Education:
Humboldt State University; 1967-1972, BA
San Francisco Art Institute; 1972-1974, MFA

Teaching Positions:
University of Washington; Seattle, WA, 1974-1975
California State University, Chico; Chico, CA, 1975-1979
San Francisco State University; San Francisco, CA, 1980
California State University, Sacramento; Sacramento, CA 1980-1981
Santa Clara University; Santa Clara, CA, 1987- 1996
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Summer 1998, 1999
Civic Arts Education of Walnut Creek, Walnut Creek, CA 1999-Present

Awards:
National Endowment for the Arts: Craftsman’s Fellowship, 1979-1980

Professional Activities:
12th International Sculpture Conference
Oakland, CA, 1982
Participant in Ceramics Symposium
California Arts Council
Artists in Schools Residency; 1985-1986
Visiting Artist Workshop
Butte College, Orville, CA, 1997
Visiting Artist Workshop
Mendocino College, Ukiah,Ca 1998
12th Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art
Davis, CA, 2001
Participant: Lecture, Demonstrate and Exhibit

Selected Exhibitions:
Oakland Museum - Oakland, CA
“ California Ceramics and Glass”, 1974
Henry Gallery - University of Washington - Seattle, WA
Faculty Show 1975
Quay Gallery - San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions 1976 and 1978
Taylor Gallery- California State University, Chico - Chico, CA
Solo Exhibition, 1976

Selected Exhibitions (2)
University of Lethbridge - Lethbridge, Alberta
University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta
“ Plates by Richard Shaw, Peter Voulkos and Ed Blackburn”, 1976
California State University, Fullerton - Fullerton, CA
“ Richard Shaw, Ed Blackburn, Tony Costanzo, Redd Ekks, John Roloff”, 1976
Lang Art Gallery-Scripps College - Claremont, CA
Scripps 34th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, 1978
John M. Kohler Gallery - Sheboygan, WI
“ Clay from Molds: Multiples, Altered Castings, Combinations”, 1978
Everson Museum of Art - Syracuse, NY
Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts
Smithsonian Institution - Washington, DC
“ A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878 - 1978”, 1979-1980
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art- San Francisco, CA
“ Northern California Clay Routes; Sculpture Now “, 1979
Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts
Smithsonian Institution - Washington, DC
“ The Animal Image”, 1981
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco, CA
“ California Clayworks”, 1983
Oakland Museum - Oakland, CA
“ Reflections”, 1984
California State University, Fullerton Art Gallery - Fullerton, CA
“ Ten Years Later; Richard Shaw, Ed Blackburn, Tony Costanzo, Redd Ekks, John Roloff”, 1987
Santa Clara University; Freightdoor Gallery - Santa Clara, CA
Solo Exhibition, 1989
J. Maddux Parker Gallery – Sacramento, CA
Solo Exhibition, 1994
The Toki Collection of Ceramics; Pence Gallery - Davis, CA, 1998
Richmond Art Center - Richmond, CA, 1998
California Contemporary Crafts Association Master and Apprentice Exhibit
Underground Gallery - San Rafael, CA, 1998
30 Ceramic Sculptors – John Natsoulas Gallery
Davis, CA, 2001
California Café – Solo Exhibition in Conjunction with CCAC Conference
Davis, CA, 2001

Collections:
Oakland Museum
Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
Henry Gallery, University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA
University of Arizona
Tempe, AZ
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Salt Lake City, UT

Selected Bibliography:
Ballatore, Sandy; “ The California Clay Rush” ,
Art in America, July 1976
Clark, Garth, and Hughto, Margie; A Century of Ceramics in the United States, E.P.
Dutton Co., New York, 1979 pp. 234, 277
Wechsler, Susan, Low Fire Ceramics, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1981

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