In my current work, I use functional, ceramic vessels to explore my personal striving for emotional and spiritual equilibrium. Aesthetically, I investigate balance through the interplay of freedom and fluidity versus symmetry and structure.
Arlynn Nobel
Arlynn Nobel was born and raised in Detroit but has been a longtime resident of Canada. After earning her MFA in ceramics from UMass Dartmouth in 2011, she taught at two Boston-area ceramics schools: Harvard Ceramics and Mudflat Studio. She received her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where she was named an RBC Dominion Securities Emerging Artist. As a ceramics major at Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, she received the Graduate Exhibition Award for “Best in Show”. She was among the featured artists in the 2005 Summer Invitational and the 2011 Summer Salon at the Lacoste Gallery, Concord, Massachusetts. In 2007, she was selected to represent Canada as an artist in residence at the Goshogawara International Woodfiring Festival in Aomori, Japan, where her work remains in the permanent collection of the Tsugaru Kanayama Gallery. Arlynn is a committed vessel maker who enjoys challenging the limitations of the clay medium, developing techniques that enable new avenues of expression.
Arlynn is currently teaching at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, British Columbia. Arlynn is also on the board of trustees at Watershed Centre for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine.
Exhibitions
2019
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts: Directly Playful
California Building, Minneapolis, MN.
2011
"Summer Salon"
Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
MFA Thesis Exhibition
University Gallery Star Store, New Bedford, MN
2007
Visiting Artists Exhibit
Tsugaru Kanayama Pottery, Aomori, Japan
“Another Bloomin’ Show”
The Distill, Toronto, Ontario
Featured Emerging Artist Exhibit
RBC Dominion Securities Regional Head Office, Halifax, Nova Scotia
NSCAD University Graduate Exhibition
Halifax
Selected participating graduating artist,
NSCAD University sales exhibit at the Spring 2007 One of a Kind Show
Toronto
2006
“Iterations”
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
2005
“Summer Ceramic & Mixed Media Invitational,”
Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
"The Space Within,"
Gardiner Museum, Toronto
Sheridan College Graduate Exhibition
Oakville, Ontario
2003
Lakefield Jazz & Art Festival
Lakefield, Ontario
2002
Featured exhibiting ceramist Lynden Gallery
Port Hope, Ontario
Demonstrator
Outdoor Visual Art Exihibition, Madoc, Ontario
2001
Kawartha Potters Guild Exihibition & Sale
Peterborough, Ontario
Northumberland Arts and Crafts Show
Campbellford, Ontario
Awards
2007
RBC Dominion Securities Emerging Artist
NSCAD University
2005
"Best Work by Graduate," Allison Vallance Graduate Exhibition Award
Sheridan College
2003
Crack Pot Studio Award for Outstanding Achievement in Craft & Design
Sheridan College