Artist's Statement:
For over forty years of our coupled two-ness, Cate and I have lived in this favored gabled house. Now we dream and sleep and I draw upstairs as we live the days in Eden downstairs sharing the passing seasons of Cate's garden and our children's children. In our stone cellar, I keep a studio to work clay and fix in my own way the boundaries where form and spirit may allow the making of a telling brown pot. When I am in the middle of enclosing volumes that morph gravity from dust to mud to rock that say, "We now reside here," I know joy.
I am grateful then to sense the wondrous company of all the venturesome
prodigals called Artists in the future who know they are welcomed home.
Selected Collections:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
- The Saint Louis Museum of Art, Saint Louis MO
- The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
- The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC
- The Museum of American Crafts, New York, NY
- The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse NY
- The Reading Public Museum, Reading PA
- The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
- The National Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
- Kruithaus Hertigen Den Bosh, Netherlands
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
- Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia PA
- Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC
- The Museum of American Craft, New York NY
Awards and Honors:
- NEA Visual Artists Grant;
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA
- Recipient of College Arts Distinguished Teacher of Art Award
- Life-time Honorary member of National Council on Education for the
Ceramic Arts
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA,
and Columbia University, Teachers College, New York NY
- Doctor Honorus Causa, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA
- The Maine College of Art, Portland ME
Teaching Experience:
- Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) Philadelphia PA
- University of Northern Iowa
- State University of New York, New Paltz
- State University of New York, Fredonia
- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
Workshops and Lectures:
- Harvard University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Baylor University
- University of Oregon
- University of Hartford
- University of Florida
- University of Texas
- Haystack School of Crafts
- Penland School of Crafts
- Anderson Ranch
- Chatauqua and Appalachian School
- Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA
- Maine College of Art, Portland ME
- Corcoran School, Washington D.C.
- The University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA
- School for American Craftsmen, Rochester NY
Education:
- Hastings on Hudson kindergarten through 12th grade
- Veteran World War II, P.O.W. Germany
- Massachusetts School of Art, BS, Boston MA
- Columbia University Teachers College, MA, New York NY
Contact Information:
307 Ashbourne Road
Elkins Park PA 19027
215-635-5380
email: billpdaley@comcast.net
