EDUCATION
2009 Master of Art, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
1993 Alfred University, Summer Session, Alfred, NY
1976 Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016 "Three Emerged Women", New Edition Gallery, Lexington, KY
2014 "Strange Sympathies", MS Renzy Gallery, Lexington, KY
2014 "The ENID Collective", Transylvania University Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY
2013 "ENID Fifteen Women Sculptors", University Louisville Cressman Gallery, Louisville, KY
2012 "Selected Works", Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
2011 "Trifecta", Gallery Hertz, Louisville, KY
2010 "Water Tower Regional", Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
2009 "The Best of Louisville Clay", Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
"Master of Art Thesis: Insomnia", University of Louisville, Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY
2008 "Response to Fear", Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
"Louisville Clay One of a Kind", Gallery on Pearl Street, New Albany, IN
2007 "NCECA Exhibition", Lexington Library Gallery, Lexington, KY
"Ceramics Unfolding", NCECA Invitational Exhibition, University of Louisville, KY
“Insomnia, NCECA One Man Exhibition, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY
2006 "National Ceramic Invitational", Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY
2003 "Clay Collections", Steve Wilson Gallery, Louisville, KY
2002 "Of and About Clay VI", Gallery Hertz, Louisville, KY
"Faculty and Student Exhibitions", Louisville Visual Art Assoc, Louisville, KY
2001 "Functional Contemporary Teapots", Headley Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY
2000 "Symposium in Clay", Museum of Fine Art Gallery, Owensboro, KY
"Clay in Kentucky", Tower Cerlan Gallery, Lexington, KY
1999 "Fifteen Years on Main Street: Kentucky Crafts", Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
"Trans/Traditions: Works in Clay", Molan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
1998 "Clayworks", Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
"Crossroads in Clay", Fine Arts Center, Middletown, OH
1997 "Ceramic Forms: National Invitational Exhibition", Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
1996 "Flashbacks", Faculty Exhibition, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
"Nepal Ceramic Invitational", Katmandu, Nepal, South Asia
"Spotlight ‘96", American Craft Council, Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Louisville, KY
1995 "Transition ’95", Merit Award, Kentucky Council for the Arts, Louisville, KY
"The Ceremony of Tea", National Invitational, Freidman Gallery, Louisville, KY
1994 "15 Collection", Actors Theatre Gallery, Louisville, KY
1993 "Crafts National 27 National Exhibit", Zoeller Gallery, Pensylvania University
"Year of the Craft", Regional Invitational, Swanson Cralle Gallery, Louisville, KY
1992 "Current Works", Swanson Cralle Gallery, Louisville, KY
1991 "Gayle Cerlan", Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY
1989 "Dinnerworks", Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
1986 "Teapots", Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Louisville, KY
1985 "Art from Kentucky", Lazenby Association., Washington Design Center, Washington, DC
1984 "Form/Function", Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
"Porcelain 1984", Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY
1983 "Eight State Annual: Sculpture" Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
1982 "Contemporary Forms in Primitive Vessels", Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, KY
1981 "Showcase 25", Art Center Association, Louisville, KY
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1995 Merit Award, Kentucky Arts Council
1991 Kentucky Crafts Marketing Program, Frankfort, KY
1986 Visual Arts Project Grant, Kentucky School for the Blind, Louisville, KY
1972 Full Scholarship Grant, Louisville School of Art, Louisville, KY
COLLECTIONS
St. Francis School, Goshen, KY
Museum of Arts and Craft, Louisville, KY
United States Senator McConnell’s Office, Washington, DC
United States Department of Interior, Washington, DC
Financial Concepts Inc., Louisville, KY
PUBLICATIONS
Pottery Tour of Kentucky, 2000
Lexington Herald Leader, 2000, 2007
House Beautiful, Spring 1993, NY, NY
The Courier Journal, 1991, Louisville, KY
Louisville Magazine, 1988, Louisville, KY
Ceramic Monthly Magazine, 1985
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
1983-2018 Proprietor, Cerlan Art Studio, Louisville, KY
1999-2010 Proprietor, Cerlan Gallery, Lexington, KY
1997 Director, “Cityworks, Fifteen Galleries”, Louisville, KY
1996 Adjunct Ceramic Professor, Fall Semester, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
1996 Summer Ceramic Instructor, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado
1994-1997 Curator, “Dinnerworks”, National & International Exhibit, Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY
1993-1999 Board Member, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
1985-1986 Ceramic Faculty Member, Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY
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