ANA ENGLAND

565 Felicity Cedron Rural Rd.
Felicity, OH 45120
Northern Kentucky University
513-876-0962
E-mail: englanda@nku.edu
Web site: www.anaengland.com

Education

1984    MFA Sculpture, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1983     MA Ceramics, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1975     BA Public Policy, New College, Sarasota, FL

Current Position   

Professor of Art, Northern Kentucky University

Commissions

2007   "Touching The Future", ceramic, 5"x37"x34", commissioned by Sara Vance, Indian Hill, OH
2005   “Spiral Galaxy”, ceramic, 204”x276”x4”, commissioned by Fidelity Investments, Covington, KY
2003    "Night Sky Spiral II", ceramic, 98”x190”x3”, commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum, courtesy Linda Schwartz Gallery
2002    "Northern Kentucky University Natural Science Center", 14 interior glass windows with imagery inspired by science, commissioned by Omni              Architects, Lexington, Kentucky
1999    "Lotus", collaboration with Steven Finke, outdoor sculpture, ceramic, copper, glass, cement, polystyrene, water, 9'x26'x26', private commission,              Aptos, CA
1991     "Essential Equation", ceramic, fiberglass, mixed media installation on three walls:112"x272"x3"; 82"x180"x3"; 36"x84"x112", USA Funds,              Indianapolis, IN, courtesy Toni Birckhead Gallery

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2009   “Quercus With Companions: Recent Work By Ana England”, Northern Kentucky University Gallery, Highland Heights, Kentucky
2003    "Spin" (solo), Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2001    "Ana England: In The Forest", Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
             "Ana England: Of This Earth", Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
2000     "Ana England: Spatially Extended", Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth,TX
1997     "Creation Stories: Sculpture by Ana England and Steven Finke", Weston Art Gallery Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
1996    "Ana England/Cheone Kim", New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, IN
1995    "Finite Yet Unbounded", solo exhibition, Main Gallery, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
1994    "Ana England/Steven Finke: Love and Danger", Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1987    "Ana England/Elizabeth Hahn", Collier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
            "Hidden Language", (solo), Thomas More College, Ft. Mitchell, KY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008    "San Angelo National Ceramic Competition", San Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, Texas
2007    "Celebration of Creativity", Ohio Art Council's Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2007    "Celebrations of Creativity",Weston Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
2007    "The Essence of a Thing”, Weston Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts
2007    Kentucky Faculty Exhibition, NCECA sponsored, Mellwood Art Center, Louisville, Kentucky
2006    "American Studio Ceramics", Cincinnati Art Museum
2006    "3D: An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture", Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
2006    "Studio B Invitational", in conjunction with the International Sculpture Conference, Cincinnati, OH
2005    Group Show of Gallery Artists, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY
2004     "A Celebration of Women Artists, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY
2003    "Yuma Symposium Exhibition   ", Yuma, Arizona
2002     "Krasl Biennial Sculpture Invitational: Journey's Stilled Life", Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan "Inaugural Exhibition: Gallery Artists", Ann              Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY "On Clay", Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
2001     "Kentucky Women Artists: 1850-2000", Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY "Small Works II", Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2000    "Clay In Kentucky", Tower Cerlan Gallery, Lexington, KY "Hidden Talents", Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY
1999    "The Body as Commodity", Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1998    "Summerfair Select", Carnegie Art Center, Covington, KY
1997    "Meta/Morph: Nature Reflected", Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
1996    "The Cincinnati Group", Stifel Art Center, Ogelbay Institute, Wheeling, WV
1995    "In Clay: Forms and Variations", Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY "Showcasing the Woman's Voice", The Water Tower,              Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY "The Art of the Book", Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY
1994    "Rebinding: Psyche, Spirit, Soul", Machine Shop Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1993    "Trends and Traditions", New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
1993   "Mainly Sticks and Stones", Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
1992   "National Raku Invitational", Concordia College, Ann Arbor, MI
1991   "Cincinnati Review: Self Image", Emery Center, Cincinnati, OH "We, Too, Have Been There", Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
1990   "Clay Figures", Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY "Shared Space", C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, OH "Mixed Media and Other              Contemporary Art Forms", Galbreath Gallery, Lexington, KY
1989   "Ceramic Sculpture: Roy Cartwright, Ana England and Diane Fishbein,"Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, OH "Recent Sculpture: Cash, England and              Gierosky", Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, KY
1988   "The Way From San Jose", Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA "Evansville Museum Midstates Exhibition", Evansville, IN
1987   "4W87: New Work", Sarah Squeri Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1986   "New Artists: New Work", Michael Collier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ "Ink and Clay XII", University Union Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,              Pomona, CA
1985   "Ancient and Personal Myths", Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA

Collections

Fidelity Investments
Cincinnati Art Museum
Lois and Richard Rosenthal
Tina and Dudley Taft
Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Center
USA Funds, Indianapolis, IN
Kentucky Foundation for Women
Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company
Northern Kentucky University
Antic Publishing, San Francisco, CA
Saks Fifth Avenue
Antic Publishing, San Francisco, CA
Lars Speyer/Lorraine Capparell Trust, Palo Alto, CA
Kitty Morgan/Charles Demarais
Sahd Ghosn
Sarah Vance

Publications/Reviews

Robert Piepenburg, The Spirit of Ceramic Design, Pebble Press, 2009 (photo)

Diana Lyn Roberts, “17th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition”, Ceramics Monthly, October 2008

Tamera Muente, "The Nature of Nature", City Beat, April 11-17, 2007

"Kentucky Faculty Exhibition", Ceramics Monthly, April 2007

Laura James, "A Kind of Science", City Beat, August 2-8, 2006

Ruth Meyer, "Partners in Art", The Artist's Magazine, October 2006

Jane Durrell, "Sensuous Forms", City Beat, July 5-11, 2006

Cynthia Rush, “Cosmic Interconnections”, Kentucky Homes and Gardens, September/October, 2005, 10 page feature article with photos

Roger Green, “Krasl Sculptures Show Organic, Geometric Trends”, Kalamazoo Gazette, Sunday, September 2, 2002

Catalog, “Ana England: A Celebration of Interconnections”, artwork commissioned for the Northern Kentucky University Natural Science Center, essay by Maureen Bloomfield, 2002

Catalog, “ Kentucky Women Artists:1850-2000, Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, KY, 2001

Cate O’Hara, “Ana England: Of This Earth”, Dialogue, July/August 2001

Richard O. Jones, “Move To Farm Inspires Miami Art Exhibition”, Hamilton Journal News, Friday, April 20, 2001

Catalog, “Creation Stories: The Birth of Docentitos”, Kelly O’Donnell, editor, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

Molinaro, Joe, A Pottery Tour of Kentucky, Crystal Communications, Lexington, KY, 2000, book containing 2 pages of color photos o f my work and biographical information.

Ohio Arts Council, “State of the Arts Report”, CD-ROM, 2000, slide of artwork included Mike Daniel, “Art = mc 2: Sculptor flaunts the scientist in her genes”, The Dallas Morning News, February 4, 2000

David Minton, “Contemporary Clay at its Best”, Lexington Herald Leader, Sunday, October 1, 2000

Ana England, “An Artist Encounters Science: Dialogue and Personal Translations”, refereed proceedings of the “Einstein Meets Magritte Conference”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 1999

Bruce Nixon, “ Kentucky Craft”, LEO, September 9, 1998

Maureen Bloomfield, “Creation Stories”, Dialogue, Sept./Oct. 1997

David Minton, “Ceramic Works Transform Nature”, Lexington Herald-Leader, Sunday, September 28, 1997

Creation Stories, exhibition catalog, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

Owen Findson, “Sculptors Create Their Own Universe in Gallery”, Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, May 16, 1997

Jerry Stein, “Weston Exhibits Have Own Creation Argument”, Kentucky Post, Monday, April 14, 1997

Perin Mahler, “Creation Stories”, Antenna, May 1997

Wendy Hart Beckman, “Ana England”, (artist profile, photos), Antenna, Nov./Dec., 1996

Piepenburg, Robert, The Spirit of Clay, (2 full page photos), 1996, Pebble Press, MI “Many Means to a Single End: The Cincinnati Group”, Sunday News Register, Wheeling, WV, January 21, 1996 (color photos)

The Cincinnati Group, exhibition catalog, Stifel Art Center, Ogelbay Institute Jonathan Z. Kamholtz, “Absence Makes the Soul Grow Fonder”, Cincinnati City Beat, November 17, 1994 (photo)

Maureen Bloomfield, “Ana England/Steven Finke”, Dialogue, Sept./Oct. 1994 (photo)

Jane Durrell, “Ana England-Steven Finke”, Everybody’s News, June 10, 1994 (photo)

Catalog published for “Rebinding: Psyche, Spirit, Soul” exhibition

Daniel Brown, “Cerebral and Technical: NKU Faculty Exhibit”, Everybody’s News, September 10-23, 1993, (photo)

Catalog, “Raku: National Juried Exhibition”, Concordia College, Ann Arbor, MI, 1992 Diana Heyne, “Quilt Conceptions: Designs in Other Media”, New Art Examiner, May 1992 Mary Provosty, “Cincinnati Review 1991: Self Image”, Dialogue, March/April 1992 William Messer, “ Cincinnati”, New Art Examiner, January, 1992, (photo)

Piepenburg, Robert, Raku Pottery, (book), Pebble Press, MI, 1991, photo

Jerry Stein, ”’Self Image’ exhibit showcases local artists”, The Cincinnati Post, October 31, 1991

“Cartwright/England/Fishbein”, Ceramics Monthly, News & Retrospect, Nov. 1989

Michele Morgan, “Roy Cartwright, Ana England, Diane Fishbein, New Art Examiner, Summer, 1989

Michele Morgan, “Recent Sculpture: Jane Cash, Ana England, Elizabeth Gierosky “, Dialogue, July/August 1989

Daria Gabrielle, “Ana England”, Ceramics Monthly, May 1988

Lynn Pyne, “Serpentine is the Word for Exhibit”, The Phoenix Gazette, Saturday, December 27, 1987

Maureen Bloomfield, “New Works by England, Fishbein, Kingsley and Zynsky”, Sculpture, September/October 1987

Owen Findsen, “Sculptors’ Conference Exhibits Growing”, Cincinnati Enquirer, April 12, 1987

“Women’s Sculpture Exhibition”, catalog, Arts Consortium, Cincinnati, OH, 1987

Marcy Timberman, “Behind the Studio Door”, San Jose Metro, May l5, 1986

Dorothy Burkhart, “Works/San Jose”, San Jose Mercury News, December 7, 1986

Travel/Awards

2007     Japan: 2 week survey of traditional Japanese ceramics
2007     Faculty Summer Fellowship Award
2007     Full year Sabbatical Award
2000     Full year Sabbatical Award
1998     Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1998     Kentucky Foundation for Women Grant
1995     Summerfair Aid to Individual Artists Grant
1995     Professional Development Assistance Award, Ohio Arts Council
1993     Full year Sabbatical Award
1992     Nominated Outstanding Junior Faculty, Northern Kentucky University
1990     Kentucky Foundation for Women Grant: 3 months marble carving in Pietrasanta, Italy
1990     International Travel Award, Northern Kentucky University
1990     Research Development Award, Northern Kentucky University
1989     Faculty Summer Fellowship Award: 6 weeks marble carving at the Bottega Versiliese, Pietrasanta, Italy
1988     Venezuela: one month investigation of contemporary ceramics
1983     Five month journey through Asia: Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Bangkok, Hong Kong. Study of Hindu and Buddhist art and religion.
1977-78  Four months travel through Mexico and Guatemala, including ten weeks studying backstrap loom weaving in Mayan villages

Lectures/Workshops

2008     Invited Lecture, Bowling Green State University, OH
2007     "Night Sky Spiral II", Duvenek Society, Cincinnati Art Museum
2007     Gallery Talk, Weston Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati
2006     "Nature, Wonder and the Artistic Process", American Ceramic Circle Conference, Cincinnati Art Museum
2005     Moderator, “A Conversation with Magdalene Odundo”, Cincinnati Art Museum
2005     “The Development of Spiral Galaxy”, Fidelity Investments, Covington, KY
2004     “Art and Wonder”, Cincinnati Art Museum
2003     “Science, Wonder and the Artistic Process”, 24 th Yuma Symposium, Yuma, AZ
2001     Gallery talk, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
2000     Gallery lecture with physicist Magnus Rittby, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas
1999     “Eat/Art”, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati. OH
1997     Invited Panelist, Art and Science Workshop, Oglebay Institute, Wheeling, WV
1995     “An Artist Encounters Science: Dialogue and Personal Translation”, Einstein Meets Magritte Conference, Brussels, Belgium
1995      One day workshop (with Steven Finke) for the LEARNscience graduate program, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
1993     Gallery Talk, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
1992     Slide Lecture, Senior Seminar, University of Cincinnati
1989     Artist in Residence, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
1989     “Re-Mapping Territories”, Panel Moderator, 1989 Mid-America College Art Association Meeting, Cincinnati, OH
            “Marble Carving in Italy”, Faculty Seminar, Northern Kentucky Univ.
1988     Raku and Primitive Firing Workshop, Taller Escuela Artefuego, Caracas, Venezuela
             Slide Lecture, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
             Slide Lecture, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1987     Gallery Lecture, Thomas More College, Ft. Mitchell, KY
            “Are There Jobs After Graduate School?”, Graduate Seminar, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1986      Lecture and Ceramic Sculpture Demonstration, Denison University, OH
1985      Raku and Saggar Firing Workshop, Stanislaus State University, CA
              Slide Lecture, Introduction to Professional Art and Design, San Jose State University
1984      Pit Firing Workshop, Pigeon Point, CA
              Slide Lecture, Sunnyvale Community Center, CA

Related Professional Activities

2006        Juror, Summerfair
2003        Awards Juror, “Pour Me Another”, Clay Alliance Exhibition, Throwing Clay Pottery, Cincinnati, OH
1996        Participant in Artists’ Reaching Classrooms Program, Taft Museum, Cincinnati 1994 Juror, Hyde Park Art Show, Cincinnati
1994        Marble carving demonstration to graduate students and faculty in Classical Archaeology, University of Cincinnati
1994        Awards Juror, “Salon Exhibition”, DAAP, University of Cincinnati
1993-94  “ROARR” exhibition, “Rebinding: Psyche, Spirit, Soul”, Machine Shop Gallery, Emery Center, Cincinnati. This was a cooperative
                 exhibition bytwelve artists. We organized the exhibition, wrote and received grants and published a catalog. The artists in the show
                 primarily were from other universities in the area, which increased cooperation among our local institutions.
1993        Juror, Governor’s School for the Arts
1991        Juror, Art Academy Regional Scholastic Art Awards
1990        Coordinator of “Shared Space: Works from Northern Kentucky University, C.A.G.E. Gallery in conjunction with 1990 NCECA
                Conference
1990        Exhibition Juror, Carnegie Arts Center
1990        Coordinator, Paula Winokur and Byron Temple Ceramic Workshop, Northern Kentucky University, sponsored by Kentucky Art and Craft
                Foundation
1989        Juror, Governor’s School for the Arts
1989         Steering Committee Member, Mid America College Art Association Conference. I helped to design and organize this interdisciplinary
                conference that was attended by over one thousand people. I wrote two successful grant applications to the Ohio Arts Council;
                I was the Studio Program Coordinator and Panel Moderator for “Re-mapping Territories” session. This conference took nearly two
                years of work.
1989        Sponsor and Curator, “Ceramic Sculpture Invitational”, Main Gallery, NKU
1988        Founding member of “Artist Group” to promote dialogue and information exchange within the arts community.
1988        Juror, Summerfair
1988        Juror, Governor’s School for the Arts
1988        Juror, “On Turkeyfoot: Hot Art and Fine Jazz”, Thomas More College
1988        Studio talk, Contemporary Art Center’s Contemporary Connection
1987        Co-Sponsor, “ Kentucky Women Sculptors Exhibit”, Main Gallery, NKU
1987        Juror, Hyde Part Art Show
1987        Juror, Governor’s School for the Arts
1987        Volunteer Camera Crew, “People, Not Illnesses”, a video documentary about mental health, Intercommunity Cable Regulatory
                Commission
1986        Volunteer, National Sculpture Conference
1986        Coordinator, San Jose Open Studios