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BIO (back to top)
Marcia Selsor was born in Philadelphia and received a BFA in Ceramics with Bill Daley at the Philadelphia University for the Arts. She received an MFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale with the former British Sculptor, Nicholas Vergette.
She is a Professor Emerita at Montana State University-Billings where she taught ceramics for 25 years. She authored the book “Modelos de la Alfareria de Agost” while researching the traditional potters of Spain during a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 1985-86. She taught ceramics at the Tashkent Institute of the Arts in Uzbekistan on a second Fulbright Award in 1994.
She has had Artists’ Residencies at Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada; two in Uzbekistan; the Straumur Artists’ Commune in Iceland; the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana; The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA; and La Meridiana near Certaldo, Italy.
Her work is in public and private collections on three continents. She works in a variety of ceramics techniques. Her architectural pieces often incorporate the sculptural imagery of Romanesque symbolism. Her Raku plaques reflect the vivacity of living in Montana through the imagery of wild mustangs that live near her home. She teaches workshops internationally in Spain, the U.S., Italy and Canada. In 2005 she served as the Ceramics Program Director at the University of Hawaii-Manoa and has served on the technical staff for Ceramics Monthly since 1998. Her work has appeared in several books: Extruded Ceramics by Baird, Advanced Raku Techniques, Alternative Kilns and Firing Techniques, and Raku; A Practical Approach. She has also written numerous articles for Ceramics Monthly, Pottery Making Illustrated, BAR (British Archaeological Reports) and NCECA Journals.
EXHIBITIONS (back to top)
SOLO / FEATURED ARTIST
2006 St. John’s Gallery, Billings, MT
2005 Sutton West Gallery Featured Artist, Missoula, MT
Zig Zag Gallery, Grafix, Billings, MT
2003 Kelowna Clay Fest, Presenters Exhibition, Okhanagan University Gallery, Kelowna, BC, CANADA
2002 "Genus/Species: Four ceramics sculptors," Hobson Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD
"A Remembrance; Every Life is a Book” 9/11 memorial solo installation Warehouse Gallery,
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena MT
“Period of Adjustment” solo exhibition, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
1999 Twenty-five Year Retrospect, Northcutt-Steele Gallery, Billings, MT
1998 Marcia Selsor and Davi Nelson, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
Lynn Munns and Marcia Selsor, Wyoming College, Rock Springs, WY
1997 McCormick Cafe, solo exhibitions at the St. Vincent's Women’s Center, Billings, MT
1995 Fred Longan and Marcia Selsor, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
The Women’s Center, Billings, MT
Kirilian Visions, Marcia Selsor at the Women’s Center, Billings, MT
1993 Marking the Millennium, Installation, Medieval Studies Conference, and Kalamazoo, MI
Brian Cast and Marcia Selsor, Recent Work, Castle Gallery, Billings, MT
1992 Recent Raku by Marcia Selsor, Minot Art Gallery, Minot, ND
1991 Sketches of Spain: Marking the Millennium, a ceramic installation by Marcia Selsor,
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
1990 Lynn Verschoor and Marcia Selsor, Carbon County Art Guild, Red Lodge, MT
1989 Troy Dalton and Marcia Selsor, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
1988 Marcia Selsor: Recent Works, Artifacts Gallery, Bozeman, MT
1987 Pollock and Selsor, Northcutt Gallery, EMC Billings, MT
1986 Jeananda Col and Marcia Selsor, Custer City Heritage Center, Miles City, MT
1985 Jeananda Col and Marcia Selsor, Lewistown Art Center, Lewistown, MT
Troy Dalton and Marcia Selsor, Mon-Dak Heritage Center, Sidney, MT
1981 One Person Ceramics Exhibition, 234 Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
One Person Ceramics Exhibition, Northwest Gallery, Northwest Community College, Powell, WY
One Person Ceramics Exhibition, Custer County Heritage Center Miles City MT
1980 Two person Show, Exposure Gallery, Eastern Montana College, Billings, MT
One Person Ceramics Exhibition, Lewistown Art Center, Lewistown, MT
1978 Two person Exhibition, Lewistown Art Center, Lewistown, MT
1976 One person Exhibition, Eastern Montana College, Billings, MT
1973 Thesis Exhibition, Mitchell Gallery, Carbondale, IL
1972 Artist Residency, The Grail, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, USA
GROUP (back to top)
2006 Archie Bray International, Warehouse Gallery, Helena, MT
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2005 Twenty Year Anniversary Exhibition, Grafix Studio Complex, Billings, MT
Tile Heritage Exhibition & Auction, Pomona, CA
T-Rex Alive Auction at the new Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY
American/Soviet Ceramics Symposium (1991) displayed at Museum of Arts & Crafts, Riga, LATVIA
Masters in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Exhibition, MSU-Billings, MT
Custer County Heritage Center, Annual Auction, Miles City, MT
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Arts & Sciences Benefit, UH Manoa Foundation, Honolulu, HI
Faculty Exhibition, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Good Earth, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
2004 Raku Masters, Finch Pottery, Bailey, NC
The Clay Studio Annual Art Auction, TCS Philadelphia, PA
Made at the Clay Studio, International Residents 2003-2004, TCS , Philadelphia, PA
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
2003 Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
The Clay Studio Annual Auction, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
Raw/War, The Shed Gallery, Billings, MT
The Archie Bray Foundation Auction, Helena, MT
2002 Ceramics Invitational, Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
The Vase, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
Archie Bray Foundation, Resident Artists in Spokane, WA
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Residents of the Archie Bray Foundation, Lill Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Remembrance 9/11 Tribute, Marshall Gallery, Greenville, NC
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
2001 Artistic Imaginings in Clay, Museo de Arte de Los Americas, Washington, D.C.
Greater Yellowstone National Juried Exhibition, Carbon County Depot, Red Lodge, MT
Eastern Montana Clay Invitational, Custer County Art Center, Miles City, MT
Ten by Ten, Artisan Gallery, Belleville, WI
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Critters, Artisan Gallery, Belleville, WI
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
2000 Appalachian Center for Crafts 2000, Smithville, TN
Earth and Fire; selected Ceramic Artists from the Northwest, Layton Gallery, Yakima, WA
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Garden Sculpture, Wildwood Gardens, Kenwood, CA
1999 Gods and Demons, Winters Antique and Ethnographic Gallery, Winters, CA
Summer faculty Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
4th Annual Silverhawk Fine Crafts Awards for Architectural Ceramics and Non-functional Ceramics,
Online competition
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
20th Annual SE Montana Juried Exhibit, Custer County Art Center, Miles City, MT
1998 Text and Texture, Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY
Wild Things, Peters’ Valley Center for Crafts, Layton, NJ
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Lower Yellowstone Invitational, Custer County Art Center, Miles City, MT
The Postcard Show, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
Art Train/ MSU Billings Exhibition, The Depot, Billings, MT
1997 CerComInternational Competition, www.lexicon.net.au/~world/cercon/56.htm
Temperatura Baja, Centro Agost/Museo de Alfareria, Agost/Alicante, SPAIN
Fulbright Artists 20th Anniversary, International Meridian Center, Washington, DC
Contemporary American Ceramics, Loveland Museum Gallery, Loveland, CO
Montana Mud, Western Heritage Museum, Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
1st Annual Clayarters Exhibition, Naples, ME
Temperatura Baja, Centro Agost/Museo de Alfareria, Agost/Alicante, SPAIN
Ceramics Regional Invitational, Western Wyoming College, Rock Springs, WY
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
1996 Small Works, Martin Harris Gallery, Jackson, WY
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
International Women in the Arts, Erector Square Gallery, Hartford, CT
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
Raku and Ceramics Sculpture, Centro Agost, Agost, SPAIN
1995 Distinguished Fires, A Survey of Montana Ceramics, Yellowstone Art Museum
Ceramics Invitational, Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Museum Annual Auction, Billings, MT
On and Off the Wall, Ceramics Invitational, Sutton West Galllery, Missoula, MT
1994 Equus, Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, MT
Yellowstone Mud, Western Heritage Center, Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
In Our Own Backyard, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, MSU-Billings, MT
1993 World Clay Stomp, International Invitational, Northern Arizona University Galleries, Flagstaff AZ
International Ceramics Exhibition, The United Nations Building, Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN
International Ceramics Symposium Exhibition, Union of Artists Exhibition Hall, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Marking the Millennium; Sketches of Spain, an Installation, Fetzer Center, Kalamazoo, MI
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
1992 Western Regional Clay Invitational, The Year of American Craft, Wyoming College, Rock Springs, WY
Ceramics Exhibition, Tashkent Exhibition Hall Union of Artists, Tashkent UZBEKISTAN
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
1991 International Ceramic Symposium Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Riga, LATVIA
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
US/Soviet Artists Invitational, Northern Arizona University Galleries, Flagstaff, AZ
International Ceramic Symposium Exhibition, Dzintari Institute of Creative Arts, Jurmala, Latvia.
Electrum XX, National Juried Exhibition, Holter Museum, Helena, MT
Fourteenth Annual North Dakota National Competition, Minot Art Gallery, Minot, ND.
1990 One Hundred Years of Montana Women Artists, traveling Centennial Exhibition: Celebrate Montana, Montana Institute of the Arts, Haynes Gallery, Bozeman, MT
Electrum XIX, National Exhibition, Holter Museum, Helena, MT
Thirteenth Annual North Dakota National Competition, Minot Art Gallery, Minot, ND.
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
The Nude Show, Castle Gallery, Billings, MT
EMC Faculty Show, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
Ten Views Show, Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Auction, Billings, MT
1989 EMC Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Gallery, Billings, MT
100 Years of Montana Women Artists, traveling show: Custer County Art Center, Miles City, MT
Eastern Montana Art Faculty Show, traveling 1989-1990: Art for Liberty’s Sake, Chico Hot Springs, MT
Twelfth Annual North Dakota National Juried Art Exhibition, Minot, ND - Merit Award
“Self-discovery of the Spirit”, EMC Galleria SUB, Billings, MT
Eastern Montana Juried Art Exhibition, Custer County Heritage Center, Miles City, MT
- Honorable Mention
Yellowstone Art Center 21st Annual Auction, YAC, Billings, MT
Nudes ‘89 Invitational, Castle Gallery, Billlings, MT
1988 “Clay WEST” Regional Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Missoula, MT
“Equus” Beall Art Center, Bozeman, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
1987 “Dimensions ‘87” Lenexa’s National 3-D Art Show, Lenexa, KA.
1986 Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
“El Dia del Museo Internacional”, Museo de Alfareria, Agost/Alicante, Spain.
11th Annual Art Auction, Custer County Heritage Center, Miles City, MT
1985 EMC Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Gallery, Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
National Color Show, Castle Gallery, Billings, MT
AAUW National Art Mart, Greeley, CO.
Montana Institute of the Arts Open Juried Exhibition, Arts Chateau, Butte, MT
4th Annual All Montana Women Art Exhibit, Black Orchid Gallery, Butte, MT
1985 National Color Show, Castle Gallery, Billings, MT
AAUW National Art Mart, Greeley, CO
Montana Institute of the Arts Open Juried Exhibition, Arts Chateau, Butte, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
4th Annual All-Montana Art Exhibition,Mon-Dak Heritage Center, Sidney MT
14th Annual Yellowstone Art Center Annual Art Auction, Billings, MT
4th Annual All Montana Women Art Exhibit, Black Orchid Gallery, Butte, MT
1984 Group Exhibition, Miller Foundation for the Arts, Billings, MT
Annual Art Auction, Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, MT
Art Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
9th Annual Custer County Heritage Center Art Auction, Miles City, MT
Missouri River Meeting Centennial, Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, MT
EMC Art Faculty Exhibition, Bozeman H.S. Art Gallery, Bozeman, MT
“National Color Show”, Castle Gallery, Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Lewistown Art Center Annual Auction, Lewistown, MT
1983 2nd Annual Montana Women Artists Exhibit, Black Orchid Gallery, Butte, MT
Lewistown Annual Art Auction, Lewistown, MT
Women in Design International, Congress of Female Architects,Paris,FRANCE
Missoula Museum of the Arts Annual Auction, Missoula, MT
Art Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
1982 Missoula Museum of the Arts Annual Auction, Missoula, MT
EMC Faculty Exhibit at the Commissioner of Higher Ed. Off., Helena, MT
EMC Faculty Exhibit, Liberal Arts Gallery, Billings, MT
Accepted in “What’s New in Clay” national juried exhibition, Univ. Houston,TX
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Lewistown Art Center Annual Auction, Lewistown, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Liberal Arts Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
1981 Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Liberal Arts Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
1980 Yellowstone County Exhibition, -Blue Ribbon, Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Liberal Arts Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
1979 1st Annual Beartooth Mountain Rendezvous Fine Arts Invitational, Silvergate, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, Invitational, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Liberal Arts Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
Yellowstone Art Exhibition, Billings, MT Blue Ribbon
1978 Montana Colleges and Universities Art Faculty Invitational, Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, MT
Yellowstone Art Center Annual Auction, juried, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Liberal Arts Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
1977 Yellowstone Art Center Auction, juried, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Liberal Arts Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
1976 EMC Faculty Exhibition Liberal Arts Gallery, Billings, MT
“National Show” Teapot Invitational, Haynes Gallery, MSU, Bozeman, MT
“By and About Women” Eastern Montana College, Billings, MT
1975 Midland Empire Art Exhibit, Billings, MT
Faculty Exhibition, Northcutt Gallery, Eastern Montana College, MT
Boston Preview Crafts Fair 1, juried, Boston Arts and Crafts Society Boston,MA
3rd Biennial Lake Superior International Crafts Exhibit, Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN
“Downstairs, Downtown, Invitational” Louisville, KY
“Illinois Craftsmen” State Museum, Springfield, IL, Purchase Award
1974 NCECA, Student Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
SIU Recent Graduates in Art, Mitchell Gallery, Carbondale, IL
“Inter-D III Crafts, International Juried Show, Edinburg, TX
1973 Exposure II, Pekin Art Association, juried, Pekin, IL
1971-72 “Women ‘71," Northern Illinois University, traveling exhibition
1969 Senior exhibition, College of Art, Philadelphia, Pa.
1966 Selected Works of Saturday Program, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1965 Selected Works of Saturday Program, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1964 Selected Works of Saturday Program, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1963 “Young Philadelphia Artists” Gimbel’s Downtown, Philadelphia, PA - Merit Award
1962 Selected Works of Saturday Program, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
COLLECTIONS (back to top)
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
The Jade Palace Restaurant, Helena, MT
Archie Bray Foundation Permanent Collection, Helena, MT
Margaret Greenham Theater, Walter Phillips Permanent Collection Banff Centre, Alberta, CANADA
Instituto de Cultura Juan Gilbert Alicante, SPAIN
International Center of Artists, Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN
Museum of Plastic Arts, Tumen, RUSSIA
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Riga Museum of Fine Arts, Riga, LATVIA
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, RUSSIA
Planned Parenthood of Billings, MT
Yellowstone Art Museum, Permanent Collection, Billings, MT
Deaconess Medical Center, Billings, MT
Security Bank, Laurel, MT
Springfield Art Museum, Permanent Collection, Springfield, IL
.... and numerous private collections
RESIDENCIES (back to top)
2004 Artist Residency, La Meridiana in Tuscany, ITALY
2003 Artist Residency, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2002 Artist Residency, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT, USA
2000 Artist Residency, Straumur International Artists’ Commune, Hafnarfjordor, ICELAND
1994 Fulbright Scholar’s Award, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
1993 Artist Residency, International Ceramics Program, The Banff Centre, Alberta, CANADA
1993 Artist Residency, Khakimov Ceramics Factory, Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN
1992 Artist Residency, Khakimov Ceramics Factory, Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN
1991 Artist Residency, Dzintari Center for Creative Arts, Jurmala, LATVIA
1985-86 Fulbright Scholar, researched and documented practices in 48 pottery villages throughout Spain
AWARDS & HONORS (back to top)
2005 Assistant to Bill Daley, my mentor from Philadelphia University of the Arts,
Archie Bray Workshop, Helena, MT
2000 Emeritus Status granted by the Montana Board of Regents
1999 Double Winner in Architectural Ceramics and Non-functional Ceramics, Silverhawk Crafts Competition
http://www.silverhawk.com/ex99/selsor/welcome.html
1999 Faculty Achievement Award, Montana State University-Billings
1996 Juror of Visual Arts for NW College, Literary Magazine, Powell, WY
1994 Fulbright Scholar’s Award, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
1993 Faculty Merit Award, Montana State University-Billings
1992 Faculty Merit Award, Montana State University-Billings
1992 Juror, Fifteenth Annual North Dakota National Art Exhibition
1991 Faculty Merit Award, Montana State University-Billings
1990 Faculty Merit Award, Eastern Montana College
1989 Merit Award, Twelfth Annual North Dakota National Juried Exhibition
Recommended by juror for purchase in collections.
1989 Honorable Mention, Eastern Montana Juried Art Exhibition
1989 Faculty Merit Award, Eastern Montana College
1987 National Endowment for Humanities Summer Seminar “The Soul’s Journey in Medieval
Christian Mysticism” led by Ewert Cousins, Fordham University, Bronx, NY
1986 National Winner, Outstanding Young Woman of 1985 of Montana
1985 Fulbright Scholar’s Award for Post-Doctoral Research in Spain
1982 Outstanding Young Women of America
1979 Outstanding Young Women of America
1979 Blue Ribbon, Yellowstone Art Exhibition
1975 Purchase Award, Illinois State Museum, Permanent Collection
1966 Gold Medal Achievement in Fine Arts, Germantown Savings Fund Society
1963 Merit Award for Watercolor, “Young Philadelphia Artists”
Included in Who’s Who in American Art since the mid 1980s, and Who’s Who in Education
PRESENTATIONS (back to top)
2006 Tribute to Louana M. Lackey; 1926-2005, NCECA General Business Meeting, Portland, OR
2005 Invited Speaker, “Tiles from Both Ends of the Fourteenth Century Islamic Empire and a Few Sites
in Between,” Tile Conference sponsored by The Potters’ Council and The Tile Heritage, Pomona, CA
2004 Guest Artist Presentation, Raku Masters, Finch Pottery, Bailey, NC
2003 Guest Artist Presentation, Kelowna Clay Festival, Kelowna, British Columbia, CANADA
2002 Guest Artist Presentation, Hood College, Frederick, MD
2001 Guest Speaker on Ceramics in the Yellowstone Art Museum Auction, Billings, MT
2000 Invited Speaker, University of Reykjavik, School of Fine Arts, Reykjavik, ICELAND
2000 Panelist, NCECA “Some Answers for Michael Cardew,” Denver, CO
1999 Ecological and Environmental Determinants on Spanish Village Pottery Production at the Session
on Ceramic Ecology; Recent Studies on Ceramic Materials at the American Anthropological
Association in Chicago, IL
1997 Panelist, NCECA, "Once is Not Enough: Why Fire Twice?” session on Single Firing at
NCECA Conference, Las Vegas, NV
1997 "The Persistence of Memory; Slip Patterns and Techniques throughout the Mediterranean" at the
Session on Ceramic Ecology at the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC
1995 "A Comparison of Islamic Kiln Design Between Spain and Uzbekistanæ at the
American Anthropological Association session on Current Research of Ceramic Materials
in Washington, D.C.
1994 Invited Speaker, Uzbek National Ceramics Teachers Conference, The Republican Art School,
Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN
1994 Invited Speaker, Fulbright Orientation for new grantees to Central Eurasia, Washington, DC
1993 Panelist at the Ceramics Symposium “Identity and Place of Specific Mediums in Contemporary
Art Practice” with Peter Dormer, Gloria Hickey, and Peter Schjeldahl at the Banff Centre,
Banff, Alberta, CANADA
1992 Invited Panelist in International Artists Exchanges, 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Montana
Arts Council at the Buck/Butterfield Ranch in Bozeman, MT
1992 "Analyzing the Via de la Plata through the Historical Context of the Bishopric Sees of Ancient Iberi"
at the session “Pilgrimage and Art: How Do We Construe the Pilgrimage Routes Now That We’ve
Thrown Out Conant and Porter?” at the 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies in
Kalamazoo, MI
1991 "Los orígenes de las imágenes en el arte medieval a lo largo del camino de la peregrinación hacia
Santiago de Compostela" at the session “El Camino de Santiago en la leyenda, la historia, la literatura,
y el arte” at the Camino de Santiago Vía de la Plata, I Congreso Internacional en Zamora, SPAIN
1990 Panelist, NCECA, Fulbright Experiences; Crossroads of Culture at Kansas City, KS
Numerous conference presentations at NCECA, American Anthropological Associations, etc.
1989 "Recent Changes in Ceramic Traditions in Moveros/Zamora, Spain," presented at the session on
Current Research on Ceramic Materials at the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC
1989 "The Medieval Pilgrim Route to Santiago de Compostela" presented at the American Association of
Religion Rocky Mountain Division at EMC, Billings, MT
1989 "Cross-cultural Interchange in the Fulbright Experience" presented at the National Council on Education
of Ceramic Arts (NCECA) at Kansas City, MO (Also panel moderator)
1988 "Clay-Mixing Traditions of Agost, Spain with Beal Mossman," presented at the session "Ceramic Ecology
Revisited, 1988: Current Research on Ceramic Materials" at 1988 American Anthropological
Association (AAA) Meeting in Phoenix, AZ
1987 "The Three-Story Kiln of Agost with Beal Mossman," presented at the session “Ceramics Ecology Revisited: Socioeconomics and Technology of Pottery” at AAA meeting, Chicago, IL
1986 "Functional Spanish Pottery Tradition and the Modern Kitchen with Beal Mossman," presented at the session “Ceramic Ecology Revisited: A Pot for All Reasons” at the AAA meeting in Philadelphia, PA
1985 "Social Criticism in Humorous Imagery in Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture with Beal Mossman,"
presented at the annual Popular Culture Conference, Louisville, KY
1984 "A Jungian Analysis of Animal Symbols in Contemporary Ceramics with Beal Mossman," presented to
The Music School, Center for the Study of the Creative Process, Seattle, WA, at invitation after
presentation in Wales.
1983 "A Jungian Analysis of Animal Symbols in Contemporary Ceramics with Beal Mossman," presented at
the International Conference of Psychology and the Arts, sponsored by the British Psych. Assoc.
Welsh Branch, Cardiff, U.K.
1983 "Ceramic Metaphors with Beal Mossman," presented at the Western Humor and Irony Meeting (WHIM)
in Tempe, AZ
1980 "Drawing on the Right Hemisphere? with Beal Mossman," presented at the American Psychological
Association, annual conference in Montreal, CANADA
1980 "Pre-nineteenth Century Women Artists," presented at Weber State College in Ogden, UT
PUBLICATIONS (back to top)
2005 "La Meridiana, International Center for Ceramic Arts in Tuscany," Ceramics Monthly, May, pp. 50-53
2004 "Ceramic Architecture; Traditions and New Approaches," NCECA 2003 Journal
report by Marcia Selsor, pp.152-154
2003 "Italian Ceramic Sculptors: Lee Babel and Alessio Tasca," Studio Potter Network Newsletter,
Volume 15, Number 2, pp. 10-13
2003 Architectural Ceramics Workshop in Italy, Pottery Making Illustrated, Nov/Dec, pp. 26-28
2003 "Tile a Fireplace Surround," Pottery Making Illlustrated, Sept/Oct, pp. 15-18
2002 "How to Build a Bird Bath," Pottery Making Illustrated, Nov/Dec, pp. 21-23
2001 "An Adventure in Tuscany," Studio Potter Network Newsletter, Spring 2001
2001 "Why Do WE Make Pots or Anything Else of Clay in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century?"
NCECA Journal 2000 Volume 21 Higher Ground, pp.129-131
1997 "Single Firing: Why Once Is Not Enough; an Historical Explanation of the Development of
Multiple Firing Techniques" Guilty Pleasures: The 1997 National Council on Education of
Ceramic Arts Journal, 1997-98 Volume 18, pp. 31-32
1995 Fulbright in Uzbekistan, Studio Potter, Volume 23, Number 2, p.76
1996 "Japanese Women Ceramists", National Council on Education of Ceramic Arts Journal,1995-96,
p. 43 (with Rie Nagashima)
1992 International Ceramic Symposium in Tashkent Uzbekistan, Studio Potter,
Volume 21, Number 2, pp. 38-39
1990 "The Potters of Agost in Southeastern Spain from Fulbright Session: The Cross-cultural Experience,"
National Council on Education of Ceramic Arts Journal, Volume 10, Number 1, pp. 55-56
1989 "Spanish Folk Pottery, Part 2: Agost, A Traditional Spanish Pottery Village," Ceramics Monthly,
May, pp. 44-47
1988 "Three-story Kiln of Agost," Ceramics Ecology Revisited, 1987: The Technology and Socioeconomics
of Pottery, Kolb and Lackey (Editors), British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series 436,
Oxford, Part 1, Chapter 3, pp. 57-87
1988 "Events in Studio Learning; A Report on the Panel," NCECA Journal, Volume 9, Number 1,
East Meets West, p. 33
1987 "Social Commentary," NCECA Journal, Volume 8, Number 2, Ceramics in the Art World, p. 32
1987 "Ceramics in the New Wing of the Everson Museum," NCECA Journal, Volume 8, Number 1, pp. 8-10
1987 "Two American Potters in Spain; Lucy Breslin and Marcia Selsor," Women Artist’s News, Volume 12,
Number 1, Feb/Mar 1987, p. 14
1986 Los Modelos de la Alfareria de Agost, una coleccion de dibujos por Marcia Selsor
Museo de Alfareria, Agost/Alicante, Spain
1985 "Saint Louis Terra Cotta," National Council on Education of Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Newsletter,
Fall, Volume 9, Number 2, pp. 12-13
1984 "Ceramic Art History," SIG Report NCECA Newsletter, Winter, Volume 8, Number 3, pp. 10-11
1984 "A Visit to Agost," NCECA Newsletter, Spring, Volume 7, Number 4, pp. 22-23
(and Mossman and Schutz)
1983 "Potters of Agost," Crafts International, Oct/Dec 1983, pp. 27-28 (and Mossman and Schutz).
1983 "Rammed Earth Studio," Ceramics Monthly, May, pp. 56-58
1979 "Billings," Crafts Range Magazine, Nov/Dec, p. 16
1978 "The Archie Bray Foundation," Crafts Range Magazine, Nov/Dec, pp. 22-23
1978 "Adapting Fuel Oil Burners to Ceramic Kilns," in chapter on Alternative Fuels, The Studio Potter Book,
The Daniel Clark Foundation, Goffstown, NH, pp. 156-159 (and Mannino)
1975 "Feathered Slip Trailing," Ceramics Monthly, Sept, pp. 43-45 (and Mannino)
1974 "Adapting Fuel Oil Burners to Ceramic Kilns," Studio Potter Magazine, Summer, pp. 44-45 (and Mannino)
CONTRIBUTOR
2004 Bailey, Michael. Oriental Glazes, A & C Black. London and University of Pennsylvania Press,
pp. 29, 34, 78, 90, 99
2004 El Album de la Alfareria de Agost by Ilse Schutz and Ma. Jose Rodriguez-Manzaneque y Escribano
Centro Agost, pp. 8, 31
2002 Encyclopedia of Asia, Asian Architectural Decoration and Tile Work, Central Asia Berkshire Publishing
1998 Davis, Don. Wheel-Thrown Ceramics, Lark Press, photos on pp. 13, 15
BIBLIOGRAPHY (back to top)
2005 "La Meridiana, The International Center for Ceramic Arts in Tuscany," Ceramics Monthly, April, pp. 50-53
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1996 Hot Sites on the Web, USA Today used an image of work from Selsor’s personal page on Artscape.
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Plus numerous exhibition catalogs