CARYN KREITZER

Waterford, Connecticut 

Carynkreitzer@gmail.com

Selected Exhibitions

2024 Slater Memorial Museum, 78th Annual Connecticut Artists Exhibition, Norwich CT

2022   “Ceramics Biennial” at the Guilford Art Center, Guilford CT

2021 & 2022  “Holiday Show at Hygienic Gallery”, New London CT

2020  “Claytopian New York”Plaxall Gallery” LIC, NY

2020 “(De) Pict”, LA Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2019   Japanese Show at Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2019   Open studio Tour, artsPSWT, Brooklyn, NY

2018  “Artspswt” at Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2017 “Windsor Terrace Park Slope Open Studio Tour”

2017    “Gowanus Art Exhibit”,Shapeshifter Lab, Bklyn NY

2016    “Park Slope Windsor Terrace ,Open Studio Tour”

2015     “Park Slope Windsor Terrace Open Studio Tour”

2014    “Windsor Terrace Park Slope Open Studio Tour”

2012     Artist Open Studio, Windsor Terrace Bklyn, NY

2010 “Eight Fluid Ounces” LSU Art Gallery, Louisiana

2009 “Tall Tales” 3 person show, Kumono Gallery, Bklyn, NY

2009  “Permanent Collection” Greenwich House Pottery, NYC

2003 “Air, Earth, Water”, Bologne, Italy

2001, 1999 “Paper Pots” John Elder Gallery NYC  

1999 “Works on the Wall” Faculty Show, Greenwich House Pottery

1998 “Uniting Neighbors” The New York Historical Society

1998 “Functional Clay work by Caryn Kreitzer”, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC

1997 “Figuring Women’s Lives”, Kingsborough Community College, Bklyn, NY

1996 Ten Years of Fire, Shaw-Guido Gallery, Pontiac, Michigan, Azuma Gallery, NY  

1995 Watershed Raffle and Silent Auction “Paper Pots”Peter Joseph Gallery, NYC

1995     Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, Azuma Gallery, NY 

1994 Alumni Show, University of Tennessee ,Knoxville  

1994     Teapot Show, Nancy Margolis Gallery, Portland MN

1993     Faenza, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy

1993     NCECA Clay National,  San Diego Museum of Art

1992    “Artists On Their Own”, Greenwich House Pottery, NYC                

1992     Westchester Art Workshop, White Plains, NY

1991    “A Tea Party” American Crafts Museum, NYC

1991    “A House of Clay” Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, Ill

1991      Lobby Display at Whitney Museum, NYC

1991     2 Person Show, Ceramic Sculpture, Wheeler Seidel Gallery, Soho NY

1990     Saks Fifth Avenue, Window Exhibition, NYC

1990     Sculpture Show, Dorothy Mcrae Gallery, Atlanta GA

1988      2nd Annual Great Lakes Exhibition, Lill St. Gallery, Chicago,Ill

 Honors and Awards

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, N. Edgecomb Maine Summer Residency’s 1989, 1993, 1997, & 2009.

Banff Art Centre, Banff Canada, Narrative Residency, Fall 1995

Empire State Craft Alliance - Grant Award 1989 &1991

Selected Collections

International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy

Koryn Shoto Kai, Tokyo, Japan ( flower arranging school) 

Micheal J. Fox - Actor Barry Bostwick - Actor

Arthur Williams - Collector

Roy Eddy - Collector

Judy Schwartz - Collector

Set Decorating on “Spin City” T.V. Sitcom

Suzzane Vega- Singer

Publications

“The Art and Craft of Clay”, by Susan Peterson March 1996

 House & Garden (Notes), March 1992

Ceramics Monthly(Upfront), February 1992

J. Club - Japanese Publication Vol. 1 1990

Pronto Magazine, Spring 1988

New York Tourist Guide, Port Authority Dec. 1988

Ceramics Monthly, March 1988

Knoxville Journal, May 29, 1986

Technical Advisor scenes with ceramic material

2010 2009 1998 1998

“When in Rome”, Roman/ Greek Vase 2010

 “The Sheri Show”, Cat on a Unicycle 2009

HBO Commercial with Jerry Seinfeld 1998

“Spin City” T.V Sitcom with Micheal J. Fox 1998

Teaching Experience

Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies, Bklyn NY, Art Teacher    Sept. 2013- July 2020

John Dewey High School, Bklyn NY, Art Teacher of ceramics, intro to art, drawing, painting, fashion Illustration Sept. ‘99 to June 2013

Educator Intern for the Center for Art Education, NYC Career Development Program at John Dewey High School, Graduated 40 interns, Spring 2005- June 2013

Kingsborough Community College, Bklyn NY, Ceramics Instructor adjunct, 1995 - 1999

Greenwich House Pottery, NYC , Hand building and Wheel Throwing Instructor, 1986-1999

Marymount College, NYC Ceramics Instructor for Beginning and Advanced Students, Fall 1990- May 1994

 92nd St. YWHA, Figurative Sculpture with Live Model, 1987-1992

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, Reproductions, 1986

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Instructor of Ceramics and Studio Manager, 1985-86

University of Tennessee, Knoxville Adult Education Instructor of Ceramics and Drawing, 1983-1985

Greenville, S.C. Public School Art Teacher for Elementary and Middle Schools, 1978-82

Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, S C Instructor of Ceramics and Drawing 1978-82

University of Tennessee, Knoxville,

M.F.A. in Ceramics, 1986

Florida State University, Tallahassee

B.S. in Art Education, 1978