About the Artist

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