The First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale

Exhibition Location:
Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Exhibition Dates: January 23 to June 13, 2004

My "Purple Foamy Whitecaps Reassembled Ring Teapot" was chosen for the First Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, a very competitive international exhibition of 125 fired clay artworks selected from entries submitted by 692 ceramic artists from 47 countries around the world.

The international jurors for this competition were Peter Lane, Alresford, England; Monika Gass, Berlin, Germany; Enomoto Toru, Gifu, Japan; and Elaine Olafson Henry, Emporia, Kansas, USA. Jurors from Taiwan were Winnie Yang; Huan-Tang Chiu; and Chen-Chou Liou.

Sixth Taiwan Golden Ceramics Awards

Exhibition Location:
Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Exhibition Dates: October 28, 2000 to January 12, 2001

The Golden Ceramics Awards Competition has been held in Taiwan every other year since 1992. For the "Sixth Taiwan Golden Ceramics Awards," the sponsors decided to open up the competition to international ceramic artists, as this exhibition was slated to be the inaugural event of the new six-story tall Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. Over 1200 entries were submitted by 759 clay artists from 53 countries around the world, from which 151 fired clay artworks were chosen for the exhibition. From the 151 pieces selected, 18 artworks were recognized by the jurors with awards. Taiwanese juror Bob Chen honored “Celery Green Reassembled Hollow Ring Teapot" with his "Special Judge's Prize," and the Taiwan Yingge ceramics Museum purchased this Teapot for their Permanent Collection.

Celestial Seasonings: A Loose Interpretation II

EXHIBITION LOCATION: Boulder, Colorado
EXHIBITION DATES: 1998

"Mama Bear's Cold Care Tea Upright Ring Teapot" was exhibited at the Celestial Seasonings Tea Company's Corporate Headquarters Gallery in Boulder, Colorado.

Tea Time: The Art of the Teapot

Exhibition Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Exhibition Dates: May 13 to July 16, 2006

My “Coral Reef Reassembled Ring Teapot” was selected for this exhibition.

From the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts website: "From the serene and elegant to the playful and eccentric, the teapot is highlighted as both a functional object and an artistically inventive form. This national invitational exhibition showcases the work of more than 100 ceramic artists."

The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection
at the De Young Museum

Exhibition Location: San Francisco, California
Exhibition Dates: October 26, 2007 to January 13, 2008

My “Lemon Yellow Triangular Cross-Section Reassembled Ring Teapot” was included in the exhibition: "The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection at the DeYoung Museum," and is now held in the Permanent Collection of the DeYoung Museum.

Renowned Santa Fe collector Sandy Besser assembled an extraordinary array of objects in almost every conceivable medium. This exhibition featured a selection of his finest objects, drawn from three major collection areas:

1. An array of contemporary teapots documenting the persistence and vitality of this ancient form, which has been revitalized by artists associated with the studio crafts movement.

2. Featured contemporary drawings including works by established artists, such as Roy de Forest and Enrique Chagoya, as well as emerging artists, whose works incorporate figuration, narrative content, and neo-surrealist imagery.

3. A selection of 20th-century African beadwork representing the evolution of traditional art forms into a contemporary medium with representations from the Pende, Yoruba, and Kuba societies.

All of the featured works are current or future gifts to the Fine Arts Museums.

COMPLEMENTARY VISIONS
Ray Bub and Greg Winterhalter

Exhibition Location: Bennington Museum, Flag Gallery
Exhibition Dates: September 8 - November 17, 2007

Greg Winterhalter and Ray Bub have both been making art all of their lives. They met in 1988 when Ray exhibited his artwork in the Ars Nova Gallery in North Adams, Massachusetts where Greg was Gallery Curator. Greg taught Fine Arts and Humanities at the now-closed Southern Vermont College in Bennington until 2017, where Ray taught Pottery Making from 1991 to 1998. In 2001 Greg started working with clay, and in 2002 he joined a series of weekly pottery classes Ray teaches in the Pownal, Vermont ceramic studio Oak Bluffs Cottage Pottery he shares with his wife and business partner Susan Nykiel.

Greg has been a painter most of his life, concentrating at various times in watercolor, oils, acrylic, wax encaustic, mixed media, and handmade paper, and for 6 years he has also been exploring the sculptural and functional possibilities of clay. His strongest artistic influence has been Expressionism, and among his many teachers have been several Abstract Expressionist painters. Greg's artwork explores the process of his response to impressions, ideas, and the environment.

Ray has worked with raku, earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain clay since 1967, making both functional and sculptural work. Since 1994 he has been concentrating his creative energy on a series of unique Teapots based on the ancient Upright Ring Vase form seen historically in many cultures around the world. He alters, cuts, and reassembles hand-thrown hollow clay rings into widely-varying sculptural compositions, then adds a handle, lid finial, and spout to create his Upright Ring and Reassembled Ring Teapots.

Although Ray taught Greg basic clay-working techniques in the studio, they are at heart colleagues in artwork, often carrying on extended discussions in class ranging from art historical influences to current trends, but mostly centering on how to accomplish artistic goals in their chosen media. The two artists respect and admire each other's artwork, and have wanted very much to collaborate on an exhibition where they could see their work displayed together and learn from this juxtaposition of their expressive visions. Winterhalter showed mixed-media, handmade paper, watercolor, oil, and wax encaustic paintings, as well as internally-lighted ceramic lanterns. Bub showed ceramic Upright Ring and Reassembled Ring Teapots, along with animal-figure Surprise Boxes.

The Bennington Museum offered them a wonderful opportunity with the exhibition "Complementary Visions: Greg Winterhalter and Ray Bub," in the Flag Gallery, September 8 to November 17, 2007.

THE CURIOUS TEAPOT

Exhibition Location:
The Craft Alliance Art Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Exhibition Dates: January 13-March 5, 2006

This exhibition included my “A Rainbow Of Trout Upright Ring Teapot.” A selection of Teapots loaned by the artists included in this exhibition made up the two-year traveling exhibition “Teapots: Object To Subject,” which toured nationally January 28, 2007 to January 7, 2010.

First World Ceramic Biennale:
2001 Korea International Competition

Exhibition Location: Ichon Ceramic Center, Ichon, Korea
Exhibition Dates: August 10 to October 28, 2001

On display from August 10 to October 28, 2001, at the Icheon Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, this highly selective exhibition consisted of 305 fired clay artworks selected from 4206 entries and submitted by 2019 ceramic artists from 69 different countries. The exhibition was the premier attraction of the WORLD CERAMIC EXPOSITION 2001 KOREA, a multi-event celebration of historical and contemporary ceramic art from around the world.

Ceramics Monthly International Competition

Exhibition Location: Columbus, Ohio
Exhibition Dates: March 15-21, 1999

Sponsored by Ceramics Monthly magazine, this competition featured 112 fired clay artworks selected from 1549 entries submitted by clay artists from 45 countries around the world. The Ceramics Monthly International Competition was on exhibit March 15-21, 1999, in Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with the annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).

National Teapot Show III

EXHIBITION LOCATION:
Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor, North Carolina
EXHIBITION DATES: 1996

"Mountain Gorillas Recumbent Ring Teapot" and "African Elephants Upright Ring Teapot" were exhibited at the Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor, North Carolina as part of the "National Teapot Show III."

Reassembled And Upright Ring Teapots

Exhibition Location: Manchester, Vermont

Exhibition Dates: October 29 to December 4, 2005

An exhibition of ceramic artwork by Ray Bub in Yester House Gallery 6 of the Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT. This exhibit featured 20 of my Reassembled and Upright Ring Teapots, including "The Teapot Family Relaxes at Home."

10th International Ceramics Competition

Exhibition Location: Ceramics Park, Mino Japan
Exhibition Dates: September 12 - October 19, 2014

“Tangerine Seahorse Descending A Staircase Reassembled Ring Teapot” was one of 158 ceramic artworks chosen from 2016 entries submitted by ceramic artists from 59 countries and regions around the world.

All Fired Up

Exhibition Location: Shelburne, Vermont
Exhibition Dates: May 16 - October 24, 2010

Twenty of my teapots were displayed in “All Fired Up,” an exhibition of the work of six Vermont ceramic artists in the Lower Gallery of the Main Entrance Round Barn of the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont.

STATE OF CRAFT

Exhibition Location: Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Exhibition Dates: May 23 to November 10, 2010

My “Midnight Blue Intersecting Arcs Reassembled Ring Teapot” was included in “State Of Craft,” a comprehensive exhibition of 120 objects in all media made by Vermont craft artists in the last 50 years, which was on display in four adjacent galleries of the Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont.

TEAPOTS: OBJECT TO SUBJECT
Touring Exhibit by ExhibitsUSA, a division of
Mid-America Arts Alliance

Exhibition Location: National
Exhibition Dates: January 28, 2007 to January 7, 2010

My “Mint Green Sharp Edges Reassembled Ring Teapot” and my “King Penguins Upright Ring Teapot” were included in this exhibition, a 3-year traveling exhibit of 45 teapots, many of which were first displayed in the 2004 St. Louis, Missouri Craft Alliance Gallery's exhibition, Teapots: Object to Subject, curated by Leslie Ferrin.

This exhibition was on display until January 7, 2010, at these venues: The Forbes Gallery, New York City; Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas; Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, Texas; Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida; Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah; Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio; and California State University Dominguez Hills Art Museum, Carson, California.