b. 1974, Montour Falls, New York
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2004-08 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Teapots: Object to Subject , Forbes Gallery, New York, NY, traveling exhibition, Craft
Alliance of St. Louis, MI
Beyond/ In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2006 Through the Looking Glass: Curiouser and Curiouser Teapots, Craft Alliance, St. Louis,
MO
Tea Time: The Art of the Teapot, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
100 Teapots, Atlanta Teapot Festival, Atlanta, GA
2005 Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
Narrative Clay, Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Narratives in Clay, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Niagara
Falls, NY
2004 Contemporary Teapots: Object as Subject, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Viewpoint Ceramic 2004, Award, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
Common Clay: Creating Old and New Ceramics, NCECA Conference, Indiana Historical
Society, Indianapolis, IN
2003 Not Teapots, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Design Faculty Exhibition, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
Daemen College Faculty Exhibition, Daemen College, Buffalo, NY
2002-03 Members Exhibition, Award, The Wastern New York Artists Group, Art Dialogue Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
2002 Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY
2001-02 100 American Craftsmen Exhibition, "Best of Show" Award (2002), Kenan Center,
Lockport, NY
2001 Figuring Western New York, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
Design Faculty Exhibition, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
Featured Artist, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Lewiston Art Exhibition, "First Place Ceramics" Award, Lewiston, NY
2000-03 Allentown Art Festival, Awards, Buffalo, NY
2000 Clay in Western New York, Award, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2007 "The Building Blocks of a Career", Ceramics Monthly, October
2006 500 Animals in Clay, Lark Books,
2005 Dona Meilach, Teapots: Makers and Collectors, Schiffer books
Ceramics Monthly, April
2004 500 Figures in Clay, Lark Books, Sterling Publications, NY
2002 500 Teapots, Lark Books, Sterling Publications, NY
2001 The Memorial Art Gallery Magazine, May/June
100 American Craftsmen, (Cover) Exhibition Announcement, Kenan Center, Lockport,
NY
1997 The Ceramic Design Book, Lark Books, Sterling Publications, NY
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
In my work, I use the human figure in an illustrative manner to elicit
certain psychological responses in the viewer. I generally like
to use naturalistic backgrounds and subject matter in my work since
that is the environment I experienced as a child and young woman
growing up in the very pastoral Finger Lakes region. Some might
say that my work, while having an innocence, also has dark undertones.
I do this because it is a symbolic reflection of the human condition
as being both good, evil and thick with all of its many dark and
mysterious facets.