Anna Metcalfe

Artist Information

Resumé

Education

2009 Masters of Fine Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2003 Post Baccalaureate, University of NSCAD, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2001 BA in English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

Teaching Experience

2010 (summer) Part time Adjunct Faculty for ARTS 2233 Direct Metals, Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC), Minneapolis, MN
(spring) Part time Adjunct Faculty for ARTS 1125 Introductory Ceramics and ARTS 2233 Direct Metals, Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC), Minneapolis, MN
(spring) Advanced Wheel Throwing, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Sabbatical replacement for Introductory Ceramics and Direct Metals, MCTC, Minneapolis, MN
Handbuilt Pottery Class, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
Instructor of Record for ARTS 5400 Photographic Image on Clay, University of Minnesota
Ceramic instructor, Cedar Riverside Arts Quarter Collaborative—Art camp for grade-school children, Minneapolis, MN
2008 Instructor of Record for ARTS 1801 Introductory Ceramics, University of Minnesota
Ceramic instructor, Cedar Riverside Arts Quarter Collaborative—Art camp for grade-school children
2007 Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota
2006 Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota
2005 Assistant Teacher, La Meridiana, Certaldo, FI, Italia

Work Experience

2009 Sales Gallery Assistant, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2007–2009 Digital Content Fellow, University of Minnesota
2004–2005 Studio assistant for ceramic artist Betty Woodman, Antella, FI, Italia
English program coordinator and correspondent, studio and office manager, La Meridiana, International Center for Ceramic Arts in Tuscany, Certaldo, FI, Italia
2003 Silvie Granatelli Studio Assistant, Floyd, Virginia

Scholarships/Awards/Grants

2009 Project Grant, Forecast Public Art, St. Paul, MN
Mini Grant for Watershed Projects, Minnesota Watershed Management Organization, Minneapolis, MN
Joyce G. Harris Fellowship/Pioneer Fellowship
2008 Graduate Research Project Proposal Grant, University of Minnesota
2006 Joel and Aja Ceramics Award
Marjorie Finch Scholarship
2001 Society of the Alumni, Three Dimensional Art Award, College of William and Mary

Solo Shows

2009 “Mississippi River Story Boats” Mill City Museum, Railway Corridor, Minneapolis, MN
2008 “Navigating Our River Communities” Homewood Studios, Minneapolis, MN
2007 “Liminal Spaces” University of Wisconsin, Wausau, WI

Group Shows

2010 “Earth Matters” 2010 NCECA Invitational, Philadelphia, PA
“La Mesa” Philadelphia, PA
“Women and Water Rights: Rivers of Rejuvenation” Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Curated by Lucy Lippard
2009 Sixth Annual Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Making Home, University of Minnesota MFA Thesis Show
2008 Hardscapes/Softscapes, The Northrup King Building, Minneapolis
Fresh Works, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota
Scholarship Show, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota
GALEX 42, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
2007 Fresh Works, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota
Accidental Nexus, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota
2006 Fresh Works, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota
2005 La Tavola Italiana, Pelago, Italia
Direzioni Contemporanee, Montelupo, Italia
La Mostra dal'Artigianato, Firenze, Italia
2001 NCECA, Regional Juried Student Exhibition, Charlotte, NC

Collaborative/Public Art Projects

2009 Collaborative project with Grace Davitt, hosting 7 free public cookouts using hand-made dishes and locally and sustainably-produced food. Supporting Partners: Forecast Public Art, Redeemer Lutheran Church
2008 Collaborative project with youth from the Mississippi River Green Team in Minneapolis and from the Community Design Center of Minnesota in St. Paul. Supporting partners included: Graduate Research Project Partnership Grant through the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts, Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, National Parks Service and the Community Design Center of Minnesota.
2007–2008 East Side Gateway Raingarden in collaboration with Toby Sisson, Laura Corcoran, Jamie Winter Dawson, Christine Baeumler, the East Side Conservation Youth Corps, and the City of Saint Paul Department of Parks and Recreation on a $35,000 rain garden and public art piece

Visiting Artist/Lecture/Panel Discussion

2008 Visiting Artist and Lecture, College of St. Benedict and St. Johns University, St. Cloud, MN
Panel Discussion, Art of the Mississippi River, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
2007 Visiting Artist and Lecture, University of Wausau, Wausau, WI

Commissions

2009 St. Anthony Falls Heritage Society, commission for Mississippi River story boats public art project

Curatorial

2009 NAGAS—North American Graduate Art Survey—co-curated with Mason Eubanks, Stacey Holloway, and Lauren Herzak-Bauman; Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota

Publications

2010 Issue Environment edited by Jan Estep
2009 Public Art Review, Fall 2009, “Grant Recipients of 2009”
Reach Magazine, The University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts Magazine, Spring 2009, “Navigating River Communities”
University of Minnesota MFA show catalogue
2001 Clay Times, May/June, 2001, “NCECA 2001 Evolving Legacies”