Resumé

Ceramics and Writing Resume

Vicki Gunter at The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) with The Reading Chair 2010 - 2011 (First official clay submission . ACGA)

SOLO & DUO SHOWS

2023 – NY2CA – Benicia CA – invitational Duo show, Co-Owner, painter, Terry Twigg
2021 – Abrams Claghorn – One Nest: Earthworks duo collab. Eliz. Addison – Albany CA

2017 – Oakopolis Gallery – Solo Show – Clay & Earth – What We Stand On - Oakland CA
2012 Loss and Discovery, Oakopolis, Oakland CA
2008 The Reading Chair, Oakopolis, Oakland CA - Solo Installation-Performance-Reading

GROUP SHOWS

2024 – WEAD-Women Eco Artists Dialog – Lands And Symbiotic Futures - Online @KUNSTMATRIX
2024 – Abrams Claghorn Gallery – HABITATS – 5 Women, Invitational – Albany CA
2024 – Transmission Gallery – Pint Size 2 – Oakland CA
2024 – Blue Line Arts – Off Center – Juror: Heidi McKenzie - Roseville CA
2024 – NUMU New Museum Los Gatos – GBAO- Wild Iris - Los Gatos CA
2024 – Arc Gallery SF, NCWCA – The 6000 Circle Project – Invited
2024 – Blue Line Arts – Natural Elements – Juror, Marianne McGrath
2024 – Arc Gallery NCWCA – The 6000 Circle Project – Invited
2024 – Verum Ultimum – Generous Kingdom – Mother Nature - Jennifer G Cutshall

2023 – Abrams Claghorn NCWCA Loves/Hates – Albany CA
2023 – Arts Benicia – Properties of Water, Juror: Katrina Bello, Benicia CA
2023 – Visions In Clay - Juror: Joan Takayama-Ogawa Horton Gallery, Stockton CA
2023 – Portals -Gallery/Online Exhibit – Northern CA Women’s Caucus for Art
2023 – O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Art & Ecology, Juror, Obi Kaufmann
2023 – Transmission Gallery SF – Pint Size – Juror, Cameron Brian

2022 – Arts Benicia - Gems V – Juror Susan Aulik
2022 – Gearbox Gallery – In My Backyard – Jurors, Ruth Gordon Gallery
2022 – O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Women Artists Making Their Mark Jurors Seager/Gray
2022 – Blue Line Arts – Off Center – Juror, Rachel Gotlieb, Ph.D. Crocker Art Museum.
2022 – Arc Gallery – The Wild Side – Juror, Cynthia Brannvall
2022 – Abrams Claghorn Gallery - Shimmer – Invited -Jurors Elizabeth Addison & Robert Abrams

2021 – DiNapoli Gallery, SanJoseSUniv- Composing the Future 2 - NCWCA
2021 – Art Works Downtown- Skulls & Roses, juror Camilo Villa
2021 – Gearbox Gallery– Posies, invited, Ruth Santee, Transmission Gallery Dir/owner
2021 – O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Women Artists Making Their Mark Jurors Seager/Gray
2021 – Blue Line Arts – Eco-Centric – Jurors Blue Line Directors
2021 – Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery – SHIFT – Lafayette CA
2021 – Bankhead Theatre–Composing the Future/NCWCA)
2021 – Applied Contemporary – Form & Function – Oakland CA Juror Christa Assad
2021 – Yosemite Renaissance 36 – Traveling show ends in Yosemite NP Museum CA
2021 – Abrams Claghorn – Re-Imagining Our Footprint - Albany CA

2020 – Canessa Gallery – San Francisco CA – Invited by Jon Abrams
2020 – Blue Line Arts – Off Center
2020 – Abrams Claghorn Gallery – Albany CA Jurors R. Abrams E. Addison NCWCA
2020 – Merritt College – Cherish & Resist - Oakland CA
2020 – Epperson Gallery of Ceramic Arts – Crockett CA – Juror Lisa Clague

2019 – Arts Benicia – Table Testaments – Benicia CA Juror Juan Miguel Santiago
2019 – Healdsburg Center for Arts – Clay & Glass Redux, juror Charlene Doiron Reinhart
2019 – LH Horton Jr Art Gallery – Visions in Clay - Stockton CA Juror Sarah Millfelt
2019 – Verum Ultimum Gallery – Chasing Ghosts – Portland OR
2019 – Epperson Gallery – Clay from ACGA - Crockett CA - Juror Tony Natsoulas
2019 – The Artery – CCC – Davis CA – Juror Bill Abright
2019 – Blue Line Arts–Off Center+Ceramic Wall Work – Roseville CA

2018 – Arts Benicia – Into The Fields: Botanical Lore – Benicia CA
2018 – Abrams Claghorn Gallery – Have You Heard Us Yet? – Albany CA
2018 – Richmond Art Center – Small Works – Richmond CA – Juror Philip Linhares
2018 – Bedford Gallery – The World of Frida – Walnut Creek CA
2018 – Blue Line Arts – Off Center – Roseville CA
2018 – Art Works Downtown – After Nature – San Rafael CA
2018 – The Artery – CCC - Calif. Clay Competition - Davis CA – Juror Tiffany Schmierer
2018 – Verum Ultimum Gallery - Abstract Sanctuary 5 – Portland OR
2018 – Yosemite Renaissance 33 Traveling Show - Yosemite NP Museum & Gallery

2017 – Brea Gallery – 4th Clay & Glass Biennial – Los Angeles CA

2016 – Verum Ultimum Gallery – Portland Oregon
2016 – The Fl3tch3r Exhibit – Tennessee State University
2016 – Gutfreund Cornett Art – Social Justice @ St. Mary’s College, Moraga CA
2016 – The Artery – CCC – Davis CA – juror Brian Tanner
2016 – Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA – ACF – jurors Sergei Isupov, Leslie Ferrin
2016 – Art Works Downtown – San Rafael CA
2016 – Richmond Art Center – Family Portraits - Richmond CA

2015 Santa Cruz Art League – Santa Cruz CA
2015 Oakopolis – Oakland CA – Art Murmur
2013-2015 Autumn Lights Festival – The Gardens @ Lake Merritt Oakland CA
2015 Blue Line Arts – Roseville CA – Plates & Totem invitational
2015 Blue Line Arts – Roseville CA – Purposeful Pottery
2015 Yosemite Renaissance XXX – Yosemite National Park Museum & Gallery
2015 Crocker Art Museum - Sacramento, CA

2014 Art Works Downtown San Rafael CA – juror Bella Feldman
2014 Bedford Gallery - Walnut Creek CA’s 100-year anniversary
2014 Richmond Art Center - Richmond CA
2014 The Artery - Annual California Clay Competition Davis CA - juror Don Fritz
2014 America’s ClayFest II @ Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA - juror Candice Groot

2013 Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
2013 America's ClayFest (Feats of Clay) Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA - juror Richard Shaw

2012 Plate Tectonics, Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA

2010-11 The Reading Chair, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
2010 Gratitude, Oakopolis (Art Murmur), Oakland CA

2009 Out of the Darkness, Oakopolis, Oakland CA
2008 The Reading Chair, Installation/performance, Oakopolis, Oakland, CA

AWARDS

People’s Choice Award – Off Center International Ceramic Comp. BlueLineArts - 2020
People’s Choice Award – Laguna – The Artery – CACC 2018 (Mother Nature)
Juror Award/East Bay Clay – The Artery CCC – Juror Tiffany Schmierer 2018 (Mother Nature)
Juror Award – Family Portraits Show at Richmond Art Center 2016 (Nan Memories Collected)
The Alpha Award – The Artery Gallery – Juror Don Fritz 2014 – CA Clay Competition (It’s Not One Thing… It’s Everything)
Oakland Mayor’s Hon. Mention – Mudlights – Gardens @ Lake Merritt Festival of Lights
People's Choice Award - Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 2011 – (The Reading Chair)

EDUCATION - CERAMICS, SCULPTURE, CREATIVE WRITING, DANCE

San Francisco State University 1968-1970 Charles “Bud” McKee, Joe Hawley
Diablo Valley College 1968 Clayton Bailey
Laney College 1972-74 Alan Meisel, Ted Odza
Laney College 2005-14 Sherry Karver, Susannah Israel, Larry Henderson, Anna Vaughan
Mendocino Arts Center 2017 – Michelle Gregor
Pleasant Hill High School 1967-68 - Jim Snowden
Creative Writing, Matthew Goldstein, Rinna Evelyn Wolfe
Dance/Healing Arts 1971-06 Jane Brown, Tom Hendrickson, Anna Halprin, Acupressure

TEACHING

2013 – Guest workshop “Clay Lithography” for Susannah Israel
2008 – 2005 Watershed Adventures teacher combining art & science for 4th and 5th grades for Alameda County Resource Conservation and Development.
2009 – 1996 Levers, Pulleys and Dance Science and Art for 5th graders, Oakland CA
1995 - 1994 Sharing Sri Lanka Mask Making and dance with 5th grades, Oakland CA
1971 to 2012 - Teaching dance arts and Motion therapy for all ages and skill levels.

COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS:

Gina Gallegos –Commission (Anna’s Hummingbird)
Jane Felice – Commission (Pink Fairy Fan)
Alan Gallegos – Santa Barbara CA - Private Collection (It’s Not One Thing…It’s Everything)
Carol Burton Harris – Private Collection (Family Gathering – Little Pete Meadow)
Scott Aker – San Leandro CA – Private Collection (Hummingbird)
Tomyé (Neale-Madison) – Private Collection (Casa Azul)
Bobbi & Dicki Nathanson – Private Collection (Our Poppy)
Tyrone Perry Landscaping – Commission - dozen unique orchid pots.
William & Darrel Ishmael – Private Collection (the future…)
Jean Cross - Lincoln CA - Private Collection (plate tectonics)
Terri Pittman - Richmond CA - Private Collection (plate tectonics)
William "Bill" Mandel - Berkeley CA - Private Collection (Turbot-lence)
Nathan Galanter - Oakland CA - Private Collection (bearth vessel)
Tomyé (Neale-Madison) – Private Collection (Casa Azul)
Bobbi & Dicki Nathanson – Private Collection (Our Poppy)
Tyrone Perry Landscaping – Commissioned one dozen unique orchid pots.
Nathan Galanter - Oakland CA - Private Collection (bearth vessel)
Other private collections

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Ceramics Monthly – Ceramic Arts Daily
Board member - Association of Clay and Glass Artists - ACGA
Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art - NCWCA
Greenpeace, Sierra Club
Oakland Arts Alliance Member – original group of Oakland Artists that fought for and advised the City of Oakland on the Development of the Cultural Arts Division