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. Recently her work was included in the Vasefinder Nationals 2006 Second Annual. 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. Since July 2005, Roberta has designed and been constructing an 8,5 ft. high by 25 ft. wide ceramic and glass mural of a rockface, inspired by her surroundings in New York State and elsewhere that will be installed in the first floor corridor of Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College. She anticipates taking this work to completion during the fall of 2006. Click here to view the work in progress.

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