DAVID VERTAČNIK

EDUCATION

1972 B.S. Illustration (Major) Ceramics (Minor)
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana

1975 M.F.A. Ceramics
 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
 Alfred, New York

TEACHING

1979-Present    Associate Professor, Visual Art Department,University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions (selected)

2014: David Vertačnik: Local Flavor, Selected Work From 1979-2014, Lawrence Arts Center,           
           Lawrence, KS. August 29-October 4
2011: Lawrence Art Walk, Home studio exhibition, Lawrence, Kansas
2008: “Paralleled Squared: The Earthly and the Ethereal, Featuring artist Mary Ehrin & David Vertačnik, Rocky Mountain School of Art & Design, Steele Gallery, Denver, CO.
2007: “Eyeball QSO”, three decades of studio work, University Art Gallery, Department of Art, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN.
2003: Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
1997: Peru State college, Peru, NE.
1995: Salina Art Center, Salina, KS.
1993: William Jewell CCollege, Liberty, MO.
1993: Bethel College, Newton, KS.

Competitive Group Exhibitions (selected)

2009: The Kinsey Institute’s 2009 Juried Art Show, Indiana University SOFA Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana.  May 29- July 31
2007: “Breaking the Mold”, a juried sculpture exhibition featuring work by School of Art and Design alumni. Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, School of Art and Design, NYSCC at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
2002: Topeka Competition 24, Topeka, KS, Sabatini Gallery
2001: Overland Park Convention Center Art Project, selected for the collection.
2000: Lawrence Arts Commission 11th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Lawrence, KS.
1999: Centennial Celebration, University of Kansas Art & Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS.
Topeka Competition/21, Topeka and Shawnee Public Library Gallery of Fine Art, Honorable Mention.
1996: Slovene Artists from around the world, Hotel Kompas, Most na Soci, Slovenia.
1996: Texas National 96 Exhibition, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches,     TX.
1992: The River Market Regional, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Walker Art Center.

Invitational Exhibitions (selected)

2013: Theatre Lawrence Opening Art Exhibition, Lawrence, KS. June3- July 7
2010: Place, curated by Ben Ahlvers, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas. February 12- March 13.
2009: This is Clay, Ceramic Students and Faculty Exhibition, Red Door Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, as part of First Fridays, April 3
2007: “Contemporary Craft, Recycled & Rethought”, Westmorland County Community College, Youngwood, PA   
2007:“Stardust Memories”, Fifty years at Indiana University Bloomington.  This exhibit is in conjunction with the March 2007 National Conference on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Spalding University, Huff Gallery, Louisville, KY
2005: “For the Arts, Open House, Shook, Hardy and Bacon, Overland Park, KS
2005: Endless Summer, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002: “OUT OF ACADEME: CLAY ARTISTS WHO TEACH”, Manhattan Arts Center, Manhattan, KS
2002: Sculpture in the Wiley Nook, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002: Kansas Clay Connections, Art and Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2001: Art Colony of Emigrant Slovene Artists, Most na Soci, Slovenia.
2001: Art Colony Most na Soci 2001, Tolmin Museum, Tolmin, Slovenia.
2001: OdVsepovsod/From All Over, 50th Anniversary of Slovene Emigrant Artists from around the world, Organized by the Association City Art Museum, Ljubliana, Slovenia.
1999: Indiana State University Ceramics Alumni Exhibition, traveling exhibit: Concord College, Athens West Virginia, West Virginia Institute of Technology, Indiana State University.
1999: Kansas City Artist Coalition Clay Invitational, Kansas City, MO.
1998: Common Materials/Uncommon Ideas, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO.
1998: Form, Function and the Boogie-Woogie Blues, the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX.
1997: Seventh Art Colony of Emigrant Slovene Artists, Hotel Kompas, Most na Soci, Slovenia.
1995: House and Home: Sculpture by David Vertačnik, Two year traveling solo exhibition, KRATES, through Salina Art Center, Salina, KS.

Selected Awards and Grants
 
2012:  Faculty Travel Fund, to attend Slovene Artist Colony, June 8-15
2010:  Sabbatical Award, University of Kansas, Studio Research
2008:  Hallmark Faculty Research Fund Grant
2007:  Faculty Travel Fund, to attend the exhibition “Breaking the Mold”at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2006:  Hallmark Faculty Research Fund Grant, to attend the National Council on Education for Ceramics Conference in Louisville, KY, March 14, 15, 16, Selected one of three finalists for The City of Lawrence, Kansas Percent-for- Art Program, sculpture proposal for Lawrence and Douglas County Fire and Medical  Station No.4
General Research Fund Grant, University of Kansas“, Maquetts expressed as Monumental Sculpture”
2002: Topeka Competition, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, Kansas
2002: University of Kansas General Research Fund, Linear efflorescence-in bronze
2001: Overland Park Convention Center Art project, selected for the collection.
1997: A collective Harvest/1997 Slovene Artist Colony, University of Kansas General     Research Fund.
1995: Founding Found and Ready/made Objects Sculpturally, University of Kansas General Research Grant.

Selected Publications

2014: Lawrence Magazine, Mick 10, Lawrence Art correspondent Mick Braa revisits 10 Artists    
           featured in Lawrence Magazine over the past decade. Fall issue.
2013: Lawrence Magazine, Sticks, Stones and Scrap-metal Bones, three Lawrence Sculptors   
           article by Mick Braa, Spring issue.
2006: Alfred Magazine, article discussing the juried exhibition “Breaking the Mold”. Thirteen      
          alumni artists exhibited work at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, January 26-February, 2007
2003: ARTS & LIVING, Lawrence Journal World, March 9, feature article, Lawrence, KS
2003: The Kansas City Star, PREVIEW, p. 30 “Farm Tool Floral,” March 28- April 3
2003: The University Daily Kansas, p. 6a, March 28, Lawrence, KS
2003: REVIEW, pp.25-26, April-May, Kansas City, MO
2001: Exhibition catalog, OdVsepovsod / From All Over, Mestna Gallery, Ljubliana, Slovenia.
2000: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, EVERYDAY, Sunday, Jan. 4, 1998, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art.
2000: West End, Clayton World, Vol. 26, No. 31, Dec. 11, Review of exhibit Common materials/Uncommon Ideas.
2000: Slovenija, Quarterly magazine, Autumn, Mo. 3, Vol. XI, By Cromir Frelih.
2000: TV 6, Video, Artists in their studios.
2000: Lawrence Journal World, The MAG, feature story by Jan Biles, Aug. 14.
2000: NeDelo, Umetnost Premosca Pregrade, by Katija Ros, July 6.
1995: Video, Access to Art 7: Contempoary Sculpture, Producer Scott Williams, Interview with overlays from the Salina Art Center Exhibit.
1994: Slovene Cultural Society Newsletter, extablished in Indianapolis, IN.
1994: Oread, Vol. 21, No. 5, University of Kansas faculty publication, by Kay Albright, Oct. 18.
1994: Delo, Slovenija v srcu, Ob slikanju na Mostu na Soci dobiva cas drugacne razs eznosti, by Katija Ros, July 5.
1994: Rodna Gruda 6, Barve Soce, barve delov v Mostu na Soci, By Ivan Cimmerman, July.
1994: Lawrence Journal World, March 24, Highland Community College Exhibit.
1994: Lawrence Journal World, March 17, Texas National.