STATEMENT

BEARING WITNESS

The Warrior Women started appearing in my work several years ago. I understand them as spiritual travelers, warriors of nonaggression who hear the cries of the world and bear witness to collective memory of struggles for justice and peace.

My forms pay homage to the unheard voices of all who struggle and reflect themes of connection and relationship. Women protecting and nurturing children are a recurring theme in my work and are strongly tied to my awareness of my mother's struggles as an immigrant.

Both bronze and ceramic go through fire and are marked uniquely, an appropriate metaphor for the marks of history affecting development and progeny.

I fire my clay sculpture at the Susan Beecher Noborigama kiln in upstate NY. We are a team of women wood firing as a community for many years. I am deeply grateful for these loving friendships that enrich my life and support my work.

 

Tania Kravath

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Tania Kravath 789 West End Avenue New York, New York 10025 TKravath@gmail.com Solo Exhibitions
2010	“Warrior Women”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2008	Conversations, Futernick Art Gallery, Alper JCC, Miami, Fl.
	“Bearing Witness”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2006	“Generation To Generation”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2004	“Travelers”’, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2002	“Journey Through Fire”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2011	Women’s Nature, Ceres Gallery, NY
2010	Bronze Warriors, Woodstock Art Association & Museum, NY
2009	“Big Stuff”, LBI Science & Arts Foundation, NJ
	“Ineffable Woman”, CIIS, SF, CA
2008	“All Fired UP”, Maxwell Gallery, Peekskill, NY “Women in Wood”, NCECA, Pittsburgh,Pa.
2007	"Paths”, Byrdcliff Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Woodstock, NY “Tabletops, Ceramic Invitational”, LBI Foundation, Loveladies, NJ Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibition, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY “ Scratching The Surface”, Ceres Gallery, NY
2006	“Friendship Ceramic Competition” ,Nippon Gallery, New York, NY “Maverick Spirit”, Woodstock Art Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibition, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY “Ceres Gallery Revisited”, Krasdale Foods Inc. NY
2005	“Voices in Clay”, Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery, Hunter,NY Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibition, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury,NY “Angles & Issues”, Ceres Gallery, NY
2004	Lexington Center for the Arts, Lexington, NY Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, Ma.
2003	Gallery 221, New York, NY Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, Ma.
2002	“Ceres At 20-Birthday Duet”, Ceres Gallery, NY “Hallelujah’02”, Ceres Gallery, New York, “A Different Purim Sound”, Tisch Sussman Gallery, JCC in Manhattan,NY “Explorations in Clay”, Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, NY
2001	“Go Figure”, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY
1999	“Hallelujah ‘99”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY “Arts Walk”, The Premises Gallery, Hudson, N.Y. “Members Open”, Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA “Raising Miriam's Cup” , Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD
1998	“Ceremony in the Desert”, Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
1997	“Drawing from the Source”, Miriam’s Cup Invitational, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY “Artists of Carnegie Hall Gallery Show”, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
1995	“Artist/Teacher Exhibition, Avery Fisher at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
1994	“Artists of the WCA”, Krasdale Gallery, New York, NY
1993	“Hallelujah ‘93”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1992	“Seven Showing”, Highland University, NM
1985	“Sawdust Firings”, Peters Valley Crafts Center, NJ
1984	“Alumni Exhibit”, CCNY, New York, NY
1983	“Works in Clay”, 78th Street Pottery Collective, New York, NY
1980	“Timeless Motifs”, Bridgehampton Artist’s Coop, New York, NY
1979	“Womenart”, Cork Gallery,Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Publications
2004	Catskill Mountain Guide, December 2004
	Ceramic Monthly, March, 2004
2003	Provincetown Arts, Volume 18, 2003/04
2000	Sculptures by Tania Kravath in Bridges, Volume 8, Nos. 1, 2
1998	Self-Portrait in Sh’ma, A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, January 9, 1998
1997	Moment, The Magazine of Jewish Culture and Opinion, Vol 22 #2
1996	Passages: Jewish Women’s Immigration and Family History, Art review in Bridges
1992	Matriarchs, Article and photographs in Bridges
1989	The Woman Spirit Sourcebook, Harper & Row
1987	Healing, Illness, Death & Mourning, Sinister Wisdom
1986	The Tribe of Dina, A Jewish Women’s Anthology, Sinister Wisdom
Professional Experience
2004 - 2010	Instructor, Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Education, Hunter, NY
2005	Instructor, Old Church Cultural Center, Demerast, NJ
	President, Ceres Gallery, NYC
2004	Instructor, Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Education, Hunter, NY
2002	Ceramics Instructor, JCC, NY
1989	Visual Arts Instructor, Summer Arts Institute, Faculty, Lehman College, NY
1988	Ceramics Instructor, Earthworks Studio, NYJ
1984	Ceramic Instructor, 78th Street Pottery, NY
1980	Commissioned Murals, Montefiore Hospital, Pediatrics, NY
1978	Murals & Interior Design, Cecil B’s, Scarsdale, NY
	Murals, C. Bachrach, Ogilvy & Mather, NY
Art Educator
	New York City Board of Education   1967-1999

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