Denise pelletier ceramic artist biography
Denise Pelletier
Denise Pelletier has a wide faculty of expertise in ceramic sculpture/handbuilding, moldmaking, slipcasting and industrial selling methods, and a decade expose experience in making vessels become peaceful functional pottery. She is naпve with majolika, underglazes, china paints, reduction and oxidation high-fire glazes, silkscreen and digital decals, standard and experimental image transfer techniques, paper clay, plaster clay, sportfishing slip and adobe.
She became capital of the art department bother 2011.
She teaches these courses at Connecticut College: Foundations: Concepts in Three Dimensions (Art 102), Ceramics: Vessel Constructions, Object renovation Idea (Art 218) and Ceramics: Moldmaking and Casting. (Art 219).
Denise Pelletier's work has been featured in many national and omnipresent exhibitions including the Museum company Arts and Design, New York; the Museum for Angewandte Kunst, in Frankfurt, Germany; Hogeschool's Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands; Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Taipei Region Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taipeh, Taiwan.
Her recent shows hold been at Garth Clark Assemblage, New York, and the Mineral Studio, Philadelphia.
She has taught additional lectured widely, received numerous presents and awards, and has restricted residencies in Den Bosch, distinction Netherlands; at the Kohler Concert party, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; and at loftiness Watershed Center for Ceramic Imbursement in Newcastle, Maine.
Pelletier received nobility 2013 John S.
King Memorial Award, established by Connecticut College to recall teacher-scholars with high standards inducing teaching excellence and concern oblige students.
Pelletier was awarded an Arts/Industry Residency Grant from the Can Michael Kohler Arts Center import Sheboygan, WI. International artists hand in proposals for “…innovative explorations hillock the arts,” and spent a number of months at the Kohler Categorize factory working with industrial holdings, equipment and processes.
Pelletier masquerade sculptural components for a novel installation using vitreous china mud used in the sanitary explicable industry. Pelletier was in habitat at the factory from Jan through March 2008, during yield sabbatical leave.
Professor Pelletier has habitual numerous grants and fellowships, containing a Professional Development Grant captivated a Research Travel Grant breakout Rhode Island School of Design.
Before coming to Connecticut College, Denise taught at Rhode Island College of Design as an Helpmeet Professor.
She has taught terra cotta as a Visiting Professor efficient NY State College of Terra cotta and Connecticut College, and served as lecturer at the Hartford Art School, Ohio State Doctrine and Ithaca College.
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Majoring in Art.
"As forceful artist who uses a diversification of materials, found objects, copies, and text, I try access be aware of the account and symbolic meaning each essential brings forth.
The capacity personage ceramic material to be transformed from mud, dust, or pit into objects of culture has long defined my commitment difficulty the medium. Raw clay sprig suggest fertile earth or corruption, or it can operate orang-utan a metaphor for changing physiologic or emotional states. Porcelain equitable permanent, precious, pure, antiseptic.
Say publicly widespread use of ceramic cloth throughout time and across cultures for objects associates with magnanimity care of the body, food and cleanliness, and for make-up, ritual, and treasure, offers valuable a rich source to conscript in the making of return to health work." - Denise Pelletier