2025
February 7 – March 2, “Ashes 1” and “Heat Wave 2”, stoneware vessels, Moving Forward, Moving Back, Ch/Art selected group, Gallery B, Bethesda MD, juror Amy Kaslow
March 15 – May 24, “Heat Wave 1”, stoneware vessel, 35th Biennial Creative Crafts Council Exhibition at the Mansion at Strathmore. Bethesda, MD, jurors Robert Devers, Mary Higgins, Michael Janis
July 31 – August 31, “Barthes 2”, artist book, porcelain and paper, Peggy Doole National Small Works Exhibition, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington DC, juror Margaret Winslow, awarded grand prize; review: https://discerningeye.substack.com/p/pressed-into-action
September 11 – December 12, “Doors 1”, stoneware vessel, DC Art Now, DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Gallery, Government of the District of Columbia, 200 I St. SE, Washington DC
September 15 – October 23, “Barthes 5”, artist book, porcelain and paper, Women Artists of the DMV, curator F. Lennox Campello, Portico Room, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park MD
September 19 – November 8, “Into the Fire 2”, stoneware vessel, Strictly Functional Pottery National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster PA, juror Mark Hewitt
December 8, 2025 – January 31, 2026, “Evening Sky” (prize recipient) and “Galileo 1”, stoneware vessels, chevychaseart.org (Ch/Art), juror Jordan Bruns, Friendship Heights Village Center, Friendship Heights MD
2024
December 7, JRA Craft Day, Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase, Chevy Chase MD
September 1 – 28, 2024, Smoke: New Ceramics, solo exhibition, Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda MD 20814. Reception: Friday, September 13th: 6 – 8 pm. Artist Talk, Saturday September 21st: 3 pm. Contact: http://www.waverlystreetgallery.com Tel.: (301) 951-9441
August 1 – 25, 2024 Peggy Doole National Small Works Exhibition, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington DC, juror Ann Shafer
June 29 – August 4, Ceramics Biennial 2024, Guilford Art Center, Guilford CT, juror Kathy King
2023
May 9 – July 29, Creative Crafts Council 34th Biennial, Strathmore Arts, Rockville MD, jurors Jaimianne Jacobin, Lynda Smith-Bugge, April Wood; recipient: Guild of Book Workers Potomac Chapter Award
June 30 -July 30, Washington Print Foundation, National Small Works Exhibition, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington DC, juror LuLen Walker
September 1 -4, Glen Echo Labor Day Art Show, Glen Echo Park, MD, juror Tom Doyle
September 23 – November 4, Strictly Functional Pottery National, Lancaster Museum of Art, 135 Lime St. Lancaster PA, juror Adero Willard
September 14 – November 11, (Not) Strictly Painting, McLean Project for the Arts, 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean VA, juror Tim Brown
October 21 -22, Art Walk, Chevy Chase Artists, https://www.chevychaseart.org/
2022
March 5 – April 15, Hand Crafted, Black Rock Center for the Arts, Germantown MD
April 22 – June 3, Sculpture NOW, Washington Sculptors Group, Harmony Hall Arts Center, Fort Washington MD, juror Fitsum Shebeshe
September 14 – December 3, Creative Confluence: South Asian Community Reflections, Connections and Dialogue 2022, Towson University Asian Arts and Culture Center, Towson MD, juror Nikita Yogaraj
September 15, 2022 – December 10, Renewal, Washington Sculptors Group, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, The George Washington University, Washington DC, jurors: Olivia Kohler-Maga, and Babette Pendleton
October 22 -23, Art Walk, Chevy Chase Artists
December 3, 2022: JRA DAY https://www.jraday.com/
Selected Press: Ceramics Monthly, Exposure section, March 2022, “Doors 1”
2021
February, “Gateway 3”. We Begin Again, Chevy Chase Artists, online exhibition, juror Allison Marvin
March 27 – May 3, “Setting Sun” and “Night Sky”. Fleeting Fled, Washington Sculptors Group and Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, juror Laura Roulet
April 5 – April 30, “Ratri Sukta”, Galaxy, Tenth Annual Metro Open Juried Exhibition, The Capitorl Hill Art League, recipient Second Prize, juror April Rimpo
May 24 – 28, Strictly Functional Pottery, Instagram takeover.
May – July, “Doors1”and “Doors3”, Creative Crafts Council 33rd Biennial, Strathmore Arts, Rockville MD.
2020
November 28 – December 5
JRA Day Online
https://jraday.org
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October 1 – December 1, Speak Your Truth Black Lives Matter. Online. Athenaeum Gallery, Alexandria VA https://www.nvfaa.org/
September 26 – October 31, Strictly Functional Pottery National. Online.
Juror: Julia Galloway. http://strictlyfunctionalpottery.net/
https://market-house-craft-center.square.site/
and on Instagram, the images, statements and critiques by Galloway and many others: http://instagram.com/strictlyfunctionalpottery/
and http://instagram.com/galloway_pottery
September 17 – November 14, Sculpture Now.
McLean Project for the Arts, 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean VA
Juror: Nancy Sausser. https://mpaart.org/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/
ARTOMATIC 2.0 July 20 – August 20 https://www.artomatic.org/gallery/
June. Moving Forward. Online. Glen Echo Park Galleries, Glen Echo M
2019
April – June, Freedom: Art as the Messenger, Cato Institute, jurors Harriet Lesser & June Linowitz
June – July, Creative Crafts Council 2019 Biennial, Strathmore Hall; jurors Chris Darway, Joe Dickey, Susan Main; Award: Excellence in Ceramics
September – October, Strictly Functional Pottery National, Lancaster PA, juror Malcolm Mobutu Smith
September, Glen Echo Park, Labor Day Show, juror: Trudi van Dyke, Award: Best 3-D piece
October 2019 – January 2020, When Darkness Falls: Night Explorations, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Kay Daugherty Gallery, Solomons, MD
2018
Solo show
Drowning: Ceramic Forms
October 7 – November 3
Reception: Friday, October 12th, 6 – 9 pm
Waverly Street Gallery, 4600 East West Highway, Bethesda MD 20814
http://www.waverlystreetgallery.com
Group shows
Strictly Functional Pottery National
Juror: Ben Carter
September 22 – October 27
Reception: Friday September 21, 6 – 9 PM
Kevin Lehman’s Pottery,
560 S. Prince St. Lancaster PA 17603
http://www.strictlyfunctionalpottery.net
Award: Best Handbuilt
Metropolis
Sept 13 – November 4
Reception: September 13, 7 – 9 pm
Galleries at the Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912
Workhouse Clay International 2018
Juror: Eva Kwong
August 11 – October 14
Workhouse Arts Center,
9518 Workhouse Way Lorton, VA 22079
http://www.WorkhouseArts.com
Passages
January 27 – March 4
Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA
Work at the Renwick Gallery Shop, 1700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington DC 20006: Galileo Flasks
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