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Education:
1974 M.F.A., Major in Ceramics, The Ohio State University.
1973 B.F.A., Major in Ceramics and Painting, Denison University.
1961 B.A., Major in Fine Arts, DePauw University.
Teaching Experience
1975-2000 Arizona State University, Full Professor, School of Art.
1975 San Diego State University, Instructor, Department of Art.
1984 Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, California, Guest Artist.
1993, 84 Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Guest Artist.
Selected Collections and Commissions
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Permanent Collection, Gatlinberg, Tennessee. 1995
Sybaris Group, Huntington Woods, Michigan. Commissioned for collection.
Marsha Skoletsky, New York, N.Y. Purchase for collection.
Hughes Aircraft Corporation Headquarters, Los Angeles. Five works commission for collection.
Barrows Neuroloyical Institute, Dr. Rekate, Phoenix, Arizona. Commission.
Sunbelt Holdings Corporation, Phoenix Gateway, Phoenix, Arizona. Commission.
Mr. & Mrs. 1. Zacharias, South Hampton, New York. Commission.
The Bill Walters Companies, Englewood, Colorado. Commission for collection.
Mr. & Mrs. Irving Kagan, New York, N.Y. Purchase for collection.
Brittain Page, Washington, D.C. Purchase for collection.
Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. Purchase for collection.
Plymouth State College of the University of New Hampshire, Art Gallery, Permanent Collection.
Ohio State University, Permanent Art Collection, Columbus, Ohio. Purchase for collection.
Exhibitions: Selected National and International
2000 “Viewpoint: Ceramics 2000,” Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, California. National Invitational. Third Place Award.
1999 “1999 Ceramic Reunion Exhibition and Silent Auction,” NCECA Show at Ohio State University, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus. National Invitational.
1998- “Tea Bowl: Imperfect Harmony,” Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana.
2000 International Invitational. Travel to Ota City, Japan and the University of Illinois.
1997 “Rendezvous, A National Invitational Surveying the Works of 29 Ceramic Artist and Guests From
Across the United States,” The Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska.
1996 11th Annual San Angelo National Ceramic competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts,
San Angelo, Texas. National Juried Exhibition.
1995 "50th Anniversary: Faculty Invitational," Art Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. International Invitational.
"U.C.F National Ceramics Invitational," Art Gallery of the Department of Art, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. National Invitational.
1994 "World Clay Stomp'93 International Invitational," Northern Arizona University Art Museum and Gallery, Flagstaff, Arizona.
"Department of Art 25 Years Biennial Alumni Exhibition," Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. National Invitational.
1993 "New Wall Sculpture by Jeanne Otis," Taboo Studio, San Diego, California. Solo Invitational. NCECA Conference Tour.
1992 "Seventh Annual San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas.
1991 "Ceramics '91," The Farrell Collection, Washington, D.C. National Invitational.
"NCECA 1991, " Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, Arizona. National Invitational.
1990 "Findings '90: A Recognition of Ceramic Excellence," The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusettes.
National Invitational.
1988 "National Ceramics Invitational," The Gallery at Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida.
1987 "Jeanne Otis: Clay Color/Works," Grossmont College Art Gallery, El Cajon, California. One-Person Exhibition.
"Chicago Internationall New Art Forms Exposition," Navy Pier, Chicago, Ill. Represented by Joanne Rapp Gallery/
The Hand and the Spirit.
"Porcelain Today," Wita Gardiner Gallery, San Diego, California. International Invitational.
1985 "Texas Designer Craftsmen Guest Artist Invitational," The Muscum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
"New Directions in Design," Elaine Potter Gallery, San Francisco, California. National Invitational.
1984 "Jeanne Otis: Color Dialogue," The Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona. One-person Exhibition.
1983 "Architectural Ceramics," The Elements Gallery, New York. National Invitational.
"The American Cowboy," Library of Congress Madison Building Exhibition Gallery, Washington D.C.,
National Invitational.
1981 "Trio: Stephenson, Kemenfly and Otis." Marcia Rodell Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Invitational.
"Viewpoint '81," Grossmont College Gallery, El Cajon. National Invitational.
"Porcelain," Gallery 8, La Jolla, California. National Invitational.
198O "American Porcelain: New Expressions in Ancient Art,"Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
"Westwood Clay National," Otis Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, California &Parsons School of Design Gallery N.Y.
"Viewpoint '80: Art in Craft Media," The Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. National Invitational.
1979 "Clay Now," Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. National Invitational.
1978 "Arts in Crafts: Works in Fiber, Clay and Metal by women," Bronx Museum, New York. National Invitational.
1977 "Lake Superior '77 International Craft Exhibit," Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota. Juried/ Award.
Selected Publications
1999 Working With Clay, by Susan Peterson, Overlook/Viking, 2000 edition. Work reproduced, p. 147
The Art and Craft of Clay, by Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, Third edition.
Work reproduced, Portfolio of Artists, p. 311; "Frit Plus Color", pp. 188-189; pp. 179-80, 166-167,362. 1988 "Jeanne Otis: A Color Dialogue," feature article by Beth Toth, Ceramics Monthly, Vol. 36, No1,Jan.1988, pp 40-43.
"Ceramistas Americanos: " Ceramica magazine, Madrid, Spain, No. 32,October 1988, pp. 38-68.
1978 "Porcelain Body Color in Oxidation," feature article, Ceramics Monthly, vol. 26,no.1, January, 1978, pp. 36-42.
1983 The Ceramic Spectrum, by Robin Hopper, Chilton Book Co., Pennsylvania,1983, pp. 133-4, & p. 157.
1982 Architectural Crafts, a handbook and a catalog, Bridget Beattie McCarthy, in conjunction with
the Western States Arts Foundation, Madrona Publishers, Seattle, 1982, p. 53.
1981 "Viewpoint: Ceramics, 1981," exhibition catalog, Grossmont College Gallery and the
National Endowment for the Arts, 1981, pp. 13-14.
"Jeanne Otis," News and Retrospect, Ceramics Monthly, vol. 29, no.10, December 1981, p.71.
1980 American Porcelain: New Expressions in an Ancient Art, Loyd E. Herman, Timber Press,
Forest Grove, Oregon, 1980, p. 95.
Contemporary International Ceramics, by Hildegard Storr-Britz, Germany,
Du Mont Buchverlag, Koln, publisher, 1980, p. 122.
Selected Workshops and Lectures:
1993 "Innovative Glaze Development." panel member and slide presentation. National Council for
the Ceramic Arts Conference, San Diego, California.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Spring Guest Artist.
Workshop presented: "A Ceramic Color Palette in Clay, Slip and Glaze."
1987 Slide presentation and lecture for the Department of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,
in conjunction with the Silver Anniversary Alumni Exhibition.
"Making the Invisible Visible," panel member and slide presentation, "Craft Today: Poetry of
the Physical," National Symposium." Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
"Large Scale Works in Oxidation Electric Kilns," lecture and exhibition, Grossmont College,
El Cajon, California.
1985 "Dialogue with Color," featured Guest Artist for Texas Designer Crafts Conference, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock. Texas. Workshop, lecture and exhibition.
1983 "Clay Interaction '83," three-week International Symposium, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
International Invitational.
"Approaches to Color: Aesthetic, Technical and Historical," slide presentation and lecture with
Margie Hughto. National Council for the Ceramic Arts Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
1982 "Color Workshop," lecture and workshop. Columbus Clay Company, Columbus, Ohio.
1981 Slide presentation and workshop, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin.
Slide presentation and workshop, Department of Art, Ceramic Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
1980 "Colored Porcelain", 1 week workshop, Department of Art, Stevens College, Columbia, Missouri.
1977 "Porcelain," panel member and slide presentation, National Council for the Education of the
Ceramic Arts Conference, Greely, Colorado. Invitational.
Current Gallery Representation:
1981-2000 Gallery Materia
4222 North Marshall Way
Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
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