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PRESENTATIONS ⊚ TEACHING & CONSULTING ⊚ CERAMICS ⊚ COMMISSIONS, COLLECTIONS, EXHIBITIONS ⊚ ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS ⊚ CIRCLES ⊚ EDUCATION

PRESENTATIONS
2021  Poster session and artist talk at Rising Voices,
"Centering justice in the convergence of sciences, communities, and actions".
2021  Art/science panel with Heather Goldstone and Konrad Hughen at Highfield Hall, Falmouth MA.
2018   Science Cafe, U Mass Boston.
2016   Sandwich STEM Academy, Sandwich MA.
2015   National Science Foundation, Alexandria VA.
2014   North Carolina State University.
2014   Commonwealth School, Boston MA.
2012   Georgetown University exhibit opening and panel event. 
2011   Woods Hole Golf Club.
2010   Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship.
2010   Lincoln School, Providence, RI.
2009   Marine Biological Laboratory Club.
2008   Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics seminar.
2001   Land Institute Prairie Festival, Salina, KS: “Ocean as Salt Water Prairie.”
2000   New England Aquarium, with C. Eben Franks of WHOI.
1998   College Art Association, presenter on Martin Kemp’s panel.

TEACHING & CONSULTING
2022  Consulting scholar affiliated with the  Future of Human Learning, a project of the Red House at Georgetown University.
2011-2012   Artist in Residence Georgetown University (on site and virtual), collaborator with CNDLS team on “Lederman Student Fellowship,” culminating in show of students' work.
1990-1997   Founder/teacher of “Kids Clayspace,” summer program for children and adults.
1995             Lead "Arts Infusion" workshops for teachers and students together at the Margaret A. Neary School, Southborough, MA.
1994-1995   Peer Mediation Program assistant, Morse Pond School, Falmouth, MA (volunteer).
1989-1991   Arts Coordinator, reviewed performers and programs, made recommendations to administrators (volunteer).
1989-1991   Artist-in-Residence, performance/sculpture and workshops for 3rd grade, Mullen-Hall  School.
1972-1973   Assistant to Dean, co-counselor to students at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT.
1968-1969   Teacher of Art, Cherry Lawn School, Darien, CT.
1968             Summer school teacher of art to Norwalk, CT high school students at Cherry Lawn School.

CERAMIC WORK (1970-2016) 

COMMISSIONS & COLLECTIONS
2012  “Fukushima Study,” set of bowls commissioned by radiation chemist Ken Buesseler, for symposium in Japan.
2008  “Seven Large Marine Ecosystems,” by U.S. Fisheries for retiring NOAA Vice-Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher.
2003  “Thank-You Bowls,” made for MIT Earth Systems Initiative donors.
2002  "Revolution from the Heart of Nature," awards to recipients at Bioneers.
1990  “Presidential Bowls,” made for MIT President Charles Vest to use as gifts.
1979   Bowls for Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ gift shop, for the exhibit “New England Begins.”

Generally, work is in China, Japan, Korea, India, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, England, Africa, Mexico, Canada, Argentina, Quatar, Israel, Ireland, Iceland, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Malaysia, and throughout the United States.  A few with name recognition: Al Gore, Emperor Akihito of Japan, John Michele Cousteau, Vinton G. Cerf, The Very Rev. James Parks Morton, oceanographer Sylvia Earle, Bob Ballard, cartographer Marie Tharp, biologist Ruth Hubbard, Nobel Laureates Tim Hunt and George Wald, and California Poet Laureate Al Young.

EXHIBITIONS
1989-2021  The Soft Earth Studio, Woods Hole, an attractor for scientists, educators, and tourists from around the world.
2012  Georgetown University’s Spagnuolo Gallery.
2009   Cape Museum of Fine Arts group show of potters.
2008   Cahoon Museum group show.
2001   The Land Institute, Salina, KS.
1998   Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Brewster, MA.
1978   Endeavor House at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
2017  Falmouth Magazine, "Earth as a Medium."
2015  Bostonia, Boston University, "Mud Stories Forged in Flame."
2015  Esprit, Boston University College of Fine Arts, "Seafloor Ceramics."
2015  Laura Chessin's video interview.
2015  Rebecca Helm's  Deep Sea News blog: "How to Hold a Piece of the Deep Sea."
2015  Gizmodo: "Own a Piece of the K-T Band."
2012   "Living Lab" on NPR: a radio interview by Heather Goldstone with marine chemist
Ken Buesseler: "Deep Sea Glazes and Radioactivity."
2011   Watershed, Brown University, article by Chrissie Bodznick.
2006   Inquiry on WICN: radio interview with Mark Lynch.
2003   Visualizations: the Nature Book of Art and Science; Oxford University Press, German edition (U.S. edition 2001): “Dendrites from the Deep,” essay by Martin J. Kemp.
2003   Ceramic Review: essay “Deep Sea Treasures.”  
2002   Cape Cod Life magazine: “Gifts from the Sea,” essay by Amy Wilson Sanger.
2001   Resurgence magazine: “Gaia’s Glazes,” article by Nancy J. Todd.
2001   WCAI-WNAN on NPR: “The Soft Earth,” story by Tracy Hampton.
1999   Nature (1 April): “Glazes From Deep Time,” article by Martin J. Kemp.
1998   Annals of Earth (vol. XVI, #3): “Life Speaking to Life: the Pottery of Joan Lederman,” article by Nancy Todd.

WRITTEN BY JOAN
2010   Gaia’s Glazes: Mysteries of Sea-Mud Glazing Revealed.

CIRCLES
2001  Participant on Collective Wisdom Initiative team with Fetzer Institute's coordinators at Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma CA.
2000-2001  Steward, Collective Wisdom Initiative, funded by Fetzer Institute to co-create "Centered on the Edge."
1998-1999  Circle dialogues with students using clay in a teepee -- a group immersion before individuals broke away to sculpt separately.
1997  Participant in weekend intensive with Paula Underwood, Iroquois author, teacher and diplomat.
1996  Participant in three days of circles using indigenous wisdom for decision making in business settings, at Ehama Institute, Santa Cruz, CA.
1995  Co-designer, three-day intensive organized by Turning Point Foundation.  Co-facilitated ceremonies at Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY.
1994  Participant in three days of dialogue circles organized by Turning Point Foundation and facilitated by people from various traditions, aimed for people in business, education and transformational healing.

EDUCATION
2021  Soulful Facilitator training -- Cohort Three of Symponia Institute's intensive.
2021  Leadership as Sacred Practice with the GLEN, a global learning and exchange network.
2018  Insight Meditation Society retreat: "Freedom Here and Now."
2015  edX McGill University MOOC: Body Matters 101.
2014  edX MITx Course 3.086x:  Innovation and Commercialization.
1991  Summer Visual Studies Institute, with Pratt Institute at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.
1970-1971   Goddard College: independent study in ceramics and kiln building, with Phil Homes.
1964-1968   Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, B.F.A. degree. Major: painting; minor: psychology.
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