LAUREL MACDUFFIE

BIO

LAUREL MACDUFFIE      BOXES      POTTERY     STATEMENT    ARCHIVES

LAUREL MACDUFFIE

858 Middle Road

Parsonsfield, ME 04047

207-625-3918

cdrmtn@gwi.net

     

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008Laurel MacDuffie and David Orser:  Clay Sanctuaries, New England Currents Series,                        

               Danforth Museun of Art, Framingham, MA

2006       Ceramics Biennial 2006, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH

Smaller than a Breadbox,  Invitational Exhibition, Shelburne Art Center, Shelburne, VT

Strictly Functional  Pottery National, Market House Craft Center, Lancaster,  PA

Functional Ceramics 2006, Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH

The State of Clay in Massachusetts Invitational, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

2005Strictly Functional Pottery National, Market House Craft Center,  Lancaster, PA

Work of the Hand, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

    2004Work of the Hand, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport ME

                            Soda/Salt National lll, The Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT

The State of Clay Biennial, Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Lexington, MA

AWARDS

     2006Best of Show, Ceramics Biennial 2006, New Hampshire Instutute of Art

                            Mary Barringer, juror

    

              2005Amaco Merchandise Award,  Strictly Functional Pottery National, Market House Craft     

Center

John Glick, juror

PUBLICATIONS

     2005   500 Cups, Lark Books

     2006      500 Pitchers,  Lark Books

EDUCATION

    2003Haystack Mountain School for Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

    1996M.A. Art Therapy, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA

    1985B.A., Connecticut College, New London, CT      

     The most important years of my life were spent growing up on Swan’s Island, Maine.  Beauty, isolation, independence, self sufficiency, loneliness, and a deep relationship with the land as nurturer and sole location of safety have profoundly defined my adult perspective, and my art.

    I studied art as an undergraduate (primarily painting),  returned to Maine and worked as a cook, day care teacher and elder companion before going back to school to study Expressive Therapy.    I only returned to making art after realizing while writing my graduate thesis that nothing else had any meaning for me.  I found Mudflat Pottery School in Somerville, MA, and never turned back.

    I have been working as a full time artist for almost 10 years.    I support myself by selling my work and by housecleaning and teaching a few classes.