Education

2003 - 2006
Studio Residency: Ceramics. Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Snowmass Village, CO.

2003
Michigan State University: Special Student Ceramics, Foundations. East Lansing, MI.

2002
Colorado Mountain College, Advanced Throwing, Aspen, CO

2001 - 2002
Northwestern Michigan College, Foundation Courses. Traverse City, MI.

2001
Bates College, Lewiston, ME.  Bachelor of Arts. Political Science and Economics.

2000
Denmark International Study Program, Copenhagen, Denmark. International Political
Economy and Art History.

Additional Training

2006
Workshop: Metaphor in Clay, Doug Casebeer, Chris Gustin and David Pinto.
Good Hope, Jamaica.

2005
Workshop: Making The Work, Jim Lawton, Krista Asaad, Sam Harvey, Brad Miller and
Doug Casebeer. Snowmass Village, CO.

2004
Workshop: Focusing On The Work, Chris Gustin, Jill Oberman and Bradley Walters. 
Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Snowmass Village, CO.

2003
Workshop: Pottery: Finding Your Voice, with Doug Casebeer, Peg Malloy and Sam Harvey. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO.

2003
Workshop: Wood Fired Ceramics, with Chris Gustin, Doug Casebeer and David Pinto.
Good Hope, Jamaica.

2003
Workshop: Don Reitz and David Dhalquist.  Anderson Ranch Arts Center,
Snowmass Village, CO.

2002
Workshop: Wood Fired Ceramics: Inspiration and Form, with Chris Gustin, Doug Casebeer
and David Pinto. Good Hope, Jamaica.

Experience

2007
Wood Firing: Experimental reduction-cooling with Ralph Scala. Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Snowmass Village, CO.

2003
Present Gallery Owner: Exclusively promote and sell work at Benjamin Maier Ceramics.
Leland, MI.

2006
Constructed Soda Kiln and Studio: Traverse City, MI.

2003 and 2006
Wood Firing: Helped load and fire Chris Gustin's wood kiln. New Bedford, MA.

Exchanges/Travel: Lived with thee foreign families in France and Denmark, traveled extensively
over life

Exhibitions

2007
85 Years of Leelanau Artists: The Old Art Building. Leland, MI.

2007
Carbondale Clay National 3: Carbondale Clay Center,
Carbondale, CO.

2007
100 Teapots: Baltimore Clayworks. Baltimore, Maryland.

2007
Juried Exhibition: Art Center Traverse City. Traverse City, MI.

2007
Clay National: MTBurton Gallery. Surf City, NJ.

2006
NCECA Group Exhibition: Beppu Gallery. Portland, OR. 

2006
Clay National: MTBurton Gallery. Surf City, NJ.

2005
Soda National: Clay Center of Missoula. Missoula, MT.

2003- 2005
Holiday Show: Dows Gallery, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO.

2004
Michigan Artists: Leland Art Museum. Leland, Michigan.

2004
Group Exhibition: Tama Gallery. New York City, NY.  

2003
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition: Kresgee Art Museum.  East Lansing, MI.

Publications

2007
Northern Express: Contemporay Clay: Benjamin Maier Ceramics. Robert Downes.
July 15, 2007.

2006
Snowmass Village Sun. December 14, 2004.

2006
Traverse The Magazine. November 2006.

2004
Northern Michigan Business Weekly. July, 2004.

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