Artist: David McBeth
David McBeth, TENNESSEE
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I am focused on making carefully crafted thoughtful utilitarian pottery. In forming pots, the potter is informing the user. How the cup, bowl, mug is shaped affects how the user connects and completes the work. There is an intimacy in the use of handmade pots that does not exist in other art forms. It is this connection, this intimacy that drives me in the studio, encourages me to keep the wheel spinning and the kilns hot.
CURRENT
Professor of Art, University of Tennessee – Martin 1992 to present
EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS
M.F.A. Fort Hays State University 1988 Ceramics/Drawing
M.A. Fort Hays State University 1985 Ceramics/Photography
B.S. Friends University 1979 Elementary Education/Art
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS – LAST TEN YEARS
Purposeful Pots, Blue Line Art Center, Roseville, CA national/juried
3rd Annual Dirty South Cup Competition, Alexandria, LA national/juried
Positive Negative 32, Slocumb Gallery, ETSU national/juried
SLURP!, Craft Allaince Gallery, St. Louis MO national/juried
Impressions ’16, Mayfield, Kentucky regional/juried
2nd Annual Dirty South Cup Exhibit, Alabama national/juried
Impressions ’15, Mayfield, Kentucky regional/juried
Visual Evidence, 2nd Place 3D, Murray KY regional/juried
Twin Cups, St Joseph, MO national/juried
BOWLS, Urban Arts, St. Louis, MO invitational
Antipasti, DIAA, Deer Isle, ME invitational
At Your Service, Watershed Center for Ceramics Arts invitational
YELLOW, Pearson Legacy Gallery, Deer Isle, ME invitational
BLUE, Pearson Legacy Gallery, Deer Isle, ME invitational
Pennyroyal Art Exhibit, Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Memorial Award) regional/juried
Impressions ’10, Mayfield, Kentucky regional/juried
Pennyroyal Art Exhibit, Hopkinsville, Kentucky ( 2nd Place – 3D) regional/juried
Impressions ’09, Mayfield, Kentucky regional/juried
Pennyroyal Art Exhibit, Hopkinsville, Kentucky ( 1st Place – 3D) regional/juried
Orton Cone Box Show – Baker University, Kansas international/juried
8 Fluid Ounces, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA national/juried
Muchachos, NCECA, Pittsburg, PA invitational
Big Muddy, Dubuque, Iowa regional/juried
Gulf Coast Comm Coll, Panama City, FL national/juried
3rd Annual National Juried Cup Show, Arkansas national/juried
Impressions ’07, Mayfield, Kentucky regional/juried
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Kansas Tennessee Japan Taiwan Canada
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Japan Korea Australia Canada Belgium Italy England Austria France Sweden Germany
GALLERY REPRESENTATION AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Walker Pond Pottery – Brooksville Maine
The Deer Isle Artists Association – Deer Isle Maine
Hutton Gallery – Deer Isle Maine
President of Board of Directors – Deer Isle Artists Association, Deer Isle, ME 2009 to present
President of the Board of Directors – The Studio Potter, 2015 to present
NCECA