Resume: Mariko Brenner

email: marikobrenner@gmail.com  website www.marikobrenner.net

 

Ceramic Education 

 

2003-2004 Studied Glaze Formulation with Charles Blosser, OCC,   Royal Oak, MI

2004-2009 Studied Raku Firing with Robert Piepenburg, OCC, Farmington Hills, MI

2007    Studied Functional Pottery with C.J. Wells, Third Street Clayworks Tulsa OK                                               

2008    Studied figurative Sculpture with Steven R. Miller, BBAC, Birmingham, MI

2008    Studied Ceramic Sculpture with Mark Chatterlay, OCC, Farmington Hills, MI

2010    Studied Soda Firing with James Adair, OCC, Farmington Hills MI

Apprenticeships

 

2008    Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, Doylestown, PA

Workshops

 

2006    Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME; clay; Stephen Bowers: Brush work decorations

2007    Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC; textiles; Ignatius Creegan and Rod Givens: Elements of Millinery

2007    Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC; clay; Fong Choo: Teapots: Utilitarian vs. Miniature

2007    Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME; wood; Jacques Vesery: Carving and Texturing

2008    Scottsdale Artists’ School, Scottsdale, AZ; clay; Ann RosowLucchesi and Bruno Lucchesi: Figurative Sculpture

2008    Robert Piepenberg hosts, Ann Arbor, MI; clay; Dave Roberts: Naked Raku

2008    Tom Turner School of Porcelain, Mars Hill, NC; clay; Tom Turner: Throwing Better Pots

2008    Penland School of Crafts, Spruce Pine, NC clay; Kristine Michael: Then & Now: Ceramic Installation Across Time, with Mark Shapiro and Paulus Berensohn

2008    Touchstone Center for Crafts, Farmington, PA clay; Malcolm Davis: Trapping Carbon at Touchtone

2009    Scottsdale Artists’ School, Scottsdale, AZ; clay; Workshop with Bruno Lucchesi: Terra Cotta Sculpture

2009    MacKenzie Fine Arts Center, Dearborn, Michigan: clay; Val Cushing, Dick Hay, and Victor Spinski: Living Legends of Clay

 

Galleries

2008-2010 Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale MI

2009-2010 Mechanic Street Mugs, New Hope, PA

2009-2010 The Village Hideaway, Lake Orion, MI

2010 My My, Doylestown, PA

2010-2011 The Buttondown Gallery, Glens Falls, NY

Shows

 2008 BBAC Spring Student Show, Birmingham MI

2008 The Brownfields Development Conference, Detroit, MI

2008-2009 Our Cups Runneth Over—Sculptural and Functional Ceramic Cups, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA.

2009 Sprouting Out of Chaos, R.A.T. Gallery, Gardenville, PA

2009 One Woman Show: Lilies of the Field—Ceramics and Digital Photography by Mariko Brenner, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2010 Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham MI

1010 Art on the Grand, Farmington Hills MI

2010 Invitational, Lawrence Street Gallery, Ferndale MI

 Press

 2007 Spouses Make Mark with Art, Detroit Free Press Article, Sunday April 8, 2007.

2007 Fiberarts Magazine, NovDec

2007-2008 Keiko Magazine, Feb. 2008

2009 Late Breaking Noose: Judith Schaechter’s Blog, Tues, June 30,

2009 Observer and Eccentric Newspaper, Aug. 30, 2009, p.A6

2009 Metrotimes, Sept 28, 2009, p.54 Pottery Au Naturale

2009 Detroit Free Press, Sept 39, 2009, p.30 Pottery and Pictures

2009 Hour Detroit, Sept, 2009

2010 Pennland School of Craft Summer Workshop Catelogue

 

Groups and Affiliations

 

2006-2010 Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association.

2008 Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsman.