Forrest Lesch-Middelton - DOC

							forrest lesch-middelton
51A Bothjin Rd Fairfax, Ca 94930 415.272.9997 forrestlm@gmail.com

education 2003-2006 1994-1998 professional experience 2007 2003 2001-2003 2000-01 1999-01 1998-99 1999 1998 1996 teaching experience 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2006 2006 2003-2006 2004 2003 1998-1999 1998-1999 1997 1997

Master of Fine Arts, Utah State University; Logan, Utah Bachelor of fine Arts, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University; Alfred, New York Ceramics Program Coordinator, Sonoma Community Center; Sonoma, California Guest Artist, Orcas Island Pottery, Orcas Island Washington Co-Founder and Director, Center for Ceramic Arts, and Sebastian Ward Gallery; Berkeley, California Guest Artist, Orcas Island Pottery; Orcas Island Washington Artist In Residence, Mendocino Arts Center; Mendocino California Artist In Residence, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts; NewCastle, Maine Technical Consultant, Animal Tile Works; Rockland, Maine Kiln Technicians assistant, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University; Alfred New York Glass blowing assistant, Church and Maple Glass; Burlington, Vermont Ceramics instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College; Santa Rosa, California Ceramics instructor, City College of San Francisco; San Francisco, California Sabbatical replacement (ceramics), Ceramics, Diablo Valley College; Pleasant hill, California Printing on Wheel Thrown Clay, Mendocino Art Center; Mendocino, California Advanced Ceramic Techniques, Sonoma Community Center; Sonoma California Visiting artist Lecture and demonstration, California College of Arts and Crafts; Oakland, California Inventive Imagery Workshop, at Heath Ceramics; Sausalito CA Graduate teaching assistant, Utah State University; Logan Utah Workshop assistant to J Daniel Murphy, Wood fired Ceramics, Utah State University; Logan, Utah Instructor Beginning and Advanced Ceramics, Diablo Valley College; Walnut Creek, California Teacher and facilitator, Mud Mobile, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Teacher for The Deck House School Project, Watershed Center For Ceramic Arts Instructor Pots That Pour, Princeton Arts Council; Princeton, New Jersey Ceramics Instructor, Princeton Arts Council; Princeton New Jersey

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La Mesa, Santa Fe Clay at NCECA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Utilitarian Clay V, Arrowmont school of arts and Crafts; Gatlinburg, Tennessee Yunomi Invitational, Akar Gallery; Iowa City, Iowa Four Score, Trax Gallery; Berkeley California The Pitcher Show, An Invitational Ceramics Exhibition; University of North Carolina, Pembroke, North Carolina Botanical, Santa Fe Clay; Santa Fe, New Mexico Featured Artist, Akar Gallery; Iowa City, Iowa Biennial Exhibition of functional Ceramics, Guilford Arts Center; Guilford, Connecticut Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts; Lincoln, California By The Ounce, Louisville Kentucky Contrast: Ceramic Explorations in Black and White, Atrium Gallery; Muncie, Indiana Yunomi Invitational, Akar Gallery; Iowa City, Iowa Layered Objectives, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Twain Tippetts gallery; Logan , Utah Ink and Clay 32, W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University art Gallery, California State Polytechnic university, Pomona California In the spotlight, presidents art show, Museum of Art and History, Salt Lake City Wood fired ceramics, university of southern Idaho Graduate Student Exhibition, Utah State University Invited Artist, International Transpersonal Conference; Palm Springs, California Graduate Student Exhibition, Twain Tippetts Gallery; Logan, Utah Starbrick Clay National, Starbrick Clay; Nelsonville, Ohio Graduate Student Exhibition, Twain Tippetts Gallery; Logan, Utah Northern California Ceramics, NCECA, San Diego, California Old Friends: an exhibition of the work by John Arndt and Forrest LeschMiddelton, Sebastian Ward Gallery; Berkley California Artist in Residence Exhibition, Mendocino Arts Center; Mendocino, California Artist invites Artists, Coastal Arts; Fort Bragg, California Steeped in Tradition: the Contemporary Teapot, Ariana Gallery; Royal Oak, MI. Teapots, Vermont Clay Studio; Woodbury, VT Watershed in New York, Barney Building, New York University Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition, Robert Turner Gallery; Alfred, New York Emerging Artists of the United States, Vermont Clay Studio Light is Love, Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, NY Los Alfareros, Robert Turner Gallery Valley of the Insane, Light emitting Objects, University of Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin Conversations In Clay, Sonoma Community Center; Sonoma, California Assistant Curator to Leslie Ferrin, Short Stories, Sebastian Ward Gallery Second annual Holiday exhibition at the Center for Ceramic Arts, Sebastian Ward Gallery Expectations, recent works in porcelain by Jess Parker, Sebastian Ward Gallery Garage science, Sculptural Ceramics by Sue Whitmore, Sebastian Ward Gallery Dynamic Synthesis, Works by Christa Assad, Sebastian Ward Gallery Co-Curator, Gegnome Project; CCACA Conference, Davis California Curator, Native American Student and Alumni Exhibition, Alfred, New York

2000 1998

1997 publications 2007 2007 2006 1998

Curator, Native American Student and Alumni Exhibition, Alfred, New York Sonoma Valley Sun, December 20th The Column (Sonoma Community Center Magazine), Fall, 2007 500 pitchers, Lark press Ceramics Monthly, May 1998 pp.17.