Group
Pushing Boundaries, The Art Garage, Cooperstown, NY, June, 2017
Opposites Attract, Artspace, Bloomsburg, PA, March, 2017
Made in New York, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, August, 2014
Made in New York, 2013, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, March, 2013
78th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, July, 2013
CraftForms 2012, Annual International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Craft, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Made in New York 2012, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center Auburn, NY, March, 2012
Made in New York: The Art of the Vessel, Fine Craft Invitational, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, August, 2010
Mixed Messages, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA, December, 2006
From a Lump of Clay, New York State Fine Craft Invitational, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, August, 2006
Women's Conference Art Exhibit, Columbia-Montour Women's Conference, Bloomsburg, PA, March, 2006
Artspace Gallery, Bloomsburg, PA, July, 2005
Solo
The Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY, July, 2010
Additional
American Craft Council Show, Baltimore, MD, February, 2017
American Craft Council Show Baltimore, MD. February, 2016
Art in Lincoln Center, New York, NY, June, 2013
Westchester Fine Craft Show, CraftsAmerica, White Plains, NY, October, 2012
CraftBoston, Society of Arts and Crafts Boston, MA, March, 2012
American Craft Council Show, Baltimore, MD, February, 2011
Fiberarts, Sampling, November/December, 2007
My work reflects my interest in the ways that disparate materials complement one another. My goal is always to highlight the qualities they have in common and juxtapose them so that one makes more of the other. My clay forms are stoneware, frequently altered to accommodate fiber attachments and reflect fiber textures. I develop my glazes to unify the clay and fiber elements. My complementing materials are natural and synthetic yarns, fabrics and attachments, all of which have been found, altered, and/or hand-made.
Marcie Schwartzman grew up in Baltimore. While attending Johns Hopkins University as a Math Sciences major, she took ceramics classes at a community center whose teachers became co-founders of the well-respected Baltimore Clayworks. A move to Richmond, VA took her to graduate study in Industrial Engineering, and clay classes at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. After career and child-rearing, she returned to clay in the 1990’s and in 2003 was apprenticed to Sara Baker of Bloomsburg, PA. There, she honed her skills and developed her fascination with ceramic glazes. A lifelong home sewer, she began to meld the two art forms into the work she is doing today.
fiber.clay@gmail.com