Julie Elkins
EDUCATION
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
BFA, August, 2003. Concentration in Ceramics and Metalsmithing.
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.
“Printmaking and Clay” with Laura Jean McLauglin. Spring 2004.
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC. Gemstone setting, and advanced metalsmithing instruction with David Butler. Summer 2002.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011-Present
Art Activity Coordinator and Youth Mentor, Boys and Girls Club, Key West, FL.
2010-2011
Program Leader and Youth Mentor, Boys and Girls Club, Richmond, VA.
Program Leader and Youth Mentor, Art 180, Richmond, VA.
Youth Sculpture Instructor. Visual Arts Center. Richmond, VA.
2007
Ceramics Instructor. Thomas Dale High School. Chester, VA.
2005-present.
Visiting Artist: Workshops. Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, VA.
Event Coordinator and Company Member. All The Saints Theater Co. Richmond, VA.
Co-Founder and Event Coordinator. Punk Sinatra Theatre. Montpelier, VA.
2003
Assistant Ceramics instructor. Penland School of Crafts. Penland, NC.
AWARDS
Bobby Kadis Award. Full Scholarship in Ceramics.
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC. May, 2004.
Peachtree Award. Scholarship in Crafts.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. 2002.
Allan Eastman Founders Fund. Scholarship in Ceramics.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. May 2001.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming Exhibition at Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH. October 2012.
“Julie Elkins: New Work” Eric Shindler Gallery, Richmond, VA. September 2009.
“Remembering to Remember”, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH. March 2009.
“Brick by Brick”, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA. October 2005.
“New Works”, Hershey Center for the Arts, Richmond, VA. March 2005.
SELECTED EXHIBITION
2012 Upcoming Exhibition at “SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art) Chicago” Sherrie Gallerie, Chicago IL.
2011
“Fighting Rainbows” Eric Shindler Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2010
“50th Anniversary Celebration” Eric Shindler Gallery, Richmond, VA.
“SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art) Chicago” Sherrie Gallerie, Chicago, IL.
“Emergence” (NCECA Gallery Tour) Bahdeebahdu Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2009
“Home Sweet Home” Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY.
“Midnight Snack” Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond, VA.
“SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art) Chicago” Sherrie Gallerie, Chicago, IL.
“Group Exhibition” Eric Shindler Gallery, Richmond, VA.
“Teapots, Steep in Thought” Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburg, PA.
2008
“Adaptation”, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA. March.
“Plant Zero @ Artspace”, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA.
“SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art) Chicago” Sherrie Gallerie,Chicago, IL.
“The Amazing Ceramics on Gist Street! (NCECA Gallery Tour)”
James Simon Sculpture Studio, Pittsburgh, PA.
2007
“SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art) Chicago” Sherrie Gallerie, Chicago IL.
“Grand Opening” VisArts Center, Rockville, MA.
2006
“SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art) Chicago” Sherrie Gallerie, Chicago IL.
“The Curious Teapot”, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO.
2005
“SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art) Chicago” Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2004
“The Object and Its Place”, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC.
“Teapots: Object to Subject”, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO.
“100 Teapots 2”, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD.
2003
“SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art) Chicago” Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, IL.
COLLECTIONS
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Fuller Craft Museum. Boston, Massachusetts.
The Kamm Teapot Foundation. Sparta, North Carolina.
Arthur Goldberg Collection, Boston Massachusetts.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, Ohio
Eric Shindler Gallery, Richmond, VA.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Upfront, “Sherrie Gallerie Exhibition”, Ceramics Monthly.April, 2009. 17.
Kaizaad Kotwal, “The Many Faces of Clay: Dazzling, Dizzying, Dynamic-Ceramic Sculptors on the Cutting Edge”, Short North Gazette, December, 2008.
Bird Cox, “Medium”, Brick Weekly, July 10, 2008, 5.
Potpourri, “Steeped in Richmond”, Richmond Home Magazine, Fall, 2006, 24.
Upfront, “Juried Exhibition of Teapots”, Ceramics Monthly, February, 2004, 22.
Mike Giuliano, “Clayworks’ tempestuous return to ‘Teapots’”,
The Columbia Flier, January 29, 2004, 35.
