TOM COLEMAN Selected Resume
EDUCATION & TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1964-1968 The Museum of Art School, Fine Arts Degree, Portland, Oregon
1968-1987 Studio Potter, Canby, OR
1969-1973 Head of Ceramics, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1973-1974 Portland State University, OR
1987-1990 Instructor UNLV, Las Vegas, NV
1974-1993 Studio Potter, Oregon and Nevada
1994-2000 Coleman Clay Studio & Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2000-2020 Studio Potter, Henderson, NV
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL GROUP & SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2015 Dan Finch Pottery, "Four Amigos", NC
2015 Sherrie Gallerie Exhibition, "Tom & Elaine Coleman Treasures", OH
2015 Columbus Cultural Center, Columbus, OH
2015 River Oaks Square Art Center, Juror for “Dirty Mugs Competition, LA
2014 Akar Design, "Yunomi Invitational" Iowa City, Iowa
2014 "Shino On", Houston, Texas
2014 "Collaboration", TOM COLEMAN AND FRANK BOYDEN, Red Lodge Clay Center Gallery, Montana
2013 Akar Design, "Yunomi Invitational" Iowa City, Iowa
2013 NCECA "Shino Extravaganza", Houston, Texas
2013 Walla Walla University Gallery, Washington
2012 "The Cup Show Invitational", Seattle Washington
2012 Red Lodge Gallery, NCECA, Washington
2012 Peninsula Fine Arts Center,VA 2011 Santa Fe SOFA, Sherrie Gallerie
2011 The Craftsman House, Saint Petersburg, FL
2010 Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
2010 Art Spirit Gallery, “Clay Invitational”, Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho
2010 AKAR Design, Iowa City, Iowa
2009 SOFA, Sherrie Gallery, Chicago
2009 Sherrie Gallery, Columbus, OH
2009 “Simply Formal”, NCECA Conference, AZ
2008 Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction
2008 “On River Through the Valley of Fire” Tom Coleman and Frank Boyden collaboration
Exhibition, AMOCA Gallery, Pomona, CA
2007 NCECA Conference, “The Firm;Inspiration and Evolution”, KY
2007 Red Star Studio, “Porcelain” Kansas City, MO
2007 Saint Petersburg Clay, FL
2006 “Covering The Surface, XIEMS Studio and Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2006 Baltimore Clay Works, “Porcelain Three Ways”, MD
2005 Academy Art Museum, “Particles and Passion: The Art of Clay”, Easton, MD
2005 “Endless Variations: Shino Review 2005”, Baltimore Clayworks NCECA, MD
2003 Contemporary Crafts Museum, “The Soul of the Bowl”, Portland, OR
2003 Nevada Art Council Exhibition, “Desert Landscape”, Las Vegas, NV
2002 San Angelo Art Museum, “San Angelo Invitation”, TX
2002 NCECA Conference “Another Touch of Porcelain”, Kansas City
2001 Northern Clay Center, “Surface Tensions: Shino Exhibition”, MN
1999 Ferrin Gallery Teapot Exhibition, Northampton, MA
1998 “The Cambridge Invitational”, Cambridge, WI
1995 Victorian Clay Group Conference, Melbourne, Australia
1995 Montash University, Frankston Campus, Melbourne, Austraia
1993 “The Year of Crafts”, McVeety Gallery, Salesian, OR
1992 Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago, IL
1992 “International Clay Today”, Posio, Finland
1991 American Crafts Museum, A Teapot Show”, New York
1991 “Clay Today”, Gammel oDk, Odense, Denmark
1991 “Galerie Van Aslant”, iBest-houtakker, Holland
1991 Museum Mensinghe in Roden, Holland
1991 Hollufgard Exhibition and Symposium, Dense, Denmark
PUBLICATIONS:
2009 “More Glazes I Use” glazes, clays and ideas by Tom Coleman
2008 “On the River through the Valley of Fire: The Collaborative Ceramics of Frank Boyden
and Tom Coleman”
2004 “500 Cups, Ceramic Explorations of Utility & Grace”, Lark Books
2004 “Making Marks, Discovering "The Ceramic Surface”, by Robin Hopper
2003 “The Soul of a Bowl” Tom and Elaine Coleman, Don Reitz, Frank Boyden, Jenny Lind
2003 “ Studio Porcelain”, second edition by Peter Lane
2003 “The Mud Pie Dilemma, A Master Potter’s Struggle To Make Art And Ends Meet”,
Second Edition by John Nance
2003 Tom and Elaine Coleman, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, January issue
2003 “Experience Clay” by Maureen Mackey, cover
2003 “Staying Alive, Survival Tactics For The Visual Artist by Robin Hopper
2002 Clay Times Magazine, March/April issue, “Copper Red King & Celadon Queen
2001 “Smashing Glazes” by Susan Peterson
2001 “Ceramics Spectrum”, by Robin Hopper
2000 “With A Little Help From My Friends” by Tom Coleman
1998 “Glazes I Use” by Tom Coleman
1996 “The Craft and the Art of Clay”, second edition by Susan Peterson
1995 “Contemporary Porcelain” by Peter Lane
1994 American Crafts Magazine, April/May issue, cover
1993 “The Complete Potter’s Companion” by Tony Birks
1991 Design Crafts Magazine, “Tradition and New Work”, Soul Korea
1983 “American Crafts: A source Book for the Home” by K. Pearson
1981 “American Porcelain: New Expressions” by Lloyd Herman
1978 “The Mud Pie Dilemma” by John Nance
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS:
2020 Reitz Ranch workshop with Matt Long, Clarksdale, Arizona
2020 Clay Con Conference, guest speaker, Saint George, Utah
2019 Walla Walla University, Slip, Glaze, Fire workshop, Washington
2019 Ashfest wood fire Event, Dan Finch Pottery, NC
2019 Phoenix Art Center, Slip, Glaze & fire workshop
2016 Gulf Coast Clay Conference, Kiln Walk Society, Pensacola, FL
2015 The Four Amigos, Dan Finch, Randy Brodnax, Tom Coleman, & Don Ellis, Bailey, NC, Bailey,
2015 Massarella Pottery and Clay Art, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Pottery West, Las Vegas, NV
2015 Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
2015 River Oaks Art Center, Alexandria, LA
2015 Orrantia, Tucson, AZ
2014 Gulf Shores Kiln Walk Society, Pensacola, Florida
2014 Red Lodge Clay Center, "Collaboration", Tom Coleman / Frank Boyden, Montana
2014 Pottery West, Las Vegas, NV
2014 Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
2013 Walla Walla University, Washington
2013 Pottery West, Las Vegas, NV
2013 18 Hands Gallery, Houston Texas
EARLY WORKSHOPS
2012 Jackson Michigan Clay Guild Workshop
2012 Shoreline Community College Workshop, Seattle, Washington
2011 The Craftsman Gallery, Saint Petersburg, FL
2011 Aardvark Clay Supply, Santa Ana, CA
2010 Potter’s Council Conference, San Diego, CA
2010 Fine Arts Center, Paul Geil and Tom Coleman, Chicago IL
2010 Red Lodge Clay Center, Matt Long and Tom Coleman, Red Lodge, MT
2010 Santa Cruz Art Center, CA
2010 Anchorage, Alaska, Paul Geil and Tom Coleman
2010 Saint Petersburg Clay, Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman, FL
2010 Anderson Ranch, Smowmass, CO
2009 Dan Finch Pottery, Bailey, NC
2009 “Fusion”, Toronto, Canada
2008 University of Tulsa, OK
2008 Grand Junction Art Center, CO
2008 Western New Mexico University, NM
2007 Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA
2007 Red Star Studio, Kansas City, MO
2007 Saint Petersburg Clay, FL
2006 Xiem Clay Studio, Pasadena, CA
2006 Pennsylvania Craftsman Guild, PA
2006 Baltimore Clayworks, MD
2005 El Camino College, Torrance, CA
2005 Hambidge Center, Georgia
2005 Geil Kiln Co, Huntington Beach, CA
2004 Callanwalde Fountain, Atlanta, GA
2004 Metchosin Summer School of the Arts, Victoria, Canada
2004 Ernest Miller Studio, MN
2005 Wesleyan Potters, Middletown, CT
2003 Orchard Valley Ceramics Guild, Sunnyvale, CA
2003 Firehouse Pottery and Studio, Ojai, CA
2002 Great Lakes Clay and Supple, IL
2002 Peter’s Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ
2002 LaLoba Ranch Master’s Program, Steamboat Springs, CO
2002 San Angelo National, TX
2002 Creative Clay Supple, Alexandria, VA
2001 Finch Pottery, Bailey, NC
2001 St. Petersburg Clay, FL
2000 Metchosin International School of the Arts, Victoria, Canada
2000 Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, NV
2000 New Mexico Clay and Ceramic King, Albuquerque, NM
2000 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
1996 The American Ceramics Society, CA
1995 Victorian Clay Group, Melbourne, Australia
1994 Fusion, Clay and Glass Ass., Ontario, Canada
1990 Clay Today Conference, Odense, Denmark
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS:
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OhioThe State of Colorado Permanent Collection, Steamboat Springs, CO
The Smithsonian Institute, American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Long Beach Art Museum, CA
Grimmerhus Museum, Fyn, Denmark
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
San Angelo Museum of Art, TX
Rio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Kaiser Hospital, Portland, OR
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
Sapporo Sister City Collection, Japan
Portland Museum of Art, OR
Dwight Holland Collection, NC
Contemporary Museum of Art Collection, Portland, OR
Timber Press Publishing Company, Portland, OR
Wooster College Art Museum, OH
Earl Mallard Collection, IL
Charles A Custom Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS:
2020 Guest speaker at Clay Con Conference
2012 The Cone Box Show juror, NCECA
2008 Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Juror of invitational Exhibition
2005 “Strictly Functional” Juror, Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsman
2004 “500 Cups” Juror, Lark Books
2002 San Angelo Art Museum, guest artist, TX
1992 Nevada Governors Arts Award
1984 Art Advocate’s Association Grant
1984 Metropolitan Arts Com. Purchase Award to build the East Creek Anagama kiln, OR
1981 Wichita Arts Association Purchase Award, OR
1968 Scholarship for the Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
CONTACT INFORMATION:
tnecoleman@gmail.com
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