Joseph DiStefano

EDUCATION
1971 - M.F.A. Yale University (Sculpture)
School of Art and Architecture
1969 - B.F.A. Rochester Institute of Technology
School for American Craftsmen

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1969 Rochester Institute of Technology
1970 - 1971 Yale University - Woodworking
1971 - 1973 Virginia Commonwealth University
Undergraduate Wood Program, 3- Dimensional Design
Graduate Wood Program, Experimental Materials & Processes
1974- 1976 California College of Arts & Crafts
Woodworking & Furniture Design
1981 - 1982 University of California - Berkeley
Advanced Sculpture - Ceramic Sculpture

National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Eight Artists in Industry - Kohler Ceramics Company

SELECTED COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS

Eastman Kodak Corporation
Kohler Corporation Collection
John Michael Kohler Art Center
Ruth DeYoung Kohler
Lannan Foundation - Palm Beach, Florida
Leslie Ceramics Company - Berkeley, California
Fred Marer Collection - Los Angeles, California
Sapir Glass Studios - Chicago, Illinois
Virginia Commonwealth University - President’s Collection
Voulkos Family Collection - Oakland, California
State of California - Sacramento, California
Bishop John Cummings - Archdiocese of Oakland, California
City of Stockton, California
City of Sacramento, California
General Services Administration

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS, etc.

Newsweek Magazine
Craft Horizons
Los Angeles Times
Wet Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle
Oakland Tribune
Radio KALW, San Francisco (Interview)
Hands in Clay
Porcelain - Traditions and New Visions
Museum of California
“510” Magazine (Featured Article)
“510” Television Documentary
KALX Radio Interview - “Arts in Review”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1969 Young Americans
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
1976 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, California
1980 Museo Italo Americano
San Francisco, California
1993 Xerox Parc Copy Art Show *
Palo Alto, California
1995 Chiron Corporation
Emeryville, California
1996 Schneider Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
1996 Indigo Gallery
Boca Raton, Florida
1997 Gallery B.A.I.
Barcelona, Spain
1998 Gallery B.A.I.
New York, New York
2002 Peterson - Hall Gallery
Scottsdale, Arizona
2004 Turn of the Century Gallery
Berkeley, California
2005 Turn of the Century Gallery
Berkeley, California

* E=MC2 Catalog Cover & featured photo on web page

PUBLIC ART

Hammer Lane Underpass @ UP & SPRR (2000)
Smart Walking - Working with project architects, engineers, landscape architects, and city planners, I developed integrated artwork for four Class I Bike/Pedestrian paths. Using the talents & skills of the contractors who would be responsible for executing my designs, I used brick patterns, exposed aggregate, colored concrete and concrete stamping to create approximately 1/2 mile of visually stimulating paths. Stockton Art Commission, California

Reece Studio Theater (1997)
In the Eye of the Beholder - 5’ x 7’ “hybrid fresco - pietre dure” mural, with three dimensional steel & ceramic elements. The mural is installed in the reception area of a newly renovated classical theater, and depicts traditional comedy & tragedy masks in a non-traditional way.
Reece Studio Theater, Dorston, Germany.

Art in Architecture for Public Buildings (1994)
Your Memory Column - 18’ x 18’ x 18’ cast concrete plaza sculpture clad with hand made ceramic tile and surrounded by integrally colored cast concrete pavers.
Oakland Federal Building - General Services Administration

Sacramento Convention Center Expansion Project (1995)
Legend of the Magnolia - 7’ x 90’ ballroom terrace wall- two & three dimensional “mural”. Traditional craftsmanship, materials and techniques (cast concrete, hand made ceramic tile, glass mosaics, and photographically sand-blasted glass) combine with modern materials and technologies. the work relies on optical cues & illusions, and allows the viewer to use their creativity and imagination to develop their own “Legend”.
Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, California

Reneson Hotel Corporation (1988)
Urban Spring - 55’ Atrium fountain made of concrete clad with porcelain tile. The fountain provides a seating ledge, and incorporates landscape and sculptural elements.
Americania Hotel, San Francisco, California

Studio for Technology and the Arts (1995)
The Benchmark - Provided an opportunity for four young artists to learn about public art, design, materials, craftsmanship, creativity and the creative process. Working together we designed and built four functional and permanent integrally colored concrete benches which act as a “marker” for the studio. San Francisco Art Commission, California

California State Transit Authority (1987) *
Mirage - Seven rustic terrazzo, computer generated images indicating the train direction and the station number are inlaid into each side of the 59th Street station on the Sacramento Lite Rail System. The number 59 (indicating the station number) morphs into the image of a bird in flight
(showing the train direction).
* Project Art Consultant