Curriculum Vitae
Education
M.F.A. 2008 Ceramics/ 3-D Studio Art Arizona State University
B.F.A. 2005 3-D Studio Art/ Ceramics, Biology minor University of Louisville
Exhibitions
2021-2024 Art of the Southwest, (invitational display of the 36 Shots of Pikes Peak as part of the 150th anniversary of the city) Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO.
2023 Another Way is Possible. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO.
2022 Transforming Trauma. Collaborative show curated by Michael Martin of RawTools. Local Relic, Colorado Springs, CO.
2021 ABBA's Greatest Hits: 20th Annual Artist Books Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ.
2020 Small Favors 15th Anniversary Show, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.
2019 Chronicled in Clay: Ceramics and the Art of the Story. Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
2017 Amuse Yeux. Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado.
2016 *(solo) Cheap Shots and Ugly Mugs. The Proof Gallery. Colorado Springs, CO.
State of the Union. The Cole Galleries at Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX.
Drawing Never Dies. Redline Gallery, Denver, CO. Jurors: Daisy McGowan and Donald Fodness.
Mountain Standard Clay. Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado. Juror: Peter Held.
2014 36 Views of Pikes Peak. UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO.
2013 3: Work By Lisa Kerns, Aaron Cohick and Corie Cole. Zip 37 Gallery, Denver, CO.
Ceramica. UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art, Gallery 121, Colorado Springs, CO.
2011 FRESH FIGURINES: A New Look At An Historic Art Form. Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.
2009 No Limit. Night Gallery. NCECA. Tempe, AZ.
Small Favors IV (Invitational), The Clay Studio, Philadelphia.
2008 *(solo) Other Small Matters of Import, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Rumination Station, public performance with Chloe Boleyn Palmer on April 20th, 2008, Mill Ave, Tempe, AZ.
Small Favors III (Invitational), The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.
2007 RED. Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore MD. Juried by Richard Notkin.
Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Jurors: Bill Daley, Jeff Guido, Marge Brown Kalodner.
The Amarillo Biennial 600: CLAY, The Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX. Juror: Marilyn Zeitlin. Best In Show. Catalog.
2007 HOT $H*T , Arizona State University Ceramics (Invitational), California Conference on the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA
Small Favors II (Invitational), The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Live Free or Die, Rhonda Schaller Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY. Jurors: Rhonda Schaller and Dave Jaquish. Catalog.
Re-Wedged, 30 Years of Ceramics at University of Louisville, NCECA, Louisville, KY
2006 Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Jurors: Stanley Shapiro, Jeff Guido, Marge Brown Kalodner
ASU Graduate Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona. Jurors: Greg Esser and Cindy Dash. Exhibition Class Award
Ink and Clay 32, W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Art Gallery, CSU Pomona, Pomona, CA. Jurors: Peter Held and Marilyn Zeitlin
FRESH: ASU Ceramics, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
*(two-person) Bringing the War Home, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Shifting Contentment, California Conference on Ceramic Art, Davis, California
2005 Show Business: BFA Thesis Exhibition, Covi Gallery, University of Louisville, Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY
Bibliography & Publications
Artist’s Books
Mary Margaret Alvarado and Corie J. Cole, American Weather. NewLights Press, 2024. Essay by Mary Margaret Alvarado and images by Corie J. Cole.
Corie J. Cole, The Palingenesis, or The Pence 15 Club. NewLights Press, 2018. Chapbook. Text and illustrations by Corie J. Cole. https://www.newlightspress.com/#/the-palingenesis/
Miscellaneous
Alvarado, Mary Margaret and Corie J. Cole, “Chopping Up the Gun (with images by Corie J. Cole),” The Georgia Review. Fall 2023
Cover art for The Complete Works of Apis mellifera, by Bernadette Mayer and Laynie Browne. Further Other Book Works, 2017.
http://furtherotherbookworks.com/index.php/product/mayer-browne-mellifera/
Corie J. Cole, excerpt from “Part-Object, Part Performance, The Work of Jinsoo Song.” Clay In Art International Yearbook. 2007-2008.
“The MFA Factor: Arizona State University,” Ceramics Monthly, Sept. 2008
Brian Reeves, Worldwide Slop Web Catalog, www.slopart.com, Untitled Decorative Object #2.2,
Summer 2008.
Marilyn Zeitlin, review, Amarillo Biennial 600: CLAY. Catalog. Summer 2007
Rhonda Schaller, D. Jaquish, Live Free or Die. Catalog. Fall 2006
Public Collections
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs. (36 Shots of Pikes Peak)
Library Collections (The Palingenesis)
Denison Library, UC Irvine
Scripps College
University of Southern California
UC Berkeley Bancroft Library
Bowes Art and Architecture Library, Stanford University
UC Santa Cruz
Colorado State University
Colorado College
Private Collections
Untitled Decorative Object # 1, Private Collection of Ted Decker, Phoenix AZ
Untitled Decorative Object #4, Portrait of the Artist as a Commodity #1.1, Landscape with the Fall of Torrijos. Private Collection of Joe Blank, New York, NY
Untitled Hanging Cheney Ornament #1, Private Collection of Marianne and Tom Tebbens, Radnor, PA
Untitled Hanging Cheney Ornament, Private Collection of Judy Pote, Philadelphia, PA
Untitled Hanging Cheney Ornament #1, Private Collection of Billy Hertz, Louisville, KY
Untitled (Wizard of Oz), Private Collection of Amy Sarner Williams and David Williams, Philadelphia, PA
Untitled Hanging Cheney Ornament #1, #2, Private Collection of Gail M. Brown, Philadelphia, PA
Untitled Hanging Cheney Ornament, Containment, Oil and Water. Private Collection of Sandy Besser, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now in the Hieronymus Collection
Shadow Government, Shooting a White Elephant, Private Collection of Midge Golner, Phoenix, Arizona
Grants/Awards
2007-2008 Graduate and Professional Student Association Terminal Research Grant
Eirene Peggy Lamb Scholarship
Ted Decker Catalyst Fund Grant for Exhibition Marketing
2006-2007 Nathan Cummings Foundation Travel Fellowship
De Falco Family Foundation Scholarship in honor of Victoria Shrewsbury, alumna, Arizona State University
Benjamin Wong Fie Memorial Scholarship
University Graduate Fellowship
2005-2006 Graduate Tuition Fellowship, Arizona State University
Phillip Curtis Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University
2005 Winthrop Allen Award, Hite Art Institute
1998-2004 Trustees’ Academic Scholarship in Biology
Commissions
2006 Two Hanging Dick Cheney Ornaments, Gail M.. Brown, Philadelphia, PA
Six Hanging Dick Cheney Ornaments, Victor Friedman, New York, NY
2005 Portrait of Larry Love, for 60 Christmas Ornaments for Cathedral Singers Choir, Larry Love, Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, KY
Four Punch and Judy characters, Gabrielle Mayer, Louisville, KY