| WAYNE BATES |
| 1978 |
Blood River Studio, making sgraffito decorated bowls, platters and vases. |
| Present |
| 1993 | Haystack Mountain School for Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, ceramics teacher. |
| 1970-78 | Philadelphia College of Art, ceramics teacher, co-chairman of Crafts Department. |
| 1973-76 | Moravian Tile Works, ceramic consultant, tile reproduction program. |
| 1971 | Project Radius, Atlanta, Georgia, summer enrichment program in art. |
| 1970 | University of Georgia, summer school ceramics instructor. |
| 1969 | Haystack Mountain School for Crafts, summer kiln supervisor. |
| 1965-68 | Public School Teacher, in speech and art, Missouri and Georgia. |
| 1970 | University of Georgia, Athens, GA, M.F.A. degree in Ceramics. |
| 1965 | Union University, Jackson, TN B.A. degree in Art. |
| 1961 | Jackson High School, Jackson, TN. |
| 1987 |
Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky Department of the Arts, Kentucky Arts Council,Frankfort, KY. |
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1999 |
Kentucky Arts Council, Frankfort Kentucky; Governors Awards In The Arts; Twelve bowls for the awards. |
| 2007 | Flower Works, Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, Berea KY, June 9 - September 17 |
| HANDBUILT, Kentucky Clay Artisans, Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, February 10 - June 4. | |
| The Best Of Kentucky, Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY, March 3 June 23. | |
| From The Earth, University Of Kentucky Museum Of Art, Lexington KY, March 13-21. | |
| 2006 | Blue Grass Clay National, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY, November 4 to December 30. |
| 2003 | Thrown Together, Wayne Bates, Nate Brown and Craig Rhodes; Maiden Alley Cinema Gallery, November and |
| December 2003 |
| 2002 | Wayne Bates, Looking For The Light: Sgraffito On Porcelain, |
| Keystone College, La Plume Pennsylvania, September 8 to October 13. | |
| Bottled Spirits, Kentucky Art And Craft Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky, August 17 to October 26. |
| 2001 | The Regionalists, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, Kentucky, April 29 to June 10. |
| 2000 | Clay In Kentucky, Works by Kentucky Studio Ceramists, Tower Cerlan Gallery, Sept. 6, to Oct. 7, Lexington, |
| KY. |
| Symposium In Clay, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Oct. 29 to Dec. 26, Owensboro, KY. | |
| 1999 |
Fifteen Years On Main Street:Kentucky Crafts, July 21, September 4, l999. Show to travel. |
| 1998 |
On The Surface: An Exhibition
of Painterly Clay, Ohio Crafts
Museum, Columbus, Ohio. The Regionalists, Owensboro Museum Of Art, Owensboro, KY. |
| 1997 | Platters, Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation, Jan. 17, March 1, Louisville, KY. |
| 1995 |
Ceramics Kentucky 1995,
Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY Transitions '95, Kentucky Fair and Expo Center, show traveled for a year, Louisville, KY. |
| 1992 |
200 Years
of Kentucky Craft:A Bicentennial Celebration, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art and Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation,Owensboro, KY. |
| 1991 | Earth Bound, Elizabethtown Community College, Elizabethtown, KY. |
| Functional Ceramics, The Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH. | |
| Designs For The Tabletop, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO | |
| PLATTERS, The Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation Gallery, Louisville, KY. | |
| One Man Show, The Clay Pot, Brooklyn, NY. |
| 1990 | OXIDATION:rediscovered, Studio San Guiseppe, The College of Mount St. Joseph, Mount St. Joesphs,OH. |
| Bourbon Ball, KY. Art & Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY. | |
| 1989 | Functional Ceramics l989, Wayne Center For The Arts, Wooster, OH. |
| Art On The Table: Crafts Designed For Use, The Society For Art In Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA. | |
| The Regionalists, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY. |
| 1987 | Designers of New Judaica, B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum, Washington, D.C. |
| Jackson Purchase Invitational, Clara Eagle Gallery, Murray, KY | |
| Crafts Alliance Invitational, Crafts Alliance, St. Louis, MO. | |
| The Art of Ceramics, Paducah Art Guild, Paducah, KY. | |
| Invitational '87, Artisans Gallery Ltd., Great Neck, NY. | |
| Tea for 200, Incorporated Gallery, New York, NY. | |
| Liberties With Liberty, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1986 | Two Person Show, Crafts Alliance, St. Louis, MO. |
| One Person Show, Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, KY. |
| 1985 | One Person Show, Swan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. |
| N.C.E.C.A. Conference Show, St. Louis Botanical Gardens Invitational, St. Louis, MO. | |
| Paducah Art Guild Show, Paducah, KY. |
| 1983 | S.E.C.C.A. Crafts Invitational, S.E.C.C.A. Center, Winston Salem, N C. |
| ONE MAN SHOW, The Private Collection, Cincinnati, OH. | |
| Washington Craft Show, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. | |
| Kentucky Revisited: 1983, Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, KY. |
| 1984 | Kentucky Artists, Group Show, Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, KY. |
| Color in Clay, Hanson Galleries, Houston, TX. | |
| Annual Ceramics Invitational, Weber State College, New Jersey. |
| 1982 | Group Show, DBR Gallery, Cleveland, OH. |
| Pattern Exhibition, American Crafts Museum, New York, NY. | |
| Craft Invitational, S.E.C.C.A. Center, Winston Salem, N C | |
| Production Lines, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA. | |
| New Work:Wayne L. Bates, Sign of the Swan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1981 | One Person Show, Appalachian Fireside Gallery, Berea, KY |
| Two Person Show, Incorporated Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 1980 | For the Table Top, American Crafts Museum, New York, NY. |
| Eight States Annual: Crafts, J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY. | |
| Wayne Bates, Recent Sgraffito Work, The Clay Place, Pittsburgh, PA. | |
| Homage to Josiah Wedgwood, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1978 | Bates, Daley, Reinhardt, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1977 | Contemporary Crafts 1977, Marian Locks and Helen Drutt Galleries, Philadelphia, PA. |
| The Philadelphia Craft Show, Memorial Hall,Philadelphia PA. | |
| American Crafts 1977, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1976 | One Hundred Artists Commemorate Two Hundred Years, Fairtree Gallery, for Xerox Corp., Rochester, NY |
| Soup Tureens: 1976, Campbell Museum, Camden, NJ. | |
| Exhibition of Liturgical Arts, Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia PA. |
| 1973 | Craftsmen 1973, P.C.P.C. Invitational, Philadelphia Civic Center,Philadelphia, PA. |