I was just awarded the Visions from the New California residency at the Exploratorium. Details to follow. For more info on the Visions from the New California check it out here

My studio, Red Brick, will open its doors during the Mission Open Studios, April 16th and 17th. Come check out my studio and the current projects all of us are working on. I also have juried into the Mission Artists show at Flax Design on Market. The Flax juried show will be up until May 1st. Stop by and check it out!

My work will be included in the 2011Feats of Clay at the Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, CA. The Lincoln Arts & Culture Foundation will present its twenty-fourth annual juried competition of ceramic works April 23 - May 29, 2011 featuring artists residing or working in the United States, Mexico & Canada. This celebratory exhibition of contemporary ceramic art (sculptural, non-functional, functional) will be held on the property of the renowned Gladding, McBean Terra Cotta Factory, and displayed inside an original 35-foot beehive kiln and in the historic architectural design studio. Access to the exhibit is by tour only.

In the Spring of 2011 the Salon is coming to a repurposed office space at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City and will be open during the College Art Association's Annual Conference. Rather than being a static exhibit, the Multispecies Salon is starting a new lifecycle of growth and decay.

Saturday, December 18 through Sunday, March 13
This exhibition will be in the Solari Gallery at The Museum of Art & History at The McPherson Center, Santa Cruz. The juror is the museum’s curator, Susan Hillhouse. The show displays a broad survey of work created by ACGA artists today with 119 works by 59 artists.

I've created a new installation for one of my favorite places, Paxton Gate. It's located on the left hand side as you enter the store. Stop by and check it out, Paxton is full of fantastic stuff.

I've been a co-curator and artist in the latest MultiSpecies Salon. This year we are using a kind of curatorial swarm to create three shows. Check out the exhibition description below and the website for more on the over 70 artists' works on view.

The Multispecies Salon 3 will use art to address a series of interrelated questions about nature: Which species flourish, and which fail, when natural and cultural worlds intermingle and collide? What happens when the bodies of organisms, and even entire ecosystems, are brought into schemes of biotechnology and dreams of biocapitalism? And finally, with particular relevance to New Orleans: In the aftermath of disaster--in a blasted landscape that has been transformed by multiple catastrophes--what are the possibilities of biocultural hope?

I haven't been to DIYbio gatherings (or anything else) because I've been making new work and I'm having an opening. The show is at Ruby's Clay Studio on Sat. June 12th from 4-9pm. My buddy Lee and I have been working on an ardunio (micro controller) piece that will be in the show too. Come out for some art, wine, good eats and get out from behind your laptops. Ruby's is at 552 A Noe St. in the Castro. If you can't make the opening, the show will be up until Tues., June 22nd. Stop by any time.

I'll be with SWARM in India for the Indian Institute of Technology's Techkriti '10 conference on technology, science, art and entrepreneurship. We will be giving demonstrations of our semi-autonomous flocking robot art project as well as giving a presentation to two thousand curious engineers. Techkriti '10 takes place in Kanpur, India from Feb. 11-14th.

Update:
Just found out that we will be sharing the stage with Nobel Laureate Douglas D. Osheeroff (Physics), Director of SETI Paul Shuch, Director General of CERN Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer and Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies (Medicine).

The Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek will be showing some of my work in the Objects of Virtue exhibition from Dec. 2nd to Jan. 31st 2010. The show has some wonderfully crafted work from artists all over the US. The show was juried by Julia Galloway, who will also be giving a demonstration and will discuss the place of functional pottery in the contemporary art world at the gallery on Nov. 30th. Not to be missed!

I will be presenting a co-authored paper with Dr. Eben Kirksey at the Anthropological Associations annual conference in Philadelphia Dec. 5 and 6th entitled SF Boarderlands.

I have some work in the Jingdezhen International Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition 2009. The exhibition will be held in Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Exhibition Hall in conjunction with the event of the Jingdezhen International Ceramic Fair from Oct. 18th to Oct. 22nd, 2009.

October 16, 2009 - January 2, 2010
Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
gallery hours: Monday – Friday 1 - 5 pm, Saturdays 10 - 1 pm, Closed Sundays
The juror is Dorothy Saxe, a renowned collector of clay & glass.
Falkirk Cultural Center is an 1880 historic Queen Ann Victorian. It offers a gracious homelike setting with three wonderful gallery rooms with high ceilings, bay windows and fireplaces complete with mantels.