Mark Burleson Resume

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Education
Master of Fine Arts Mills College, Oakland, CA
Bachelor of Fine Arts Tuft’s University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Professional
Director Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts Asheville, NC currently
Instructor Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts Asheville, NC currently
Adjunct Professor University of North Carolina Asheville, NC currently

Visiting Artist Callenwald Center for the Arts (upcoming) Atlanta, GA
Visiting Artist School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
Visiting Artist Roswell Visual Art Center Atlanta, GA
Visiting Artist University of South Carolina Columbia, SC
Visiting Artist Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts Newcastle, ME
Assistant Instructor Mills College Oakland, CA
Workshop Artist Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts Asheville, NC

Exhibitions

2001 (upcoming)
Solo Exhibition Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC

2000
One Hundred Cups Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Politiclay Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
Teapot Invitational Swan Coach HouseGallery, Atlanta, GA
Millenium Teapot Invitational Dorothy Weiss Gallery,San Francisco, Ca
Southeastern Invitational Lennox Square, Atlanta Georgia
Photo/Graphic Ceramics Roswell Visual Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Two for Two Thousand Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC

1999
SOFA Chicago 1999 ( represented by Blue Spiral 1) The Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
The Great Balancing Act: National Teapot Invitational Molbilia, Cambridge, MA
Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts Instructor Exhibition The Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
The Southern Spectrum: Southeastern Clay Invitational Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts Summer Exhibition The Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
Art Walk Lennox Square, Atlanta, GA

1998
Images of Faith VI Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
The Light Within Public Art Project, Greenville, SC
Photo|Synthesis: Photography as Element in Contemporary Art Lennox Square, Atlanta, GA
An Appalachian Perspective Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA
An Appalachian Perspective Davidson Museum of Art, Lexington, NC
An Appalachian Perspective Museum of Fine Arts, Danville, VA
More Than A Glance: The Object and It’s Environment Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Annual Odyssey Instructor Exhibition The Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
Art on the Riverfront The Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC

1997
Mark Burleson & Mary Kay Botkins: Two Person Exhibition The Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
NCECA Symposium Exhibition: Traditions In Transition The Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
Hundred Mile Radius Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC

1996 - 1993
The Bong Show: Medical Marijuana KIKI, San Francisco, CA
Introductions Pre 06 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AnimalComfortEnduranceRites Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Lost & Found Clark Gallery, Boston, MA
Boxes: The Aesthetics of Content & Containment Newton Art Center, Boston, MA
Trend + Tradition: Contemporary Clay Anderson Gallery, Boston, MA
Boit Competition Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA

Public Performance Work
Fledge Mobius, Boston, MA
Call to the Post Mobius, Boston, MA
Picnic Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA

Publications & Exhibition Reviews
Odyssey Instructor Exhibition The Asheville Citizen Times
Southeastern Clay Invitational The Asheville Citizen Times
Up Front: Mary Kay Botkins & Mark Burleson Ceramics Monthly, 5/6/98
Mark Burleson’s History of Ceramics Community Connections, 4/1997
Birth of A Clay Place Ceramics Monthly, 4/1997
Medical Considerations: Marijuana in The Bong Show San Francisco Weekly, 7/95
Nothing Is Lost in Lost & Found Boston Sunday Herald, 7/11/93
Found Objects at Clark Gallery Weston Crier, 7/1/93
Lost & Found Has Imagination to Spare Boston Globe, 7/15/93
Picking Up the Pieces Newton Graphic, 7/16/93
Boxes at the Newton Art Center The Graphic, 11/18/92
Boxes: Images of Content and Containment Boston Pheonix, 11/20/92
Fine Art Boxes Boston Tab, 12/1/92
Offbeat Look Into Boxes The Boston Globe, 12/9/92

Authored Articles
Contemporary Narrative Ceramics Ceramics: Art & Perception, 9/2000
Circles Within Circles Clay Times, 4/1997

Authored Book
The Ceramic Glaze Handbook Lark Books, Pub. Date 3/2001

Curatorial
National Clay Invitational 2001 (forthcoming) Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Photo|Graphic Ceramics Roswell Visual Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Politiclay: Political Themes in Contemporary Ceramics The Odyssey Gallery, Asheville,NC
The Southern Spectrum: Southeastern Clay Invitational Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Wood, Salt, Soda: Atmospheric Fired Ceramics The Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC
Spinning Tales: Contemporary Narrative Ceramics The Odyssey Gallery, Asheville, NC

Awards + Honors
New Member Juror: Southern Highlands Craft Guild Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC
Pratt Memorial Travel Grant to Mashiko and Tokyo, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Elena Crum Prize for Excellence in Ceramics Mill’s College, Oakland, CA
Juror’s Award, Trend + Tradition Boston, MA

Representation
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
The Signature Gallery , Atlanta, GA
Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mobilia, Cambridge, MA

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