Stephanie Osser www.StephanieOsser.com~ Illustration in Clay + Music 150 Winding River Road Needham, MA 02492 781-454-7442 (studio) 781-237-1116 (home) EDUCATION 1967 - 69 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Two year Foundation Art and Graphic Design 1969 Royal Academy of Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - graphics 1969 - 71 Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont - BFA, December 1971 - Studied Ceramics w/Stanley Rosen, Botany w/Prof. Ed Flaccus 1973 University of , Missoula, Montana One year of Graduate School in Ceramics, studied with Rudy Autio worked as Illustrator for Anthropology and Wildlife Departments 2000 - 01 Rhode Island School of Design Adult Education, Providence, RI Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop classes 2000 - 18 Harvard Ceramic Program, MA, Juried Resident Artist studied with Nancy Selvage, Warren Mather, Shawn Panepinto, Makoto Yabe, Wasma’a Chorbachi, Jeanee Redmond, Gala Sorkina, Crystal Ribich, Allison Newsome, Kathy King, Kyla Toomey, Jason Green, Mitch Shiles 2006 - 10 Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC summer workshops Sergei Isupov, Keisuke Mizuno, Kathy King and Paul Wandless 2006 Moravian Pottery Doylestown, PA - tiles and mosaics workshop 2011 Guldagergaard, Skælskør, Denmark-shared studio with other artists and Akio Takamori and Kim Dickey during my 6 week residency 2012 Guldagergaard, Skælskør, Denmark-2 month residency, and shared studio with Paul Scott and other international artists Print on Clay Seminar-Renown International artists showing work 2013 Richard Notkin Mold Institute, Helena, Montana - June workshop CERAMIC ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2014 Medalta Ceramic Arts Center, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada 2012 Guldagergaard-International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark 2011 Guldagergaard–International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark 2013 - 18 Harvard Ceramics Program - Resident Artist-(2006-2012, as well) 2006 Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME - Kiln God Award 2006 - 08 Babson College, Wellesley, TEACHING CERAMICS AND ARCHITECTURAL CERAMIC MURALS 2006-12 Babson College Ceramic Studio - Manager/Ceramic Instructor Worked with students from Babson, Olin and Wellesley Colleges. created Bas-Relief murals with students, faculty and staff 2007 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, workshop

GRANTS & PUBLIC ART

2012 Mellon Presidential BOW (Babson, Olin, Wellesley ) Grant created murals on theme of Sustainability for Babson & Wellesley Colleges 2012 Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA Art for Healing, Life-Affirming Imagery – ceramic tile mural project with group led by Allison Newsome and created at the Harvard Ceramics Program Stephanie Osser

2009 Babson College Twizzler Mural Project http://www.amaco.com/ceramic-installations/ceramic-twizzler-tile-mural/ PUBLICATIONS 2015 Tile Heritage Foundation Directory - cover design 2013 500 Prints on Clay - Lark Publications 2008 500 Tiles - Lark Publications 2007 500 Animals in Clay - Lark Publications 2006 500 Pitchers - Lark Publications COLLECTIONS

2014 Dinnerware Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan - “Ba Ba Blue Sheep” Dinnerware for Children: Pitchers, Plates, Cups, Bowls , Trivet GROU P CERAMIC SHOWS

2015 America’s ClayFest III , Lincoln, CA - jurors: Tip Toland and Peter Held 2015 Earth Elements at the Providence Art Club, Honorable Mention, Allison Newsome, juror 2015 The Diverse Vessel: Ten Massachusetts Artists Share Their Expression Gorse Mills Gallery, MA, Steven Branfman curator 2015 Beyond the Brickyard, juror Mark Hewitt, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT 2015 The State of Clay: Pushing Boundaries, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2015 Office for the Arts at Harvard - Ceramics show, Kathy King, Shawn Panepinto jurors. 2014 Tanglewood Music Center Fellows - donations to benefit young musicians 2014 The Art of High Chair Fine Dining, 2nd prize, Dinnerware Museum, MI 2014 Spoon Me - Medalta Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada 2014 State of Clay-Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington, MA Amaco Award: American Art Clay Company, Linda Arbuckle, Juror 2014 America’s ClayFest II, Lincoln, CA - Candice Groot, Juror 2014 20th San Angelo Ceramics National-San Angelo, TX, Leopold Foulem, Juror 2014 Small Favors IX-The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA-invited by Garth Johnson juror 2014 Ceramic World Cup Tournament - Hyart Gallery, Madison, WI 2013 Small Favors VIII - The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2013 America’s ClayFest, Roseville, CA 2013 Harvard Ceramics Program Show and Sale-Allston, MA 2012 Silver City Clay Festival, New Mexico-Art Tile Award - Alfredo Ratinoff, juror 2012 Gaga Gallery, Swampscott, MA 2012 Big Fish, Small Pot V - Teapot show at AMOCA Museum, Pomona, CA GROUP CERAMIC SHOWS continued 2010 Soda Salt National V - Clay Studio Gallery, Missoula Montana Honorable Mention awarded by Julia Galloway, juror 2010 Watershed Gala donation of my "Stars in the Heavens”, Art Institute: http://www.stephanieosser.com/stars/stars.htm 2007 Roots & Branches - Gallery Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA 2006 One Square Foot - Clay Squared to Infinity Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2006 Looking Back, Looking Forward - Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2006 State of Clay, Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington, MA 2006 Crafts National 2006 - Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, G.Keyworth, juror 2006 La Petite XIII Alder Gallery, Coburg, OR 2005 Craft USA 2005 - Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT-Gail Brown, juror 2005 Family Matters - Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 2005 SubZero-Low Fire Ceramics Redbrick Gallery, Beverly, MA 2002-14 Show and Sale - Harvard Ceramics Program, MA, Dec. & May shows 2004 State of Clay-Lexington Arts and Crafts Guild, Lexington, MA Stephanie Osser

2003 Symphony Orchestra Gift Shop-ceramic Violin & French Horn tiles 2002 Vermont State Craft Center, Frog Hollow, Middlebury, VT —————————————————————————————————————————— BOOK ILLUSTRATION COMMISSION HIGHLIGHTS CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND TEXTBOOKS; FLORA & FAUNA; COOKBOOKS; EDITORIAL 1999 Henson Productions and Workman Publishers, New York, NY Book of Muppet Crafts - 500 line art drawings for 101 Projects" 1999 Rodale Press - Perennials for Every Purpose 1998 Simon & Schuster-“ Complete Book of Small Breads” Bernard Clayton,Jr. 1996 Wildlife Conservation Society Newsletter, Bronx Zoo, NY 1993-94 editorial still-life illustration Wednesday food pages. 1993 Ovations Electric Guitars-a series of ads for this guitar making company 1992 Doubleday Publishers cookbook Working a Duck" scratchboard 1992 Warner Books "Faye Levy's International Chicken Cookbook" 1992 Simon and Schuster-book cover for "The Moosewood Kitchen Garden” 1991 Random House - "Adventures in the Kitchen with Wolfgang Puck" 1982 Knopf Publishers-"Cooking With Lydie Marshall" French cookbook 1982 Simon and Schuster-The Complete Book of Soups and Stews, B.Clayton, Jr. 1982 Nova and WGBH - animation work on nature film 1981 Little Brown & Co. Publishers "Drinking Straw Construction", B. Zubrowski The Boston Children's Museum, Boston, MA 1981 WGBH and Little Brown & Co. -- "This Old House,” by Bob Villa 1980 Harper Collins Publishers-"All About Eggs,” by Millicent Selsam Children's Science Book won "Outstanding Science Book of l980" 1979-80 New York Times Magazine-Sunday Food Page-7 articles Full color still-life food illustrations and step-by-step line drawings 1976 Horticulture Magazine, Boston, MA, illustration for articles 1976 - 1980 1974-79 Staff Illustrator for The New England Aquarium, Boston, MA B & W line drawings of fish for identification over each aquarium exhibit 1972-73 Illustrator for Graduate student thesis work in fields of Anthropology & Wildlife, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana - my first illustration job while a graduate student there in ceramics, studying with Rudy Autio