Green, Bob

bob green

  EDUCATION

             MFA     Southern Illinois University, June 1976
                          Major Area: Ceramics

BA Indiana State University, June 1971
Major Area: Sculpture

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

     Mass. College of Art, Art New England, Bennington College 2006- 2008
     Instructor, Northampton Pottery, Northampton, MA 2007- Present
     Visiting Artist, The Darrow School, New Lebanon, NY 2006
     Visiting Artist, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 2006
     Adjunct Faculty, Springfield College, Springfield, MA, 2003- 2007
     Faculty, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Northfield, MA, 2004
     Instructor, Snow Farm: The New England Craft School, Ceramics Head, Williamsburg, MA 2004- 2006
     Instructor, July Program, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, 1982 - 2002
     Instructor, Interlaken School of Crafts, Great Barrington, MA, 2001
     Adjunct Faculty, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, VT 1999-2001
     Instructor, Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne, VT 1991 - 2001
     Instructor, Horizons: The New England Craft Program, Williamsburg, MA 1983-2000
     Adjunct Faculty, Burlington College, Burlington, VT 2000
     Artist in Residence, Vermont State Craft Center, Middlebury, VT 1984-1991
     Faculty, Trinity College, Burlington, VT 1994 - 1998
     Primitive Firing Workshop, South County Arts Association, Kingston, RI, 1998
     Instructor, Horizons To Go Program, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1995
     Instructor,   I have been working with clay for thirty years. In 1976 I completed my MFA degree in ceramics from Southern Illinois University and I moved back east to the New York City and my family in Great Neck Long Island. I became a member of a pottery Co-op in lower Manhattan. I initially supported myself as an art mover. I would move sculptures, large paintings and anything artist in Soho would need moved. I did this in the morning, in the afternoons and evenings I would work in my studio with about six other potters. I showed my work in a couple of galleries in Manhattan.
    I applied to and was accepted to my first crafts show in 1978 which was the American Crafts Council show at Rhinebeck New York. I had no idea what to expect, and I don’t remember doing very well. I do remember meeting Josh Simpson and Nancee Meeker, as we were showing our work in the same small gallery called Damron Hall in Soho.
    In the summer of 1980 I was invited to work in the ceramic studio at Bennington College, Stanley Rosen and Jane Aebersold were the ceramic faculty at the time. My brother Josh was an undergraduate at Bennington and I had studied with someone Jane had gone to graduate school with. I thought this was a great way to spend the summer while working in a wonderful studio with great facilities. At the end of the summer I was approached by Jane and Stanley and asked if I’d like to be the studio tech and visiting artist for the semester. This great opportunity lasted for four years; I never went back to New York City.
    I loved living in Vermont and in 1984 I applied for and became the resident potter at the Vermont State Craft Center in Middlebury .This position gave me studio and lots of teaching opportunities, as I taught community ceramic classes as well as classes for Middlebury College. I continued to make and sell my potter through galleries and craft shows. During the summer I would return to Bennington College and teach a month long ceramics class for High School students called the July Program. It was during one of these summers I started Raku firing with my students and my own work was influenced by this teaching experience. In 1991 I became the resident potter at the Shelburne Craft School, I was committed to living in Vermont and my tenure at the Vermont State Craft Center ended. I remained at the craft school until 2001 and continued to teach for the Bennington July Program until 2002.

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