EDUCATION
1966 B.A. Albion College, Albion, Michigan
1969 M.A. University of Iowa
1970 M.F.A University of Iowa
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
1994-Present Associate Director of Fine Arts, School of Art and
Design, San Jose State
University, San Jose, California.
1983-Present Visiting Artist/Resident Member, Cooperative, Bottega Versiliese, Pietra Santa, Italy
Permanent sculpture residency status for execution of
large-scale, marble and stone
work.
(24 resident visits since 1963)
1974-Present Professor of Art, San Jose State University, San Jose, California.
1972-1985 Assistant Professor of Art,
University of Kentucky, Lexinton, Kentucky
Visiting Resident Artist at numerous schools, including:
Notre Dame University, Indiana (summer session)
Mills College, California (one semester)
Ohio State University, Ohio (summer session)
Australian Arts Council, Australia (one year)
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (one year)
1970-1974 Assistant Professor of Art, University of Kentucky, Lexinton, Kentucky.
SELECTED SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2004 Woodlot Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Outdoor tandem one-man show with Richard Hunt,
8 major outdoor free standing works by
each artist on 25 acre
wooded estate on Lake Michigan.
2003 Bill Gould Architectural Office Installation
One person show, One year engagement,
San Jose, California
2001 Heritage Bank, San Jose, California, 6 new major works
shown at Bank Plaza Primary
Exhibition space 9 month viewing.
1995 Middlebrook-Middlebrook, two person show at Corporate
Contemporary Center, Corporate
Mall, Sacramento, California
1992 "Earth Abides", large scale, site-specific installation,
Contemporary Wing, new, San Jose
Museum of Art, California.
One-year installation, granite, slate, steel, marble.
11'x17'x6'.
1992 Solo Exhibition - Quantum Corporation. Silicon Valley,
California
1990 Miami of Ohio University Sculpture-Site art, Hiestand
Museum, Oxford, Ohio
1990 Miami of Ohio University Sculpture-Site art, Hiestand
Museum, Oxford, Ohio
1988-1989 Installation and Show, American-Jewish Cultural Center,
Jerusalem, Israel
1987 Kyle Belding Gallery, Denver, Colorado
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Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1986 Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
1985 Ree Schonlau Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville, California
1984 Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1983 Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, California
One Man Exhibition, Capetown, Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg,
South Africa
1982 Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota
Things Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1981 Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"Reconstructions" at San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose,
California
"Drawings and Paintings" at Richland College, Dallas, Texas
Ceramic sculpture and painting at the Art Gallery and State
College, San bernardino,
California
1980 "Drawings and Paintings", Quay Gallery, San Francisco,
California
Museum of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia
David Reid Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Museum of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1979 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1978 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California
1977 Mills College, Oakland, California
Pennsylvania State University, College Park, Pennsylvania
Wabash College Museum, Crafordsville, Indiana
1976 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1975 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Center for Contemporary Art, Lexington, Kentucky
SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2005 International 75th Anniversary Outdoor Sculptural Garden
Bench Exhibition, One year show. Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California.
2004 Warner Center,Outdoor selected group show
Woodland Hills (Los Angeles), California.
2003-2004 Standing Room Only, Scripps 60th Annual, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College,
Claremont,
California.
2003 Warner Center group show.
Peter Shue, Betty Gold, Michael Todd
Woodland Hills (Los Angeles),California.
2002 Contemporary American Ceramics (1950-1990),
The National Museum of Modern Art,
Kyoto, Japan.
Traveling international show.
2001 "Out Door / In Door" City of Santa Clara Northern
California,
Invitational City Hall and Civic
Plaza.
1st prize Out Door, 3rd prize In Door
2001 "San Jose Shark Fest" invited by Heritage Bank as sponsor
2000 National Ceramic Conference Featured Museum Show at Charollote North Carolina
2000 Pacific Rim Sculpture Show Invitational juror Exhibitor
1999 National Touring Show "Sculpture of the Nineties" High
Museum
Atlanta other national venues
1995 Syntax Corp., Sunnyvale, California
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Group Show - Public Art
1994 National Sculpture Conference
San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco Museum
D.P. Fong Gallery
1993 D.P. Fong Show - Family Traditions, San Jose Art League,
San Jose, California
1992 San Jose Museum of Art, Selected Group Invitational Show, KETH Auction Works Gallery,
Costa Mesa, California
Group Exhibition, Cadence Corporation, San Jose, California
1991 "Florence-Santa Clara: Two Schools of Sculpture ",
Academia delle Arti del Disegnno and
Triton Museum of Art
1989 San Francisco International Airport, C.C.A. Small
Sculpture Show
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Bay Area Sculptural Invitational
1988-1989 "National 30-year Survey of the History of Raku" tour of
five museums, originated St. Louis,
Missouri
1988 "Stone, Metal, and Wood" Palo Alto Cultural Center,
contemporary sculpture in Northern
California
1987 "Passagio" Invitational international works in stone,
other artists included Noguchi,
Pomadoro, Max Bill, Botera,
Fannagan, at "Villa De Commune" in Motagaso, Lucca, Italy
"25th Anniversary Exhibition " Museum of Versalia, Pietrasanta,
Italy
"Chicago International Art Exposition" at the Navy Pier,
courtesy of Klein Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois
Annual benefit sculpture and painting exhibition, Denver,
Colorado
Faculty Drawing Show, San Jose Museum, San Jose, California
"Art in Public Places " American institute of Architects,
Santa Clara Chapter, California
1986 "School of San Jose", San Jose State University,
California
"West Coast Ceramics", Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut
Creek, California
"Another Great Love Affair", Denver Museum, Colorado
"Chicago International Art Exposition", Navy Pier, Klein
Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1985 The Carrol and Hiroko Hansen Collection of Ceramic Art",
Arvada Center for the Arts and
Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
"Altered Spaces", Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Kyle Belding Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1984 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Just Sculpture", Young Gallery, San Jose, California
"Seven Ceramai", Hope College, Holland, Michigan
"Tea Bowl Invitational", Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri
"American Cup", Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota
"Clay Workshop V", Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
"Skidmore Craft Invitational", Skid more College, New York
1983 "Habitats", Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"American Clay Artist: Philadelphia' 83", The Clay Studio,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Soup, Soup, Beautiful Soup", Campbell Museum, New Jersey,
traveling to eight locations
through 1985
1982 "Forgotten Dimension" traveling exhibition, International
Sculpture Conference
"Pacific Currents", San Jose Museum of Art, California
"Art and/or Craft: USA and Japan", Kyoto, Tokyo and USA
"Coastal Currents", Corpus Cristi, Texas
1981 "Outdoor Sculpture", Wichita Museum of Art, California
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Cooper-Union Gallery, New York, New York
Warner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York
1980 "Joshua Wedgewood Memorial Invitational", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
"Impressions in Clay", Impressions Gallery, Boston,
Massachusetts
Omaha
Invitational, Joshland Museum, Nebraska
1979 "Northern California Clay Routes: Sculpture Now", San Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco, California
"Illusionism in America" a traveling exhibition from Los
Angeles County Museum of Art to
Denver Art Museum
COMMISSIONS IN
PROGRESS
2004-2005 Fountain and Beach Installation, Sculptural Landscape
Collaboration with local landscape architect. Gilroy,
California.
2004 Sculptural Garden Bronze and Stone Installation, Private
sculptural garden. Fremont,
California
2004 Site Specific Multi-Ton Entry Stone and Bronze Sculpture,
Private contemporary art
collection. Palm Desert, California.
2004 Episcopal Church by the Sea, Meditation Fountain of Joy
White Carrara marble sculptural
installation. Donation based
budget: $30-$40,000.
Santa Monica, California.
2002-2004 Bronze & Stone 9' "Ula Knife" garden piece Los Gatos
California. Private awarded
commission.
COMMISSIONS
COMPLETED
2002-2003 City of Milwaulkee "Gordon Park" 15 ton gateway entry
piece. National awarded commission
bronze basalt carara white
marble, 18' X 19' X24' $56,500.
2001-2002 Site Garden Sculpture Environment basalt, stone, bronze/ Garden art design collaboration
with landscape-designer.
Project includes stone bronze bench, brown water element, 9
foot
garden sculpture. Private commission.
2002 Garden Sculpture Archway bronze, stone, basalt. 14' x 14'
x 9'
Private commission.
2002 Summer in Pietrasanta Italy extracting stone from Italian
Alps for the 21 ton Cararra marble
iceberg for the Milwaukee
commission.
2001 "Bottom Line" Fujitsu Corp. Bronze & stone wall entry
piece 14' x 8' x18".
2000-2001 "Step in Stone" 20' 3" x 11' x 8' 17.5 tons Basalt,
granite, bronze. Across from Stanford
campus in front of 4 star Weston
Hotel, Invitational northern California. Competition awarded
winner. Palo Alto California. $50,000.
1999-2000 "Contact" 14' x 18' x12' Marble & bronze, Reflecting
pool sky mural. Private estate sculpture
commission Palo Alto,
California.
1999 "Moon Dance" 14' x 5' x4', Private estate sculpture
garden.
1998-1999 "Brain Storm" 14' x 7' x 6' Bronze, aluminum, basalt
juried winning proposal, city of
Sunnyvale, Palio Associates. $23,000.
1998 "Stone Palm" 2 Marble & bronze 17' Palm Trees awarded
commission
invitational competition
$24,000. City of Sunnyvale, Corner El
Camino & Remington.
1997 Italian garden entry piece, Sheridan Plaza, Palo Alto,
California, scheduled for execution late
spring, 1997. Budget:
$28,500.
1996-1997 "Time Graffiti." De Anza College, Cupertino. California, 18'x 22' x6' interactive sun dial.
Budget: $25,000.
1996 "Tutonka," installed in Heritage National Bank, San Jose,
California, 9'x 6' x8', one ton basalt
1996 "Punch" Marble Pegboard Lobby entrance wall mural
designed and installed for Amdahl Corp.
Sunnyvale. 22' x 12'x
2' $22,000.
1995-1996 "Ancient Shadows", pedestrian bridge over Highway 80
overpass in Davis, CA.140'x18' bas-
relief of Yolo County
Native American reinterpreted petroglyph images. Budget:
$23,000
1996 Architectural Stone Interior, design and fabrication,
private client, Ben Lomond, California.
Budget: $75,000
1995 "Yolo Man", 71'x14', bicycle-pedestrian path bridge over
Highway 80, Sacramento County,
City of Davis, California, petroglyph, cast concrete bridge. Budget: $21,500.
1994 Minet Corp. Lobby, entrance piece 14'x7' stone. Budget:
$14,000. Amdahl Corp., 14'x 6' x1'
lobby entrance piece,
corporate headquarters, Sunnyvale, California. Budget:
$15,000.
1992-1993 Colorado Council of Art: Pueblo Community College
Amphitheater, Pueblo, Colorado, National
competition. Installation, summer, 1993. Budget:
$65,000.
1992 35-foot interior wall relief, completed July, 1992, local
competition Cadence Corp., San Jose,
California. Budget:
$350,000. Lobby piece, local competition Amdahl Corporate
Headquarters
1992 "Earth Abides", 18'x 2' x8', slate, stone, steel,
granite, site piece for new wing, San Jose
Museum of Art, San
Jose, California
1989 "Florentine Riviera", Sacramento, California, RJB
Corporation, total sculpture environment of
interior floors,
walls, in granite, stone, male, relief and inlay. $350,000.
1987-1988 "Morasha" Jewish Community Center playground: design,
fabrication and installation
constructed of stone with large berms and play areas
(piece represents miniature ruins the
history of the Jewish
culture). Budget: $500,000.
1987-1988 "Small World", University of Iowa. $48,000.
"Time Shadow", Sacramento. California, RJB corporation,
total sculpture environment of
interior "Crossroads", Kent
Arts commission, Washington. $15,000.
1985 "Earth Sample", a 3-dimensional architectural facade of
existing interior plinte; marble, granite,
travertine, 38'x
26' x7''; Thrust IV , Inc., Mountain View, California.
$45,000. "Alien", an outdoor
fountain, onyx, travertine,
serpentine, 9'x 11' x6'6" private commission,
1984 "Father II" stone, marble 4'x 11' x1'6", L.R.S.
Associates, Santa Clara, California, courtesy of
Young
Gallery, San Jose, California, Budget: $10,000. "Slant", pietra serena, rose Portugal,
travertine 5'x 5' x16" Klein
Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Budget: $12,000.
"Stone Concerto", travertine, granite, marble. 8'x 4' x2'
Private commission. Courtesy of Karl
Bornstein Gallery, Santa
Monica, California. Budget: $13,000.
1983 "Slippage", travertine, basalt, 42"x 114" x40", "Dogon
Praying", travertine, basalt, marble,
private commission.
Budget: $10,000. 54"x 27" x10 1/2", private commission.
Budget: $6,000.
1982 "Shadow Piece", ceramic, steel, 102"x 54" x18", private
commission. Budget: $6,000.
AWARDS
2004 Finalist awaiting results, Dublin, California.
Village Green Outdoor Multi-Section Sculptural Commission.
2003 Episcopal Church by the Sea, Fountain sculpture. Santa
Monica, California.
2001 Finalist City of Dublin Emerald Glen Park.
2001 1st prize City of Santa Clara Out Door Sculpture
Exhibition 80 pieces northern California
invitational.
2001 Gordon Park, Milwalukee Wisconsin project proposal was
awarded entry gateway
commission.
2001 One of proposed artist for Berkeley public library.
1999 Award winning project proposal Weston Hotel, Palo Alto
Across from Stanford.
1998 Finalist Milwaukee County Airport winner Dennis open
hemmer.
1998 Finalist Jewish Community Center, Los Gatos Out Door
garden.
1997 De Anza College National Out Door Sculpture competition.
1996 Finalist for 40 acre park design and sculpture garden,
City of Indian Wells.To be awarded
summer, 1996. Budget: $1,200,000.
1995 Semi-finalist, San Francisco Airport Commission
1994 Semi-finalist, Denver International Airport
1993 Finalist, Colorado Springs International Airport
Competition.
1992 Finalist National Competition, Ohio Arts Council. Ohio
State University,
Mendenhall
Laboratories. Geological Department of Study.
Project awarded October, 1992. Budget:
$92,000.
1990 20 Sculptors International Invitational Competition for
water feature project, Stapleton
International Airport lobby
piece
1990-1991 City of Davis, Pole Line Road, overpass wall and apron
mural design. Project budget: $60,000.
Awarded project awaiting Cal
Trans funding.
1990 Natomas Station, California sculpture garden major site
piece awarded; 25 sculptors nation-
wide: awarded and given
sites Davis Central Parl, design, built and installed 350-foot
sculptural
granite ruin walls dedicated Sept. 30,1990.
1989-1990 Consultant for City of Davis and Cal Trans for
development of art plan for development of art
plan for Pole Line Road over
crossing
1989 Art consultant, Davis Central Park Sculptor's
Competition. Awarded position, San Jose
International Airport,
National Competition for entrance mural.,1st place, Awarded
commission: $35,000
1989 Santa Cruz, Pacific Garden Mall, sculpture, fountain
competition, national
competition., 1st
place. Awarded commission: $40,000 (note:
project on one year hold, due to earthquake
damage).
1988 Los Angeles County Airport sculpture competition, pool
finalist
1988 Little Street Gallery, two-day workshop, Chicago,
Illinois
Juror, Great Lakes States Sculpture Show, Chicago, Illinois
1987 "Future of Art in Public Places!", Kyle Belding Gallery,
Denver, Colorado
"Artists' Role in Public Art", Denver, Colorado
1986 Lecture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Lecture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Panelist, NCECA, San Antonio, Texas
Juror, "Kids' Clay" NCECA Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
Workshop, Arvata Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colorado
1985 Lecture, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center.
Pueblo, Colorado
Panelist, NCECA Conference, San Antonio, Texas
San Francisco Art Institute, Rhode Island School of Design
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Scripps College
1982 Six-month lecturer and workshop tour of Australia
1980 Art Institute of Chicago, five-month residency in South
Africa
PUBLICATIONS
2003 Ancient Muses: Archaeology and The arts –
Contributing writer and Images of "Step in Stone
Time"
featured
2002 "Working with Clay Edition II" Susan Peterson
2002 "Contemporary American Ceramics" 1950 - 1990. A
survey of American objects and vessels.
2001 Review of "Step in Stone" in Sculpture magazine,
San Jose Mercury News.
1988-1993 Sculpture Magazine, three issues
1993 Feature article for the National Arts Magazine
about myself as an American working in Italy
1992 Creative Sculptured Bath, featured in Home & Garden
magazine, September, 1992, issue
1991 Contemporary Ceramics, Susan Peterson
1990 Art Week
1989-1990 Who's Who in American art, R.R. Bowker
1989 Contemporary Stone Artists, Franco Stravini
(published in Italian only)
1988 American Art of the 80s, MacMillan
1970-1983 Ceramics Month, numerous issues, May, 1979,
feature article
1982 Art News
1980 Australian Art, fall 1980 issue, feature article
1979 Low Fire Ceramics, Brody
1968 Crafts Horizons Magazine, work reviewed and
1979 illustrated, ten issues
1978 American Ceramics and California Ceramics,
Danhouser
A Century of
Ceramics
in the United
States, Clark & Hughto
1978 Hand building, Woody
Points of View 15
Artists,
Pipenburg
Contemporary
American Ceramics,
Pipenburg
1977 Tradition and change, Hall
Artist & Life
Styles,
Moore
1975 Raku, Pipenburg
WORKSHOPS /
LECTURES / JURYING
2004 College of Sierra Nevada Summer Sculpture Workshops.
2005 Featured sculptor.
2003 Featured as panelist "National Society of American
Archeologists" June 03
Subject Art as an Artifact Washington, DC
2002 Gilroy Art and Culture Exhibit 2002 - All media
competition Juried with Susan Hill House,
curator Triton
Museum of Art
2002 NCECA featured panelist with Jun Kaneko
"Monumental Art" National Conference Kansas
City, MO Over
4,000 attendance.
2000 Pacific Rim Sculptors Build Invitational Juror San
Francisco, CA
2000 Pacific Art Guild All - Media Annual Juried
Competition - Invited Juror Palo Alto, CA
2000 Dedication Ceremony featured speaker " Step in
Stone" Western Hotel Palo Alto, CA
1999 "Vessels 2000" Sole juror for National All - Media
Show
1999 Lecture Foothill Club, Saratoga, CA
1995 Stone/Marble Symposium, Carrera, Italy. San
Francisco Art Academy
1994 Lecture, San Jose Museum of Art. Ohio State
University
1993 Lecture, "Public Art: Past, Present, Future",
Pueblo, Colorado
1992 Juror for Hilton Hotel, art purchases for City of
San Jose, California
1991 Juror, Outdoor Sculpture Selection, Town of Los
Gatos, California
1990 Northern Kentucky State, University of Cincinnati,
Miami Ohio University
1988 Little Street Gallery, two-day workshop, Chicago,
Illinois
Juror, Great Lakes States Sculpture Show, Chicago, Illinois
1987 "Future of Art in Public Places!", Kyle Belding Gallery,
Denver, Colorado
"Artists' Role in Public Art", Denver, Colorado
1986 Lecture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Lecture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Panelist, NCECA, San Antonio, Texas
Juror, "Kids' Clay" NCECA Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
Workshop, Arvata Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colorado
1985 Lecture, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center.
Pueblo, Colorado
Panelist, NCECA Conference, San Antonio, Texas
San Francisco Art Institute, Rhode Island School of Design
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Scripps College
1982 Six-month lecturer and workshop tour of Australia
1980 Art Institute of Chicago, five-month residency in South
Africa
COLLECTIONS
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
San Jose International Airport, CA
Fujitsu Corp.
Carol & Kurt, Peterson
County of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Ann & Don Gralnek Los Gatos, CA
Bob & Jan Fenwick, Los Altos, CA
Heritage Bank, San Jose, CA
Pueblo Community College, Pueblo, CO
Siding Australia City of Sunnyvale, CA
Western Hotel, Palo Alto, CA
Judith & Frank Marshall, Palm Spring, CA
American Craft Museum
State of CO
San Francisco Museum of Art
Amdahl, San Jose, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, CA
Cadence Corp., San Jose, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
City of Sacramento, CA
Museum of the NT, Darwin, Australia
City of Santa Cruz, CA
Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Davenport Municipal Gallery, IA
City of Davis, CA
Cedar Rapids Art Center, IA
City of Folsom, CA
University of IA
University of KS
Koehler Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Winona State College, MN
National Contemporary Gallery, Cambera Australia
University of Washington
Continental Bank, IL
City of Kent (Seattle), WA
Arizona State University
Kentucky Arts Commission Touring Collection
McDonald, Inc.
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
San Jose International Airport, CA
Fujitsu Corp.
Carol & Kurt, Peterson
County of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Ann & Don Gralnek Los Gatos, CA
Bob & Jan Frank, Los Altos, CA
Heritage Bank, San Jose, CA
Pueblo Community College, Pueblo, CO
Siding Australia City of Sunnyvale, CA
Western Hotel, Palo Alto, CA
Judith & Frank Marshall, Palm Spring, CA
American Craft Museum
State of CO
San Francisco Museum of Art
Amdahl, San Jose, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, CA
Cadence Corp., San Jose, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
City of Sacramento, CA