Artist Representation
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Soapbox Arts, Burlington, VT
ArtAxis Network of Ceramic Artists(National)
Awards and Residencies
Current:
Millay Colony, Folley Fields 2024 Artist in Residence, August, 2024
Sculptural Commission for the exhibit New Now: Strange States at the Shelburne Museum
Inaugural Environmental Resident Artist working on commissioned sculpture, The Strand Center
for the Arts, NY 2024, curator Carolyn Bauer
Past:
ChaNorth, Artist in Residence, 2022
MASS MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Artist in Residence, 2018
The Millay Colony, Artist in Residence, 2018
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Full Fellowship, Kiln God Award, 2017
Joseph and Anni Albers Founda@on Grant Recipient 2013-2015
Palmer Fellowship, Loomis Chaffee School, 2012-2017: Oaxacan Studies, Mexico 2011;
Abba House, Ghana 2012; Gaya Center, Bali, 2014
Named Nichols Fellow in Art, Loomis Chaffee School 2010-present
Michigan Mud, First Place Award, 2007
Michigan Arts League Award, 2003 and 2004
Michigan Council for the Arts, Creative Artist Grant, 2000
Artist Development Grant, Detroit, MI, 1996-1999
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Post Graduate Summer Fellow,1995
Otis/Parsons Award Exhibition, First Place Representing Sculpture, Lloyd Hamrol Juror, 1990
Selected Exhibitions
Upcoming:
-Juniper Sculpture Park, Plattsburgh, NY permanent sculpture commission (pollinator sculpture) June 2025
-Solo exhibition Soapbox Arts, Burlington. VT March, 2026
-A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY summer 2025
Current:
Fahrenheit 2024, The American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona,CA Jan- May 2024, juror Kathy
King, Head of Ceramics Program, Harvard
New Now: Strange States, The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT (sculpture representing VT in
the show which runs through October 2024) curator: Carolyn Bauer
Living Among the Animals, Ceramic Sculpture by Jennifer McCandless, AVA Gallery,NH, AVA Gallery, NH, Sept-Oct.2024, curator Samantha Eckhert
Millay Colony, Folley Fields Eco Artist in Residence, summer 2024
The Strand Center for the Arts: Eco Artist in Residence, summer 2024
A.I.R. Gallery, “Write me letters” you write to me, curated by Nicole Kaack
Past:
Run Amok: Ceramic Sculpture by Jennifer McCandless at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2023A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA, Seeing Red, Feeling Blue, 2020
Melanie Carr Gallery, CT, Jennifer McCandless: Scenes from the Apocalypse, 2020
The Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, International Juried Ceramic Exhibition, 2019
Blue Line Arts, CA, Off Center, Curator: Tony Natsoulas, 2019
Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Birthday Suit, Curator: Benjamin Sudon, 2019
Gerald Epperson Gallery of Ceramic Art, Clay Matters, Curator: Beth Ann Gerstein,
Director of the National Museum of Ceramic Art, 2019
Ely Center of Contemporary Art, CT, Our Bodies Ourselves, 2019
A.I.R.National Member’s Exhibition, NY, 2019
The American Museum of Ceramic Art, CA, Fahrenheit, 2018
American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Visions in Clay, Curator: Beth Ann Gerstein, 2018
Art Centro Gallery, NY, Northeast Ceramic Sculpture Invitational, 2017
Main Street Arts, NY, Utopia/Dystopia, Curator: John Massier, 2017
Superfine Contemporary Art Fair, NY, 2017
Davenport Gallery, PA, Ceramic Innovations, Curator: Chris Gus@n, 2017
Freeform Art Space, NM, Leggo My Ego, 2016
Art Miami, X Contemporary, 2016
Garner Arts, NY, Light, Industrial, Ecosystem, 2015
Wayfarers Gallery, NY, Body Eden, 2015
The New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, Nor’easter, 2015
The Meijer Museum of Sculpture, MI, Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary
Sculpture, Curator: Joseph Becherer, 2013
Mendocino Art Center, National Ceramic Exhibition, Curator: Christa Assad, 2011-12
National Sculpture Society, Love, 2011
Silvermine Gallery, Clay Triennial, Curator: H. Hochner, Director, Museum of Art and
Design NY, 2011
Toy Bomb, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 1994
New Los Angeles, Reisse/LaBreque Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1990
Jennifer Barry, O@s/Parsons Sculpture Award Exhibition, Los Angeles, 1990
Public Art Activities:
Working with scientists at Middlebury, the Xerces Society, and the University of Vermont in
creating new designs and workshops that utilize clay art production and team building. I am
designing large scale installations in communities where the members of the community create
the components of the art. The art is also doubling as pollinator habitat, supporting the
pollination of indigenous plants. I am installing a large scale habitat Sculpture in Plattsburgh, NY
at the Strand Center for the Arts, a commissioned piece on their grounds and in a new
pollinator garden they’ve created. Installations are also on the corporate grounds of Beta
Technologies (an electric plane manufacturer)
Middlebury College Environmental Science Capstone Community Partner, 2022-23
Weekly teaching young students and their mentors at King Street in Burlington, Vermont,
funded by Burlington City Arts Grant 2023-25.