Professional Experience
 

2008        Visiting Artist:  Art and Design Lecture Series, University of Minnesota, Duluth

               Juror, Art and Design Student Exhibition, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN

2007 -      Instructor of Art
Present     Northland College, Ashland, WI

1999 -      Assistant Professor of Art
2003        University of Minnesota, Duluth
 

Education

1990        M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

1986        B.F.A.  University of Minnesota, Duluth
 

Selected Exhibitions
 

2007        Wisconsin Arts Board Lobby Exhibit, juried, WAB Lobby, Madison, WI

               "Feats of Clay", juried, Lincoln Arts & Cultural Foundation, CA, cat., purchase award

               "18th Annual Teapot Show", juried, Chiaroscuro Galleries, Chicago, IL

               "Plate & Platter: Salon Style", invitational, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2006        "Tooth and Claw: An Ark of Animals Re-Imagined", invitational, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI

               "Robin Murphy Ceramic Sculpture", solo exhibition, Washburn Museum & Cultural Center, Washburn, WI

               "Tiles of the North", invitational, Duluth Pottery, Superior, WI

               "Steeped in Tradition", 19th teapot invitational, Ariana Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

               "One Square Foot", juried, Clay Squared to Infinity, Minneapolis, MN

               "Teapots: Universal Adoration", invitational, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI

2005        "Mastery in Clay: 2005", invitational, The Clay Studio, Philadephia, PA

               "Ceramic Animal & Vessel Forms", 3-person show, Lizzards Gallery, Duluth, MN

               "13th Strictly Functional Pottery National", juried, Market Center, Lancaster, PA, cat

2004        "Viewpoint Ceramics", juried, Grossmont College Hyde Art Gallery, El Cajon, CA

               "30th Anniversary Exhibition", invitational, The Clay Studio, Philadephia, PA

2002 -
2003        "Body of Clay, Soul of Fire", invitational, touring exhibition, book
               Saint John's University Art Center, Alice R. Rogers & Target Galleries, Collegeville, MN
               Visual Art Center at the Washington Pavilion of Arts & Sciences, Sioux Falls, SD
               University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris MN
               Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
               Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI

2001        "Birds, Beasts & Flowers", solo exhibition, Lizzards Gallery, Duluth, MN

               "Exchanging Views", invitational, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

               "Plate & Platter Invitational", Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000        "Tens Years in Retrospect", invitational, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
 
               "All Systems Go" invitational, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN

1999        "Artists on their Own", juried, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY

               "Made in Clay", Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY

Grants

2006        Chequamegon Bay Arts Council Project Grant, Washburn, WI

1997        Jerome Artist Project Grant, Minneapolis, MN

1988        Jerome Foundation Residency Fellowship, Collegeville, MN
 

Collections

               Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN

               Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN

               St. John's Pottery, St. John's University, Collegeville, MN

               Dennis & Colleen Bindley

               Mary H. Rice

               Thomas Kerrigan