Artist: Iva Haas
Iva Haas, MONTANA
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Concrete war monuments, decaying military hospitals, tall yellow grass, all coalesce as a combined caricature that acquires a new peculiar personality. I look to my past, my peoples’ past and try to create an object that memorialises what is still in decay.
Childhood memories resonate with my creativity into fantastical realities. Nothing and no one goes unnoticed, and nothing escapes my sketchbook. Feelings of pleasure, excitement, and fear urge me to filter through past experiences and bring them to life.
The sculptures are pure pleasure combined with absurdity and represent me as much as what I love and repel
Jewelry
Subtle surface variation, simple formes and beauty of raw clay coalesce as a combined form, to create interesting objects that are pleasing to the eye and comfortable to wear.
For my jewellery, I try to pay attention to detail. For inspiration, I think about geometry, and for my surfaces, I pay close consideration to the relationship between a shiny and matt finish. When I use glaze I allow it to move in the kiln in order to soften the sharp geometrical lines of the jewellery forms.
EDUCATION
2018 - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI - MFA Ceramics
2016 - Maine College of Art, Portland, ME - BFA Ceramics
2014 - Faculty of Applied Arts Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia - BFA Candidate
2012 - School for Design Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia - Graphic Design
HONORS AND AWARDS
2018-2020 - Long term Artist and Resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for
Ceramic Arts.
2018 - National Student Juried Exhibition Graduate Award for Excellence
2018 - Rhode Island School of Design scholarship
2017 - Rhode Island School of Design scholarship
2016 - The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramics Arts annual scholarship
2016 - Rhode Island School of Design scholarship
2016 - Maine College of Art scholarship
2015 - Maine College of Art BFA Show - Best in Show
2015 - Maine College of Art Merit Show - Best in Show
2015 - Maine College of Art scholarship
2014 - Maine College of Art BFA Show - Best work by a Junior
2014 - Maine College of Art scholarship
2010 - Manual for Vocational School Graduation Competition- First Prize
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 - Gonzaga University, Workshop, WA
2019 - Gonzaga University, Lecture, WA
2019 - Fresh Blood, Question and Answer Interview, NM
2019 - Penn State, Lecture, PA
2019 - CWU, Lecture, WA
2019 - Tales of a Red Clay Rambler, Podcast Guest Episode 273, MT
2019 - Tales of a Red Clay Rambler, Podcast Guest Episode 275, WA
2019 - Archie Bray Foundation, Artist Talk, MT
2019 - Ceramic Surface instructor, Archie Bray foundation
2019 - Multimedia art class instructor at Cottonwood ALC, Helena MT
2019 - Archie Bray Foundation Gallery Retail Associate
2018 - Form and Surface instructor, Archie Bray Foundation
2018 - Winter Session Professor at RISD (Ceramics, Form and Surface)
2018 - Archie Bray Foundation Gallery Retail Associate
2017- Assistantship for Joshua Primmer (Clay, Slip Casting)
2017- Haystack Art School Collaborative, RISD ceramic representative
2017 - Assistantship for Adrianne Evans (Glass Casting)
2017 - Summer Resident Artist at Studio 740, Helena MT
2017 - Assistantship for Larry Bush (Ceramic Wheel throwing)
2017 - Instructor at RISD, winter session
2016 - Archie Bray Foundation Gallery Retail Associate
2016 - Assistantship for Kevin Thomas (Clay, Slip Casting)
2016 - Summer Resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramics Arts
2015 - Assistantship for Ingrid Bathe at Haystack Mountain School Of Crafts
2013 - Organization and instructor of a workshop “Savamala’s One Day Diary”
Belgrade Serbia
EXTRACURRICULAR AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES
2015 - Penland School of Craft (workshop)
2014/2013 - Volunteer at INEX Gallery
2013 - Terra, Kikinda Serbia (workshop)
PUBLICATIONS
The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol. 59 No 3, Exploring Color, Australia, November 2020
Monthly Ceramic Art Magazine, Korea, May 2018
MECA Magazine, U.S.A. Winter + Spring 2015
Manual For Vocational School Graduation, Serbia, 2010 cover.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Whitworth University, Solo Show, Spokane, WA
2021 - Radius Gallery, 6th Annual Ceramic Invitational, Missoula, MT
2020 - Archie Bray 2nd Year Fellowship Show, Holter Museum, MT
2019 - First-Year Fellowship Artist Exhibition, Warehouse Gallery, Archie Bray, MT
2019 - Resident Artist Exhibition, Warehouse Gallery, Archie Bray Foundation, MT
2019 - Fresh Blood, Peter’s Projects, NM
2019 - HUB-ROBESON galleries, Penn. State University, PA
2019 - Art of Repetition, Gallery One Visual Arts Center, WA
2019 - NCECA, Studio 740 Resident Artist Exhibition, St. Paul, MI
2019 - NCECA, Resident Artists of the Archie Bray Foundation Group Exhibition
2019 - CWU Ceramic Invitational, WA
2018 - Kolva Sullivan Gallery Archie Bray Resident Exhibition, Spokane, WA
2018 - NCECA National Student Juried Exhibition, Pittsburg, PA
2017/2018 - PURE AS A SEAGULL'S BELLY Group Exhibition, Providence RI
2017- Mutual Encounters Group Exhibition, WA
2017- NCECA, Resident Artists of the Archie Bray Foundation Group Exhibition, WA
2016 - Woods-Gerry Gallery, Flux Group Exhibition, Providence, RI
2016 - Zand Head Gallery Maine College of Art Group Exhibition, Portland, ME
2015 - ICA Gallery Maine College of Art Solo Exhibition, Portland, ME
2015 - Maine College of Art BFA Show, Portland, ME
2015 - Maine College of Art Merit Show, Portland, ME
2015 - INEX Gallery Group Exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
2014 - Maine College of Art BFA Show, Portland, ME
2014 - INEX Gallery Group Exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia
2013 - Terra Group Exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia