students through paths that will lead to a lifetime of creative expression and critical response. My goal is that each student leaves my class with an increased understanding of how to express their ideas clearly in three-dimensional forms, using technical skills, cogent thought processes, and an awareness of context. Ultimately, I want to provide students with a solid framework where they develop skill, engage, reflect, expand, and examine their understanding of art."
Associate Professor, Visual Studies, Ceramics & Sculpture, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, Fall 2019 to Present
Assistant Professor, Sculpture & Ceramics, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, Fall 2015 to Spring 2019
Assistant Professor, Ceramics & Foundations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2008 to 2015
2003 M.F.A. Ceramics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1999 B.F.A. Ceramics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
1999 B.F.A. Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023
Windgate Individual Artist Grant + Penland Better Together Summer Residency, NC
2022
Tito’s Prize, Big Medium Gallery and Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Austin, TX
2021
Award for Texas BIPOC Ceramic Artists: Mid-Career & Beyond, Clay Houston, Houston, TX
2020
Cultural Arts Division Community Initiative Grant for Black Mountain Project Programming, Austin, TX
Presidential Excellence Grant, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX
2019
Austin Critics Table Nominations 2018-2019, “Cage Match Project Round VIII: Tammie Rubin: This is Everything,” Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX, Solo Gallery Exhibition & Visual Artist
Cultural Arts Division Community Initiative Grant for I, Am, Too Exhibition & Programming, Austin, TX
Cultural Arts Division Community Initiative Grant for Black Mountain Project Programming, Austin, TX
Presidential Excellence Grant, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX
2018
Dimension Gallery 2019/2020 Fellowship, Austin, TX
Presidential Excellence Grant, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX
2017
Austin Critics Table Solo Gallery Exhibition Award Winner 2016-2017,
“Tammie Rubin: Before I Knew You, I Missed You,” de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART, Austin, TX
Residency, C.R.E.T.A Rome Center for Ceramics, Rome, Italy
Presidential Excellence Grant, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX
2016
Presidential Excellence Grant, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX
2013
Jeanne Bowman Ellenstein Purchase Award and Evansville Museum Contemporaries Purchase Award, Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, Evansville, IN
UIUC Campus Research Board Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
2012
2012 Cone Box Show Purchase Award Winner
College of Fine and Applied Arts Creative Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
2011
Juror’s Award First Place, 12X12, Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, TN
Individual Artist Support Initiative – Artist Project Grant, Illinois Arts Council, IL
2010
UIUC Campus Research Board Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
2009
College of Fine and Applied Arts Creative Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
2008
Anthony E. Stellaccio Award, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2007
Residency, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
Chair, The City of Austin’s Art in Public Places Panelist (AIPP), Cultural Arts Division, Austin, TX, 2017- Present
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
National Council on Education for the Ceramics Arts
Texas Association of School of Art
College Arts Association
I investigate the tensions between the readymade and the handcrafted object, the innate power of objects as signifiers, wishful contraptions, mythic relics, and allegorical maps. My sculptural practice strives to open-up dream-like spaces of unexpected associations and dislocations. Artworks are process-based, intensely colored, technically complex, and while primarily composed of pigmented porcelain other media include vinyl, plasti-dip, twine, wire, rope, cotton, resin, steel wool, wood, construction foam, and metal. Using intricate motifs, I often return to themes relating to ritual, domestic and liturgical objects, mapping, migration, historical and fictional narratives, identity, magical thinking, transformation, and sensory desire. As a part of my practice, I collect mass-produced consumer objects and natural vegetation that strike me as iconic of the everyday. Objects range from household tools and fixtures, plastic products, consumer packaging, toys, ceramic figurines, food molds, and the native Texas ball moss. In these mundane objects, which are viewed as cheap, trivial, and disposable, I find unexpected beauties and meanings.
Migration, transformation, and identity are rooted in current works. My interest in my family’s personal narrative in the historical context of the Great Migration has led me to create artworks that act as metaphorical passageways. The installation I, Too, Am cites Langston Hughes’s 1926 poem “I, Too”, a work that itself references an earlier Walt Whitman poem. I juxtapose the majestic grandeur of the varied American landscape with how those same inspired ideas of vastness and expansion often fall short for its citizens. Rock formations, mesas, mountains, and hills are craved from construction foam and enveloped in resin. These formations separated from their surrounding environments become alien and isolated. Contemplating how migrants both willing and forced have found and continue to find this landscape called America daunting, yet also call it home.
I use the familiar wispy tendrils of the native Texas ball moss to serve as a signifier of gathering chaos, connections, growth, change, concentrated confusion, the labyrinth of values, and the growing will and unease of populations. Constructed of ball moss, knots, and tangles of twine, armatures of wire embedded with steel wool and cotton the forms are covered with colored porcelain slip; drowned, distorted and obscuring the original materials. Weighed down by porcelain the work is kiln-fired, all the organic material burns away leaving a transformed shell, a remnant, and something new forged out of fire. This examination of the familiar is again visited in the installation Alice, Harriet, Cassy & Emmeline in which tales of escape are not straightforward and not commonly told. Each name in the title is a literary heroine, who through their own personal autonomy, bravery and cunning took their freedom. Each of the black women who escaped their enslavement has a tale so epic that it is hard to discern which one is fiction. The work provides a sensory prescription for resisting absolute definitions of culture and identity. I layered authentic routes of the underground railroad onto the wall surface. As the authentic routes are overlapped the variations began to distort the trails, the map becomes a topographic allegorical abstraction, where the way forward is seen but not clear. Clusters and markers dot the way indicate groupings of figures, hints, warnings, memorials, a continual pushing forward into an epic chaotic abstraction to an uncertain future. I’m interested in constructing objects and spaces that encompass the past, present, and future, my practice is a visualization of my current material wonderings.
Articles
Barbara Purcell, “Review: Tammie Rubin’s I am best when I’m escaping,” Glasstire, April 17, 2023.
Courtney Thomas, “In her Tito’s Prize exhibition, Tammie Rubin explores migration, escape, and faith,” Sighlines, March 28, 2023.
Casey Gregory, “Show up: Tammie Rubin at Big Medium,” Arts and Cultures Texas, February 3, 2023.
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Faithful: Tammie Rubin at grayDuck Gallery,” Sighlines, December 10, 2022.
Colette Copeland, “I Pick Up My Life: Tammie Rubin at Galleri Urbane, Dallas,” Glasstire, November 8, 2022.
Vivie Behrens, “Austin Embraces Ceramicist and Educator Tammie Rubin Tito's Vodka prize winner looks forward to her 2023 solo show, ”The Austin Chronicle, FRI., April 15, 2022.
Jessica Fuentes, “Austin Artist Tammie Rubin Awarded $15,000 Tito’s Prize,” Glasstire, April 1, 2022.
Charity Coleman, “Eleen Lin and Tammie Rubin,” Artforum, Summer 2022 Vol. 60, No.10 Print
Carris Adams, “The Curios Case of Critical Race….Theory” at Project Row Houses, Glasstire, May 17, 2022.
Madison Ford, “Eleen Lin and Tammie Rubin: Mythodical,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2022.
Kaila Schedeen, “At grayDuck Gallery, ‘small acts’ makes a big impact,” Sigthlines, November 3, 2021.
Tiffany D. Gaines, “Intertwined: Meditations on Legacy @ Rivalry Projects,” Buffalo Rising, August 27, 2021.
“Odd Mechanisms,” The Good Word, All That We Have to Share, Spring 2021 MMXXI, Preacher, Austin, Images.
Krista Alba, Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art Bard College. Tammie Rubin: Tell them I won’t be long. Issuu, 2021 Exhibition catalogue.
Erin Keever, “The Pleasure of Making makes Viewing a Pleasure,” Sigthlines, February 2, 2020.
Sean J Patrick Carney, “Dark Eco-Comedy: Austin’s Fusebox Festival,” Art in America, May 7, 2019.
Brandon Zech, Glasstire Top Five: March 14, 2019, Glasstire, March 14, 2019.
Kaila Schedeen, “Trying to get present: Black Mountain Project’s constant escape,” Sigthlines, April 27, 2019.
Wayne Alan Brenner, “Tammie Rubin, Everything You Ever at Women & Their Work,” Austin Chronicle, January 4, 2019.
Lindsey Reynolds, “Natural/Synthetic/Human: Tammie Rubin’s “Everything You Ever,” Sigthlines, January 3, 2019.
Laura August, “Review: Tammie Rubin, Everything You Ever at Women & Their Work” Arts and Culture Texas, December 13, 2018.
Robert Faires, “Dimension Gallery Shows Support for Art and Artists at EAST,” The Austin Chronicle, November 9, 2018.
Rebecca Marino, “Q+A with Tammie Rubin,” Conflict of Interest, July 26, 2018. 152-155.
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Disrupting Practice: To Make a New Series of Sculptures, Sightlines, August 16, 2018.
Sean Redmond, “Interview: Tammie Rubin,” fields, Spring/Summer, 2017. 20-39.
Kate Green, “Critics Picks Tammie Rubin,” Art Forum, November, 2016
Jeanne Claire Ryzin, “Sculpting one’s self,” Austin American-Statesman, October 27, 2016
Sam Anderson-Ramos, “Tammie Rubin: Before I Knew You, I Missed You, at de stijl,” The Austin Chronicle, November 11, 2016
Bill Mauro Jr., "Breathing life into everyday objects," Williamsport Sun-Gazette, April 3, 2014.
Richard Chang, “Clay, Glass Elevated in Brea,” Orange County Register, February 2, 2013, 6.
Judy Seckler, “On the Teapot Trail, Bellevue College Art Gallery Teapot Survey,” Ceramics Art and Perception Issue 90 (2012): 11. This published article includes reproduced image of artwork.
Laura O’Donnell, “Tammie Rubin Messages,” Ceramics Art and Perception Issue 89 (2012): 38-41. This published article includes reproduced images of artwork.
Ursula Ehrhardt, “Exhibit makes familiar objects fantastic,” Daily Times (Salisbury), September 2, 2012, D3. This published article includes reproduced images of artwork.
Melissa Merli, “Studio Visit: Tammie Rubin,” The News-Gazette, July 1, 2012.
Episode #11 Interview Tammie Rubin, Art Now!, Public Arts Program, Urbana Public ,Television.
Eighteenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, exhibition catalogue, 16 April – 20 June 2010, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX.
2nd Biennial Central Time Ceramics, exhibition catalogue, 4 March – 2 April 2010, Heuser and Hartmann Galleries, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, page 22 & 23.
Beyond the Brickyard, exhibition catalogue, 31 January – 15 March 2009, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT, page 9.
Matthew Kangas, “Tammie Rubin’s Aviary,” Ceramics Monthly, May 2008, 50-53. This
published article includes reproduced images of artwork.
Clay on the Wall – Clay National, exhibition catalogue, 1 December 2007 – 17 February 2008, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, TX.
Robin Avni, “Kirkland Arts Center,” 425 Magazine, Winter. 2006/2007: 72 (Image).
John Froschauer, “One-Hour Pottery,” King County Journal, July 17, 2006.
Matthew Kangas, “Molding a New Generation of Ceramic Artists,” The Seattle Times, June 16, 2006.
Alec Clayton, “Forward Art,” Weekly Volcano, February 24, 2005.
LECTURES, PANELS & WORKSHOPS
2019
Chatroom No. 3: Arielle Austin, Facilitator for artist conversation, BossbabesATX, Austin, TX
Filled to the BRIM: Burying Depression in Abstraction with artists Aimée Everett, Ariel
René Jackson, Andrea Muñoz Martinez, Isa Boonto-Zarifis, & Vladimir Mejia, Moderated by Tammie Rubin & Betelham Makonnan, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
Artist Talk Adrian Aguilera + Betelhem Makonnen + Tammie Rubin: constant escape, George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX
You Are Not A Starving Artist: How to Build and Sustain a Creative Life, Panel Discussion with Austin Artists Tammie Rubin, Jane Hervey, Sara Vanderbeek, Jules Buck Jones, University of Texas First Year Program Professional Development Panel, TX
Panel Discussion: The Supper Club, Elia Alba, Tammie Rubin in a panel discussion on Alba’s multifaceted project, moderated by Dr. Cherise Smith, VAC, University of Texas, TX
Talk About: Everything You Ever with Michael Anthony Garcia and Hollis Hammonds, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2018
Austin Art Talk Podcast Episode 50: Tammie Rubin, Austin Art Talk Podcast, Austin, TX
Gallery Talk with Betelhem Makonnen & Tammie Rubin, Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design Exhibition, Blanton Art Museum, Austin, TX
This Is Everything: OR, Why I Call Art Making Practice, John L. Warfield Center for African America Studies’ Diaspora Talk Series, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Artist Talk, Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
2017
Juror, 14th annual People’s Gallery Exhibition at City Hall, City of Austin, Austin, TX
Panelist, Artist INC Live Austin, City of Austin, Austin, TX
2016
Before I Knew You, I Missed You, Lecture, de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART, Austin, TX
Juror, Wisconsin Artists Biennial 2016, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
2015
Juror, Wisconsin Artists Biennial 2016, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
I Am an Island, Lecture, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
2014
Biomorphic, Gallery Talk, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, KY
Ceramic Casting Construction and Surface, Workshop, Department of Art & Design, Morehead State University, KY
2013
Science Fiction Literature and Arts Research at Illinois, Panelist, Writing Another Future: Science Fiction Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Another World, Lecture, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2012
Nevermore, University Art Gallery, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
Embellishment: The Textural Possibilities of Casting Slip, Workshop, Department Fine & Applied Arts, S Building, Parkland College, Champaign, IL
2011
Both Alien and Familiar: Ornamental Mythologies and the Recognizable Object, Lecture, Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Lincoln University, PA
Embellishment: The Textural Possibilities of Casting Slip, Master Class, Workshop, Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Lincoln University, PA
He Is Gone, Imagined Contraptions for Last Communications, Artist Lecture & Graduate Studio Visits, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2010
Artist Lecture & Graduate Studio Visits, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
2009
Gallery Talk, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
Flatlands: Middle America and the Pastoral Sublime, Panelist, Inland Visual Studies Symposium, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Decorative Surfaces & Ornament, Workshop, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Silence! Magical Thinking in Progress, Lecture, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
He Is Gone, Lecture & Gallery Talk, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2008
Sculpture Through Slipcasting, Workshop, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
Visiting Artist, Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
2005
Gallery Talk & Lecture, Green River Community College, Auburn, WA
Your Arts Education: A Working Guide, Panelist, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2004
Applying for Graduate School in the Visual Arts, Panelist, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
I am at my best when I’m escaping, Big Medium, 2022 Tito’s Art Prize Exhibition, Austin, TX
2022
Faithful, grayDUCK Gallery, Austin, TX
I Pick Up My Life, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
Round 53: The Curious Case of Critical Race…Theory, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2021
Tell them I won’t be long, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
2019
I, Am, Too, Dimension Gallery, Austin, TX
2018
Everything You Ever, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
2016
Before I Knew You, I Missed You, de stijl | PODIUM FOR ART, Austin, TX )
2015
I Am an Island, John C. Hutcheson Gallery, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
To Wonder & Wander, Rogers Gallery, Berea College, Berea, KY
2014
Lingering and Longing, The William & Florence Schmidt Center, SWIC, Belleville, IL
Neverwhere and Nowhere, The Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
2013
Tiny Messengers, Lone Star College-North Harris Fine Arts Gallery, Lone Star College-North Harris, Houston, TX
Another World, David & Jacqueline Charak Gallery, Craft Alliance, St Louis, MO
2012
Come in Close & Still, Spiva Art Gallery, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO
Nevermore, Salisbury University Art Gallery, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
I Dwell in Possibility, Parkland Art Gallery, Parkland College, Champaign, IL
2011
I Dwell in Possibility, Sarah M. Hurt, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
He Is Gone, imagined contraptions for last communications, Art and Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2009
Silence! Magical Thinking in Progress, Pottery Northwest Gallery, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
He Is Gone, imagined contraptions for last communications, Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
2008
The Aviary, Helen S. Smith Gallery, Green River Community College, Auburn, WA
2007
The Aviary, Gallery4Culture, Seattle, WA
2003
Slight, CMA Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Clay Matters, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Collective Thoughts: ICOSA @ Antenna, Antenna, New Orleans, LA
2022
Subversive Media: Materiality & Power, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Mythodical, C24 Gallery, New York, NY (two-person exhibition)
Limitless: The 2021 Recipients of ClayHouston’s Award for Texas BIPOC Ceramic Artists, Houston Center for Craft, Houston, TX
2021
small acts, grayDuck Gallery, Austin, TX
Intertwined: Akinbola, Locke, Rubin, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY
staycation iv: (un)promised potential, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21, Museum of Pocket Art Collections, New York, NY
Collecting Black Studies: An Exhibition, The Christian-Green Gallery, Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Remote, FERMATA 3 by 3 Vol.6 online exhibition, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Interchange, South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
Warmly Persuasive, Tiger Strike Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
Exchange, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
constant escape, George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX
2018
Chiaroscuro: probing mystery, seeking clarity, ICOSA, Gallery, TX
Seasons of Fruition, Dimension Gallery, Austin, TX
CraftTexas 2018, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
This is Everything, Cage Match Project Round VIII, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
Fisterra Retrospective, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX
A Conversations on Race & Identity, Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
2017
28 X 5 Clay Works, CRETA ROME Ceramic Arts, Rome, Italy
The People’s Gallery 2017 Exhibition, Austin City Hall People’s Gallery, Austin, TX
2016
Take Ten, The Gallery at Penn College, Williamsport, PA
2015
TASA One Foot Exhibition 2015, Texas Tech University Satellite Gallery at LHUCA, Lubbock, TX
Uselt A Show of Functional Ceramics, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL
2014
Somatic, Armstrong Gallery, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
Biomorphic, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, KY
2013
Functional/Dysfunctional, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2013
ACGA National Clay & Glass Exhibition, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
2012
Lavish & Lush, Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
56th Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
2012
Orton International Cone Box Show, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
Lavish & Lush, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
Clay EVV, National Juried Small Scale Ceramic Sculpture, The Arts Council of SW Indiana, Evansville, IL
2012 Rockford Midwestern, Rockford Art Museum, Washburn University, Rockford, IL
Crafts National 2012, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS
19th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Laredo, TX
Lavish & Lush, NCECA On The Edge 2012 Conference, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
Clay Lives Here!, Pottery Northwest, NCECA On The Edge, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
Extreme, Extraordinary, Exquisite, Teapots on the Edge, NCECA On The Edge 2012 Conference, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA
2012 Back to the Future Exhibition, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX
ClaySpace: Clay3, Gallery 107, ClaySpace Ceramics Arts Studio, Warrenville, IL
3rd Biennial Central Time Ceramics, Heuser and Hartmann Galleries, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
All Steamed Up at Millikin, Perkinson Gallery, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
2011
All Steamed Up, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL
Small Works, Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
River 2 River, The Ceramics Center, Cedar Rapids, IA
Visions In Clay, LH Horton JR Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
Flashback, Pottery Northwest Gallery, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
Craftsmanship:Concept:Innovation, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
Two by Two Small-Scale Ceramic Sculpture Biennial, EWU Art Gallery, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
12X12, Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
2010
Illinois Clay - 2010: No ‘S’ in Illinois, Lillstreet Gallery, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
Body and Soul, Baltimore Clayworks Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2010 International Orton Cone Box Show, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
Last Call, The Tim Salen Gallery, St. Petersburg Clay Company, St. Petersburg, FL
Visions In Clay, LH Horton JR Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA,
64 Arts National Juried Exhibition, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL
Eighteenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
2nd Biennial Central Time Ceramics, Heuser and Hartmann Galleries, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Gimme Fiction, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL
2009
Curious Species, Burien Art Gallery, Burien Arts Association, Burien, WA
Spoon It! Fork It! Cut It Up!, Baltimore Clayworks Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Beyond the Brickyard Exhibition, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
2008
Feats of Clay XXI, Lincoln Arts and Culture Foundation, Lincoln, CA
THE NATURE OF GROWTH, Gallery Space, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
Clay? II, KAC Gallery, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2007
Clay on the Wall: 2007 Clay National, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, TX
Molded Earth, Target Gallery, Torpedo Art Center, Alexandria, VA
RED, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
Red Heat: Contemporary Work in Clay, Alexander Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK
MasterMinds, KAC Gallery, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2006
The Other Side of the Grassy Knoll: Four Memories of Natural Worlds, KAC Gallery, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Clay?, KAC Gallery, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Teach, Pottery Northwest Gallery, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
2005
Inertia, Tacoma Contemporary: Urban Art Installations, Tacoma, WA
2004
Necessary Compulsions, the Burnley Gallery, The Art Institute of Seattle, WA
2003
MFA 2003, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Caffe con Leche, Cinema Gallery, Urbana, IL
2002
Freque Show, CMA Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
4 Frequencies CMA Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Works in Progress, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA