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I
am interested in the connection between the hand and eye and memory.
My work focuses on a vessel aesthetic. The pieces are thrown and
altered with highly personal surface treatments. While function
continues to be an essential concern, I am intrigued with the ability
of pots to transcend themselves as objects and convey the information
of other eras and cultures. I work in both porcelain and stoneware
clays, firing with atmospheric kilns to a high temperature. Often
the pieces undergo multiple firings, or are enameled and sandblasted
to achieve a depth of surface. The intimate and tactile nature of
pots creates the ability to connect people like no other object.
There is a need to keep these interactions vital. The rhythm of
making pots is, for me, an endless pursuit to express ideas and
define interactions through form.
Born: September 10,
1964; Detroit, Michigan
Education: Kansas City
Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; B.F.A.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL; M.F.A.
Selected Exhibitions:
upcoming: Solo Exhibition, Akar Gallery, Iowa City, IA, 2005
2005 Lacoste Gallery,
American Crafts, Concord, MA
2004 Clay Invitational
2004, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Teapots: Object to
Subject, Invitational, Curated by Leslie Ferrin, Craft Alliance
Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2003 Contemporary Teapots, Invitational, Leslie Ferrin Gallery,
SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Studio Pottery Invitational,
Curated by Leslie Ferrin, Ferrin Gallery,
Lenox, MA
30 x 5: Contemporary
Ceramics Collection, Akar Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Old Church Cultural
Center Show and Sale, Karen Karnes Invitational,
Demarest, NJ
Linear Qualities of
Form, Solo Exhibition, Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, MA
Snowbirds, An Exhibition
featuring Ceramic artists whose pots reference the Mingei Tradition,
Santa Fe Clay, NM
Container - Content:
A Survey of American Studio Art, Invitational, Curated by Leslie
Ferrin, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
2002 Gathering Influence: The Artist as Collector, 2002 Biennial
Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace
at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Anagama, Invitational,
Curated by Chris Gustin, Peck Gallery, Providence, RI
33/32/2002, a retirement
exhibition of select M.F.A. graduates, 1970 - 2002. Invitational,
Curated by Dan Anderson, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville,
Edwardsville, IL
Solo Exhibition, Akar
Gallery, Iowa City, IA
KCAI Ceramics Faculty:
Part-Time and Full-Time 1996-2002, Alumni Gallery, Vanderslice Hall,
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
The Kansas City Pot:
Alumni of the Kansas City Art Institute 1990-1995, Alumni Gallery,
Vanderslice Hall, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Stoneware for Daily
Rituals, Invitational, Red Star Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Functional Foursight,
The Signature Shop & Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Ceramics Invitational
2002, Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, IL
Pots Presented, Invitational,
Curated by Nick Joerling, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
History:
Jane Shellenbarger
was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1964. She was a CORE student at
Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina from 1987-1989.
Jane received her B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute,
and her M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Following
graduate school, she was a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation
for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT 1996-97. She established her studio
pottery, Mill Station Pottery, in rural Hale, Michigan in 1997.
Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Kansas City Art
Institute. She has also taught at Penland School of Crafts, Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts and the University of Northern Iowa. Her
work is in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
D.C., The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, and The University
Museum, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
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