Frank Bosco - Curriculum Vitae
Masters of Fine Art Alfred University College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY 1980
Bachelors of Fine Arts Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 1978
Teaching
New York/New Jersey Academy of Ceramic Art - 1997-present
Jersey City NJ
Title: Founder, CEO, and Faculty
The Academy is a for-profit Limited Liability Corporation that serves the greater metropolitan New York City region. Students include artists, designers, teachers, and others from all walks of life; of every race, ethnicity and religious creed, engaging together in ceramic studio art as a serious and creative endeavor.
Courses taught (by title):
Wheel-thrown Pottery and Form
Clay Combine
Science Primer for the Ceramic Artist
Dimensions in Tile
Slip-Cast Porcelain Tile
Mold-Making and Slip-Casting
Firing for Special Effects
Raku Workshop
Nightingale-Bamford School - Spring 2015
New York NY
Courses in ceramics taught to grades 5 through 12.
Rhode Island School of Design - 1993-2016
Providence RI
Title: Adjunct Professor
Courses taught (by title)
Slip-Cast Ceramic Object
Topics in Ceramic Material Science
Senior and Graduate Seminar
Drawing Takes Form in Clay
Ceramics: A Sculptural Perspective
Clay in Context
Additional Initiatives
Participates on graduate thesis committees, as well as mid term and final critical reviews committees.
Established student and faculty advisor committees.
Assembled and authored two in-depth source books used by students in the following courses: Slip cast Ceramic Object and Topics in Ceramic Material Science.
Developed and integrated facilities for mold making and slip casting; extruding and die making; raw material lab organization; general studio organizational systems.
Professional development of the RISD Japan Project: Winter-session course in Ceramics at the Okamura studio in Nara Prefecture, Japan.
St. Peter’s College - 2002-2008
Jersey City NJ
Title: Adjunct Professor/Fine Arts
Course taught: Ceramics Workshop
The NY/NJ Academy of Ceramic Art is the studio for this course in collaboration with St. Peter’s, where matriculated students earn degree credit.
Parsons School of Design - 1988-1999
New York NY
Title: Instructor
Courses taught (by title)
Wheel thrown Pottery
Building with Extruded Clay Forms
Raw Material Science
Rutgers University - 1997
New Brunswick NJ
Title: Sabbatical replacement/Ceramics
Course taught: Ceramic Sculpture
Drew University - 1992-1996
Madison NJ
Title: Adjunct Professor/Fine Arts
Course taught (by title)
Basic Ceramic Studio
2-D Design
Figure Drawing
Additional Initiatives
Retooled, restructured lab and facility.
Collaborative Projects
Abstract Painter Frank Stella 1980 - 1985
Responsibilities include major contributions with respect to form development, color, establishment of the ceramic processes used, design and fabrication of metal support systems, supervisory role at the foundry locations and during exhibition installation.Two series of projects were created: A series of seven ceramic relief sculptures, and a series of eleven relief sculptures molded from extruded ceramic models which were then cast into steel. Both series of works were exhibited at the Knoedler Gallery in London in1985.
First–person narrative: I met Frank Stella in 1980 while working a day job for the London based fine art printing firm the PetersburgPress. Stella, who then learned of my background in Ceramics, challenged me to recreate one of his metal reliefs in clay for a possible limited edition series. Stella then asked for my input with respect to the design of clay elements and ceramic pigments I would inlay into the cast clay elements, thus signaling our rapport and collaboration was born.
Working alone and with Stella from my studio in Jersey from 1980-83, seven unique slip-cast relief sculptures were created. This marked a turning point in Frank Stella’s output heretofore and a shift from painting into 3-D relief and sculpture. These ceramic works also marked the beginning of a series inspired by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, which is still a force in Stella’s later work.
On the heal of the first project in 1983, I created van load of terra cotta extruded forms, still leather-hard, to challenge Stella to a new collaboration. With our rapport cemented, he accepted the challenge and arranged the forms I created into a series of relief sculptures. These sculptures were then cast in steel at the Talix foundry in Peekskill NY. For Stella, these works also marked a first in utilizing cast steel as a medium for his art.
Read Stella's hand written evaluation-letter of recommendation
Neo-Expressionist Painter James Brown 1985 - 1986
Initiatives include design and development of the creative process in the production of twenty-four unique terra-cotta entablature-tiles.
First–person narrative: In 1985 I received and call and subsequent visit from the English sculptor Andrew Lord who had heard from dealer Marian Goodman about my recent collaborations with Frank Stella. Lord, who expressed his interest in collaborating on a ceramic project, suggested another artist, painter James Brown, to step in first. Working with Brown was a pleasure, as he was extremely receptive to all my suggestions with respect to the tile format, colors and glazes, and working with unique production, as opposed to a limited edition series. This project took only about a year to produce and culminated in an exhibition at Castelli Graphics Gallery in New York City.
Grants/Fellowships
NEA/Mid Atlantic Arts Fellowship - 2001
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Artist Development Grant - 1999
Rhode Island School of Design
Publications and Press
Ceramic Art Tile 2001
By Deborah Goletz, Schiffer Books
Extruded Ceramics 2000
By Diana Pancioli, Lark Books
The Extruder Book 2000
By Daryl E. Baird, The American Ceramic Society Press
Extruded Ceramics 1998
By John Conrad, Falcon Press
Handmade Tiles 1994
By Frank Giorgini
Arts Magazine (review) 1991
Title: Frank Bosco, by William Corbet
The South End News (review) 1991
Title: Mother Goosed, by Cate McQuaid
The Boston Globe (review) 1991
Title: Critics Tip, by Nancy Stapen
The New York Times (review) 1990
Title: Narrowing 400 Entries Down to 29, by Vivian Raynor
The Newark Star Ledger (review) 1990
Title: Trio of Jurists Give State's Arts Annual An Avant-garde Edge By Eileen Watkins
Panels/Workshops
City of Jersey, NJ Department of Housing Authority
Artist Certification Board 2006-2010
Purpose: As sworn-in City official, to examine applicant portfolios and credentials for certification as artists in the city of Jersey City, and eligible to purchase or rent live/work studios at fifty-percent of market value with tax abatements for twenty years.
Kent State University, Ohio 2008
Workshop: Visiting faculty for summer Blossom Program.
Responsibilities included: Teaching mold-making and slip-casting concepts and methodologies; presentation and discussion of career dossier; participation in group critiques and student advising.
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia 2002
Workshop: Visiting Faculty for summer program.
Responsibilities included: Responsibilities included: Teaching mold-making and slip-casting concepts and methodologies; presentation and discussion of career dossier; participation in group critiques and student advising.
Interlaken School of Art, Stockbridge, MA. 1998
Workshop: Visiting Faculty for summer program. Mono-print Ceramic Tile
Responsibilities included: Teaching mold-making and slip-casting concepts for the production of large-scale tile utilizing my invented process of casting with pigmented porcelain slip.
New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ 1998
Panelist: Role as Arts Advocate
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 1998
New York/New Jersey Academy of Ceramic Art, Jersey City, NJ
Workshop: Tile Painting in the Portuguese Tradition.
First-person narrative This workshop was a first-time collaboration between the Acadermy and the Newark Museum in conjunction with their exhibition of Portuguese Ceramic Tile. Participants in this workshop used the Academy as the studio to produce their tiles. I provided my expertise in teaching the process, equipment, and materials.
Selected Exhibitions
New Jersey State Museum 2017
Special Exhibition/New Jersey Arts annual
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2010
Ceramic Department Group Show Curated
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2005
Faculty Triennial Curated
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ 2004
New Jersey Arts Annual/Cache: New Horizons Juried
Worcester Center for the Arts, Worcester, MA. 2003
Faculty Exhibition Curated
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2003
Small Works Biennial Curated
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ 2002
New Jersey Arts Annual/Beauty and Function-Crafts in the Garden State Juried
Market House Art Center, Lancaster, PA 2002
Tenth Annual Strictly Functional National Juried
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2002
Ceramics Triennial Curated
MPI Media Productions International, New York, NY 2001
Take heArt: Post 9-11 Triumph of Hope Juried
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 2001
New Jersey Arts Annual Juried
Morris Museum, Morristown NJ 2000
New Jersey Arts Annual Juried
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ 2000
New Jersey Arts Annual/Into the Millennium Juried
Dodge House Gallery, Providence, RI 2000
Ceramic Art: Recent Work Juried
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY 1999
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Solo
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1999
RISD Ceramics Curated
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 1998
Mid-Atlantic Contemporary Tile Juried
Gallery 10 Ltd., Washington D.C. 1998
Connections Curated
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY 1998
Then and Now: A Contrast in Styles Curated
PSD-X Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1998
Small Works Curated
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY 1997
New Work by Gallery Artists Curated
Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY 1997
Philadelphia/New York Connections Curated
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1997
RISD Ceramics Curated
Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia 1997
RISD Ceramics Curated
PSD-X Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1996
Small Works V Curated
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1996
Faculty Biennial Curated
Arts Space 534, Monroe County Arts Council, Stroudsburg, PA 1995
Archetypes, Icons, Mythologies Juried
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1994
Faculty Biennial Curated
Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison NJ 1993
Frank Bosco/Ceramic Paintings Solo
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1993
Faculty Exhibition Curated
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX 1993
National Ceramic competition Juried
Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ 1993
Seven Deadly Sins Juried
Genovese Gallery Annex, Boston, MA 1992
Clay/From New Jersey Solo
Genovese Gallery, Boston, MA 1991
Frank Bosco/Ceramic Paintings and Relief Sculptures Solo
Muhlenberg College of Art, Allentown, PA 1990
Contemporary Art At Muhlenberg Curated
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ 1990
New Members Curated
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ 1990
New Jersey Fine Arts Annual Juried
PSD-X Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1990
Small Works 2 Juried
PSD-X Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1990
Faculty Exhibition Curated
Bergen Museum of Arts and Sciences, Paramus, NJ 1984
In A Sense Juried
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1979
In Western New York Curated