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Professional Experience:

1983-2020  Proprietor, Cerlan ArtStudio School and Artist Studio, Louisville and Lexington, KY

1999-2010  Proprietor, Cerlan Gallery, Lexington, KY

1997  Director, “CityWorks: Fifteen Galleries:, Louisville, KY

1994-1997  Curator, “Dinnerworks”, National and International Exhibition, Louisville Visual Art    

                      Association, Louisville, KY 

1996  Adjunct Ceramic Professor, Indiana University Southeast

1996  Summer Ceramic Instructor, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO

1985-1986   Ceramic Professor, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY 

Education:

Masters of Art:  University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2009

Bachelor of Fine Arts:  University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 1980

Bachelor of Art:  Louisville School of Art, Louisville, KY, 1976

Summer Session:  Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1993

Solo Exhibitions:

2009  “Insomnia”, Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY

2007  “Insomnia and Dreams”, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY

1991 “Gayle Cerlan”, Kentucky Art and Crafts Gallery, Louisville, KY

Invitational Exhibitions:

2020  “Celebrate Women”, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY

2011  “Enid: Generation of Women Sculpture”, Carnegie Center for Arts, New Albany, IN

2007  “Ceramics Unfolding”, ??????????and NCECA, Louisville, KY

2006  “National Ceramic Invitational”, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY

1997  “Ceramic Forms: A National Invitational,”, Indiana Southeast University, ????, IN

1993  “Year of The Craft”, Swanson Cralle Gallery, Louisville, KY

Two or Three Person Exhibitions:

2021  “Figuratively Speaking”, Three Person Exhibition, New Edition Gallery, Lexington, KY

2019  “Oddities and Entities’, Three Person, Exhibition, ArtsPlace Gallery, Lexington, KY

2018  “Shared Vision”, Two Person Exhibition, The Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY

2016 “ Three Emerged Women”, Three Person Exhibition, New Edition Gallery, Lexington, KY

2014  “Strange Sympathies”, Two Person Exhibition, MS Renzy Gallery, Lexington, KY

2011  “Trifecta”, Three Person Exhibition, Gallery Hertz, Louisville, KY

Group Exhibition:

2014  “The Enid Collection”, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY

2009  “The Best of Louisville Clay”, Kentucky Museum of Art, Louisville, KY

2003  “Clay Collection”, Steve Wilson Gallery, 21C, Louisville, KY

1996  “Flashbacks”, Faculty Exhibition, Indiana University, New Albany, IN

1996  “Nepal Ceramic Invitational”, Katmandu, Nepal, Asia

1985  “Art From Kentucky”, Washington Design Center, Washington,DC

1983  “Eight State Annual: Sculpture”, JB Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

Grants and Awards:

1995  Merit Award, Kentucky Arts Council

1991  Kentucky Crafts Marketing Program Grant, Frankfort, KY

1986  Visual Arts Project Grant,  Kentucky School for the Blind, Louisville, KY

1972  Full Scholarship Grant, Louisville School of Art, Anchorage, KY