Clay and ceramics are the playground for my imagination.

 

 

Contact Diana Bjel at 216-221-2338 or by email at DBjel@yahoo.com

EDUCATION:
BFA CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
MA CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY

RECENT AWARDS:
“62nd Ohio Annual Exhibition” Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, Ohio 2008
*First Place, Ceramics and Sculpture
“Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition” Columbus, Ohio 2008
*Award Winner, Ohio Arts Council
“Feats of Clay” Lincoln Art Center, Lincoln, CA 2008
*Purchase Award
“Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition” Columbus, Ohio 2007
*Award Winner, Columbus Clay Co.
“Spring Show” Erie Art Museum, Erie, Ohio 2007
*Jurors’ Award
“Feats of Clay” Lincoln Art Cener, Lincoln, CA 2007
*Gloria Freeman Purchase Award
“Best of 2007” Ohio Crafts Museum, Columbus, Ohio 2007
*Postcard Award

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
“52 Weeks, 52 Works” 2009 desk calendar, AGC Graphic Design Co., Cleveland, Ohio
“Orange” Sandusky Cultural Arts Center, Sandusky, Ohio
“Ceramics Invitational” Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, Ohio 2008
“2008 International Orton Cone Box show” Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas
“from WOMAN” Lakeland Community College, Mentor, Ohio 2008
“Six Degrees of Separation” Northern Ohio Clay invitational, Sandusky, Ohio 2008
“Small Things” River Art Gallery, Rocky River, Ohio 2007
“Parade of Lights” Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio 2007
“52 Weeks, 52 Works” 2007 desk calendar, AGC Graphic Design Co., Cleveland, Ohio
“Art (is) Craft” South Wing Gallery, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland Hts., Ohio
2006
“Best of the Best Ten Years…A Retrospective” Wayne Center of the Arts and Ohio
Designer Craftsmen, Wooster, Ohio 2006
“On a Pedestal” The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio 2005
“Bones of Contention” Gallery West, Cuyahoga Community College, Parma, Ohio
2005