Jeffrey Thurston
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Email: jthurstonart@gmail.com
Education
2016 MFA Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
2013 BFA California State University Chico, Chico, CA.
2009 Diablo Valley College, Walnut Creek, CA.
Teaching Experience
2023 Metairie Park Country Day School, Metairie, LA, Long-term Substitute Teacher, Ceramics classes for grades 7-12
2018-current Nunez Community College, Chalmette, LA, Adjunct Professor, Sculpture and Ceramics
2015-current Country Day Creative Arts (Summer Program), Metairie, LA, Ceramics Teacher for students aged 10-14 years olds
2018 Louise S. McGehee School, New Orleans, LA, long-term Substitute Teacher, Art teacher for grades 8-12
2016-2018 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Adjunct Professor, Ceramics
2015-2016 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Graduate Student Instructor, Ceramics
Solo Exhibition Record
2016 Watching Soap Operas with the Sound Turned Off, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Profits, Prophets, and Pogo Sticks, Carroll Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
2015 This Shifting Vessel, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
2013 A Not So Simple Construct, BSO Space, Ayres Hall, CSU Chico, Chico, CA.
2012 Subdural Specters, Laxson Fine Arts Gallery, Laxson Auditorium, CSU Chico, Chico, CA.
Selected Group Exhibition Record
2023 Miniature exhibition, Academy Gallery, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
2022 Cultivating Clay: A Survey of Chico State Ceramics Since 1996, Jackie Headley University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA
2019 Off Center, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA. (Juried by Joshua Green)
2018 Clay in Place, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
Clay as Canvas, The Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA. (Juried by Chandra DeBuse)
2017 Alma Mudder, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.
Ninth Annual Beyond the brickyard Juried Show, North Gallery, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT. (Juried by Josh DeWeese)
PRINT: 2D | 3D, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA. (Juried by Mayumi Hamanaka)
2016 Full Faculty exhibition, Carroll Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
2015 Visions in Clay 2015, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA. (Juried by Lisa Reinertson)
Collections
2017 Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
2014 Museum of Northern Contemporary Art (MONCA), Chico, CA.
Other Experience
2015-2016 Tulane GSSA (Graduate Studies Student Association) Studio Arts Representative
2012-13 Curator for Laxson Fine Art Gallery, Laxson Auditorium, CSU Chico, Chico, CA.
2012 Gallery assistant, Trinity Gallery, Trinity Hall, CSU Chico, Chico, CA.
2011-13 Studio assistant for Ceramics lab, CSU Chico, Chico, CA.
2008-09 Studio assistant for Ceramics lab, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA.
2007-09 Studio assistant for Sculpture lab, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA.
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