Shellie Jacobson

Ceramics & Book Artist

I was born in Buffalo, New York where I began studying drawing and painting at the Albright Art School, now part of the Albright-Knox Art Museum. I continued my art education at Carnegie-Mellon University (BFA) and completed my graduate studies at Rutgers, the State University (Ed.D).

I have been actively involved in the field of ceramics, both teaching and exhibiting, for almost thirty years. I exhibit my work often in New Jersey as well as nationally and internationally. I am an active member of the Princeton Artists Alliance and participate in our group exhibitions. As a member of the East/West Ceramics Artists Association I recently exhibited in Seoul, Korea. While in Korea, I gave a workshop and slide presentation at Seoul National University of Technology. The 2008 East/West exhibition is in Mashiko, Japan.

As an art educator, I have taught elementary, secondary, and college students as well as life long learners. At the college level I taught ceramic hand building and two and three-dimensional design. As the Museum Educator at the Hunterdon Museum of Art I developed the Bridging the Arts curriculum for outreach art programs in elementary schools. I also give ceramic workshops which focus on various hand building techniques and monotype printing on clay.

More recently I have been creating one-of–kind artist’s books. I studied book arts at the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. My books are part of the recent EPI traveling exhibition to Costa Rica, Mexico and England. Two of my books will be included in the Lark book series “500 Artists Books.” I maintain my ceramic studio and RockBrook Press, where my books are bound and published, in Skillman, New Jersey.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011	“Focus on Princeton,” George Segal Gallery, Montclair Art Museum, Wayne, NJ
2010	“Myths and Marks: Archetypes throughout the Ages,” invitational, Printmaking Council of NJ 6th East West Clay Works Exhibition, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ “Pine Barrens Revisited,” Princeton Artists Alliance, Noyes Museum, Lilly Lake, NJ “For Love not Money,” A Global Mail Art Collaboration, Invitational, 15th Talllinn Print Triennial, Estonia
2009	“Below the Surface,” Artists books exhibition, Printmaking Council of NJ, Somerville, NJ “The Artist’s Eye,” Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
2008	5th East West Clay Works Exhibition, Mashiko Japan
2007	“Clay and Paper,” solo exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ “Memory and Death,” Book symposium invitational, Golda Meir Library, Special Collections, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2006	4th East West Clay Works Exhibition, Seoul, Korea “The Open Book”, invitational, New Jersey City University, Visual Arts Gallery, NJ “More than a Book” invitational, EPI traveling exhibition, Costa Rica, Mexico City, London “Telling the Story: Artists Books,” invitational, Noyes Museum, NJ “Meriviglia” invitational, artists books at Williams Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. “Marsh Meditations,” Bristol-Meyers Squib, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
2005	“The Elements: creative energy,” exhibition of artist books, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ “Vision and Voice, “ PAA collaborates with NJ Poets, State Museum of NJ, Trenton, NJ
2004	3rd East West Clay Works Exhibition, “Fireworks,” Space World Gallery, Long Island City, NY 15th Annual Teapot Show, Invitational, A. Houberbocken, Chicago, IL Homer’s Odyssey: The Princeton Artists Alliance, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ; and Foundation for Hellenic Culture, New York City.
2003	“Women Artists of EPI,” Invitational book exhibition, David A. Portlock Black Cultural Center Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. and Morris County Library, Morristown, NJ “Life with Pocket Change and Other Pleasures: an Exhibition of Artists’ Books,” Invitational, Ben Shahn Gallery, Wayne, NJ
2002	2nd East West Clay Works Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, New York City, NY Homer’s Odyssey: The Princeton Artists Alliance, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 27th Annual New Members Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ “Artists and the Art of the Book,” Invitational, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA in conjunction with the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Traveling Exhibition to Costa Rico, England. 13th Annual Teapot Show, Invitational, A. Houberbocken, Chigago, IL.
2001	20th Annual Metro Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, Exceptional Merit Award “Books and Letters”, Guest Artist, Gallery Petite, High Bridge, NJ “Self Contained: Ceramic Forms that Shelter, Conceal, and Explore,” Invitational, Myhelan Cultural Arts Center, Long Valley, NJ
2000	“Ceramics USA 2000,” University of North Texas, SOVA Gallery, Denton, TX Yad B’Homer, Solo ceramic exhibition, Invitational, Haifa, Israel Eleventh Annual Teapot Show, Invitational, A. Houberbocken, Chicago, IL
1999	Tenth Annual Teapot Show, Invitational, A. Houberbocken, Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL Karen Karnes and Friends, Invitational Pottery Show and Sale, Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury, VT “Tiles,” invitational, Show of Hands Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “Mud Like A Blessing: Elemental Sculptural Clay,” Invitational, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
1998	Mid-Atlantic Contemporary Tile Exhibition, Invitational, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA “Tiles,” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA Global Ceramics, Invitational, Babel Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland

HONORS

William Patterson University, Artists Book Collection, Wayne, NJ
Exceptional Merit Award, City Without Walls, 2001, Newark, NJ
Juror’s Award First Place “Fourth Annual Teapot Show” 1992 A. Houberbocken, Milwaukee, WI
Juror’s Award, “Best in Show” 1988 Luckenbach Mill Exhibition of Contemporary Crafts, Bethlehem, PA
Juror’s Choice Award, 26^th Contemporary Craft Exhibition 1988, DE. Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Craftsman Fellowship Grants, 1985, 1987

PUBLICATIONS

500 Artists Books, two books selected for publication, Lark Books 2008
American Contemporary Ceramics, Dr. D.Chung, September 2004
Ceramics Art and Perception. “Mud Like a Blessing” Review by Michele Mercadal., Feb. 2002
Ceramics Monthly, “Up Front” Feature: April, 2000, “Mud Like a Blessing,” April, 1998, Exhibition at the Klay Gallery, Nyack, NY
“Albert Green: Master Potter,” Exhibition Essay: “Albert Green: The Celebration of a Master Potter” at the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ 1995
Contemporary Porcelain, Peter Lane, December 1994
Ceramics Monthly, San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, October 1993

EDUCATION

Ed.D in Creative Arts Education, Rutgers, the State University, New Brunswick, NJ
B.F.A. in Art Education, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Museum Educator, Bridging the Arts, outreach curriculum development, Hunterdon Museum of Art, 2000-2006
Raritan Valley Community College, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ceramics, 1989-98
Mercer County Community College, Adjunct Instructor, 3-D Design, 1987-89
The College of New Jersey, Adjunct Instructor, Art Education, 1978-87
Curator, “Bennet Bean, Influences and Objects” Hunterdon Museum of Art, 2006
Seoul National University of Technology, monotype on clay workshop and slide presentation to graduate students
Ceramics workshops, “Feats of Clay” at Hunterdon Museum of Art, Newark Museum
Book arts workshops: EPI, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; Print Council of New Jersey