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Biography - Barbara Tipton MFA |
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Barbara “feels that
her wall forms refer to functional pottery and her functional pots give
her ideas for her wall pieces”
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| Barbara first became involved with ceramics after she
finished her undergraduate degree at the University of Memphis in 1964.
She has a B.A. in drawing and painting.
Through a series of evening courses at the Memphis College of Art and
Design she developed a love for clay. In
1967 Barbara went back to school full-time at the Memphis College of Art and
Design, majoring in ceramics. She
studied with Thorne Edwards and later with Peter Sohngen.
She graduated with a B.F.A. Ceramics in 1969.
Barbara received her M.F.A. Ceramics (1975) from Ohio State, where she studied
with Michael Chipperfield, Margaret Fetzer, and Hoyt Sherman (the latter was in
visual perception and painting).
In 1983 she helped to organize a symposium of Canadian and
American ceramists where she met the Canadian ceramist John Chalke.
They married in 1985 and moved to southern Alberta.
Barbara taught a good deal in Calgary from 1986 to 1993.
She has sessional appointments at both the University of Calgary
and the Alberta College of Art & Design.
For a time she edited the Canadian ceramics magazine, Contact.
Barbara exhibits widely across Canada and the United
States as well as in Australia, Taiwan and Wales. Her work has received substantial recognition, with multiple
inclusions in such publications as The Ceramic Spectrum (revised
edition 2001), Clay and Glazes for the Potter (revised edition 2000)
and The Best of Pottery by Rockport Publishers (1996).
Barbara’s life revolves around thinking, writing,
editing, and making ceramics. She makes a wide variety of ceramic work,
including utilitarian and sculptural vessels and purely sculptural pieces.
In 2003 Barbara received a Canada Council Project Grant and was
nominated for the 2006 Alberta Craft Council Award of Excellence..
Public
and Corporate Collections
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection
Canada Council Art Bank
Calgary Civic Art Collection
Aaron Milrad, Toronto
Standard Ceramic Supply, Pittsburgh
Charles Bronfman Corporate Collection, Montreal
San Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, Texas
The Ohio State University
Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University
Ceramics Monthly Collection
Anatol Orient, London
University of Alberta Permanent Collection, Edmonton, AB
Private Collections
Canada, England, and the United States
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| Zakin,
Richard. Ceramics. Ways of Creation. An Exploration of 36 Contemporary
Ceramic Artists & Their Work. Iola, WI: Krause Publications,
1999:241.
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Exhibitions:
2008, New Work, solo exhibition, concurrent with
John Chalke and Robert Sinclair, Willock and Sax Gallery, Banff National
Park
2004, Bowls - Function/NonFunction, solo
exhibition, Willock and Sax Gallery,
Waterton Lakes National Park
2003, 21st Century Ceramics, Canzani Centre Gallery, Columbus
College of Art & Design.
2001, Bitter Brew, group exhibit, George R. Gardiner Museum of
Ceramic Art, Toronto
A Matter of Clay,
group invitational, Jonathan Bancroft-Snell Gallery, London, ON.
2000, Ninth Biennale Nationale de Ceramique, juried competition,
Trois-Rivieres, PQ
Voyage autour de la
terre, tile invitational for the Ninth Biennale Nationale de Ceramique,
Trois-Rivieres, PQ
Couplets: Duality in
Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999, Tea for the Taking, group exhibition, Alberta Craft Council
Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Summer Faculty
Exhibition, Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
1998, Keramos, group exhibition, The Works, Edmonton, AB
Sculpture: A Mixed Media
Group, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo, ON
Six Degrees of Separation,
group exhibition, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Traveling Exhibition
from the Permanent Collection at the Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie,
AB
Collecting Alberta Art: The
Legacy, traveling exhibition celebrating 25 years of the Alberta
Foundation for the Arts, Triangle Gallery, Calgary, AB
Twelfth San Angelo National
Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
1997, Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award, Shepparton Art
Gallery, Shepparton, Australia
The Great Wall of China,
juried competition, Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB,
work selected to travel 1997-98.
1996, Canadian Clay Currents, juried competition, Pyramid Art
Center, Rochester, New York.
4th Annual Teapot Exhibition,
invitational, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri
Passion 8 Potters,
contemporary kitchenware, McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Journeys, group
exhibition, The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
Greek/Canadian Ceramics
Exchange Exhibition, Banff Centre-Calgary Gallery, AB
1995, Clay in Canada: North by Northwest, Wyman Building,
Minneapolis, Minnesota: traveling to the Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary and
to "The Works", Edmonton, AB
The World's Women On-Line!,
internet installation, www.asu.edu/wwol
that indexed over 800 images by women artists globally
Summer Faculty Exhibition,
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Group exhibition,
Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Made in Alberta, juried
competition, Karuna Gallery, Calgary, AB (honorable mention)
1994, Ninth Annual San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San
Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas
Altered Traditions:
Contemporary Vessels, Barn Gallery, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Containment: The Space
Within, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON
Group invitational,
Hall/Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1993, Chicago International New Art Forms Exhibition (through Prime
Gallery), Chicago, USA
Teapots, Prime Gallery,
Toronto, ON
Canadian Ceramics: Teapots,
Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, New York
Al203.SiO2,
ceramics faculty exhibition, Gallery 371, Alberta College of Art, Calgary,
AB
1993, Underground, solo exhibition, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary,
AB
Fifth National Biennial of
Ceramics, Trois Rivieres, PQ
1992 International
Invitational Exhibition of Ceramic Art, National Museum of History,
Taipei, Taiwan
Chicago International New
Art Forms Exhibition (through Prime Gallery), Chicago, USA
Canadian Clay, Design
Arts Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
A Treasury of Canadian Craft,
Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver
25th Anniversary Exhibition
- Just a Taste of the Claridge Collection, Saidye Bronfman Centre,
Montreal, PQ
Choosing Clay, Triangle
Gallery, Calgary, AB
Selected Works, Alberta
Crafts Council, Nova Building, Edmonton, AB
Faculty Exhibition,
Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, AB
1991, Sculpture: The Language of a Material, Muttart Art Gallery,
Calgary, AB
1000 Miles Apart,
Mendell Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Chicago International New
Art Forms Exhibition (through Prime Gallery), Chicago, USA
Faculty Exhibition,
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB
Cups, juried exhibition,
Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, AB; then at The Works, Manulife
Place, Edmonton, AB
Faculty Exhibition,
Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, AB
1990, NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts),
juried exhibition, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio (then toured for two
years).
1990 Ceramic Invitational,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Material: Redefining the
Working Field, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB
Fifth Annual Monarch Tile
Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
Fourth National Biennial of
Ceramics, Trois Rivieres, PQ
Constructions, New Alberta
Art, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
New Works, solo
exhibition, Divino Cafe/Gallery (through Paul Kuhn Fine Arts), Calgary, AB
Faculty Exhibition,
Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, AB
1989, Fourth Annual Monarch Tile International Ceramic Competition,
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas (museum purchase)
Teapots, Prime Canadian
Crafts, Toronto, ON.
Square Deal Squared, The
New Gallery, Calgary, AB
Summer Exhibition,
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Faculty Exhibition,
Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, AB
1988, Wall Works, invitational, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago,
IL.
Platters, Galerie
Barbara Silverberg, Montreal, PQ
Third National Biennial of
Ceramics, Trois Rivieres, PQ
Three-person exhibition,
Ring House Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Summer Show, Red Deer
College, Red Deer, AB
Faculty Exhibition,
Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
Ceramic Art, dual
exhibition, The Works, Edmonton Centre, AB
The Ohio Connection,
Ohio Designer Craftsmen Gallery, Columbus, OH
1987, Solo Exhibition, The Nickle Arts Museum, The University of
Calgary, AB
Second World Triennial
Exhibition of Small Ceramics, (Honorable Mention), Zagreb
International Ceramic
Symposium Exhibition, University of Aberystwyth, Wales
Ceramics '87, Culpepper
Gallery, Calgary, AB
Faculty Exhibition, The
Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, AB
Arrowmont Faculty Exhibition,
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
1986, National Clay Box Show, juried, A.R.T. Studio Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition,
Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indianna
A Tea Party, Jubilation
Gallery, Newton Centre, Massachusetts
From Hand to Mouth, Ohio
Designer Craftsmen Gallery, Columbus, OH
Experience
1974- Studio artist
1995-9 Editor and production manager, contact, a Canadian ceramics
magazine
1992-5 Editor, contact magazine, a quarterly publication for the
Alberta Potter's Association
1991-3 Sessional Instructor, Ceramics, Foundation, Alberta College of Art,
Calgary, AB
1988-3 Sessional Instructor, Foundation, Drawing, Ceramic Sculpture,
University of Calgary
1988-9 Sessional Instructor, Drawing, Ceramics, Alberta College of Art,
Calgary
1986-7 Visiting artist in Ceramics, University of Calgary
1982-6 Associate Editor, Ceramics Monthly magazine, Columbus, Ohio
1978-81 Copy Editor, Ceramics Monthly magazine, Columbus, Ohio
1977-8 Visiting Artist in Ceramics, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
1972-4 Teaching Associate, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (Taught
Introductory Ceramics)
1972 Adjunct ceramics instructor, Memphis Academy of Arts (now Memphis
College of Art), Memphis, TN
Workshops and Lectures Presented
1999 "Building Ceramic Surfaces," Series 99,
Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB
1996 "New Experiments with Electric Kilns," lecture and panel
chair, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
conference, Rochester, New York
1995 "Surface Exploration," Arrowmont Summer Session (June
26-July 7), Gatlinburg, TN
"Song Ceramics," slide
lecture for Far Eastern Art History, University of Calgary
1994 "The Future of Ceramics," panelist, during the
International Ceramics Seminar, University of Alberta, Faculty of
Extension, Edmonton, AB
1993 "Innovative Surfaces," lecturer/panelist, National Council
on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference, San Diego, CA
More to Come
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