Education
2000 MFA Peck School of the Arts, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UW-M).
1996 Summer study abroad, Cortona, Italy.
1994 University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC).
BA in History of Art and Architecture awarded with honors.
Selected Awards
2007 Best in Show and Best in Ceramics, Sedona Arts Festival, Sedona, Arizona.
2007 Best of Ceramics. Contemporary Hispanic Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2006 Best of Ceramics. Contemporary HIspanic Market. Santa Fe New Mexico.
2006 Purchase Award: Acclaimed Artist Series. New Mexico Art in Public Places Program.
2006 Finalist: Acclaimed Artist Series. New Mexico Arts in Public Spaces Program.
2005 Best of Show and Best in Ceramics. Contemporary Hispanic Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2005 Finalist: UNM Los Alamos Sculpture Competition.
2005 Finalist: Acclaimed Artist Series. New Mexico Arts in Public Spaces Program.
1999-00 Layton Special Achievement Award (UW-M).
1999 AOP Special
Achievement Award (UW-M).
1998-00 Advanced Opportunity Fellowship (AOP), (UW-M).
1997-98 Layton Graduate Fellowship (UW-M).
1994 Phi Beta
Kappa (UIC).
1994 Phi Beta
Phi (UIC).
1993 Honor's College Award, (UIC).
1992 McNee Foundation
Award (UIC).
Selected Publications
2007
Beyond Tradition, David Perez. Tempo Magazine, Taos News, August 9, 2007.
Crash Course in Colonial Crafts, Craig Smith. Pasatiempo Magazine, Santa Fe New Mexican, July 27.
Contemporary Hispanic Market: Intriguing Variations from Tradition. Staff writer, Santa Fe New Mexican, July 27.
Breaking with Tradition, Santana Lopez. Santa Fe New Mexican Special Edition, Santa Fe New Mexican, July 28.
San Angelo National Ceramic Competition Catalogue. San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas.
2006
Deborah Rael-Buckley, Life- Size Sculpture. Dottie Indyke. Ceramic Art and Perception (Issue #64). Sydney, Australia.
Hispanic Art Exhibit Features Taosenos. Virginia Clark, Tempo Magazine, Taos News.
Local Color V, Betsy Carey . Tempo Magazine, Taos News.
2005
Originals, 2005. catalogue, New Mexico Women in the Arts. Museum of Fine Arts, SF, NM.
Artful Visitation: Alternate at Contemporary Market Wins Best of Show. Dave Kavanaugh, Journal North Newspaper, Santa Fe, NM. (August).
Hope and Honor: Santa Fe's Spanish Market Recognizes Taos Artist with Top Awards, Virginia Clark, Tempo Magazine, Taos News(August).
P/Reviews: Memories and Miracles, Dory Hulbert, Horsefly Newspaper, Taos, NM.
Taxonomy of Memory, Betsy Carey. Tempo Magazine, Taos News (September).
Memory in the Blood, Virginia Clark.
Tempo Magazine, Taos News, (April 21-27).
Feat of Clay, Dottie Endyke. Santa Fean Magazine, (April).
2004
In These Sculptures, Raw Materials Find
Rich Minds”, (exhibition review) Nancy Salem, Albuquerque
Tribune (December).
2003
Sculptural Works by Eight Women, Bridgit Cantuwear. Clay Times Magazine (May/June).
2002
Ceramica 02: Guide to Belgian Ceramics. Editions Armature Uitvegerij. Weezembeek Oppem, Belgium.
A Moving Experience, Ceramics Monthly Magazine (October).
2000
Up Front, (featured artist), Ceramics Monthly Magazine (October).
Everything Fits Together in Artist's Eloquent Work, James Auer. Milwaukee Journal Sentinal (Dec.)
1999
55TH Annual Juried Exhibition Catalogue. Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa.
Professional Experience
2007 Meditations on Memory. Lecture Harwood Museum, Taos, NM.
2003-4Ceramic Sculpture II, Taos Clay Studio, Taos, NM.
2002 Visiting artist workshop, Ellis School, Pittsburgh, PA.
2002 Full-time Adjunct Faculty, Basic Ceramics. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UW-M).
2002 Visiting artist workshop, Acadame de Beaux Artes, Braine de ‘l Allued, Belgium.
2000 Assistant Lecturer, Ceramic History: Issues in Contemporary Ceramics, UW-M.
1999 Assistant Lecturer UW-M. Ceramic History, Ceramics for Art Educators, Basic Ceramics.
1998 Teaching Assistant, Basic Ceramics, UW-M (spring).
1998 Lecture, “Raising Anagama”, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha (UW-W).
1997 Summer workshop building 250 cubic foot anagama kiln, UW-W.
1993-4 Internship with the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois.
1993 Catalogued the Florence Arquin Collection of Folk Art, University of Illinios-Chicago.