05/2001: B.A. in Art Education Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

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1 Wade Folger MacDonald Department of Art and Art History The University of Alabama 103 Garland Hall Tuscaloosa, AL office mobile Education: 05/2014: M.F.A. Studio Art, Ceramics 05/2001: B.A. in Art Education Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Scheduled Teaching: 01/2016-present: Part-time Temporary Instructor Introduction to Ceramics, 2d Design, Advanced Ceramics 3, Advanced Ceramics 4, Graduate Ceramics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 08/ /2015: Part-time Temporary Instructor Introduction to Ceramics (Two Sections), Advanced Ceramics 3, Advanced Ceramics 4, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 08/ /2013: Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record): Color and Design (Foundations), 01/ /2013: Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record): Ceramics Hand-building, Michigan State University, 08/ /2012: Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record): Ceramics Wheel Throwing, Michigan State University, 07/ /2012: Adjunct Instructor: Ceramics Hand-building, Oakland Community College, Auburn Hills, MI 01/ /2012: Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record): Three-dimensional Form (Foundations),

2 08/ /2011: Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record): Three-dimensional Form (Foundations), Non-credit Instruction: 06/ /2015: Instructor in Ceramics: Wheel Throwing, (Two Sections) Greater Lansing, Potters' Guild, 06/ /2014: Instructor in Ceramics: Advanced Wheel Technique, City of East Lansing, 06/ /2014: Instructor in Ceramics: Wheel Throwing, Greater Lansing Potters Guild, 10/ /2013: Instructor in Ceramics: Advanced Wheel Technique City of East Lansing, 06/ /2013: Instructor in Ceramics: Advanced Wheel Technique, City of East Lansing, 09/ /2012: Instructor in Ceramics: Evening College Ceramics, 06/2013-8/2013: Instructor in Ceramics: Advanced Wheel Technique, City of East Lansing, 06/ /2013: Instructor in Ceramics: DIMENSIONS (Art Education for Gifted Adolescents), City of Lansing, Lansing, MI 07/ /2012: Instructor in Ceramics: Advanced Wheel Technique, City of East Lansing, 02/ /2011: Instructor in Ceramics: Varied Classes, : Mud in the Morning Teen Ceramics (12 classes) Sculpture on the Wheel Studio Ceramics (1 class) Color and Form The Potter s Wheel (4 classes) Bowls Bowls Bowls (1 class) Mini-monsters: Large Coil-building (1 class) Ceramic Decals and Lustres (1 class) Ceramic Studio: Independent Study (8 classes) Other Work History: 03/ /2011: Ceramics Lab Technician, Kirk Newman Art School, 08/ /2001: Ceramics Lab Technician, Michigan Technical Education Center, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI

3 Artist Residencies Attended: 09/ /2014: Banff Centre: Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) for Ceramics, Short-term Residency Program, Banff, Alberta, Canada 02/ /2015: Anderson Ranch Art Center: Artist in Residence for Ceramics, Snowmass Village, CO Awards and Honors: 01/2016: Best of Show, Battleships Adrift on Indifferent Oceans, Art of the State (State-wide Faculty Exhibition), Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL 08/2015: Honorable Mention: Workhouse Clay National, Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA 04/2015: Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art, Short-term Residency Award 01/2015: Clay Arch Gimhae Museum/Ceramics Creative Center Ceramics Residency, Gimhae, South Korea 08/2014: Chris Clark Fellowship: Art Council of Greater Lansing, Lansing, MI 06/2014: The Banff Centre: Banff Artist In Residence for Ceramics, September through October 2014, Banff, Alberta, Canada 04/2014: John and Susan Berding Family Foundation Endowment Juried MFA Prize, Eli and Edith Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, 04/2014: Anderson Ranch Arts Center: Artist in Residence: Ceramics, February through April 2015, Snowmass Village, CO 03/2014: Varg-Sullivan Award: Distinguished National or International Exhibition or Publication, College of Arts and Letters with the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Michigan State University, 03/2014: Jury Award: MEGA - Michigan Emerging Graduate Artists, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI 03/2014: The Graduate School with the College of Arts and Letters Research Funding Grant, Michigan State University,

4 02/2014: Department of Art, Art History, and Design with the College of Arts and Letters, Graduate Funding Fellowship, 11/2013: Department of Art, Art History, and Design Research Fellowship: Funding for Travel or Projects, 06/2013: Graduate Assistantship, Department of Art, Art History, and Design, 04/2013: Dissertation Completion Fellowship: College of Arts and Letters, 04/2013: Stanley and Selma Hollander Graduate Fellowship in Studio Art, College of Arts and Letters, 11/2012: Department of Art, Art History, and Design Research Fellowship: Funding for Travel or Projects, 06/2012: Graduate Assistantship, Department of Art, Art History, and Design, 03/2012: Summer Support Fellowship, Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Michigan State University, 11/2011: Department of Art, Art History, and Design Research Fellowship: Funding for Travel or Projects, 10/2011: Clay Gallery Award: Michigan Ceramics Arts Association: Student Group Exhibition, Ann Arbor, MI 06/2011: Graduate Assistantship, Department of Art, Art History, and Design, 05/2010: Director s Purchase Prize Frenzy Bowl West Michigan Area Show - Permanent Collection Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI Selected Exhibitions: 02/2016: Group Exhibition: Alabama Clay Conference (Invited) Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL 01/2016: Group Exhibition: Art of the State (State-wide Faculty Exhibition), Best of Show (Juried) Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL

5 08/2015: Group Exhibition: Instructor Showcase, University of Alabama, Department of Art and Art History, Sella Granada Art Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL 07/2015: Group Exhibition: Workhouse Clay National Honorable Mention (Juried), Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA 01/2015: Solo Exhibition: LINC Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI 09/2014: Group Exhibition: Art Prize, DeVos Place Grand Rapids, MI 07/2014: Group Exhibition: National M.F.A. Competition (Juried) First Street Gallery, New York, NY 07/2014: Group Exhibition: 8th Annual "Master Pieces" National M.F.A. Exhibition (Juried), Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (catalog) 07/2014: Group Exhibition: 4th Annual Workhouse Clay National (Juried) Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA (catalog) 03/2014: Group Exhibition: MFA Thesis Exhibition Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, 03/2014: Group Exhibition: MEGA: Michigan Emerging Graduate Artists (Juried), Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 03/2014: Group Exhibition: N.C.E.C.A. National Student Juried Exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI (catalog) 10/2013: Group Exhibition: Michigan Ceramics Arts Association: Regional Student Exhibition, Delta College, University Center, MI 09/2013: Group Exhibition: M.F.A. Candidates: Art, Art History and Design, 08/2013: Group Exhibition: N.C.E.C.A. Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design (Juried), Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO (catalog) 07/2013: Group Exhibition: The Potent Object (Juried), Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD

6 07/2013: Group Exhibition: Firepower: Ceramics 2013 (Juried), Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 07/2013: Group Exhibition: Marge Brown Kalodner National Graduate Student Exhibition (Juried), The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 02/2013: Group Exhibition: Michigan State University Student Exhibition, SCENE Metrospace, 11/2012: Solo Exhibition: Architectonic Mirrors: Art, Art History and Design, 09/2012: Group Exhibition: M.F.A. Candidates: Art, Art History and Design, 05/2012: Group Exhibition: M.F.A. Candidates: Art, Art History and Design, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 02/2012: Group Exhibition: Ceramics Club Members: Art, Art History and Design, Michigan State University, 02/2012: Group Exhibition: Cowles House, M.F.A. Candidate Exhibition, 10/2011: Group Exhibition: Michigan Ceramics Art Association: Regional Student Exhibition, Ann Arbor, MI 09/2011: Group Exhibition: M.F.A. Candidates: Art, Art History and Design, 05/2011: Group Exhibition: West Michigan Area Show (Juried), (catalog) 09/2010: Group Exhibition: 10 of Wood Firing: The Anagama Kiln at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Midtown Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI 05/2010: Group Exhibition: West Michigan Area Show (Juried), (catalog) 02/2010: Group Exhibition: K.I.A Faculty, 02/2010: Group Exhibition: Midtown Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI 11/2009: Group Exhibition: K.I.A. Faculty Exhibition, 06/2008: Group Exhibition: Studio 5 in 1, Brooklyn, NY

7 02/2008: Group Exhibition: K.I.A. Faculty Exhibition, Publications: 08/2015: 5th Annual Workhouse Clay National Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA Exhibition Catalog - Digital Publication 01/2015: Manifest Gallery Season 10 Exhibition Annual 2014 Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio - Exhibition Catalog, Print Pelican publishing 08/2014: 4th Annual Workhouse Clay National Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA Exhibition Catalog - Digital Publication 03/2014: National Student Juried Exhibition - NCECA Conference 2014 National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Exhibition Catalog, 10/2013: Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design NCECA and Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado Exhibition Catalog, Blurb Publishing Service 02/2013: 500 Teapots; Volume Two, Lark Crafts Sterling Publishing Company Inc. Asheville, North Carolina Lectures and Workshops: 05/2015: Artist Lecture: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI 03/2015: Artist Lecture: Wyly Community Art Center, Basalt, CO 02/2015: Artist Talk: Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO 07/2014: Artist's Workshop (1 day) Color & Form, Greater Lansing Potters' Guild, Lansing, MI 04/2014: Artist Lecture: MFA Thesis Exhibition Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, 04/2014: Artists Lecture: MEGA - Michigan Emerging Graduate Artists, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI

8 02/2011: Middle School Ceramic Workshop, 05/2010: Artist Lecture: Art Break West Michigan Area Exhibition, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo MI 02/2010: Montessori Ceramics Workshop, University Service: 04/2016: Ceramic 3D Printer Technician and Participating Artist, Arty Party Art Department Auction Fundraiser, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 03/2016: National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts: University of Alabama Faculty Representative, Kansas City, MO 2/2016: Empty Bowls Faculty Partner, Tuscaloosa Area Food Bank Tuscaloosa, AL 11/2015: Member of the Graduate Faculty, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 10/2015: Kentuck Arts Festival Faculty Representative, University of Alabama Ceramics Student Organization 10/2015: College of Arts and Sciences Homecoming Event, Ceramics Faculty Representative 09/ /2014: Graduate Committee: Graduate Student Representative: Art, Art History, and Design, 05/ /2013: Departmental Assistant: Art, Art History and Design, 04/ /2013: Research Assistant to Assistant Professor Paul Kotula, 03/2013: National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts: Michigan State University, Graduate Representative, Houston, TX 02/ /2013: Studio Assistant to Associate Professor Blake Williams, 02/ /2013: Department Chairperson Search Committee Art, Art History, and Design, Michigan State University,

9 09/ /2013: President of MSU Ceramics Club, Ceramic Art Student Organization, 03/2012: National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts Michigan State University, Graduate Representative, Seattle, WA 02/ /2012: Graduate Exhibition and Planning Committee Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Michigan State University, 09/ /2012: Treasurer of Ceramics Club, Ceramic Art Student Organization, Professional Service: 11/2013: Michigan State University Artists Alumni Event, 02/2013: Wheel Throwing Demonstration: East Lansing Food Bank Fundraising Event, 06/2012: Germany Research Trip, Berlin and Dresden, Bauhaus Archive, Meissen Porcelain Museum and Factory, Bauhaus Dessau 03/2012: Partnership with MSU Students for Global Change: Empty Bowls Fundraising Event: Aid to Africa, 05/2011: Public Wheel Throwing Demonstration, Food Bank of South Central Michigan, Battle Creek, MI 04/2011: Public Wheel Throwing Demonstration: Mattawan Middle School, Mattawan, MI 06/2010: Entrance Juror, Kalamazoo Art Fair, 06/2010: Public Wheel Throwing Demonstration, Food Bank of South Central Michigan, Battle Creek, MI 05/2010: Public Wheel Demonstration, Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan 05/2010: Artist Lecture, Art Break, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo Michigan 03/2010: Public Wheel Throwing Demonstration, CSM Group, Kalamazoo, MI

10 03/2010: Public Wheel Throwing Demonstration, Food Bank of South Central Michigan: Empty Bowls Event, Battle Creek, MI 11/2009: Public Wheel Throwing Demonstration: Art and Antique Auction, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Kalamazoo, MI 07/2009: Public Wheel Throwing Demonstration, Portage, MI 06/2009: Public Wheel Throwing Demonstration, Food Bank of South Central Michigan, Battle Creek, MI Collections: Dean David Spong: Peter Jefferson: Michael Jefferson: James Bridenstine: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: Paula Quarles: Michael and Camille Mendle: Cris and Barbara Stone: Trudier Harris: Private Collection, Rancho Mirage, CA Private Collection, Chicago, IL Private Collection, Chicago, IL Private Collection, Kalamazoo, MI Permanent Collection, Kalamazoo, MI Private Collection, Tuscaloosa, AL Private Collection, Tuscaloosa, AL Private Collection, Tuscaloosa, AL Private Collection, Tuscaloosa, AL Professional Memberships: 09/ present: Avenue for the Arts, Grand Rapids, MI 06/ present: Arts Council of Greater Lansing, MI 05/ present: F.A.T.E. - Foundations in Art: Theory and Education 01/ present: N.C.E.C.A - National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts 09/ present: C.A.A. - College Arts Association Travel: 06/2012: Germany Research Trip, Berlin and Dresden: Bauhaus Archive, Meissen Porcelain Museum and Factory, Bauhaus Dessau 06/2009: Germany and the Czech Republic: Varied Research 09/2001: Germany, Italy, France, Czech Republic, and Denmark: Varied Research

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