NancySelvin_Ceramics_ProfessionalActivities

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

TEACHING

California College of the Arts, Oakland CA
        Senior Adjunct Professor 2007-2020

PUBLIC SERVICE

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
        External Tenure Review Expert 2019

AMOCA, Pomona CA
        Board Member 2016-current

Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Board of Trustees, Newcastle ME
        President 2000-2004
        Member 1999-current

Alameda County Public Art Advisory Committee, Oakland CA
        Member 2005-2014

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

“Intimate Abstractions: Summer Ceramics Invitational” 2017
        Curator, Nancy Selvin for Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Oakland CA

“Fundamentally Clay: Ceramic Abstraction” 2002
        Curator, Nancy Selvin for Williamson Gallery Scripps College, Claremont CA

Selvin’s colossal gouache and pencil drawings of bottles reinforce the sense of simultaneous simplicity and monumentality characterizing her sculptures.
— Glenn R. Brown