John Stephenson

EDUCATION
1958 M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art
1952 BA Ed. University of Northern Iowa

POSITIONS
1991-1993 Interim Dean, School of Art
1959-1995 Professor, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan
1990 Centro Sperimentale d’art, Puerto Ronco, Switzerland
1988, 1996 Haystack School, Deer Isle, Maine
1969 Penland School for Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
1965 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1958-1959 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

RECOGNITION
2002 Elected to NCECA “Honor of the Council”
2000 Elected member of International Academy of Ceramics
1992 Honorary Doctor of Arts Degree, Grand Valley State University
1990 Awarded Catherine B. Heller Distinguished Professorship

GRANTS
2000 Research in China Grant, Asian Cultural Council, NY, NY
1991-1994 Grant from Office of the Vice President for Research, UM
2002-1990 Artist Grant, Michigan Council for the Arts
2001 Artist Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1962-1963 Rackham Grant, Study of natural glazing in Japan

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2001 Korean World Exposition, IAC, Korea
2000 International Invitational, Shiwan and Jingdezhen, PR China
IAC Exhibition, KERAMION, Frechen, Germany
1996 REVOLUTION Gallery, Solo Exhibition,Ferndale, MI
1995 After the Fire, a Retrospective, Museum of Art/Slusser Gallery
1979 Century of Ceramics in the U.S.A., Syracuse, NY
1969 Objects U.S.A., Smithsonian, Washington, DC
1965 XXIII Concorso Internationale Faenza, Italy, gold metal

COLLECTIONS
Objects U.S.A.; Alfred University; Ohio State University; Portland Museum of Art; Cranbrook Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Art; Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NY, NY; Faenza Museum, Faenza, Italy; Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic; Keramion, Frechen, Germany; Kyonggi Museum, Korea; Foshan Museum, PR of China.

PUBLICATIONS
Contributor of numerous articles in Ceramics, Art and Perception, Studio Potter and American Crafts. Included in numerous ceramic textbooks including Rhodes’ Clay and Glazes, Perryman’s Smoke-fired Pottery and Zakins’ Ceramics.

OTHER
Board member of Pewabic Pottery ’86 – ‘95, juror on the crafts panel of the NEA ‘88 and Illinois Council for the Arts, ’89. Campus host for Shoji Hamada during campus wide Voices of Civilization, 1969.