Pre-Conference Workshop Instructors:
Daniel Matheson
BFA, State University College of New York at Buffalo. Currently: Foundry Manager, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Residency: Pirkkala Sculpture 07, Pirkkala, Finland, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Selected Exhibitions: Pirkkala Sculpture 07, international group exhibition, Pirkkala Alasali Gallery, Pirkkala, Finland, Thermal Equilibrium, solo exhibition, The Burchfield Art Center and Nature Preserve, West Seneca, N.Y. The Burchfield-Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY; The Stray Show, Chicago; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ. Performances: Circus Inferno, a group performance with iron, fire, and ice, The Burchfield Art Center and Nature Preserve, West Seneca, N.Y., The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Gravity's Rainbow; A performance with molten Iron, for the Iron Circus' 30th annual Iron Pour. Conferences: international sculpture symposium and cast iron workshop, Pirkkala, Finland. Faculty and Technical sponsor, The Southern Conference on Cast Iron Art, 2005 and 2007, for student cupola competition. Furnace and crew awarded "Best Fabrication"(05), "Most Productive Furnace"(05) and "Hottest Metal"(07). Buffalo Iron Symposium and Dusk to Dawn Iron Pours. The International Sculpture Conference, Houston, Texas. Participated in: "Foundry Specific" session on Networking; Bronze Casting Demonstration, St. Bonaventure University, NY. Bronze Casting Demonstration, the Ashford Hollow Foundation, Ellicottville NY; The Fourth International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, Mercerville, NJ.
Norwood Viviano
BFA, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University; MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art. Teaches: Grand Valley State University. Taught: the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; NYSCC at Alfred University; Teaching Assistant, Cranbrook Academy of Art; Pilchuck Glass School. Awards & Residencies: Royal College of Art, London; Ox-Bow, school of art and artists’ residency; Sculpture Space; Emerging Artist Award, Glass Arts Society; PONCHO Artist in Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Center, WA; Kiki Smith Endowed Scholarship; Alfred University Partnership Scholarship; Pilchuck Glass School. Solo Exhibitions: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, NY; Lemberg Gallery, MI; McMaster Gallery, SC; Esther Claypool Gallery, WA; Spaces Gallery-SPACELab, OH. Group Exhibitions: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, IL; Revolution Gallery, MI; Soil Gallery, WA; Spaces Gallery, OH; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; Muskegon Museum of Art, MI; Sioux City Art Center, IA.
Carolyn Ottmers
Carolyn Ottmers currently teaches sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is represented by Carrie Secrist gallery. She has curated and organized numerous cast iron exhibitions and events, including Women, Fire, and Iron: A National Conference on Women in the Foundry Arts, held at the University of Minnesota in 1993 as well as actively participating in all the ICCCIA conferences. Exhibited internationally, her sculptures are often a hybrid of forms, processes, and materials inspired by the natural landscape and the human-built world. The recurrent use of multiples reflects a combined interest in the variation and diversity of nature as well as the industrial production of objects.
Anna Campbell
Anna Campbell is a sculptor and video installation artist who often employs craft media in her work; some of which can be found at www.annacampbell.net. Over the last several years, she has focused on constructions of masculinity, heroism, queerness, and the strategic potential of appropriating failure. Her forthcoming body of work, Making Contact, is the result of a month long residency, training as a boxer at the all-women Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Gym in Canada. Campbell exhibits and speaks nationally from her base in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She teaches in the Art & Design Department at Grand Valley State University, where her courses includes sculpture and curation.
Phil Carrizzi
Phil Carrizzi earned his BFA in Painting, Metalsmithing, and Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and his MFA in Metals at the University of Washington. He is an Associate Professor, and the founding chair, of the Allesee Metals/Jewelry Design program at Kendall College of Art and Design. He coordinates Kendall's Digital Fabrication Lab, and teaches courses in CAD/CAM, Jewelry Design, Production Multiples, Rendering, and Thesis.
His objects have been featured in more than 50 group exhibitions and have been published on the cover and in the pages of Metalsmith magazine and other periodicals, catalogs, and books in the field of jewelry design. In 2007 Carrizzi lectured and exhibited in Dubai, coordinated the Artist in Residency program at SIGGRAPH, traveled to Portugal with colleague Rebecca Strzelec to present 2 lectures at the Virtual Reality and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP) conference in Leiria. In 2008 he mounted his first solo exhibition, Voluptuous, at PennState Altoona, and chaired the SIGGRAPH | Studio in Los Angeles.
Israel Davis
Israel Davis is an artist / educator living and working in Grand Rapids, MI who holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently the Ceramics Program Director for the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts and is Adjunct faculty at Kendall College of Art and Design. Israel also teaches and works for Ox-Bow Summer School of Art and Artist's Residency in Saugatuck, MI which is proudly affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Israel has exhibited both regionally and nationally in solo and group shows including Clay and Print 2008, an invitational exhibit on display at Artist Image Resource (AIR) in Pittsburgh, PA in conjunction with this years National Conference for Education in the Ceramic Arts. Amongst several exhibits Mr. Davis will participate in this year, he will also be giving a print and clay workshop at Grand Valley State University and teaching a two-week intensive course at Ox-Bow entitled Object/Image.
Stephanie Rozene
Stephanie Rozene is a potter who teaches in the Ceramics Department in the School of Art at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. She holds an M.F.A in ceramics and craft history from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and a B.F.A from Alfred University in Alfred, New York. She has shown work nationally and internationally, most recently in the 2 nd Biennial Concordia Continental Ceramics Competition, at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota where she was awarded First Prize and Fabulous Finishes at Gloria Kennedy Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. In the coming months her work will be exhibited in the Strictly Functional Pottery National, Ceramics At Work (Gloria Kennedy Gallery), and the Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show at the Schvell Gardens in Elmore, OH. She is dedicated to the advancement and development of the field of Craft History and Theory and in particular the use of historical ornament as a visual language. Artist website: www.stephanierozene.com
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