Resumé

Ceramics and Writing Resume

Vicki Gunter at The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) with The Reading Chair 2010 - 2011

Solo and Group Ceramic Exhibitions:

2021 – Abrams Claghorn – Re-Imagining Our Footprint - Albany CA

2020 – Canessa Gallery – San Francisco CA – invited by Jon Altemus, "It's Not One Thing... It's Everything"
2020 – Abrams Claghorn Gallery – Albany CA – Jurors Robert Abrams, Elizabeth Addison NCWCA
2020 – Merritt College – 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 – 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 – Art 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 YR 33 - Yosemite National Park Museum & Galler

2017 – Oakopolis Gallery – Solo Show – Clay & Earth – What We Stand On - Oakland CA
2017 – Brea Gallery – 4th Clay & Glass Biennial – Los Angeles CA

2016 The Artery – California Clay Competition – Davis CA
2016 Art Works Downtown – San Rafael CA
2016 Richmond Art Center – Richmond CA

2015 Santa Cruz Art League – Santa Cruz CA
2015 Oakopolis – Oakland CA – Art Murmur
2013-2015 Autumn Lights Festival – Mud Light Lanterns - 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 Turns 100, Walnut Creek CA
2014 Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
2014 The Artery - Annual California Clay Competition - juror Don Fritz, Davis CA
2014 America's ClayFest II juror - Candice Groot, @ Blue LIne Arts, Roseville CA

2013 Lake Merritt Festival of Lights - Mud Lites - Oakland CA
2013 Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
2013 America's ClayFest (formerly Feats of Clay) curator - Richard Shaw, Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA
2012 Loss and Discovery, Oakopolis, Oakland CA

2012 Plate Tectonics, Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA
2010-11 The Reading Chair /Carrot Stew with Lions, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & history - ACGA
2010 Gratitude, Oakopolis (Art Murmer), Oakland CA
2009 Out of the Darkness, Oakopolis, Oakland CA
2008 The Reading Chair, Oakopolis, Oakland CA - Solo Installation, Performance, Reading

Awards

People’s Choice Award – Laguna – The Artery CCC– during CA Conf. for the Advancement of Ceramics Arts 2018
Juror Award/East Bay Clay – The Artery CCC – Juror Tiffany Schmierer 2018
Jurors Award - Family Portraits Show 2016 @ Richmond Art Center - Jurors Jan Wurm & Richard Ambrose
The Alpha Award - The Artery Gallery - Juror Don Fritz 2014 - 25th Annual CA Clay Competition
People's Choice Award - Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History 2011 - The Reading Chair

Art Grants received 1990-2003: Zellerbach Family Fund, Clorox, Bank of America, Oakland Cultural Arts Division, Alameda County Arts Commission, Wells Fargo

Mixed Media Sculpture in Performance 2004 - 1975:

Art Moves: Sculpture, Writing, Painting, Photography – Jane Brown The Art of Dance, Oakland CA

An exploration of the creative process through contemporary dance choreography, sculpted sets, costumes and commissioned music

Sky Blues - Orches, Open Arts Circle, Oakland CA

Original sculpture, poetry & choreography by Vicki Gunter

Intertwined: Excitement, Interwoven, Mirror Lake — Orches, Open Arts Circle, Oakland CA

Hand painted sculpture set, choreography & performance by Vicki Gunter – interpreting original paintings by Joell Jones

I Can’t Stand the Rain — Jane Brown The Art of Dance & Open Arts Circle, Oakland Ca - Theatre Artaud, SF CA

Sculpture set, choreography & performance.

U.S. Weapons Vendor -– A Show of Peace, Fort Creativity Center – Oakland CA

Performance installation, props and costume

Television, Exhibits and Publications

Sharing Sri Lanka II - Interview on Bay Sunday, CBS Channel 5, with Barbara Rodgers
The Other America — “The Art and Culture of the American Labor Movement since 1900”

Video exhibit of Work Dances (4 part suite, choreographed by V.Gunter) touring Europe (1983-1987?), and published in Das Andre Amerika, Elefanten Press, 1983

KCSM-TV Channel 60, Interview and Broadcast of Work Dances

Writing

In The Lettuce commissioned by University of Arizona, 2002
The Reading Chair, In The Lettuce, Dear Mom and Binaca published in Good News 2004, 2005, 2006
Somebody's Baby published in Street Spirit, 2002

Education - Ceramics, Sculpture and Creative Writing

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
Mendocino Arts Center 2017 – Michelle Gregor
Pleasant Hill High School 1967-68 - Jim Snowden
Creative Writing, Matthew Goldstein, Rinna Evelyn Wolfe

Teaching

2008 – 2005 Watershed Adventures teacher combining art and science for 4th and 5th grades for Alameda County Resource Conservation and Development.

2009 – 1996 Levers, Pulleys and Art/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 Present - Teaching dance arts and Motion therapy for all ages and skill levels.

Collections:

Tyrone Perry Landscaping – Commissioned one dozen unique orchid pots.
William & Darrel Ishmael – Private Collection
Jean Cross - Lincoln CA - Private Collection
Terri Pittman - Richmond CA - Private Collection
William "Bill" Mandel - Berkeley CA - Private Collection
Regina Gallegos - El Cerrito CA - Private Collection
Nathan Galanter - Oakland CA - Private Collection
Alex Dixon - Oakland CA - Private Collection

Professional Affiliations

Ceramics Monthly - Ceramic Arts Daily
Association of Clay and Glass Artists
Richmond Art Center - Blue Line Arts - ICAN
Greenpeace, Sierra Club & 350.org
Co-Director and Co-Founder of Jane Brown Foundation (1971) and Orches (1991)
Oakland Arts Alliance Member – the original group of Oakland Artists that fought for and advised the City of Oakland on the Development of the Cultural Arts Division
Artist adviser for American Lung Association (SF - 1980’s) regarding health hazards in the visual and performing arts.