Meet Roberta Griffith
Roberta has been making art, studying art and teaching art
throughout her life. She began her full-time position of faculty/artist
in 1966, at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. Prior to that,
she received her BFA in 1960 from Chouinard Art Institute in
Los Angeles, CA, and her MFA in 1962 from Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale, IL. Roberta has served on arts council
boards, juried many art exhibitions and won awards and prizes
in art, including a Fulbright Grant to study art in Spain from
1962-64, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research
Grant to study ancient Mesoamerican civilizations at the University
of Pittsburgh in 1991, as well as 15 Hartwick College Faculty
Research Grants, the latest in 2005. In addition, she is the
North American correspondent for Cerámica magazine, published
in Madrid, Spain. Roberta teaches ceramics and drawing at Hartwick
College and was named a teaching fellow in the Humanities Institute
in Management in 1991. She was named Hartwick College  Teacher/Scholar
for 1995- 96. In recognition of volunteer work in the Oneonta
community, Roberta received the 2001 Charles W. Hunt Award for
Lifetime Achievement in the Arts and Service to the Arts Community
from Upper Catskill Community Council of the Arts in Oneonta.
Reviews and photographs of her artwork have appeared in books,
newspapers, magazines and exhibition catalogues in the USA,
Spain, France, Mexico and Japan. Her artwork has appeared in
books such as: Ceramic Extruding by Tom & Jean Latka; Ceramics,
Mastering the Craft by R. Zakin; Contemporary Ceramics by Susan
Peterson, Design Sourcebook, CERAMICS by Edmund De Waal, The
Best of Pottery by Jonathan Fairbanks & Angela Fina, Handbuilding
Ceramics by Richard Zakin, Sculpture in Clay by Leon Nigrosh,
and Ceramics by Glenn Nelson, 5th edition. Selected periodicals
in which artwork appears have included: Ceramics Monthly, American
Craft, Craft Horizons, Cerámica, (Madrid), RevistArt (Barcelona),
Ceramics Art and Perception and Ceramics Technical (Australia).
Newspaper reviews with photos of work on exhibit are numerous.
They include "The Daily Star," Oneonta, NY; as well as "El Periódico,"
"Avui," and "La Vanguardia," in Barcelona, Spain.
 A
world traveler and an active artist, Roberta’s artwork is in
museums and private collections in the USA, Spain, Mexico, Italy,
England, Sweden and Japan. She has exhibited ceramics, drawing,
painting, and ceramic installation nationally and internationally
for over four decades in 31 solo shows, 106 invitational and
collective exhibitions and 74 juried shows. Roberta exhibited
a large ceramic installation in the group show, Space & Light
at the University Of Charlotte, NC, January March 2000, six
installations in a solo show at the Albany Center Galleries,
Albany, NY in August 2001.Two installations were included in
"Expressions," a clay, fiber and metal invitational exhibition
in the Schick Gallery at Skidmore College, in March 2002. In 2005 the installation "Five Intersections Transposed" was included in an invitational exhibition at The Avenue Art Gallery in Endicott, NY. In 2007 her work was included in the "Vasefinder Nationals 2007 Third
Annual," as well as “Essential Art,” Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY garnering a Special Merit Award for her entry “Fugue State”, and also work was included in the Juried Exhibition, "The Mansion 2007,” Upper Catskill Community Council on the Arts, Oneonta, NY.
To view some of Roberta’s installations please return
to the index and click an image. To celebrate her 50 years
as an artist, Roberta exhibited 60 artworks, ceramics, painting,
drawing and ceramic installation, in Roberta Griffith A Retrospective,
The Yager Museum, at Hartwick College from February 13 through
May 27, 2003. To see Roberta’s artwork in the retrospective,
head to the museum. Work was begun in June 2005 on an 8.5 ft. high by
25 ft. wide ceramic and glass mural of a rockface, inspired
by her surroundings in New York State. The mural, "TECTONICS: Mural of a Rockface," was completed October 20, 2007. It is located in Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. Click
here to view the work.
Any questions or comments, email
or log onto
Roberta’s blog. To purchase artwork, a publication Roberta
Griffith A Retrospective, Roberta Griffith Installations 1988-1998
or the video, Roberta Griffith: The Artist Within by La Paloma
Films, check out the sales page.
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