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401 main street
post office box 401
yorktown, virginia 23690
401 main street
post office box 401
yorktown, virginia 23690
Phone:
757.727.9139
Fax:
757.727.9709
Email:
mepottery@cox.net
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EDUCATION
1982 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VAEMPLOYMENT
| 2016 | Artist in Residence /Visiting Artist StarWorks NC |
| 2016 | Artist in Residence Visual Arts Center Richmond VA |
| 2013 - 2014 | Proffessional Fellowship Award Virginia, Museeum of Fine Arts |
| 2013 | Artist in Residence, Bideford art center North Devon Festival of Pottery |
| 2012 | Artist in Residence Victoria & Albert Museum, London v&a webpage me@v&a |
| 2001 - present | Regular Contributor, Ceramics in America |
| 1995 - present | Co-Owner, PERIOD DESIGNS, Yorktown, VA |
| 1993 - present | Owner, Michelle Erickson Pottery Inc. |
| 1987 - 1993 | Owner, Artifacts Pottery |
| 1987 - 1990 | Master Potter, Jamestown National Park |
| 1985 - 1987 | Master Potter, Busch Gardens |
| 1983 - 1985 | Potter, Decorator (brushwork), Holdcroft Stoneware |
| 1982 - 1983 | Potter, Busch Gardens |
SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Click here for a list of current and past exhibitionsPROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
| 2016 | Delhom Lecture Series Contemporary Clay with Michelle Erickson Mint Museum |
| 2016 | Exhibition Symposium "You & I Are Earth" Wilton House Museum |
| 2016 | Faculty Women Working In Clay Conference Hollins Universtiy NC |
| 2016 | Residency Symposium Visual Arts Center Richmond VA |
| 2016 | Firefest Guest Artist Lecture StarWorks NC |
| 2015 | Made In America: Baskets Pickles and Barley Corn Lecture Demonstration, Colonial Williamsburg conference Declaring Independence: American Ceramics in The Making |
| 2015 | Object Lab Chipstone Foundation Milwaukee Wisconsin |
| 2015 | Master Class Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 2015 | Mint Museum Think Tank, sponsored by the Chipstone Foundation, Mint Museum, Charlotte NC |
| 2015 | Lecture Demonstration Colonial Williamsburg’s 66th annual Antiques Forum |
| 2014 | Exhibition Lecture sponsored by the CCSC Bruce Museum May 12th |
| 2014 | Solo Exhibition demonstration lecture Clay Art Center NY, May 10th |
| 2014 | Guest Artist Metropolitan Museum of Art Friday focus Series: An artist Perspective: The Robert Ellison Jr Collection of French Ceramics. April 25th |
| 2014 | Demonstrating Artist North Carolina Potters Conference |
| 2014 | Demonstrating Artist NCECA 2014 |
| 2013 | Visiting Artist Symposium Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX |
| 2013 | International Guest Artist North Devon Festival of Pottery: A New England Cargo Bideford, UK |
| 2013 | Michelle Erickson Office of the Arts Visiting Artist Harvard University: Influence and History: Blue and White Chinese Ceramics |
| 2012 | Residency Collaboration with Nike 2012 Olympic Track and Field Innovation. Kristina Gerig, Material Designer Running Footwear and Brett Holts Track and Field Product Line Manager |
| 2012 | Open Studios London design Festival 2012 V&A London |
| 2012 | World Class Ceramics Resident: Michelle Erickson Work In Progress Seminar with Makers: Clare Twomney, Conor Wilson, Pheobe Cummings, Carol McNicoll, V&A London |
| 2012 | Artist in Residence The Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
| 2012 | Here & Now, Gallery Talk NCECA 2012 Seattle Art Museum |
| 2010 | Lecture Demonstration The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee Wisconsin |
| 2009 | Lecture Demonstration The Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee Wisconsin |
| 2008 | Lecture Demonstration, Making a Pickle Stand, The Art of Bonnin and Morris. Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| 2007 | Lecture Demonstration, Picking up the Pieces, Decorative Arts Trust, Dewitt Wallace Museum of Decorative Arts, Williamsburg, VA |
| 2007 | Lecture Demonstration, Contemporary Casting, The Potters Council, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA |
| 2006 | Lecture Demonstration, Slipware and agateware, The Potteries Museum Stoke on Trent, UK |
| 2004 | Lecture Demonstration, Slipware Traditions, Milwaukee Art Museum |
| 2003 | Lecture Demonstration, Lacoste Gallery, After Pallisy. Concord MA |
| 2003 | Lecture and Demonstration, Eastfield Village Ceramic Seminar, East Nassau, NY |
| 2003 | Lecture and Demonstration, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 2002 | Lecture and Demonstration, Historic Deerfield Inc. Symposium: “Delftware: A Delicate Deception” |
| 2002 | Lecture and Demonstration, Ceramics in America Conference, Winterthur Museum, DE |
| 2001 | “Two Thousands Years of Making British Ceramics" Lecture and demonstration at the Milwaukee Art Museum |
| 2000 | Lecture and Demonstration, Eastfield Village Ceramic Seminar, East Nassau, New York |
| 1999 | Lecture and Demonstration, Department of Art History and Fine Art. University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2000 | Lecturer, Sotheby’s Institute the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation |
| 1999 | Period Ceramic Techniques Lecture & Demonstration, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Antiques Forum (1994, 1996, 1999) |
| 1999 | Lecture and Demonstration, Eastfield Village Ceramic Seminar, East Nassau, New York |
| 1998 | Lecture and Demonstration, Joint Conference of Society for Historical Archaeology and Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, Yorktown, VA |
| 1998 | Lecture and Demonstration - Wedgwood Society of New York |
| 1998 | Lecture and Demonstration, Eastfield Village Ceramic Seminar, East Nassau, New York |
| 1997 | Lecture and Demonstration - British Museum; Museum of Mankind, London |
| 1997 | Lecturer, Sotheby’s Institute at Winterthur Museum, Delaware |
| 1997 | Lecture and Demonstration - Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| 1997 | Lecture and Demonstration, Eastfield Village Ceramic Seminar, East Nassau, New York |
| 1996 | Period Ceramic Techniques Lecture & Demonstration, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Antiques Forum, Williamsburg, VA |
| 1995 - 1997 | Ceramic Consultant on archaeological resurvey of Jamestown, Colonial National Park, Williamsburg, VA |
| 1994 | Period Ceramic Techniques Lecture & Demonstration, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Antiques Forum, Williamsburg, VA |
| 1992 | Period Ceramic Techniques Lecture & Demonstration, Decorative Arts Class, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA |
| 1986 | Demonstration of Polychrome Brushwork for Wedgwood Society at DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2014 | NCECA 2014 Catalogue Demonstrating Artist Profile |
| 2011 | How to Create Agateware Pottery…Ceramic Arts Daily, April |
| 2009 | Making a Fiance Ring Bottle, Ceramics in America 2009, The Chipstone Foundation |
| 2009 | Making a Moravian Squirrel Bottle, Ceramics in America 2009, The Chipstone Foundation |
| 2008 | Fit for a Queen, Ivor Noel Hume, Ceramics in America 2008; The Chipstone Foundation |
| 2008 | Confrontational Ceramics, Judith Schwartz |
| 2007 | Making a Bonnin and Morris Pickle Stand. Ceramics in America 2007 |
| 2007 | Art in Review, New York Times |
| 2006 | The Yixing Effect, Marvin Sweet |
| 2004 | 500 Figures in Clay, Lark Books |
| 2003 | “Swirls and Whirls: English and American Agateware Technology”Ceramics in America 2003, The Chipstone Foundation |
| 2001 | “Dots Dashes and Squiggles: Early English Slipware Technology” Ceramics in America 2001, The Chipstone Foundation |
| 1999 | “The Green Spring Planter” Early American Life Magazine (April) |
VIDEOS
| 2015 | Master Class and Exhibition Conversations in Clay, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 2014 | Metropolitan Museum of Art Lecture Demonstration, METMEDIA |
| 2014 | NCECA Demonstrating Artist Interview and Demonstration |
| 2013 | V&A Channel |
| 2013 | Deception: Ceramics and Imitation, Video installation V&A Ceramics Room 146. Aug 2013- March 2014 |
| 2011 | The Potters Art: The Making of a Moravian Squirrel Bottle |
| 2009 | Making a Delft Posset Pot, The Chipstone Galleries, Milwaukee Art Museum.(Courtesy of Historic Deerfield Inc.) |
| 2009 | Agateware Technology DVD, The Chipstone Galleries, Milwaukee Art Museum (excerpt from Ceramics in America 2003) |
| 2002 | “Making a Delft Posset Pot.” Produced for Historic Deerfield Inc.’s exhibit: “Delftware: A Delicate Deception” |
| 2001 | Milwaukee Art Museum, Ceramic Installation and Video Display of 18th-century ceramic technology |
| 2000 | “Early Colonial American Pottery Techniques” Produced for Colonial Williamsburg’s Annual Antiques Forum |
| 1996 | “Making a Puzzle Jug” Produced for Colonial Williamsburg’s exhibit: “Revolution in Taste” |
PROFILES
| 2016 | cfile.daily Michelle Erickson’s Social Justice Ceramics... |
| 2016 | 1858 Prize Finalist Michelle Erickson: Gibbes Museum Of Art |
| 2015 | Vice News: Erickson Makes Pottery Political, by Lauren Oyler |
| 2015 | CFile: Exhibition, Michelle Erickson, Conversations In Clay, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. |
| 2015 | Artsy Conversations In Clay, by Alison Byrne |
| 2015 | AltDaily Friday Featured Artist: by Richard Nickel |
| 2014 | Demonstrating Artist Profile, NCECA Journal 2014 |
| 2014 | Complex Magazine Feb 2014, Kaitlyn Schaeffer |
| 2013 | Artist Portfolio Review Complex Magazine Art & Design April 2013 |
| 2013 | Ceramic Review Magazine, Agate Teapot May/June2013. Portrait Of An Artist, Harvard Crimson, Lulu H. Kirk |
| 2012 | Ceramics Monthly Spotlight September 2012 |
| 2012 | The Magazine Antiques, July Aug Issue |
| 20122 | William & Mary Alumni Portfolio |
| 2009 | The Present Learns From the Past, The Magazine Antiques September 2009. Eleanor H. Gustafson |
| 2009 | “Slipware Marbleizing” Pottery Making Illustrated, Jan/Feb 2009. Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter |
| 2008 | Michelle Erickson, Korean Ceramics Monthly |
| 2008 | “Fit for a Queen” Ceramics in America 2008, Ivor Noel Hume |
| 2008 | “Conflict Ceramics” Ceramic Review July/Aug issue UK, Robert Hunter |
| 2008 | "The Ceramic Works of Michelle Erickson” 9th Annual New York Ceramics Fair Catalogue, Robert Hunter |
| 2008 | “Glazes of Gory” Art & Antiques Collectors Sourcebook Winter 2008, Marilyn Fish |
| 2007 | “Art of Recreation” Virginia Living Magazine,October 2007, Anne Wright |
| 2004 | “Specializing in the Diverse” Kerameiki Techni ( July) By Rob Hunter |
| 2004 | “Cataclysmic Ceramics”, Studio Potter (January) By Robert Hunter |
| 2003 | “Making History”, Ceramic Review (March/April) by Robert Hunter |
| 2002 | “Michelle Erickson”, American Craft (August/September) by Glenn Adamson |
| 2001 | “The Stylized Works of Michelle Erickson” Ceramics: Art and Perception. Issue No. 46 by Robert Hunter |
| 1999 | “Period Designs,” William and Mary Alumni Magazine (Fall) |
| 1998 | “Masterworks: Period Designs in Yorktown,” Colonial Homes (May) |
| 1996-1997 | “The Freshest Advices” Colonial Williamsburg Journal (Winter) |
| 1995 | “At Period Designs,” Early American Life (April) |
MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS
The Chipstone Foundation
The Long Beach Museum of Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum of Arts & Design
Peabody Essex
New-York Historical Society
Mint Museum of Craft and Design
Potteries Museums Stoke on Trent
Yale University Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum
The Carnegie Museum of Art
The Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts
The Reeves Collection
Seattle Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum
Arkansas Arts Center
The Sonny and Gloria Kamm Collection
Pamela K and William A Royall Collection
Nicholas and Shelley Schorsch Collection
Received the 2013-14 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship Award.