MITCHELL MESSINA
EDUCATION
1984-86 M.F.A. Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
1979-84 B.S. Portland State University, Portland, OR.
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SOLO EXHIBITION
2023 “See/Saw”, Flower City Pottery, Rochester, NY.
2019 “Listen”, Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, NY.
2017 “Fuse”, Main Street Art. Cliffton Springs, NY.
2016 “Suspension”, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Saratoga, NY.
2012 “Conveyor”, Saratoga Clay Art Center. Saratoga, NY.
2011 “Intake”, Genesee Pottery, Rochester, NY.
2010 “Linkage”, Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, NY
2005 “Hand Wrought”, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY.
2001 “Untitled”, Gateway Gallery, Rochester, NY.
2000 “Reconstruction”. Hartnet Gallery, University of Rochester, NY.
“Earthly Reasons”, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA.
1999 “Tool Forms”, Keuka College, Keuka, NY.
1998 “Implements”, Davidson Gallery, Rochester, NY.
1997 “Untitled”, Houghton College, Houghton, NY.
1996 “Untitled”, Germanow-Coffey Gallery, Brighton, NY.
1995 “Under Construction”, Lehrman Art Center, Harrisburg, PA.
1993 “World Scribe”, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
1992 “Amassed Objects”, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.
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PUBLICATIONS
500 Figures in Clay, Lark Books, 2014
Acero, Raul. Making Ceramic Sculpture, Lark Books, 2001
Sculpture Magazine, Reviews. Vol 20, No.2, March 2001
"Mitchell Messina", Ceramics Monthly. Dec. 1999
"Rollerblading Along the Erie Canal". Studio Potter, Dec. 1995.
Zakin, Richard, Hand formed Ceramics, Chilton Book Co. 1995.
American Craft Mag. June-July 1992, Dec.-Jan. 1993, June-July 1996.
Ceramics Monthly. March 1991, May 1991, November 1992, April 1999​
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HONORS AND AWARDS
1996 Excellence in Teaching Award, Nazareth College.
1992 Recipient, Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Grant for Ceramic Excellence.
1992 ''Emerging Talent'' Presenter. 1992 National Council for the Education of Ceramic Art. Conference, Phila. PA.
TEACHING
1990-Present
Professor of Sculpture and Ceramics, Nazareth College of Rochester, NY.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Made from clay”, Ceramic Invitational. Main Street Arts
2021 “67 Fingerlakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester NY.
2019 “Coalesce”, Mercer Gallery. MCC, Rochester NY.
2019 “Extraordinary Forms” Kenan Center. Lockport NY.
2017 “Leap into the Dark”, Gallery R, Rochester, NY.
2015 “Solid Gold”, Main Street Gallery, Cliffton Springs. NY.
2014 “Being Human”, Main Street Gallery, Cliffton Springs, NY.
2014 “Corpus”, Davidson Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College. NY.
2014 “Looking at Ourselves” Baltimore Clay Works, Baltimore, MD.
2014 “Between line and Form”, Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, NY
2013 “Craftart of Western Ny.”, Birchfield Penny museum. Buffalo, NY.
2013 “Reflections”, Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY.
2013 “Body Language”. Lubeznic Art Center, Michigan City, IN.
2013 “Locality”, Main Street Art Gallery, Cliffton Springs, NY.
2010 "Concurrence”, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY.
2008 “The Figure Evocative”, 3rd Rail Studio, New Rochelle, NY.
2008 “Harmony in Clay”. Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.
2007 NCECA Clay National Biennial Exhibition”, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY.
2007 “Extraordinary Forms: Binational Clay”, Kenan Center, Lockport, NY.
2007 “Craftforms 2006”. Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA.
2006 “Alterior Motives”, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD.
2006 “Monroe and Vicinity Biennial”, SUNY Brockport, Tower Fine Art Gallery, Brockport NY.
2006 “Craftart of Western Ny.”, Birchfield Penny museum. Buffalo, NY.
2005 "The Essential Implement”, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD.
2005 “Western NY Clay Symposium Exhibition”, SUNY Freedonia, NY.
2004 “Two Person Exhibition”, Lynn Duggan-Mitch Messina, Studio 23. Bay City, MI.
2003 Western NY Clay Symptom Exhibition, SUNY Brockport, NY.
2003 “Re/order”, Houghton House Gallery, Geneva, NY- Mercer Gallery, MCC, Rochester, NY.
2001 New York State Crafts Biennial”, Troy, NY-SUNY Oswego, NY.
1999 “USA Craft Today 99”, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT.
1999 “Craft Art Five”, Lincoln Center. Fort Collins, CO.
1997 “Clay, Fiber, Wood", Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
1996 “Rendezvous", Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE.
1995 “29th Craft National”, Zollar Art Gallery, Penn State University, PA.
1994 “52nd Fingerlakes Exhibition”, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
1994 "Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture", Montgomery College. Rockville, MD.
1990 “Art Now: Philadelphia Contemporary Artists”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA.
