Diana Bjel

EDUCATION:
BFA CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
MA CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY

RECENT AWARDS:
"2010 May Show," Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio
   • Award winner
“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:

2010
• "52 Weeks, 52 Artists," inclusion in 2010 Desk Calendar published byt AGC Graphics Design Co.
• "Three Person Show," invitational, River Gallery of Art, Rocky River, Ohio
• "Best of 2010," Ohio Designer Craftsmen annual juried exhibition, Ohio Crafts Museuem, Columbus, Ohio
• Ohio State Fair Juried Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio
• "Filladelphia," Potter's Council, NCECA convention, Philadelphia, Pa.

2009
• "Religious/Spritual Art Show," juried exhibition, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio
• "Ohio State Fair," juried exhibition
• "Timeless Sacred," invitational at Gallery West, Cuyahoga Community College, Western Campus, Parma, Ohio

2008
• “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
• “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