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Bill Gilbert
billgilbert@cybermesa.com
Work Experience
2013- Director, Land Arts Mobile Research Center
2012 Acting Dean, College of Fine Arts, UNM
2009-2012 Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Fine Arts, UNM
2008-2009 LAND/ART project steering committee
2008- Professor, Art & Ecology, Department of Art and Art History, UNM
2004- Lannan Endowed Chair
2000- Director, Land Arts of the American West program
1988-2007 Professor, Ceramics, Department of Art and Art History, UNM
Education
1978 MFA, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
1973 BA, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
1971 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Selected One Person Exhibitions
2012 Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA
2012 Mesa Art Gallery, Los Alamos, NM
2011 Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, NV
2010 Art + Environment Center, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV
2010 Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2009 University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2005 Omniart, Art Basel Miami, FL
2005 Robert Nichols Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Everglades National Park, FL
2003 Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
2003 Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Robert Nichols Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1998 Center for Contemporary Art: Plan B, Santa Fe, NM
1998 Conlon Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1998 Hermit Foundation, Center for MetaMedia, Plasy, Czech Rep.
1995 Art Center, Waco, TX
1994 Fundacion Paul Rivet, Cuenca, Ecuador
1992 Mobius, Boston, MA
1992 I.D.E.A., Sacramento, CA
1991 Boulder Art Center, Boulder, CO
1991 Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
1989 Creative Arts Gallery, New Haven, CT
1988 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1988 X Theater, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1987 Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
1987 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1986 New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1982 Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Watershed Bounding, Open Space Visitor Center, Albuquerque, NM
2014 Best Kept Secret: The Scripps College Ceramic Collection,
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
2013 Boundless Horizons, Kruglak Gallery,MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA
2013 Earth Chronicles Project : New Mexico,New Mexico Highlands University,
Las Vegas, NM
2013 Elemental New Mexico, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2013 Places of Memory-Fields of Vision, Art Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
2013 Vast Horizons, ANU School of Art, Canberra, AU
2012 Miami Performance International Festival, CCE Miami, Miami, FL
2012 Transformative Surfaces, ISEA, University Art Museum, ABQ, NM
2012 Invisible Cities Festival -A cosmography, National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2011 Expressions of Intent, SoA Foyer Gallery, Australia National University,
Canberra, AU
2010 Drift, Little Wing Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
2010 Critical Clay, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Second Site, 516 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2009 UNM Faculty, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Mapping a Green Future, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Giving Shelter, 516 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2007 Currently West, Koumi-Machi Kougen Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2007 Weather Report: Art & Climate Change, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,
Boulder,CO
2006 Green, 516 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2006 Drift, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
2006 Landminds, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2006 CAMP: Art and Sustainability, Hyde Memorial State Park, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Living the Art, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA
2004 Contemporary Cup, Lil Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Standing Room Only, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College,Claremont CA.
2003 Clay Artists of New Mexico, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2003 I-25, Sangre de Christo Art Museum, Pueblo, CO
2002 Looking Back, NM Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Vanishing Borders, NM Museum Of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
2002 Fuse, Robert Nichols Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Salt & Ash, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Doteky/Contacts, Seminaire International en Plein Air
2001 Galerie Klatovy-Klenova, Klenova, Czech Rep
2001 Beyond the Physical: Substance, Space & Light, University of
2001 North Carolina Galleries, Charlotte, NC
2000 Term Limits, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
1999 New Mexico 2000, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
1998 The Tie that Binds, Anderson Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1996 Alert, OFF-SITE, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Sense of Place, Governors Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1994 Clay National, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA
1994 Personally Defining Clay, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1993 Boat Show, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 Clay Out of Context, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, CA
1993 49th Scripps Annual, Lang Art Gallery, Claremont, CA
1992 Sculpture 1992, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
1991 Exquisite Corpse, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
1991 Singular Visions, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
1991 2000 Years of New Mexico Ceramics, Jonson Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1990 Southwest ‘90, New Mexico Museum, Santa Fe, NM
1990 Finalist, New Denver Airport Core Design Commission
1989 45th Scripps Invitational, Lang Art Gallery, Claremont, CA
1987 Small Works University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1986 Site Specific Adobe University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
1986 Sculpture Installation, “C.I.N.A.F.E.”, Navy Pier, Chicago IL
1985 Five From New Mexico, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
1983 In Place, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Publications
2012 Gilbert, Bill, "Arid Lands Pedagogy: Art in the American West", Arid: A
Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology, Vol.no. 1
2012 Gilbert, Bill, "Modeling Collaborative Practices", in Jamie Kruse and
Elizabeth Ellsworth, Makingthe GeologicNow: Responses to Material
Conditions of Contemporary Life, NY: Punctum Books
2010 Gilbert, Bill, Introduction, LAND/ART, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Gilbert, Bill & Taylor, Chris, Land Arts of the American West,
University of Texas Press,Austin TX
2004 “Public Art & The American West”, MASS, Journal of the School of
Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico, VXIII, pgs 6-11
2004 “Standing Room Only”, Scripps College, pgs. 67,182
2000 “Crossing Boundaries/Transcending Categories: Contemporary Art From
Mata Ortiz, Mexico”, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1999 “Seven Families and Five Neighborhoods: The Potters of Mata Ortiz“,
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM & Exhibits USA,
Kansas City, MO
1999 “Earth, Pigment and Fire: The Ceramics of Mata Ortiz”, Franz Mayer
Museum Press, Mexico City, Mexico
1998 “Juan Quezada: The Casas Grandes Revival”, National Council of
Educators in the Ceramic Arts Journal, Vol 19, 1998, pp. 35-38
1996 “Quichua Pottery: Cultural Identity and the Market”,
Journal of Occupational Science: Australia, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 72-75
1995 “Mata Ortiz: Traditions and Innovations”, Ceramics Monthly,
December, pp. 51-56
1995 “Juan Quezada: Mexican Potter”, The Studio Potter, December,
vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 51-59
1995 “Traditions and Innovations”, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Published Reviews
2013 Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, The Rise, NY: Simon & Shuster Inc.
2012 Reub, Teri & Phan, Larry, No Places with Names: a critical acoustic
archaeology, Institute of Native American Art, Santa Fe, NM
2011 Kennedy, Randy, The American West as Classroom, Art and Metaphor,
The New York Times, May 3
2010 Sanchez, Casey, Axis of Easels, Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, July2-8,
pp 56-57
2010 Craggs, Mathew, Map Quest Bill Gilbert, Reno News & Review, June 17,
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=1441261
2009 Brown, Glen, 500 Ceramic Sculptures: Contemporary Practice,
Singular Works, Lark Books, pg 377
2009 Sardy, Marin, “Down to Earth”, Art Ltd, September,
2009 Kamerick, Megan, “LAND/ART lifts Albuquerque to a new tier in art World”,
July 31, pg 6
2009 Armitage, Diane, “Land/Art New Mexico: A collaboration Exploring
Land-Based Art”, THE Magazine, August, pg 61
2009 Mayfield, Dan, “Indoor spaces join the rush to outdoors”,
Albuqeurque Journal, July 26, pg F3
2009 King Sarah, “The Earth Sublime”, Art in America, June
2009 Fairfield, Douglas, “LAND/ART ho!”, The New Mexican, June 26
2009 Fischer, Zane, “Finally Landing”, Santa Fe Reporter, May 6
2009 Jusinski, Charlotte, “Our Neighbor to the South “, Santa Fe Reporter,
March 25, p. 25
2009 Kamerick, Megan, “Land Art Lifts Albuquerque to a New Tier in Art World”,
New Mexico Business Weekly, July 31, 2009
2008 Ross, Alex, “Giving Shelter”, THE Magazine, April 2008
2006 Ganstrom, Linda, “International Ceramics: Cross Cultural Perspectives”,
Explorations and Navigations: The Resonance of Place, NCECA Journal,
Vol XXVII, pp 136-138
2006 Zane Fischer, “Returning to the Land: the art of Bill Gilbert”,
Santa Fean, April, pp. 50-51
2005 Fox, William, “Land Arts of the American West”, Sculpture Magazine,
October, pg 80
2005 Elizabeth Cook Romero, “Anagama”, Pasa Tiempo, The New Mexican, June 17
2004 Feibig, Dan, “Anagama, New Mexico-style”, Clay Times, Nov- Dec, pgs 35-37
2004 Garcia, Christopher, “Adobe Art: in touch with the earth”,
Ceramics Technical, NO. 19, pgs. 41-45
2002 Jones, Meghen, “Beyond the Physical: Substance, Space and Light”,
NCECA Journal, pgs. 142-149
2001 Griffith, Roberta, “Un Sentido de Lugar”, Ceramica: Revista Internacional,
no. 78 2001, pgs 26-30
2001 Brown, Glen, “Memory Serves: Time, Space & the Ceramic Installation”,
Critical Ceramics
2000 “Mata Ortiz Today”, Ceramics Monthly, November, pg 34
1999 Whitney, Kay, “Skilled Labor”, Sculpture Magazine, May 1999,
Vol. 18 no. 4, pp. 24-29
1998 Hertel, Carl, “The Voices of Clay”, Albuquerque Arts Magazine,
August 1998, pg. 10
1998 Tobin, Richard, “Process Art is Minimalism’s Evil Twin”,
THE Magazine, September, pg. 53
1997 Bobrowski, Gina, “Bill Gilbert’s Ceramic Installations”,
Ceramic Art & Perception, Issue 31, pp. 66-69
1995 Hoover, Carl, “Installing Outdoors Indoors”, Tribune Herald,
February 24
1991 Soergel, Brian, “Clay + Fire= Art”, Daily Bulletin, Friday,
March 12, pg F3
1990 MacCloud, Mac, “The Structures of Bill Gilbert”, Artspace, March,
pp 56-57
1988 Fawcett, Dennis, “On Sculpture: When Less Is More”, New Haven Register,
July 16, pp D1&8
1987 McNally, Owen, “Sculptor Chooses Materials That Celebrate the Present”,
Hartford Courant, June 17, pp C 1&2
1985 Peterson, William, “Santa Fe”, Art News, November, pg 131
1982 Bell, David, “Bill Gilbert”, Artspace, Summer 1982
1982 Creeley, Robert, “My New Mexico”, Albuquerque Museum
Curator
2013 Land Art of the American West, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2012 Land Art of the American West, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2011 Land Arts of the American West, SCA Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2010 Land Arts of the American West, SCA Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2009 LAND/ART, 25 institutions in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM
2009 Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West 2000-2006,
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2006 LandMinds, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM
2004 Land Arts of the American West, Creative Research Laboratory,
University of Texas, Austin
2003 Land Arts of the American West, John Sommers Gallery, University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2000 Crossing Boundaries, Transcending Categories: Contemporary Art
From Mata Ortiz, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2000 The Potters of Mata Ortiz: Five Barrios, Seven Families/Los Ceramistas
de Mata Ortiz: Cinco Barrios, Siete Familias,
J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, College Station,
TX, Perspective Gallery, Blacksburg, VA, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND,
Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, IL, Clark County
Heritage Museum, Henderson, NV, The Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
1999 The Potters of Mata Ortiz: Five Barrios, Seven Families/ Los Ceramistas
de Mata Ortiz: Cinco Barrios, Siete Familias, Southwest Craft Center,
San Antonio, TX, Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA
1998 Juan Quezada, Haggerty Art Center, University of Dallas, National Council
of Educators in the Ceramic Arts Conference, Dallas,TX
1994 The Potters of Mata Ortiz/Los Ceramistas de Mata Ortiz: Transforming a
Tradition, University Art Museum, Alb, NM
1993 Quichua Pottery of Ecuador, South Broadway Cultural Center, Alb, NM
Guest Lecturer/Visiting Artist
2014 Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Art,
Science and Activism, a Panel Discussion
2013 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2013 SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2013 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2012 Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
2012 The Clay Center, Charleston, WV
2012 Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA
2012 International Visual Sociology Association Conference, St Francis College,
Brooklyn, NY
2011 Australia National University Field Study program, Canberra, AU
2010 West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2010 Collected Works, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2009 New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
2008 California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
2008 For-Site, Nevada City, CA
2004 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2000 Southwest Center for Art and Craft
Sponsored Guest Lectures
University Art Museum
2013 Michael Govan, Director & CEO, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA
Land Arts of the American West
2013 William Debuys, Author, El Valle, NM
2013 William Fox, Director, Art + Environment Center, Nevada Museum of Art,
Reno, NV
2013 Joel Glanzberg, Regenesis, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Basia Irland, Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico
2013 Steve Harris, Rio Grand Restoration, Embudo, NM
2013 Jack Loeffler, Folklorist, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Patrick Manning, Photography Professor, University of New Mexico
2013 Adrian Oglesby, Middle Rio Grande Conservsation District, Albuquerque, NM
2013 Roberto Salas, Director, Centro Artistico Y Cultural, El Paso, TX
2013 Sharon Sivinski, Education Coordinator, Bernalillo County Water
Utility Authority, Albuquerque, NM
2013 Mike Weinberg, US Bureau of Reclamation, Chama , NM
2012 Joe Cook, Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico
2012 Tom McGrath, Project Supervisor, Roden Crater, AZ
2012 Nils Norman, Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 Roberto Salas, Director, Centro Artistico Y Cultural, El Paso, TX
2011 Steve Badgett, Simparch, Wendover, UT
2011 Graciela Martinez and Hector Gallegos, Mata Ortiz potters, Chihuahua, MX
2011 Andrea Polli, Art &Ecology professor, University of New Mexico
2011 Roberto Salas, Director, Centro Artistico Y Cultural, El Paso, TX
2011 David Taylor, Photography Professor, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2010 Steve Badgett, Simparch, Wendover, UT
2010 Mathew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Ray and Juanita Denaly, Hogwaller Farm, Shiprock, NM
2010 Dan Flitner, Hobo Ranch, Maes, NM
2010 Joe Gallegos, Northern New Mexico Wheat Cooperative, Questa, NM
2010 Michael Govan, Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Roberto Salas, Director, Centro Artistico Y Cultural, El Paso, TX
2010 Jeff Stein, Project manager, Arcosanti, AZ
2010 David Taylor, Photography Professor, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2010 Yvonne Todacheena, Shiprock Farmers Market, Shiprock, NM
2010 Courtney White, Quivera Coalition, Santa Fe, NM
2010 Paul Wells, US Border Patrol, El Paso, TX
2009 Catherine Harris, Art & Ecology Professor, University of New Mexico
2009 Lucy Raven, Video Artist, New York, NY
2009 Roberto Salas, Director, Centro Artistico Y Cultural, El Paso, TX
2009 Ana Soafer, Film Maker, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Tom McGrath, Project Supervisor, Roden Crater, AZ
2007 Matthew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Graciela Martinez and Hector Gallegos, Mata Ortiz potters, Chihuahua, MX
2007 John Stokes, Director, The Tracking Project, Albuquerque, NM
2007 Mary Tsiongas, Electronic Arts Professor, University of New Mexico
2006 Jerry Brody, Art History Professor, University of New Mexico
2006 Mathew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
2006 William Fox, Director, Art + Environment Center, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2006 Joel Glanzberg, Regenesis, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Beverly Magennis, Ceramicist, Apache Creek, NM
2006 Erika Osborne, Painting Professor, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2006 Michael Scialdone, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Albuquerque, NM
2006 John Stokes, Director, The Tracking Project, Albuquerque, NM
2005 Jerry Brody, Art History Professor, University of New Mexico
2005 Matthew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
2005 William Fox, Director, Art + Environment Center, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2005 Joel Glanzberg, Regenesis, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Beverly Magennis, Ceramicist, Apache Creek, NM
2005 Michael Scialdone, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Albuquerque, NM
2005 Mary Tsiongas, Electronic Arts Professor, University of New Mexico
2004 Jerry Brody, Art History Professor, University of New Mexico
2004 Matthew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
2004 William Fox, Director, Art + Environment Center, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2004 Graciela Martinez and Hector Gallegos, Mata Ortiz potters, Chihuahua, MX
2004 Andrea Nasher, Nasher Museum, Dallas, TX
2004 Nancy Taylor, Director, Skystone Foundation, Roden Crater, AZ
2004 Ann Reynolds, Art History Professor, University of Texas at Austin
2004 Kathleen Shields, Dia Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2004 Marianne Stockebrand, Director, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
2003 Tori Arpad, Sculpture Professor, Florida International University
2003 Jerry Brody, Art History Professor, University of New Mexico
2003 Matthew Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
2003 William Fox, Director, Art + Environment Center, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2003 Graciela Martinez and Hector Gallegos, Mata Ortiz potters
2003 Ann Reynolds, Art History Professor, University of Texas at Austin
2003 Kathleen Shields, Dia Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2003 Nancy Taylor, Director, Skystone Foundation, Roden Crater, AZ
2003 Blaine Young, Architect, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Jerry Brody, Art History Professor, University of New Mexico
2002 Mary Lewis Garcia, Potter, Acoma, NM
2002 Basia Irland, Sculpture Professor, University of New Mexico
2002 Lucy Lippard, Critic, Galisteo, NM
2002 Ann Reynolds, Art History Professor, University of Texas at Austin
2002 Marianne Stockebrand, Director, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
2002 Nancy Taylor, Director, Skystone Foundation, Roden Crater, AZ
2002 Henry Walt, Archaeologist, Albuquerque, NM
2002 Joe Zuni, Isleta Pueblo elder, Isleta, NM
2002 Kathleen Shields, Dia Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2000 Nancy Taylor, Director, Skystone Foundation, Roden Crater, AZ
Gale Memorial Lecture Series
2008 Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
2008 William Fox, Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV
2008 Amy Franceschini, Future Farmers, San Francisco, CA
2008 Nils Norman, Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen
1994 Pearl Sunrise, Navaho Weaver, Albuquerque, NM
1994 John Connell, Sculptor, Santa Fe, NM
1994 Steina Vasulka, Video Artist and Musician, Santa Fe, NM
1994 Meridel Rubenstein, Photographer, Santa Fe, NM
1994 George Rivera, Sculptor, Governor Pojoaque Pueblo, NM
UNM Ceramics Program
1999 Hector Gallegos and Graciela Martinez, Mata Ortiz potters, University of New
Mexico and The Childrens’ Workshop, Cerrillos, NM
1995 Cesar Dominguez and Gabriela Almeida, Mata Ortiz Pottery, University of New
Mexico, NM
1995 Yolanda Vargas & Olympia Canelos, Quichua Pottery, University of New Mexico,
Turquoise Trail Elementary, The Childrens’ Workshop & Acoma Pueblo, NM
1993 Inoue, Manji, Arita Porcelain, University of New Mexico & Acoma Pueblo, NM
Grants
2013-2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Land Arts Mobile Research Center,
University of New Mexico
2010-2013 McCune Foundation, Professor of Practice in Art & Ecology for Molly
Sturges
2009 McCune Foundation, LAND/ART documentary
2005 Lannan Foundation, Endowed Chair, University of New Mexico
2003 Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Land Arts catalog
2000- Lannan Foundation, Land Arts of the American West Program
2000 Albuquerque Community Foundation, Mata Ortiz Today Video
2000 New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities “Crossing Boundaries
/Transcending Categories” Panel
1995 New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, “The Potters of Mata Ortiz
/Los Ceramistas de Mata Ortiz: Transforming a Tradition”,
exhibition catalog
1992 Major Research Allocations Committee Grant, University of New Mexico
1994 Lila Wallace Arts International, Ecuador
1989 RAC Grant, University of New Mexico
1988 RAC Grant, University of New Mexico
Board Memberships
2014 Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY
2012- Signal Fire, Portland Or, Advisory Board
2009-2011 Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
2009- Art + Environment Center, Nevada Art Museum, Advisory Board
2000-2013 FUSE, New Mexico Wood fire Association, Executive Board
Collections
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Teaching: Program Development
2013- Land Arts Mobile Research Center, with five-year grant from Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation to support graduate research and publication
2012 Collaborative Creative Research Program with University of Western Macedonia,
Florina, Greece with Professor Professor Yannis Ziogas co-PI
2011- Collaborative Creative Research Program with Australia National University,
Canberra Australia, Professor John Reid co-PI
2009- Arts Learning Laboratory, interdisciplinary field based curriculum in
College of Fine Arts
2008 Art & Ecology Area, Co-created with Basia Irland in Department of
Art and Art History
2001-2003 Graduate Exchange Program with Umprum, Prague, Czech Republic
2000- Land Arts of the American West Program with annual operating grant from
Lannan Foundation
1990- FUSE, built Anagama kiln with Ceramics 300 level course and Ceramics graduate
students, formed the Northern New Mexico Woodfire Association
1994-2011 Mata Ortiz Ceramics, course team taught in Juan Mata Ortiz,
Chihuahua Mexico with Juan Quezada (1994-1995), team taught with Hector
Gallegos and Graciela Martinez 1999, 2003-2005, 2011
1990- Pueblo Pottery, course team taught with Mary Lewis Garcia at Acoma Pueblo,
(1990-2002), course taught by Clarence Cruz at UNM & Ohkay Owengeh,
(2002-present)