Resumé for Aaron "Wolf" Milavec
2739 Queenswood Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45211
email: Moderator@fuse.net
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Jana S. Glas at the Petra Pottery Ceramic Art Studio (Troy, OH) 2001-2002
Marian Julien (sculpture) Petra Pottery Ceramic Art Studio (Troy, OH) Spring,
2002
Mariella Owens, Riverbend Art Center (Dayton, OH) Spring, 2003
George Hageman, Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) 2002 & 2004
Stephanie Beiser, Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) 2003-2004
Cindy Butler-Jones, Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) 2004-2005
Shannon Crothers, Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) Summer, 2004
Tess Little (advanced sculpture), Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) Spring,
Fall, & Winter, 2005
Mark Echtner (figure drawing), Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) Winter,
2004; Fall, 2005
Bob Coates (pastel drawing), Sinclair Community College (Dayton, OH) Spring,
2005
Malcolm Davis, "King of Shino" (workshop, Yellow Springs, OH) April
2004
Bruce Grimes, "Electric Raku" (workshop, Yellow Springs, OH) May 2004
Sam Chung, "Prince of Tea Pots" (workshop, Wittenburg College) September
2004
Angelica Pozo, "Queen of Mojolica Tiles," (hands-on workshop, Dayton,
OH) February 2005
Joe Bova (workshop, Rosewood Art Center, Kettering, OH) March 2005
Mark Hewitt, Sandi Pierantozzi, Neil Patterson (exhibition and workshop, The
Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH) April 2005
-- for "Windblown Reeds on a Sand Dune"
2001 Spring Fling Fine Art Show - Second Prize 30 Mar 01
2001 Greenville Art Guild Show - Second Prize 21 Apr 01
2001 Darke County Fair Fine Arts Competition - Second Prize 18 Sept 01
-- for "Rapunzle Let's her Hair Down" (sculpture)
2001 Darke County Fair Fine Arts Competition - Second Prize 18 Sept 01
-- for "Thousand Flowers Bloom"
2004 Fifth Third Bank Fine Art Exhibition - Honorable Mention 13 May 04
-- for "Ixchel (Mayan Goddess) in Moonlight"
2005 Juried Fine Arts Student Exhibition, Sinclair College, Honorable Mention
01 Apr 05
2005 Juried Show: "Earthbound: Dayton Clay II," Dayton Visual Arts
Society, 16 May 05
-- for "Maya Mountain Mist"
2005 First Prize, Ceramics, Greenville Art Guild 30th Annual Spring Art Show
09 Apr 05
"Vessels of Tears--The Impact of NAFTA on Mexican Corn Farmers"
Lecture at Sinclair Community College; Bldg #13; Room 361
04 May 2005, 7:00-8:15 p.m.; Dr. Kathy Rowell's Sociology Class
"Smoke on the Mountains--Discovering
the Secrets of Mayan Potters" Clay Times (accepted for publication)
Bear's Mill--permanent
exhibit and sales, 2002 to 2004 (national historic site outside Greenville,
OH)
Terra Cotta Café-- permanent exhibit and sales, 2005 (historic
site in downtown Dayton)
2005 Juried Fine Arts Student Exhibition, Sinclair College (Dayton, OH)
2005 Spring Fling Fine Arts Show and Sale (Sidney, OH)
2005 13th Annual Fifth Third Bank Fine Arts Exhibition and Sale (Piqua, OH)
2005 26th Annual Greenville Art Guild Spring Art Show and Sale (Greenville,
OH)
2005 Juried Silent Auction, "Maya Mountain Mist," Dayton Visual
Arts Society (Dayton, OH)
2005 Juried 38th Annual Art in the Park, Riverbend Arts Center Council (Dayton,
OH)
2005 one-person show, "Smoke
on the Mountains--Mayan Pottery and Beyond," Hypotenuse Gallery, Sinclair
College (Dayton, OH) 21 April - 19 May 2005
2005-2006 Permanent Exhibit, Pendleton Art Center, Studio 410 (Cincinnati,
OH)
2006 Juried "Exhibition Twelve" at The Gallery (Cincinnati, OH,
513-661-3886)
2006 Invitational Fine Arts Student Exhibition, Hypotenuse Gallery, Sinclair
College (Dayton, OH)
2007 Juried Spring Art Fair, Rookwood Pottery Center (Cincinnati, OH)
2007 one-person show, "Fire and Earth = Maya Pottery," Bean Haus
(Covington, KY)
2007 Juried 5th Annual Art Fair, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park (Mason, OH)
F. Skills
-- Ceramics
wheel throwing: kick wheels, electric wheels, Japanese wheels
handbuilding: pinching, coiling, slab techniques, hump and press molds, composite
pots
designing: lids, lips, handles, spouts, pedestals, necks, surface textures,
extruded elements, inlaying
finishing: turning, fettling, ribbing, reshaping, paddling, fluting, faceting,
piercing, burnishing, cutting
glazing techniques: mixing/preparing, under glazing, dipping, pouring, sponging,
spraying, painting, flicking, masking, etc.
firing: wood kilns, gas kilns, electric kilns, various Raku kilns and reduction
techniques, salt firing
-- Sculpture
taking away, adding to, realistic, stylistic
masks, torso, full-figure, abstract, ethnic/cultural
faces on mugs, torsos on Mayan vessels
bas relief, mosaics/tiles
-- Associated Skills supporting the above
master electrician, carpenter, plumber
thermodynamics of kiln construction and operation
physical chemistry of design forms and glaze formulas
web designer; interactive learning software (see www.didache.info)
photography: conducted a photography training program (with darkroom) for
two years
digital photography and manipulation, creating web pages for digital prints
-- Drawing
charcoal, pastels, pencil
still life, nature, figure (anatomical)
perception of edges, spaces, relationships, lights and shadows, and the whole
color theory, collage, framing
principles of teaching drawing on the right side of the brain
Aaron Milavec holds a doctorate in Systematic and Historical Theology from
the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA). He has been a seminary and
university professor for twenty-five years, and currently serves as Chair
of the new program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature: "The Didache
in Context." He has published and lectured widely. His thousand-page
volume, The Didache: Faith, Hope, and Life of the Earliest Christian Communities,
50-70 C.E., received a 2004 Catholic Press Association award recognizing
the best books in theology. Beginning in 2000, Milavec has pushed aside his
lecturing/publishing as a theologian and has embraced his primordial calling
as an artist.
25 Jan 2006