The Water Closet Workshop
Mary Jo Bole
EDUCATION
1982 - M.F.A., Ceramics
New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University; Alfred, New York
1979 - B.F.A. Cum Laude
University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan
1972 - Outward Bound
TEACHING
Presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio
WORKSHOP
Previously Artist in Residence; Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
LECTURER
Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Rhode Island
Solo Exhibition: "Mary’s Monument’s"; Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum; S-Hertogenbosch; The Netherlands
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
1999 - "Displacement", Three Person Exhibition, Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio
1998 - "Howling at the edge of a Renaissance", Spaces and Alternative Art in
Cleveland, (The Moody Pete Bathroom Show), Cleveland, Ohio
GRANTS
2000 - Ohio Arts Council Grant, individual sculpture fellowship
1999 - Andy Warhol Foundation Grant thru Woman’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
1996 - Travel Grant; College of the Arts; The Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio
PUBLICATIONS
2000 - "The Craft and Art of Clay", Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall Publisher, New Jersey
PUBLISHED WRITINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
1999 - Thankful Subjects, Knust Press, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1998 - Splitting Pictures, collaboration between Bole and Berry van Boekel (with 30 invited artists).
1996 - Rust/Rest; Knust Press, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, collaborationbetween Mary Jo Bole, Berry vanb Boekel and Birdie Thaler.