KAREN KARNES I VERMONT
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EDUCATION

Brooklyn College, NY
Alfred University, NY

AWARDS

1998 Gold Medal, American Craft Council
1997 Vermont Arts Council Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
1992 Fletcher Challenge Merit Award, New Zealand
1990 Medal of Excellence, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA
1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship
1980 National Council on Education in Ceramic Arts Fellowship
1976 National Endowment for the Arts, Craftsmen's Fellowship American Crafts Council, Member of Academy of Fellows
1964 Trienale de Milano, Silver Medal
1958 Tiffany Fellowship Ceramic National, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1953 Fiber, Clay, Metal, St. Paul, MI
1950 Ceramic National, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2003 Karen Karnes – A life in Clay, Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City
2000 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1999 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1997 Garth Clark Gallery, New York The Clay Studio, Philadelphia
1995 Honoring Karen Karnes -A Life in Clay, OCCC School of Art, Demarest, NJ
1994 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1992 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1991 Schneider/ Bluhm/ Loeb Gallery, Chicago, IL Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1990 Garth Clark Gallery, New York Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA
1988 Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
1987 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1986 The Hand and the Spirit, Scotsdale, AZ Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, VT
1985 Hadler/ Rodriguez Gallery, New York
1982 Hadler/ Rodriguez Gallery, New York Hadler/ Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, TX
1981 Hadler/ Rodriguez Gallery, New York Okun/ Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO Front Room Gallery, Dallas, TX
1979 Craftwork Gallery, London, England Front Room Gallery, Dallas, TX Architectural Pottery of Karen Karnes, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
1978 Hadler/ Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, TX
1977 Hadler Gallery, New York
1976 Creative Craft Alliance, Shreveport, LA lery, Newport, RI
1975 Cooper Gallery, Newport, RI
1974 Cooper Gallery, Newport, RI
1973 Karen Karnes: Salt Glazed Ceramics, The Hand Work Shop, Richmond, VA
1962 Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, CT
1957 Bonniers, New York
1953 America House Gallery, New York
TOPSelected Group Exhibitions 2000 Color and Fire -Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA *+ The Art of Craft -Expressive Works by New Hampshire and Vermont Artists, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2000.*
1998 1997-98 Regis Masters Series, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN A Fire for Ceramics -Contemporary Art from the Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason Collection, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA*
1996 Clay, Wood & Fire, Northern Clay Center, Saint Paul, MN
1993 Master Vermont Ceramists, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
1992 National Ceramic Invitational, McKinney Gallery, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
1991 Vermont Bicentennial Ceramics Invitational, The Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT Wood Spirits, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ American Woodfire '91, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IO Contemporary Ceramics, Habatat/ Shaw Gallery, Farmington Hills, MI Pro Art, Detroit MI Johnson State College, Johnson, VT New Traditions, Worcester Center forCrafts, MA
1990 Black and White, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Ashen Beauty, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR *+ Ceramics Invitational, Kansas State University Gallery
1989 Contemporary Ceramics, Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT A Tea Party, Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, MA Ceramic Form, A Woman's Perspective, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1988 Contemporary American Hand, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1987 Fired with Enthusiasm, Campbell Museum, Camden, NJ *+ The Arts at Black Mountain College, Grey Art Gallery, New York *
1986 Art in Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York *+ New England Ceramic Vessels, Westminster Gallery, Boston, MA Art in Craft Media, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, MO
1985 High Styles: American Design Since 1900, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York * Ceramics from the Earl Millard Collection, University Art Gallery, University of Illinois, Edwardsville, IL. * Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis MO Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Pots and Potters, Aldeburgh, England Women in Clay: The Ongoing Tradition, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA * Wood/ Fire, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Woodfiring in America, Craftsman's Gallery, Scarsdale, NY
1983 American Art Potters, George Ciscle Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1982 Pots and Potters, Aldeburgh, England
1981 Fire and Ashes, Pittsburgh Center for The Arts, Pittsburgh, PA *+ Four Potters from Vermont, Sign of the Swan Gallery, Chestnut Hill, PA
1980 Contemporary Ceramics: A Response to Wedgwood, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA + Contemporary American Potter, Gallery of Art, University of N. Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA *+
1979 A Century of Ceramics in the US, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY *+
1978 Craft Art and Religion, The Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy East Coast Vessels, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown State College, Kutztown, PA
1977 Artistry: Clay and Fiber, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY* Distinguished Potters Invitational 11, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
1976 Liturgical Arts, Philadelphia Civic Center, PA Soup Tureens, Campbell Museum, Camden NJ +
1975 Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE Invitational Show, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT American Crafts Council Gallery, New York
1974 American Crafts Council Gallery, New York
1973 Salt Glaze Invitational, Hoffman Gallery, Arts and Crafts Society, Portland, OR Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1972 International Ceramics, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England * Salt Glazed Ceramics, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC *
1971 Ceramic Art, Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA Ten Potters, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA
1970 Ceramics 70 Plus Woven Forms, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY *+
1969 Objects: USA, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC *+ 25 Years of Ceramic Art in America, Scripps College, CA *
1968 American Studio Pottery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England * International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany Invitational Crafts Show, St. Cloud State College, St. Cloud, MN
1967 First Survey of Contemporary American Ceramics, University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1966 Ceramics Arts USA -1966 Invitational, Washington, DC + The Object Transformed, Museum of Modern Art, New York * American Craftsman's Invitational Exhibition, The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA *
1964 USA Section of the Thirteenth Triennale, Milan, Italy Designed for Production: The Craftsman's Approach, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York *+ American Ceramics, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
1962 22nd Ceramic National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY *+
1961 New York Crafts, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY *
1960 Designer-Craftsmen USA, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York *+
1959 Ceramics International, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, NY *+
1953 Fiber, Clay, Metal, St. Paul, MN
1950 Ceramic National, Syracuse Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY *

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

American Craft Museum, New York City, NY
Bemidji State University Collection, Bemidji, MI
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Johnson Wax Collection of Contemporary Crafts, Racine, WI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
Museum of World Folk Art, La Jolla, CA
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Nelson Fine Arts, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
St. Louis Museum of Art, MO
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

PERIODICALS

"Africa." Look Magazine, March 8. 1966.
"The African Village." Interiors Magazine, Feb. 1966, P. 83.
"American Ceramics." Pottery in Australia, Oct. 1964, p. 20.
"American Woodfire." Studio Potter, December 1982.
"Clay Honors its Own." American Craft, June/ July 1980.
"Contemporary Crafts at the Met." American Craft, April/ May 1987.
"The Craftsman's Cookbook." NY News, Sunday, May 27, 1973.
"The Craftsman in Production." Craft Horizons. March/ April, 1964.
"Delaware Exhibition." Ceramics Monthly, Feb. 1976.
"Designer-Craftsmen USA 1960." Ceramics Monthly, Sept. 1960.
"Easy Passage -Penn Central Offices." Interior Design Magazine, May 1985.
"Exhibition Review." Craft Horizons, July/ Aug., 1967, p. 36.
"Exhibition Review." Craft Horizons, Nov/ Dec., 1962, pp. 44-45.
Interiors Magazine, March 1963, p. 136.
"Karen Karnes Retrospective." Ceramics Monthly, March 1978.
"Karen Karnes." Ceramic Review, March/ April 1978.
Boylen, Michael. "A Karen Karnes Workshop." Ceramics Monthly, 1981.
Chambers, Karen. "Karen Karnes," Review, February 15, 1997
Deitz, Paula. "American Pottery." NY Times Home Design, April 13, 1986.
Hynes, Reggie. "Karen Karnes Workshop." Ceramic Review, May/ June 1982.
Jepson, Barbara. "Design and Decoration," Town and Country, May 1981.
Rubin, Michael. "Karen Karnes." Ceramics Monthly, April 1986.
Smith, Dido. "Karen Karnes." Craft Horizons, May/ June 1958.
Wright, Nancy M. "Clay and Clouds." Stratton Bromley, 1986.
Ceramics Monthly, Dec., 1958, p. 12.

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