HOLLY HANESSIAN ______________________________________________________________
Art Department Home Address
132 Wightman Hall 515 South Kinney St.
Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
home # 989.773.8595
Office # 989. 774.1157
hanes1ha@cmich.edu

EDUCATION
MFA. University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Ceramic Sculpture, Mixed Media, 1989
BA. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Ceramics, 1981
Post Graduate Studies Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1996

TEACHING POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 1998 - present
Visiting Professor, University of Georgia, Studies Abroad, Cortona, Italy, 1998
Lecturer, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, 1995-1997
Lecturer, Elon University, Elon, NC, 1997-1998
Lecturer, St. Augustine College, Raleigh, NC, 1997
Visiting Professor, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1991-1992

ARTIST WORKSHOPS OR LECTURES
Michigan Ceramic Art Organization, Michigan Mud, Albion College, Albion, MI, 2005
California State University-L A, Los Angeles, CA, Ceramics, 2002
Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, Ceramics, 2002
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK, Ceramics, 2002
Sonoma State University, Rehnert Park, CA, Ceramics, 2001
Chico State University of California, Chico, CA, Ceramics, 2001
Hope College, Holland, MI, Ceramics, 1999
Alma College, Alma, MI, Ceramics, 1999
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Ceramics, 1999
Nickelson State University, Lake Charles, LA, Ceramics, 1998
San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA, Ceramics, 1997
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA, Ceramics, 1997
Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL, Paper & Book Arts, 1997
Duke University, Durham, NC, 1995
Albion College, Albion, MI, Ceramics, 1995
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Ceramics, 1995
City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC, Book Arts, 1994
North Carolina School of Math and Science, Durham, NC, Paper & Book Arts, 1994
Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA, Ceramics, Papermaking, 1993
Lill Street, Chicago, IL, Book Arts, 1992
Virginia Intermont College, Bristol VA, Book Arts, 1992
Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL, Papermaking, 1991
Gallery 37, City of Chicago, IL, Papermaking & Book Arts, 1991
Artist Book Works, Chicago, IL, Papermaking, 1991
Sea Island School of the Arts, Beaufort, SC, Installation Art, 1989
Georgia Council for the Arts, Augusta, GA, Ceramics, 1989

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS
Southeastern College Arts Conference, Moderator, Text / Texture, Raleigh, NC, 2003
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Moderator, Installation:
......Beyond the Physical Substance, Space and Light, Charlotte, NC, 2001
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Installation Art and Space, Breakout session, Denver, CO, 2000
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Strategies for Survival,
Breakout session, Ft. Worth, TX, 1998
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Exchanging Slides and
Copyright Information, Breakout session, Las Vegas, NV, 1997

ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2002
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Edgecomb, ME, 1995, 2000, 2004
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT, 1994
The Workshop, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 1993
Summer School of the Arts, Wanganui, New Zealand, Ceramics, 1990
Wanganui Regional Community College, Wanganui, New Zealand, Papermaking
Nelson Polytechnic, Nelson, New Zealand, Ceramics
Wairiki Polytechnic, Rotorua, New Zealand, Papermaking Hawkes Bay Polytechnic, Taradale, New Zealand Papermaking
Artpark, Lewiston, NY, Papermaking 1992, Ceramics, 1990

GRANTS AND AWARDS
Premier Display Grant, Central Michigan University, 2003
International Faculty Development Grant, Central Michigan University, 2002
Premier Display Grant, Central Michigan University, 2001
Faculty Research Creative Endeavors Grant, Central Michigan University, 2000
Michigan Ceramics 2000, Cash Award, Juror Mark Burns, 2000
Emerging Artist Grant, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC, 1997
Seasons Grant, Hand to Eye Workshop and Studio, Durham, NC, 1996
Installation Grant, City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC, 1996
Installation / Collaboration Exhibition Grant, Community Council for the Arts, Kinston, NC, 1995
Emerging Artist Grant, Durham Arts Council Grant, 1994, 1997
Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, Auckland, N. Z., 1993

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
NCECA 2006 Invitational, The New Utilitarian: Examining our Place on the Motherboard of Ceramics,
..... The Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, 2006
Contemporary Codex: Ceramics and the Book, Curated with Janet Williams University Art Gallery, CMU, Mt. Pleasant, MI,
Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, PA, University of Maryland Baltimore
County, Baltimore, MD, Pyramid Atlantic Art Gallery, Silver Springs, MD 2004
To Have and to Hold II, Blue Pony Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2000
To Have and to Hold, Curated with Barbara Hill, Astra Gallery Richmond, VA 1999

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Memory Lessons, Appalachian Center for the Crafts, Smithville, TN 2007
New Work, Holland Art Center, Holland, MI 2005
New Work, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada 2002
Manipulated Memories, Art Reach, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Games of Chance, Andrews University, MI
Transitory Parts, Blue Pony Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2001
An Open Book, Part II, University of Massachusetts at Lowell University Art Gallery, Lowell, MA 2000
Books and other Memorabilia, Duke University, Institute of the Arts, Durham, NC 1999
Language Lessons. Bryant Center Gallery Duke University, Durham, NC
An Open Book, Valencia Community College, East Gallery, Orlando, FL 1997
New Work, CCB Gallery, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
Ephemera, Sommerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
Household Artifacts, Modern Museum, Durham, NC
Anima, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol VA 1995
Voices in my House, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL 1991
Dark Illuminations, Peninsula Fine Art Center, Newport News, VA 1990
A Thicket Briars, Courtyard Gallery, Visual Arts Building, Athens, GA
Power Totems, Museum of Arts and Science, Macon, GA 1989

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Emerging Artists Retrospective, Durham Arts Council, NC 2004
Michigan Ceramics 2004, Panted Creek Art Center, Rochester, MI
On the Wall, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN,
Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI
Michigan Clay Artist Invitational, Greater Flint Arts Council, Flint, MI
Michigan Ceramics Invitational, Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Contemporary Codex: Ceramics and the Book, University Art Gallery, CMU, Mt.
Pleasant, MI, Manchester Craftsman Guild, Pittsburgh, PA, University of Maryland
Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Pyramid Atlantic Art Gallery, Silver Springs, MD
Wall Works, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 2003
Ceramics USA 2003, The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton TX
Verses, Volumes and Visions, Art and the Written Word, Northbrook Library, Northbrook Il
The Word Made Clay, Ceramic in it Own Write, Tile Heritage Foundation, La Jolla, CA
A Readers Art, Lansing Art Gallery, E. Lansing, MI
Earth in Balance, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH 2002
Found Objects and Mixed Media, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
A Readers Art, The Art Apartment, E. Lansing, MI
Small Works Exhibit, New Art Program, PA
Artists Books, Milliken Gallery, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC 2001
Celebrate Clay, Lawrence St. Gallery, Pontiac, MI
From Foundation to Ornamentation, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA 2000
Michigan Ceramics 2000, Juried Traveling Exhibition, Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson,MI
Painted Creek Center for the Arts, Troy, MI
Polk Competition, Birmingham Art Center, Birmingham, MI
New Michigan Clay Artists, Buckam Gallery, Flint MI
Conceptual Visions, Three Clay Artists, Flora Gallery, Alma College, Alma MI
Alida to Zack, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC 1999
Faculty Exhibition, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in
Cortona, Italy University Art Gallery, Visual Arts Building, Athens, GA
From Foundation to Ornamentation, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998
Rethinking Books, CMU Art Gallery, CMU, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Southeastern Fine Craft Biennial II, Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, FL 1997
It's Raining Cats and Dogs, National Invitational, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
New Art in the Triangle, Duke Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Ten Years of Fire, Joanne Rapp Gallery, The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ 1996
Spotlight'96, Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY
Through a Women's Eyes, Chapel Hill, NC
Crafts National 29, Penn State University, University Park, PA 1995
City of Lights, The Hand Workshop, Richmond VA
Archie Bray Residents Show, Holter Art Museum, Helena, MT 1994
Garden Show, Gallery 500, Elkins Park, PA
Farrell Collection Spring Show, Washington D.C.
Pandora's Box Invitational Show, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA
Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, Auckland, N.Z. 1993
Art in the Garden, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC
The Edifice Complex: Structures in Clay, Northern Clay Center, St. Paul, MN 1992
Registrar Paper, Show, Paper Press, Chicago, IL Faculty Show, Artist Book Works, Chicago, IL 1991
Ceramics Invitational, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA
Chicken Dust, Ten Years at the Green Street Press, Visual Arts Building, 1990 Athens, GA
Catch of the Day, Nickel State University, main Gallery, Thybedaux, LA 1989
A Deep South Fish Fry, Crealde Art Center, Winter Park, FL
Mostra, Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy 1988
LaGrange National Exhibition, Lamar Dodd Center, LaGrange, GA
Georgia Sculpture Society, University of Tennessee, Lexington, TN
Small Wonders Invitational, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO 1986
Penland Experience, Traveling Exhibition: Waterworks Gallery, Salisbury, NC,
Gaston County Museum of Art, Dallas, NC Sawtooth Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Artists of the Moravian Pottery, Arts Center at the Rodman House, Doylestown, PA

EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE EXPERIENCE
Graduate Advisory Committee, Graduate College, CMU, 2003
Graduate Coordinator, Art Department, CMU, 2001-2004
Graduate Curriculum Council, University Wide Committee, CMU, 1998-2000
Executive Committee. Art Department, CMU, 1998 -2002
Gallery Committee, Art Department, CMU, 1998-1999
Artist-in-Residence Committee, Art Department, CMU, 1998, 2002
Multi-Cultural and Diversity Committee, University Wide Committee, CMU, 1998-2000
Ceramic Student Club, CMU, Advisor, 1998-2004
Student Art League, CMU, Advisor, 1998-2002

SERVICE TO THE FIELD
National Council on Education and the Ceramic Arts, Exhibitions Director 2005-2008
Hand to Eye Workshop and Studio Inc., Durham NC, President 1995-1998
City Gallery for Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC, Papermaking for Teachers 1997, Advisory Committee 1997
Teaching Ceramics in the Prisons, Central Penitentiary, NC 1992-1995
Technical Assistant, Paper Press, Chicago, IL 1991

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
National Council on Education and the Ceramic Arts
College Art Association
Michigan Potters Association
American Craft Council

PUBLICATIONS
Articles Authored:
Magazines:
Holly Hanessian, "Convergence", Ceramics Monthly, May 2002
Hanessian, Holly, “Up Front”, Ceramics Monthly, April 2001
Hanessian, Holly, “Exuberant Pots”, Article on Potter, Geoffrey Wheeler, Ceramics Art and Perception, September 2000
Hanessian, Holly, "Commentary" Ceramics Monthly, April 1998

Articles Authored by Others:
Magazines:
Hopfensperger, Marie, Ceramics Art and Perception, to be published, March Issue: 29
Morton, Julia, “Collage Ceramics”, The Art of Holly Hanessian, Ceramics Art and Perception, September 2000
Ariail, Kate Dobbs. "Holly Hanessian" Ceramics Monthly: March 1996

Catalogs:
Contemporary Codex: Ceramics and the Book, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, 2004

Books:
Ostermann, Paul, " The Ceramic Narrative" University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
Burleson, Mark, The Ceramic Glaze Handbook, Lark Press, May 2001
Acero, Raul, “Making Ceramic Sculpture”, Lark Press 2000
Hessenberg, Karin, “Ceramics for Gardens and Landscapes” Pages 71,74,140,158 A & C Black Press, 2000

REVIEWS
Shaw, Kurt, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA December 9, 2004
Colby, Joy Hakanson, Detroit News, Detroit, MI January 25, 2002
Cohen, Keri Guten, Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI January 27, 2002
Worth, Jan, Art Review, Flint Journal, Flint, MI, January 23, 2000
Natalie, Michele, “Out and About”, The Spectator Weekly, Raleigh, NC p. 21 Jan. 8th, 1999
Burnham, Linda, “Best Bet”, The Independent, Durham, NC p.35 Jan. 6-12th, 1999
Morton, Julia, “Art Seen” The Chapel Hill News, Chapel Hill, NC section B3 Jan. 3rd, 1999
Schurer, Norbert, "Installation explores the book as object of art", The Chronicle, Durham, NC p.4 March 10, 1998
Ariail, Kate Dobbs. "A Garden of Delights" Independent Weekly: Durham, NC p.24 Oct. 15-24th, 1997
Marger, Mary Ann. "A Crafts Show of Fine Distinction" St. Petersburg Times: St Petersburg, FL Sept. 12, 1997
Pettus, Diane. January Artist, on World Wide Web site: www.pettuslee.com, January 1997
Ross, Don. "Hand Papermaking " Channel 11, Raleigh, NC November 21, 1996, 5:30 p.m. Nightly News
Greenberg, Blue. "Artist focus on the human figure" Herald- Sun: Durham, NC p.4, Preview / Friday Feb. 1, 1996
Dougherty, Linda Johnson. "Art" Spectator: Raleigh, NC p.19 Jan. 31, 1996
Twardy, Chuck. "Hallmark of the Artist" News and Observer: Raleigh, NC Art p.1, p.7 section. Dec. 5, 1995
Turner, Mary Ellison. "Installation / Collaboration show opens today at CCA" The Free Press: Kinston, NC ART p.4, section C. June 7, 1995