LAUREL MACDUFFIE

858 Middle Road

          Parsonsfield, ME 04047

207-625-3918

cdrmtn@gwi.net

cedarmountainpotters.com

EXHIBITIONS

      2012     Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA   Watershed/Maine Artists at CraftBoston

    

      2011     George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME   From the Kitchen to the Garden

      2010     New Era Gallery, Vinalhaven, ME   Opening Group Show

     

      2009     Lill St. Art Center, Chicago, IL.    4x4, Four Women Invite Four Women

      

      2008     Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA    Clay Sanctuaries: Laurel MacDuffie and David Orser

            Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO   Clay Tablets, National Juried Exhibition

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

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

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

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

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

      2005      Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME    Work of the Hand

           

         

             AWARDS

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

                                          Mary Barringer, juror

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

      John Glick, juror

      

            

             PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

          

           2000-     Studio Artist

           2008-      Member

                              League of New Hampshire Craftsmen

           1999-     Instructor, Studio Manager

           2012          Danforth Museum School, Framingham MA 

                     2003      Teaching Assistant

                             Haystack Mountain School for Crafts, Deer Isle ME

   

           1998-     Studio Technician

           1999          Mudflat Pottery School, Somerville, MA

        

PUBLICATIONS

     2006      500 Pitchers, Lark Books

     2005   500 Cups, Lark Books

EDUCATION

          M.A. Art Therapy, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

          B.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, loneliness, and a deep relationship with the land have profoundly defined my adult perspective, and my work.

I studied art as an undergraduate at Connecticut College, returned to Maine and worked various jobs before returning to school to study expressive therapy at Lesley College in Cambridge, MA.  I only returned to making art after realizing while writing my thesis that nothing else had any meaning for me.  I found Mudflat Pottery School in Somerville and never turned back.  

Since that time my life has been a slow progression toward ever more embracing my artistic identity, while at the same time exploring a shifting definition of success.