Jessica Putnam-Phillips
Selected Exhibitions
2020 100 Years 100 Women, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia
2019
National Veterans Art Museum Triennial Exhibition, NVAM, Chicago
Refuge, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Camouflaged, Curiated Gallery, Caldwell, NJ
2018
Ceramics Invitational, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC
Artist/Veteran, Haystack Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
US, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Collaborative Companions, Collaborative Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
(In)Visible, Braddock Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 The Evocative Garden, NCECA Annual Exhibition, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
Within the Margins, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
Seen and Heard, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
We the People, AMOCA. Pomona, CA
Beyond the Surface, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, NY
Fire for Effect, AIR, Vallauris, France
Nasty, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dualities: Feminine and Feminism, Gallery 66, Nyack, NY
Activism in Art: Art Changes Things, Rockland Center for the Arts, NY
Success Beyond the Scholarship: A Retrospective, The Boseman Gallery UNC, Wilmington
UNCW Alumni Invitational, CAB Gallery, UNC, Wilmington
Frontiers and Beyond, Bailey Contemporary Arts Center, Pompano Beach, FL
Down Range, Umpqua Valley Arts, Rosenburg, OR
2016 Dysfuntion, Burlington City Arts, Burlington VT
Go For Baroque: Opulence and Excess in Contemporary Art, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
The Clay Studio National, Philadelphia, PA
Carbondale Clay National IX- Intimacy of Scale, Carbondale Clay Center, CO
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Combat Paper NJ Residency Exhibition, CCP Gallery Deer Isle, ME
Transference: Transfer Printing and Contemporary Ceramics, The Clay Studio
Canfield Gallery 20th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, Arlington ,VT
2015 Art and Other Tactics: Contemporary Craft by Artist Veterans, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Art and Other Tactics: Contemporary Craft by Artist Veterans, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
AIR Valluris Residency Exhibition, Cabanon Gallery, Vallauris, France
Service Records, Documenting the Veteran Experience Through Art, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
BIG Art; Tiny House, Umbrella, Arts Center, Concord, MA
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Combat Paper Residency Exhibition, CCP Gallery Deer Isle, ME
Potters Council Juried Show Exhibition at NCECA, March 25-28, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
Postwar Perspective, ReedSmith Gallery Feb 6th- March 6th The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA
NCECA Expo, The Clay Studio, Providence RI
2014 Transformation 9: Contemporary works in Ceramics, April 2014- Jan 2015, SCC, Pittsburg PA,
No Reservations: Contemporary Ceramics, Sept-Oct, The Canfield Gallery, Arlington, VT
Contemporary Context, Jan-March, NAACO Gallery, North Adams, MA
2013 New England Collective IV, August-Sept., Galatea Gallery, JBoston, MA
Boston Young Contemporaries, July-August, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston MA
AIB MFA Graduate Exhibition, July, Lesley University, Boston, MA
2012 100 for 100 2012, March, BBC, Bennington VT
Hot Pots, Fresh Paint III, Jan-March, NAACO Gallery, North Adams, MA
2011 1st Annual Membership Exhibition, Schacht Gallery SCAC, Saratoga NY
Gifted, Buttondown Gallery, Glens Falls, NY
Clay, Buttondown Gallery, Glens Falls, NY
Summer in New England, Canfield Gallery, Arlington, VT
Sacred Vessels and Vantages, NAACO Gallery
Hot Pots, Fresh Paint II, NAACO Gallery
2010 100th Anniversary of the Scarab Vase Exhibition, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Carved Vase Juried Exhibit, Clayscapes Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Panache, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester VT
100 for 100 2010, BBC, Bennington, VT
Education
2013 M.F.A. Visual Arts , Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, MA
2006 B.A. Studio Art, Magna Cum Laude, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC
1995 Imagery Intelligence Specialist School, USAF, 315th Training Squadron, Goodfellow AFB, TX
1992 Hallmark Institute of Photography, Turners Falls, MA
Workshops and Presentations
2020 Clay Con West, Main Demonstrating Artist, St George, UT
2019 Veterans Art Summit, NVAM, Chicago
Ceramic Designers Association, Virginia Beach, VA
Using Interactive Pigments and Glazes, Georgie’s Ceramics, Portland, OR
Hand-building Slab Forms, CCSA, Buffalo, NY
Mishma and Sgraffito Demos for Speedball Art/Diamond Core Tools, NCECA
2018 Veterans Craft Week, Handbuilding & Wheel Throwing, Haystack School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME
Making and Using Laser Decals, Saratoga Clay Art Center
National Clay Week Presentation, ArtAxis
2017 Handbuilding and Surface Design, Saratoga Clay Art Center
2016 Decals, China Paint and Luster, NCECA 2016 Kansas City
Vermont Crafts Council Annual Conference, Instagram for promoting and selling your work
2015 Not Your Grandmother's Fine China, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA
Keeping Creativity Flowing, VT Crafts Council Conference
Haystack Mountain School of Craft Artist Presentation
2013 MFA Artist Talk, Fractured Paradigms: The Material is the Message, Lesley University, Boston MA
2009 Artist Talk Series, Sgraffito, Slips and Glazes, North Adams Artist Gallery, N. Adams MA
2008 Artist Talk, Setting up Your Ceramic Studio and Kiln Building, UNCW, Wilmington, NC
Residencies
2018 Veteran Craft Week, Haystack School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME
2016 Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Combat Paper Veteran Artist Residency, Deer Isle ME
2015 A.I.R. Vallauris, Vallauris, France
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Combat Paper Residency, Deer Isle ME
2013 Saratoga Clay Art Center, Artist in Residence 2013-2014
2012 Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency, Johnson VT
Awards/Grants/Honors
2016 Named one of 15 Potters to watch in 2016 by C-File
2012 Vermont Artists Grant, Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency
2012 Anetha Graves Trecker Merit Scholarship, Lesley University
2006 Ann Flack Boseman Scholarship and Solo Exhibit,UNCW
2006 Wilmington Art Association Scholarship
2006 UNCW Art Department Juried Art Show- 1st place ceramics category
2005 UNCW Art Department Juried Art Show –1st place ceramics category
Publications
2019 Chicago Tribune, Inaugural Veterans Art Museum Triennial Offers Veterans a Welcoming Home, June
2018 The Online Course Show Podcast, May
2017 NCECA Journal, Potters of Periscope
Handbuilders Monthly, ClayShare, Sept
2016 The Potters Cast, Episode # 224, Bringing a Message to Your Work
C-File "15 Potters to Watch in 2016"
Widewalls, Ceramic Artists Representing the New Generation of Art in Pottery
Iowa Review, Service Women Ceramics, Jessica Putnam-Phillips
2015 Ceramics Monthly, Exposure, February issue, pg. 20
Art Report: Female Military Combat Veteran Makes Hardcore Fine China
2014 InBerkshires, May issue, Meet The Artists of Vermont
2013 Big, Red, and Shiny: Thesis Show Round Up #6, Art Institute of Boston MFA
2011 Southern Vermont Arts & Living Magazine, summer issue, pg32
2006 Flash Fiction 2006, pp 17, Randall Library Publication, UNCW
Private and Public Collections
Gary L. Miller, Chancellor, UNCW
University of North Carolina, Art Department Collection, Wilmington, NC
University of North Carolina, Music Department Collection, Wilmington, NC
Randall Library Permanent Collection, Wilmington, NC
University of North Carolina, University Union Collection, Wilmington, NC
