EDUCATION
1972-1976 BA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Asian Studies
Concentration: Chinese History, Asian Art, Mandarin
1974 Middlebury College Intensive Mandarin Program, VT
1990s SMFA Museum School of Fine Art, Boston, MA
EXPERIENCE selected
Tufts Street Studio, Motzkin Studio, designer craftsperson, owner 1985-present
Castle Hill Center for the Arts, faculty, Truro, MA 2014, 2015, 2016
Truro Center for the Arts, Associate Board Member, Truro, MA 2015-16
East/West Artists Residency, Mallnitz, Austria, 2012
CSArts, Community Supported Arts , selected artist, 2011, Juror 2012-2014
Chinese and Calligraphic Art, Workshop presenter, Arlington Middle School, 2013
Smooth and Smoky, Curator, Vessels Gallery, Boston, 2011
BreadPots.com, designer craftsman, owner, 2010-2016
SpiritKeeper-Urns.com, designer, craftsman, owner 1982-2016
Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute, Visiting Artist Residency, China 2009
New Art Center, faculty, Newton, MA 2010-11
Massachusetts Commonwealth Award Artist, 2007
Gangjin Celadon Festival, International Artists in Residence, Gangjin, Korea, 2006 Harvard Ceramics Studio, visiting faculty, 2004
CAOS, Cambridgeport Artists Open Studios, Founding Director 93-06
CAOS, Advisory Board 2007-2016
Interlaken School of Art, Interlaken, MA, faculty, 2005
Massachusetts College of Art, visiting artist, 2003
LBI Foundation, visiting faculty, 2003
Cambridge Arts Council Board of Directors, 1995-6
Rhode Island College, visiting artist 1991
MIT Mass. Institute of Technology, ceramic instructor, 1979-89
Radcliffe College, workshop presenter, 1985, visiting faculty 2003
Clay Dragon Studios, member artist, 1978-85
COLLECTIONS
Fuller Museum of Craft, Brockton, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Mayors Office, Tsukuba, Japan Cambridge Sister City
GROUP EXHIBITIONS and INSTALLATIONS selected
2016 “EarthEffects”, Memoir D’avenir Gallery, Paris, France
2016 “ALTclay”, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Newton, MA
2015 “See How the Water Falls”, installation, AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2015 “Legacy of Fire: Clay Dragon Studios Revisited”, Fuller Museum, Brockton,
2015 “Buds”, Appearances Installation, Provincetown, MA
2014 “EARTHeffects”, Jerusalem, Israel
2014 Cape Cod Ceramic Invitational, Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
2014 “Earth Flow”, installation, Appearances, Provincetown, MA
2013 “EARTHeffects”, international exhibition, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
2013 “Traces of the Brush”, Appearances, ArtCurrent Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2012 “Weight”, Appearances, Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2011 “Garden of Clay” Installation, Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2011 “WashAshore”, About the Sea, South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY
2011 “Dis/Appear”, Appearances Green Arts Festival, Provincetown, MA,
2011 “StoneFlow”, So Big!, Cotuit Center for the Arts, installation Cotuit, MA
2011 “Smooth and Smoky”, curator/exhibitor, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 The Shoulders We Stand On, Nancy Markoe Gallery, Tampa, FL
2009 International Ceramics Exhibit, Jingdezhen, China, PRC
2008 Sacramento Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2008 Cedar Creek Gallery, NC
2006 Gallery 33, Insadong, Seoul, South Korea
2006 Future with Clay, Geoungju, South Korea
2006 Invitational, Collins College, Plano, TX
2002 Ashes to Art, Funeria, San Francisco CA
2000 Peck Gallery, Providence , RI
1999 Pacific Tides, Lancaster, PA
1998 Galerie Babel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 Re:Form, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1998 Museum of Texas Tech, Lubbock TX
1996 Tea, Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY
1995 Rice, Work/San Jose, San Jose, CA
1995 A Gathering of Leaves, BPL, Boston, MA
1993 Celebrating Excellence, MFA with SAC, Boston, MA
1993 Spirit of Massachusetts, Signature Gallery, Boston, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Earth and Sky, Art Current Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006 Toscanini, Cambridge, MA
2002 Passages, Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2002 An American Craftsman, NYC, NY
2001 Offerings, Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1998 Grohe Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 New Work-New Media, Gallery 57, Cambridge, MA
1992 Worth Gallery, Taos, NM
1988 Surroundings Gallery, NYC, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY selected
AltClay, ArtSource Boston, Michelman review 2016
In the Potter’s Kitchen, Sumi Von Dassow 2014
Fire Clay Flour, article, video, Edible Boston, 2012
Yankee Magazine, April 2013
Smooth and Smoky, review, McQuaid, Boston Globe, 2011
Community Supported Arts, Boston Globe, 2011
Artist of the Month, Wandering Educators, 2011
Everything I Eat Nourishes Me, Aline Fourier 2011
“So Big!” Cape Codder, January 14, 2011
"Commonwealth Awards", Boston Globe, March 7, 2007
500 Bowls, Lark Books, cover, 2003
The Boston Globe, McQuaid, Nov. 15,review,2002
"Intentional Serendipity", Ceramics Monthly,cover,story, Nov 2001
Ceramic Design, Lark Books, 1998
Wheel Thrown Ceramics, Don Davis, Lark, 1998
The Best of Pottery, Rockport Books, cover, 1997
Handbuilt Ceramics, Triplett, 1997
Craft Report, June 1996, cover photo/story
Art New England, June 1993
Ceramics Monthly, Celebrating Excellence, Dec 1993
Boston Globe, Temin, April 7, 1993
Taos Magazine, May 1992
Sculpting Clay, Nigrosh, Leon, 1991
Raku: A Practical Approach, Branfman, Stephen, 1991
New York Times, Freudenheim, May 5, 1991
