EUP Ceramic Students Accomplishments!

Edinboro University's undergraduate and graduate students have participated in a number great opportunities this year. These include, exhibitions, awards, residencies, workshops, etc. Below is a list of all the students and their accomplishments over the past year!

Graduate Students:

National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Student Juried Exhibition in March, 2015. This is the most high profile Ceramic show featuring students in the nation. This exhibition will held in the Sol Koffler Gallery on the campus of Rhode Island School of Design during the NCECA conference in Providence.  NCECA is attended by over 4,000 professionals, educators, artists, and students from around the nation and internationally.  Edinboro has 4 out of the 40 students chosen nationally from a pool of 540 works of Art. Students accepted include:

Jason Picolli

Austin Wieland

Sara Morales-Morgan

Marge Gormley 

100 Best Potters held in the “Pots on Wheels” mobile gallery. This is one of the featured exhibitions during the annual clay conference (NCECA) in Providence, RI this year. 

Neil Simak

Ben Lambert

Jason Piccoli 

Austin Wieland

Didem Mert 

Keystone Collegiate Exhibition at the Brockway Center for Arts and Technology in Brockway, PA includes:

Neil Simak – Best of Show

Ben Lambert – 1^st place

Austin Wieland – 3^rd Place

Sara Morales-Morgan – Honorable Mention

Didem Mert

Edinboro University Graduate Ceramics Show at Youngstown State University’s Solomon Gallery in Youngstown, Ohio including work by:

Jason Piccoli 

Sara Morales-Morgan

Ben Lambert, Marge Gormley

Neil Simak

Austin Wieland

The 40^th Annual October Evenings Juried Show at The Meadville Council on the Art’s Heeschen Gallery in Meadville, PA included:

Jason Picolli  *Jurors Award

Sara Morales-Morgan

Austin Wieland

Neil Simak

Ben Lambert:

The Zanesville Prize for Contemporary Ceramics, Seilers Gallery, Zanesville, OH

100 artists chosen from 1400 national and international applicants

Watershed Center for Ceramics Invitational, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA

3 Person Show, “Merging Media”, The Meadville Council on the Art’s Heeschen Gallery, Meadville, PA

Sara Morales-Morgan:

91^st Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum,  Erie, PA

3 Person Show “Converging points of View”, Meadville Council on the Arts Heeschen Gallery, Meadville, PA

Graphic Clay, Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD Juror: Jason Bige Burnett

Fabulous Figures, Victor F. Keen Gallery, Clay Arts Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Juror: Mark Burns

Austin Wieland:

6^th Annual College Collective National Juried Exhibition, Genesse Center for the Arts, Rochester, NY

Summer Artist-In-Residence Exhibition, Medalta International Artist-In-Residence Program, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Didem Mert:

2015 AKAR Yunomi Invitational , “Web Show” Iowa City, IA

Cup Show, Clarion County Arts Council, Clarion, PA *2^nd Place

7^th Annual Cup Show, Amelia Art Center, Panama City, FL

Daily Ritual, The Ceramic Cup , Saxonburg Co-op, Saxonburg, PA

History in the Making, National Juried Show, Genesse Center for the Arts, Rochester, NY

Biennial Cup Show, Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg, FL

Juried Show, Gallery One, Cincinnati, OH

40^th Annual October Evenings Juried Show, Heeschen Gallery, Meadville, PA

Two Person Show, 5^th Street Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Sara Morales Morgan and Ben Lambert gave a workshop and lectures at Villa Maria high school in Erie, PA.

Didem Mert (Grad student) and Liana Agnew (undergrad) gave a workshop at the

Brockway Center for Arts and Technology, Brockway, PA

Ben Lambert was a Studio Assistant and Summer Resident at Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC

Undergraduate Students:

 100 Best Potters held in the “Pots on Wheels” mobile gallery. This is one of the featured exhibitions during the annual clay conference (NCECA) in Providence, RI this year. 

Dylan Sonney

Liana Agnew

Dylan Sonney:

International Juried Cup Show, Keen Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

Cup: The Intimate Object X , Charlie Cummings Gallery, Gainesville, Fl

Cup Show, Clarion County Arts Council, Clarion, PA

Stephen Rossini:

Keystone Collegiate Exhibition at the Brockway Center for Arts and Technology in Brockway, PA  2^nd place (undergraduate level)

22^nd Annual “Strictly Functional” National Juried Show,  Market House Craft Center, Lancaster, PA

Cup Show, Clarion County Arts Council, Clarion, PA

Liana Agnew:

The Workhouse International Cup Show at the Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA

Daily Ritual, The Ceramic Cup  At the Saxonburg Artist Co-op, Saxonburg, PA

Biennial Cup Show at Morean Arts Center, Gainesville, Fl

Cup: The Intimate Object X at the Charlie Cummings Gallery, Gainesville, Fl

40^th Annual October Evenings Juried Show, Heeschen Gallery, Meadville, PA

Red Star Studios Digital Debut Artist for December 2014, Kansas City, MO

Keystone Collegiate Exhibition, Brockway Center for Arts and Technology, Brockway, PA

Cup Show, Clarion County Arts Council, Clarion, PA

Patrick Bell:

History in the Making National Juried Show, Genesse  Center for the Arts, Rochester, NY