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Our Artist of the Month
Dinah Snipes
Steveni
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Artist’s Statement
Ceramics is often a form of art that
doesn't either stir our emotions deeply, or strain
the attention of the most intellectual part of our
minds. I attempt to make pieces which do both. I do
want my work to claim attention and create an
advocate for the eccentric pot and how it will fit
into your life. I do want my work to appeal to
perceptions, feelings, experience, and memory. All
clay artists desire their work to do three things:
get the viewer to look, to touch, and to engage
daily.
The Far East
clearly influences some of my processes; however I
eschew traditional basic shapes in favor of more
interpretive forms. I conceptualize the end piece
and work towards this image. I frequently use
additional materials such as wood, wire, on-glaze
transfers to achieve my goal.
At all stages good
technical practice is evident but not overly so that
technique slavishly dictates the scope of my vision.
However, at the end of the day, I respect the final
arbiter of my art: the kiln. |
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Artist Resume: Dinah Snipes Steveni
2009 September Gallery Walk, Port Townsend,
Lorna Smith Pottery, Featured Artist.
2009 Washington Clay Arts Association 2009
Annual Show, juried, Art Stop Stop Gallery, Tacoma.
Seattle Artist Trust EDGE graduate July 2009.
• 2009 Juror for Skagit Valley College Student
Art Show.
2009 July 18, 19 Skagit Artists Together
juried Studio Tour
Work on sale Museum of Northwest Art shop, La
Conner, WA.
2007 September The Depot Gallery in
Anacortes, juried, Skagit Artists Together.
2007 July Northwest Craft Center, juried.
Seattle Center Nourishment: Clay for the Soul.
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2007 April solo exhibition Oh, Brave New
World, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA.
2007 January-February Let Them Hang
Washington Potters' Association group show at
Highline Community College.
2006 - 2008 work in
Arts Council of Snohomish Council shop.
2006 Contain It ,juried, The Arts
Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA.
2005, Fine Craft Exhibition juried,
awarded prize, The Pen and Brush Gallery, East Village,
New York.
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2005 Explorations in Clay,
a traveling show taking
place over 6 months in Seattle via the Washington
Potters' Association.
2005 Light Vibrations, Skagit
Artists Together, juried, The Other Roadside
Attraction Gallery, Mount Vernon, WA.
1993-2001 Dianthus Ceramics,
Centre Craft Yard, off Henley Street,
Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.
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1999 Grand Prix de Ceramique,
juried, Sarreguemines, France;
The Tureen.
1990 The Torquil Gallery,
Henley-in-Arden, UK. Invitational Spring Show.
Paintings.
January 1982 - June 1982 Academic
Exchange between University of Central England,
Birmingham and Ohio University, Athens. Winter Term at
O.U.'s Lancaster Branch: Art for Elementary Teachers;
Spring Term at Athens Campus: Watercolor Techniques.
1979-1983 University of Central
England. Art Education (MA) Awarded 20 June 1984.
Thesis: A Computerised
Information Retrieval System in Art Education.
1978 - 79 Arts in Education Fellow
funded by John D Rockefeller III with The Office of
the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State
of Washington. Basic Skills Office, Olympia, WA.
Organized Very Special Arts Festivals across WA EDUs;
and arts in education programs.
1976, Solo Retrospective, The Last
Picture Show, Spokane, WA.
1974, St Louis, MO., Art Fair,
juried.
1966 MFA Graduate Show,
Painting and Printmaking, Mills College, Oakland,
CA. Full Teaching Fellowships.
1964, September, PT Teaching Bursary
awarded by San Francisco Art Institute for
Saturday School at SFAI for talented teenagers.
1964 (June to September), Full
Scholarship awarded by SFAI to Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture Summer School, Skowhegan, MA.
1961-1964, BFA Graduate Show
Painting and Printmaking (awarded Gold Medals),
San Francisco Art Institute.
1962, Jack London Square Art
Show, Oakland, CA., juried. Painting.
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