Jeffrey Thurston

Contact Me

Email: jthurstonart@gmail.com

Education

2016                 MFA                            Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

2013                 BFA                             California State University Chico, Chico, CA.

2009                                                    Diablo Valley College, Walnut Creek, CA.

 

Teaching Experience

 2023                Metairie Park Country Day School, Metairie, LA, Long-term Substitute Teacher, Ceramics classes for grades 7-12

 2018-current    Nunez Community College, Chalmette, LA, Adjunct Professor, Sculpture and Ceramics

 2015-current    Country Day Creative Arts (Summer Program), Metairie, LA, Ceramics Teacher for students aged 10-14 years olds

 2018                 Louise S. McGehee School, New Orleans, LA, long-term Substitute Teacher, Art teacher for grades 8-12

 2016-2018        Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Adjunct Professor, Ceramics

 2015-2016        Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Graduate Student Instructor, Ceramics

 

 

Solo Exhibition Record

 2016                 Watching Soap Operas with the Sound Turned Off, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA

                          Profits, Prophets, and Pogo Sticks, Carroll Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

2015                 This Shifting Vessel, The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

2013                 A Not So Simple Construct, BSO Space, Ayres Hall, CSU Chico, Chico, CA.

2012                 Subdural Specters, Laxson Fine Arts Gallery, Laxson Auditorium, CSU Chico, Chico,                            CA.

 

 

Selected Group Exhibition Record

 2023                Miniature exhibition, Academy Gallery, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA

2022                Cultivating Clay: A Survey of Chico State Ceramics Since 1996, Jackie Headley University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA

2019                Off Center, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA. (Juried by Joshua Green)

2018                Clay in Place, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

                        Clay as Canvas, The Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA. (Juried by Chandra DeBuse)

2017                Alma Mudder, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.

                        Ninth Annual Beyond the brickyard Juried Show, North Gallery, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT. (Juried by Josh DeWeese)

                        PRINT: 2D | 3D, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA. (Juried by Mayumi Hamanaka)

2016                Full Faculty exhibition, Carroll Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

2015                Visions in Clay 2015, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA. (Juried by Lisa Reinertson)

 

Collections

 2017                   Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

2014                   Museum of Northern Contemporary Art (MONCA), Chico, CA.

 

Other Experience

 2015-2016        Tulane GSSA (Graduate Studies Student Association) Studio Arts Representative

2012-13            Curator for Laxson Fine Art Gallery, Laxson Auditorium, CSU Chico, Chico, CA.

2012                 Gallery assistant, Trinity Gallery, Trinity Hall, CSU Chico, Chico, CA.

2011-13            Studio assistant for Ceramics lab, CSU Chico, Chico, CA.

2008-09            Studio assistant for Ceramics lab, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA.

2007-09            Studio assistant for Sculpture lab, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA.

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