Brief Bio 2019
Alan lives and makes pots in southern New Jersey. Since his 2016 retirement as the Executive Director of Perkins Center for the Arts (Moorestown & Collingswood, NJ), he has returned to the studio full time and is branding himself as a re-emerging ceramic artist and educator. Alan’s work plays within the worlds of function and sculptural form. It includes wheel thrown and hand-built components, working with both additive and subtractive processes. Surfaces are multi-layered and include embellishment in the wet clay, painting and wax resist on greenware, and slip trailing and glazing on bisqueware.
For the past eighteen years his work has been fired in a Noborigama wood kiln built as a community resource for artists and students in the region. Alan has an MFA in Ceramics from Clemson University, has been awarded two Artists Fellowships by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His work and writings have been featured in Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Art & Perception, Ceramics Technical and Studio Potter. His work has been shown in galleries around the country and is in many public and private collections.
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Education
MFA, College of Architecture, Clemson University, SC, 1983
BA, Thesis in Ceramics, Goddard College, VT, 1971
Professional Experience
2017 “A Convergence of Clay, Community and the Environment,” presented at the 51st . Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Portland, OR
1992-16 Executive Director, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2003 Co-Curator, “Echo of the Flame” at the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2003-2004 Panelist, Philadelphia Arts Education Partnership, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Panelist, “Artist and Communities”, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD
1999-02 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Site Evaluator, Arts in Education Partnership Organizations
1999 Juror, “Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2000” at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
1990-91 Artistic Director, Perkins Center for the Arts
Professional Associations
2002-19 Trustee, ArtPride, Inc, Statewide Arts Advocacy Organization
2011-19 Trustee, Old Pine Farm Natural Land Trust, Deptford, NJ
1994-03
1993-11 Trustee, South Jersey Cultural Alliance, Board President 1999-2003
1997-03 Deptford Township Environmental Commission (Chair, 1997-02), Gloucester County, NJ
1995-02 President, Citizen’s Alliance for a Responsible Environment, Deptford, NJ
Teaching Experience
2018-19 Ceramics Instructor, Adjunct Faculty, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
1999 & 2004 Workshop Instructor, Peters Valley Craft Education Center, Layton, NJ
1988-92 Ceramics and Design Instructor, Adjunct Faculty, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ
1986-90 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Artist-in-Education Crafts Residency, Newark, NJ
1988-90 Ceramics Instructor, Adjunct Faculty, Philadelphia Community College, PA
1987-88 Ceramics and Sculpture Instructor, Adjunct Faculty, Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ
1984-86 Ceramics and Design Instructor, a full-time appointment at Frostburg State College, Frostburg, MD
1983-84 Ceramics Instructor, a full-time appointment at Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Collections
Noyes Museum/ Stockton University, Atlantic County, NJ
AtlantiCare Cancer Center, Pomona, NJ
Johnson & Johnson; Johnson Consumer Products, Skillman, NJ
Janssen Pharmaceutica Corporation, Washington Crossing, NJ
Johnson & Johnson: Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ
Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, AL
Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ
South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC
City of Pittsburgh, Bureau of Cable Communications, PA
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Greater Philadelphia, PA
Pickens County Art Museum, Pickens, SC
Grants & Commissions
1997 Johnson & Johnson; Johnson Consumer Products, Skillman, NJ, Mural commission.
1995 & 1989 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship–Crafts
Published Articles
Ceramics Monthly, April 2019, “Terra Sigillata in Wood Fire”
Studio Potter, Winter/Spring 2016, “A Remembrance of Norm Schulman”
Ceramics Art and Perception, September 2005, “Art Doesn’t Move in a Straight Line”
Ceramics Technical, May 2000, “Terra Sigillatas & Slips in Woodfire”
Ceramics Monthly, December 1999, “Shared Visions”
ARTS Ink, Mid Atlantic Center for the Arts, Fall 1997, “The Arts: A Picture of Inclusion”
Selected Exhibitions
2018 & 2019 Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail, Guest Artist, Pelham, MA
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Farm to Table-Bowls & Platters–M.T. Burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ
2016-2018 Small Works, Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ
2010 Pictures on Pots, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
Past, Present & Future, Community College of Philadelphia, PA
Touched by Fire: Wood Fire Potters from NJ, Gloucester County College, Sewell, NJ
2009-10 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2008 South Jersey Clay, Clay College, Millville, NJ
2006-07 Working It, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2006 South Jersey Clay, Clay College, Millville, NJ
2005 Potters of the Mid-Atlantic, Whitehall Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2004 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2002 Ceramics Invitational, Atlantic City Art Center, NJ
Group Exhibition, Gloucester County College, Sewell, NJ
National Teapot Show Five, Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor, NC
1998 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
Fellowship Exhibition, 1996/1997, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
1996 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts, NJ State Museum, Trenton
1995 Annual Juried Exhibition, Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission, Best in Show Award
1994 20th Anniversary Celebration, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Studio Days, 94, Chester Springs Studio, PA, September
1993 New Jersey Clay & Glass, Rowan College, NJ
New Jersey Clay Artists, Wheaton Village, Millville
1992 Connections, Clemson University Graduates/Faculty, Galerie Atelier, Philadelphia, PA,
Philadelphia Clay Regional, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
South Jersey Clay Connection, Glassboro State College, NJ
1991 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
1990 Ceramics Invitational, Sykes Gallery, Millersvillle University, Millersville, PA
In Search of Excellence, New Jersey Designer Craftsmen Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1989 New Jersey Arts Annual, Clay & Glass, Newark Museum, NJ
Visual Arts/Crafts Fellowship Exhibition, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
American Clay Artists, Port of History Museum, Phila., PA
1988 Three Rivers Arts Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA
1987 New Jersey Arts Annual, Clay & Glass, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Clay Invitational, Sande Webster Gallery, Phila., PA
1986 Three Rivers Arts Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA
Frostburg State College Faculty Exhibition, Frostburg, MD
1984 Ceramics: Southeast, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, FL
Anderson Art Exhibition, 1984, Anderson Art Center, Anderson, SC, Juror’s Award
One and Two Person Exhibitions
2018 New Work, Arts Garage, Noyes Museum /Stockton University, Atlantic City, NJ
2017 New Work, Arts & Innovation Center, Cumberland College, Millville, NJ
2012, 2009 & 2004 M.T. Burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ
1991 Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1990 Westby Gallery, Glassboro State College, NJ
1989 Jackie Chalkley Gallery, Washington DC
Elements of Design, Blue Streak Gallery, DE
1988 Recent Work, By Hand Gallery, Haddonfield, NJ
The Painted Surface, The Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA
1987 Ceramic Sculpture & Vessels, Camden County College Art Gallery, Blackwood, NJ
New Work, Martha Schneider Gallery, Highland Park, Il
1985 Stephanie Roper Gallery, Frostburg State College, MD
1984 The Painted Surface: Porcelain Vessels, Martha Schneider Gallery, Highland Park, Il