JANET ENGLE KASTNER

EDUCATION

1979 State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York, MFA.
1977 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, BFA.
1974 Banff Fine Arts Centre, Banff, Canada
1972-74 University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2005 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Brad Ellis, Joseph Janson and Janet Kastner
2002 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Janet Kastner and Naomi Schlinke
1995 Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, Janet E. Kastner: New Works in Clay
1992 Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota, Earth and Fire: Janet Kastner and Corky Stuckenbruck
1988 R.S. Levy Gallery, Austin, Texas, Janet Kastner
1984 Willingheart Gallery, Austin, Texas, Janet Engle Kastner: Sculpture and Drawings
1981 Objects Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, Janet Engle Kastner
Laguna Gloria Art Museum at First Federal, Austin, Texas, New Works V: Janet Kastner and Randy and John Huke

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas, Fall Faculty Salon
Exhibition
2006 Annual group exhibit of Austin artists at Austin City Hall, Texas
2005 Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Curated by Anne Allen
Department of Art and Art History Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio, State of Texas – Clay
2004 Exhibition, University of Texas a Santa Chiara, Castiglione Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy
Ceramics: Texas & Beyond, Charles & Dorothy Clark Gallery, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, February-March
2003 Juror’s Choice, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas, November-December.
A Moment in the Making, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, November ’03-January ‘04
Texas Outside the Lines, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana,Pennsylvania, November-December. Catalog.
2002 Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhatten, Kansas, Clay Body Rhetoric: Ceramic Figures of Speech
2001 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Winter Group Exhibition
Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas, Opulent
The New Braunfels Museum of Art and Music, New Braunfels, Texas, Made in Texas
2000 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Drawing Show
ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas, Sculpture 2000: The Perfect Figure
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 62nd Annual Faculty Exhibition
d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Bioforms
Shape and Surface, The Nancy Wilson Scanlan Art Gallery, Austin, Texas, March-April.
Medicine in Art, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas, March-April.
Contemplative Exactitude, ¼ HORA Project Space, Elgin, Texas, February.
1998 Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 60th Annual Faculty Exhibition
Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, Raised/Assembled/Constructed: Texas Artists and Ceramic Sculpture
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, Clay Traditions: Texas Educators and Their Teachers
Austin Museum of Art – Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, From the Ground Up: Contemporary Clay in Texas
1997 Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, The Visceral Intellect: Members Exhibition
Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, The Annual Members Exhibition
1996 Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, Form by Fire: Contemporary Ceramic Art
Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, Group Show
The Nancy Wilson Scanlan Art Gallery, Helm Fine Arts Center, Austin, Texas, Dirtspirits: Ceramic Sculpture by Tre Arenz, Richard Bonner and Janet Kastner
1995 McKinney Avenue Contemporary Show, Dallas, Texas, Group Show
1994 Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, The Premiere Exhibition
Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, Those Who Can Are Often Those Who Teach
Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas, Texas Clay 2 Exhibition
University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, Texas Clay 2 Exhibition
1993 Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, Texas Clay 2 Exhibition
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, Texas Clay 2 Exhibition
Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, Texas Clay 2 Exhibition
Firehouse Gallery, Del Rio Council for the Arts, Del Rio, Texas, Texas Clay 2 Exhibition
Baylor University, Waco, Texas, Texas Clay 2 Exhibition
Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas, Texas Clay 2 Exhibition
1991 Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri, M-AAA/NEA Fellowship Winners
Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, M-AAA/NEA Fellowship Invitational
1990 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, Four Austin Sculptors
1989 Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, A Century of Sculpture in Texas 1889 – 1989
Alma Thomas Fine Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, In Form and in Site
Haggar University Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, University of Dallas Ceramics Invitational
1988 Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, Texas, Concepts in Clay
College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas, Selected Texas Women Art Faculty
Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas
Powerplant Center for Visual Arts, Fort Collins, Colorado, Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas
1987 Austin Visual Arts Association, Trammell Crow Building, Austin, Texas, 10th Aniversary Exhibition
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas
The Museum Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, Texas
R.S. Levy Gallery, Austin, Texas, Group Exhibition
RGK Foundation, Austin, Texas, Drawings and Other Experimental Works on Paper
Koehler Cultural Center, San Antonio, Texas, Texas Sculpture Symposium Drawing Show
The Gallery at the University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, Sculpture: Ideas Defined
1986 Municipal Auditorium, NCECA, San Antonio, Texas, Texas Clay
1985 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, New Works
Texas State Sculpture Symposium, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas, Symposium Invitational
Soho Gallery, Austin, Texas, Works on Paper
1984 Annie Hawkins Gallery, Houston, Texas, Opening Exhibition
D-Art Visual Arts Center, Dallas, Texas, AnD: Austin Women Artists in Dallas
1983 Art Gallery, College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas, Texas Ceramics Invitational
Objects Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, Survey of Texas Ceramics
Soho Gallery, Austin, Texas, Fourth Texas Sculpture Symposium Invitational
RGK Foundation, Austin, Texas, RGK Invitational
San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, New Figurative Drawing in Texas
1982 Diseno Studios Gallery, Austin, Texas, 10 Women/10 Artists
Weil Gallery, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas, OSO Bay Biennial Sculpture Show
1981 Lufkin Creative Arts Center, Lufkin, Texas, The Earth Bound Object
Patrick Gallery, Austin, Texas, Mysterious Messages
Longview Museum & Arts Center, Longview, Texas, Invitational ’81
1980 The Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas, New Talent
The Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. School of Art, The Museum of Fine arts, Houston, Texas, Texas Artists: Clay
Fine Arts Gallery, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, Kastner & Herron
Galveston Arts Center Gallery, Galveston, Texas, Sculpture Southwest
1979 Plaza Gallery, State University Plaza, Albany, New York, MFA: Alfred Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, New York, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Show: Kastner & Forbes
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, In Western New York 1979
1978 Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, Summer Exhibition

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2008 Dean's Fellowship, Semester Research Leave, University of Texas, Austin
2007 Special Research Grant, University of Texas, Austin
2003 Dean’s Fine Arts Research Fellowship, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin
Special Research Grant, University of Texas, Austin
Travel Grant, University of Texas, Austin
2002 Special Research Grant, University of Texas, Austin
2001 Travel Grant, University of Texas, Austin
1999 Faculty Research Award, University Research Institute, University of Texas, Austin.
Semester Leave for Research.
1998 Special Research Grant, University of Texas, Austin
1989 Mid America Arts Alliance/National Endowment Arts Fellowship
1988 Summer Research/Creativity Award, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin
The Lee Hage Jamail Regents Fellowship in Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin
1987 Faculty Research Award, University Research Institute, University of Texas, Austin
(semester leave for research in Italy ans work on outdoor terracotta sculpture)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1979 – Present University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Associate Professor
1977 – 1978 State College of Ceramics at Alfred University - Alfred University, Alfred, New York, Teaching Intern
1978 – 1979 State College of Ceramics at Alfred University - Alfred University, Alfred, New York, Teaching Assistant

COLLECTIONS
Jill Wilkenson, Austin, Texas
Gray and Cary Law Firm, Austin, Texas
Dirk and Alice Eshleman, Ft. Worth, Texas
Anitra Blayton, Ft. Worth, Texas
Mr. Robert Phannebecker, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Laura Carpenter, Dallas, Texas
Mr. Garnett Kelsoe, Dallas, Texas
New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, New York
Mr. Eric McCready, New York, New York
Ms. Kerry A. Ridley & Mr. David Art, Austin, Texas
Mr. Richard Queen and Ms. Sara Stevenson, Houston, Texas
Mr. Steven Cadwell, Boston, Massachusetts
Ms. Katie Wagster, Austin, Texas
Dr. Philip Mease, Seattle, Washington
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Person, Austin, Texas
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rowe, Tustin, California
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Thomas, Austin, Texas
Michael and Amelie Benedikt, Austin, Texas
Rachel Harris, Ft. Worth, Texas
Ellen Berman, Wimberley, Texas

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2005 Jacqueline May, “Janet Kastner, Joseph Janson and Brad Ellis,” The Austin Chronicle, January
21, 2005, p. 82
Ginger Cowles, “Explore Abstractions, Textures and Language,” Austin American-Statesman,
January 6, 2005, p. E2
2001 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, review, Austin American Statesman, 20 December, p. 35.
Janet S. Tyson, “HotSpots/Texas,” Art Papers, July/August 2001, p34.
2000 Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, “Nature Study: Biological Forms Elude Definition in Exhibit by Three Texas Artists”, Austin American Statesman, 18 May.
Deborah Everett, “Austin Artists-Revisited”, NYArts. July/August, p. 45-47.
Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Sing the Body Electric,” Houston Press, June 15-21, p.59.
Austin Chronicle. June 2, Photograph, p.84.
1998 Tony Merino, “Janet Kastner’s Works in Clay”, Ceramics Art and Perception
1995 Glen R. Brown, “Janet E. Kastner”, The New Art Examiner, September
1994 Madeline Irvine, Faculty Show Review, Austin American Statesman, December
1993 Texas Clay 2 Exhibition Catalogue
1992 Photograph, Gallery Section, American Craft, August – September
1991 “Works by Five N.E.A. Grant Winners”, Riverfront Times, July
1990 Mid America Arts Alliance Award Winners, Winners ’89 Crafts/Sculpture Catalogue
1990 J.R. Olson, Review, Austin American Statesman, 11 August
1990 John A. Robertson, Review, The Austin Chronicle, 3 August
1989 Photograph, Austin American Statesman, 30 November
1989 Patricia D. Hendricks, and Becky D. Reese, A Century of Sculpture in Texas 1889 –
1989 Catalogue
1988 Photograph, Gallery Section, American Craft, June – July
1988 “Janet Kastner”, Ceramics Monthly, November
1988 Francine Carraro, Review, Austin American Statesman, 17 April
1988 Review, The Austin Chronicle, 8 April
1987 Photograph, Gallery Section, American Craft, June – July
1986 The Way of Art: Inner Vision Outer Expression Fearing, Kelly, W.S. Benson and Co.,
Inc., Austin, Texas, 1986. Vol.1, p.139; Vol. 2, p62