Fine
Arts Department Phone: 706/290-2692
Berry College E-mail: jlykins@berry.edu
Mount Berry, Georgia 30149
EDUCATION
1969-1971
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
M.Ed., 1971
1964-1968 Florida Presbyterian College
St. Petersburg, Florida
B.A., 1968
PRESENT POSITION
1972-present
Associate Professor of Art
Berry College
Mount Berry, Georgia
EXHIBITIONS
1967
Group Show, Florida West Coast Sculpture Show, Bradenton, Florida,
Award
1968 Group Show, Associated Mid-Florida College Art Show, Florida
Presbyterian College, St. Petersburg, Florida
1969-72 Group Show, Cedar Key Art Show, Cedar Key, Florida, Award
1972 Duo
Show, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Group Show, Center of Modern Art, Micanopy, Florida
1973 Solo Show, ceramic sculpture, West Georgia College,
Carrollton, Georgia
Group Show, Chiaha Art Center, Rome, Georgia
1974 Duo Show, Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia
Duo Show, Banks-Haley, Albany, Georgia
Duo Show, Florida Presbyterian College, St. Petersburg, Florida
Group Show, "Artists in Georgia," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1975 Solo Show, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Duo Show, McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Duo Show, ceramic sculpture, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Group Show, LaGrange National Competition, LaGrange, Georgia, Award
Group Show, Georgia Designer Craftsmen Annual Juried Exhibition, Georgia
State University Gallery, juror Lois Moran, Atlanta, Georgia.
1976 Solo Show, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Duo Show, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Duo Show, ceramic sculpture, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Group Show, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
Group show of artists represented by the Heath Gallery of Atlanta, Georgia,
Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Group Show,"Without Words," Colony Square, Atlanta, Georgia
1977 Duo
Show, pottery, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Group Show, Georgia Designer Craftsmen Annual juried exhibition, Agnes
Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
Group Show, "Sculpture Hard and Soft," Center of Modern Art, Micanopy,
Florida
Group Show, pottery, Point Mallard Arts Festival, Decatur, Alabama
1978 Solo
Show, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Duo Show, Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia
Group Show, Georgia Design Craftsmen Annual Juried Exhibition, Georgia
State University, Juror Peter Voulkos, Atlanta, Georgia
Group Show, pottery, Mentone Craft Festival, Mentone, Alabama,
Group Show, pottery, New Salem Mountain Arts Festival, New Salem, Georgia
Group Show, Atlanta Arts Festival, Georgia Designer Craftsmen Pavilion,
Atlanta, Georgia
Group Show, Center of Modern Art, Self Portrait Invitational Exhibition,
Micanopy, Florida
1979
Solo Show, pottery, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Group Show, "A Look at Northwest Georgia Artists," Colony Square on the
Mall, Atlanta, Georgia
Group Show, Atlanta Arts Festival, Living with Crafts," Georgia Designer
Craftsmen, Atlanta, Georgia
Group Show, "Magnetic Image 5," Fifth National Invitational Audio-Visual
Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia
Group Show, Keramic Mail Art, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
1980 Duo
Show with Clayton Bailey, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Duo Show with Clayton Bailey, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Group Show, pottery, New Salem Mountain Festival, Rising Fawn, Georgia
1981 Solo Show, ceramic sculpture, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Duo Show, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Group Show, Atlanta Arts Festival, Indoor Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia
"Burnt Offerings and the Blues," Multimedia Presentation, Berry College,
Mt. Berry, Georgia, 1981.
1982 Group Show, "Georgia Clay," Invitational, 11 works shown, Macon Museum
of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
1984 Solo Show, Chattahoochee Valley Art Association Gallery, LaGrange,
Georgia
Solo Show, Dalton Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Georgia
Solo Show, ceramic sculpture, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Group Show, National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts, Juried Member's
Exhibition, Museum School Gallery, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts
1984-85 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Juried Member's
Travelling Exhibition, touring the U.S.A. for one year beginning May 1984:
University of Dallas Art Gallery, Irving, Texas.
University of North Florida, University Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida.
Montgomery College Art Gallery, Rockville, Maryland
Plymouth State College Art Gallery, Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Calvin College, Center Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
North Dakota Museum of Art, University Station, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Miami University Art Gallery, Oxford, Ohio.
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
1985 Solo
Show, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia
Group Show, Arte-Universitata della Georgia, Palazzo Casali, Cortona,
Italy
Group Show, 25 Year Alumni Exhibition, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg,
Florida
Group Show, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Group Show, Positive/Negative, Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee State University,
Johnson City, Tennessee, (National Show, juried by Jack Cowart, curator,
Twentieth Century Art, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.)
1986 Solo
Show, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia
Solo Show, Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Solo Show, ceramic sculpture, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
1987 Group
Show, Jubilee and Southern Festival of Arts, Galleria 300 Building, Atlanta,
Georgia
Group Show, "Georgia Clay: On and Off the Wall." Georgia Institute of
Technology Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Group Show, Spotlight on Georgia Artists, Ersatz Gallery and Colony Square
Ballroom Auction, Atlanta, Georgia
1988 Solo
Show, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Solo Show, Dekalb College, Atlanta, Georgia
Solo Show, Etowah Arts Gallery, Cartersville, Georgia
Group Show, National Ceramic Invitational Exhibition, Ringling School
of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
Group Show, Wittes Ende Show, Signature Shop and Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1989 Solo
Show, North Georgia College, Dahlonega, Georgia
Duo Show, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, Georgia
Group Show, Georgia Clay: Contemporary Studio Works, Macon Museum of Arts
and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
Guest Critic, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Guest Lecturer, LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia
1990 Solo
Show, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
Group Show, "Findings 90, A Celebration of Ceramic Excellence," Society
of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts
Group Show, Atrium Art Center, Augusta , Georgia
1992 Solo Show, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
1993 Solo
Show, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia
1994
Solo Show, "Underland: New Explorations," Berry College, Mount Berry,
Georgia
Group Show, National Ceramic Invitational, University of Central Florida,
Orlando, Florida
Group Show, "Emerging Clay Artists," The Farrell Collection, Washington,
D.C.
1995 Group Show, "The Counteractive Teapot," National Invitational, Albertson-Peterson Gallery, Winter Park, Florida
1996 Solo
Show, Rome Area Council for the Arts, Rome, Georgia
Solo Show, 25 Year Retrospective, Shorter College, Rome, Georgia
1997 Group
Show, "Spotlight Southeast '97," Regional American Crafts Council Juried
Show, Hickory Museum, Hickory, North Carolina
1998 Duo Show, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia.
Group Show, "Showcase of the Arts", Shorter College, Rome,Georgia.
2000 Duo Show, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia
2001
Solo Show, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia
2002 Group Show, "Artist of the Year Retrospective", Rome Area Council for the Arts, Rome, Georgia.
2002 Group
Show, "Area Art Professors", Calhoun Arts Council, Calhoun, Georgia.
2002 Group
Show, “The A.L.M. Show”, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia.
2003 Group Show, Collectors Exhibition, Oconee Cultural Arts Center, September,
Watkinsville, Georgia.
2003 Group Show, “Empty Bowls”, Rome Area Council for the
Arts, November-December, Rome, Georgia.
2004 Group Show, “40 Years and Counting”: Eckerd College Alumni
Exhibition, September-October, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2004 Group Show, “Empty Bowls”, Rome Area Council for the
Arts, November-December, Rome, Georgia.
Selected Collection
Macon
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia 1993. Prose
entitled "Dancing Clay", published in the British magazine Ceramic
Review. 1992. Photograph
of one of my clay reliefs, published in Sculpting Clay, by Leon
Nigrosh, Davis Publications. 1989 My
work reviewed in article entitled "Georgia Clay", Atlanta Art Papers,
by Dorothy Joiner, November-December. 1988 Photograph
of one of my clay reliefs published in American Craft magazine,
"Gallery" section, December issue. 1988 Review
entitled "Kathy Triplett, and Robert Shay" published in the Atlanta
Art Papers, December. 1987 Review
entitled "Marianne Weinberg-Benson", published in Art Papers,
July. 1987 Review
entitled "Jere Lykins"(review of show at West Georgia College) published
in Ceramics Monthly, with photo of my work, April.
1985 Feature
article about my work published in Modern Style: A
Catalogue of Contemporary Design, Published
by the Main Street Press, William Case House, Pittstown, New Jersey, photo
of one of my ceramic wall pieces and textual material about my work, December.
1985 Slides
of several of my works are included in a slide set entitled "Portfolio
Pages on Slides: 1985". This slide set is published and sold by the American
Crafts Council Slides and Films Department. The work was selected by the
editors of American Craft magazine from the work of artists
featured in the "Portfolio" section of the magazine. The set includes
one or more slides of several works by each artist featured in that section
of the magazine, in all of the 6 issues in 1985. 1985 Slides
of my work shown as part of a ceramics workshop on the "bas relief" given
by Kathy McFadden, Chairperson, Dept. of Ceramics, Truro Center for the
Arts, Castle Hill, Truro, Massachusetts, August. 1985 Feature
article on my work, Ceramics Monthly magazine, color and
black and white photos of my work with text by the editors. Professional
Publications, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, February. 1985 Feature
page, "Portfolio" section, American Craft, two full color
photos of my work and an artist's biography. Publisher American Crafts
Council, New York, December-January issue. My work
included: Twenty Americans in Clay, a multi-visual
slide-sound production presented by Gene Kleinsmith at:the Pompidou Center
for the Arts in Paris, France; The Municipal Cultural Center of Athens,
Greece; Acropolis Ceramics in Athens, Greece; Heraklion Cultural Center
in Crete; Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. 1984 Included
in the "Portfolio" files of the American Crafts Council, American Crafts
Council Library, New York. 1979 Article
entitled "Salt Proof Heat Shield for Salt Kilns", published in Studio
Potter. 1979 Review
of an exhibition by Noel Lemmen, published in both American Craft,
and Ceramics Monthly. 1978 Work
featured in Contemporary Art/Southeast, winter. 1977 Lecture
presentation, Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for
the Ceramic Arts, University of Northern Colorado, Greely, Colorado.
1977 Workshop
Leader, "Scorpio Rising Multimedia Workshops", Farmington, Georgia.
1976 Presented
Ceramics Workshop, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida.
1976 Included
in article by Betsy Baker, Art in America. 1975, and
1972 My work reviewed in Craft Horizons, international publication
of the American Crafts Council. FUNDED
GRANTS 2002 Pathfinders
Research Stipend.
Shaw Industries, Dalton,Georgia
Coronet Industries, Dalton, Georgia
Georgia Heart Clinic, LaGrange, Georgia
First Union Bank, Rome, Georgia
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia (2 works)
Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, Georgia
Hardy Realty and Development Company, Rome, Georgia.
Investors Realty and Development Company, Rome, Georgia.
Michael Maloof, Decatur, Georgia
Senator and Mrs. Ed Hine, Rome, Georgia
Richard Hensley and Donna Polseno, Floyd,Virginia
R. Crawford Brock, Rome, Georgia
Dr. John Pyros, Tarpon Springs, Florida
Clayton Bailey, Port Costa, California
Margaret Rigg, St. Petersburg, Florida
David Heath, Atlanta, Georgia
Jerry Chappelle, Farmington, Georgia
Alan Richmond, Atlanta, Georgia
Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, LaGrange, Georgia
PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS
and PUBLICITY
1996 Named "Artist
of the Year", Rome Area Council for the Arts.
1980 Contributed to book entitled A Potter's Guide
to Raw Glazing and Oil Firing,
by Dennis Parks; photos, diagrams, and text concerning my pottery and
kiln included; Scribner and Sons, New York.
2005 Evans School Summer Stipend
1994 Faculty Development Grant, Berry College.
1988 Summer Stipend, Berry College.
1985 Faculty Development Grant, Berry College.
1981 Faculty Development Grant, Berry College.
1979 Faculty Development Grant, Berry College.
1977 Lilly Endowment Grant.
1975 Lilly Endowment Faculty Development Grant.
