MELODY LANE, CERAMIC ARTIST
EDUCATION: B.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan–majored in advertising – 1965-1970
HONORS: Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Artist Fellowship Grant, 2004
Art in Embassies, 2006-08, in American Embassy of South Africa, Pretoria, also in the 2008 Art in
Embassies calendar.
STUDIED WITH: Ruth Duckworth – August 1976 – Ox Bow Summer Art Colony, Saugatuck MI.
James Makins – Winter 1982 – Parsons School of Art, New York
Robert Parrott, Carolyn Jacobs, Ellen Jacobson at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven
ATTENDED WORKSHOPS WITH: Paul Soldner, Don Reitz, Chris Richard, Bruce Wrinn, Beth Ho,
Chris Staley, Elizabeth McDonald, a folk Korean workshop at the Asian Society in New York, and Peter Voulkos.
ONE-MAN SHOWS: Wave Gallery, New Haven, CT – September 1990
Ellen Traut Collection, Hartford, CT – September 1995
Artistic Images, Huntsville, AL – July-August 1999
PERMANENT COLLECTION: Smilow Cancer Center, New Haven, CT
GROUP SHOWS:
Smithsonian Craft Show – April 1999
American Craft Council Trade Shows, West Springfield, MA – June 1989-1993, with
tenure at the ACC show in Columbus, OH, beginning June 1994, then held in Baltimore, MD
American Craft Council Show in San Francisco, 1998, 2005
American Craft Council Show in Baltimore, February 1998-2001, 2004 (wholesale/retail), 2005-08
Philadelphia Buyer’s Market – February 1995-2000, 2002, 2004.
Paradise City Art Show, Northampton, MA – October 1998, October 2001-2005, 2009.
Paradise City Art Show, Marlborough, MA – November 2004
Fine Furnishing Show, Providence, RI – November 2003
Handmade in USA, New York International Gift Show – January 1996
Scents and NonScents Show, Signature Gallery – July-September 1997-1999.
Creative Arts Workshop Gallery, New Haven, CT – September 1992, 1988 and annually
1981-1984; and Christmas Sale and Exhibit 1996-2001, 2003-2006.
Handworks Gallery of American Craft, Acton, MA – “Expressions of Love” – Feb. 2003
Pierson College, Yale University, New Haven, CT – Spring 1986 and 1990.
Showplace Gallery, New Haven, CT – November 1986
Wave Gallery, Milford, CT – 1984, 1985.
Wave Gallery, New Haven, CT – July 1993, September 1996.
Mud Gallery, New Haven, CT – November 1992
Guilford Handcraft Center Holiday Exhibit – 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005.
Miller Gallery, Objects of Desire VI – 1997.
Signature Galleries – Holiday Ornament Show – 1998, 1999.
Temple Beth-Israel Art Show – January 2001.
Guilford Expo – 2002, 2003, 2004.
Brookfield Craft Center Holiday Show – 2004, 2005, 2006
Kentucky Museum of Art & Design Holidazzle Show – 2004, 2005, 2006
Art Place Exhibition XVI – May 2010-February 2011
EXHIBITED WITH:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Store, Los Angeles, CA
National Museum of Ceramic Art, Baltimore, MD
Residence of U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, 1988-1992.
Yale University Art Gallery Store, New Haven, CT
Neiman Marcus
Boston Museum of Fine Arts – Museum store
Plus numerous galleries throughout the United States and Canada
MAGAZINES:and BOOKS
Home magazine, May 1993
Family Circle, February 1991
Niche, September 1996
American Style, Winter 1996
New England Crafts Connoisseur, Winter 2004
American Art Collector, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
The Guild Sourcebook of Residential Art 4, 2006; 5, 2007; 6, 2008; 7, 2009.
American Craft Magazine, February 2005-08
Home Décor, July 2007
International Contemporary Masters Volume III, and Las Vegas Show June 2010
