EDUCATION:
• School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Inst. of Technology, Rochester, N.Y. M.F.A.
• Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, N.J., B.F.A.
• Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N.J.
EXHIBITIONS:
2010
• "Winner's Circle", Gallery North, Setauket, N. Y., Feb. 19 - Mar. 19
• "Love, Beauty, Peace", The Gallery at South Pointe, Miami Beach, Florida, Feb. 5 - Mar. 15
• "Black and White", East End Arts Council Gallery, Riverhead, N. Y., Jan. 15 - Feb. 26
2009
• "The Gift of Art", Surface Library Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y. - Nov. 6 - Dec. 20
* "Holiday Exhibition", Gallery North, Setauket, N. Y. - Nov. 6 - Dec. 23
• "Holiday Exhibition", East End Arts Council, Riverhead, N. Y. - Nov. 20 - Dec. 23
• "Pat Swyler and Howard Stevens", North Shore Public Library, Shoreham, N. Y. - July 1 - July 30
• "Pat Swyler and Karen Swyler - Mother /Daughter", m.t.burton gallery, Surf City, N. J.- June 27 - July 30
2008
• "The Gift of Art", Surface Library Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y. - Dec. 6 - Dec. 12
• "A Way With Words", Long Island Craft Guild Exhibition, Jericho Public Library, Jericho, N. Y., Oct. 2 - Oct. 3
• “Fire and Smoke”, Surface Library Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y. - May 3 - 25
• “2008 Orton International Cone Box Competition”, Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas - April 1 - 25
2007
• “The Long Island Craft Guild Invades!”, Ripe Art Gallery, Greenlawn, N. Y - Dec. 9, 2008 - Jan. 12
• “Red Heat”, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oct. 4 - 26
• “Carbondale Clay National III”, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, Colorado, Aug. 1 - 31
• “Small and Exquisite: Clay for a Miniature World”, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, Colorado, July 2 - 31
• “2007 Kiln God National”, Chicken Farm Art Center, San Angelo, TX, (1st Place Award), May
• “Jersey Shore Clay National 2007”, m.t.burton gallery, Surf City, N.J. - May 26 - June 27
• “Biennial Exhibition of Functional Ceramics”, Guildford Art Center, Guilford, Connecticut, May 4 - June 17
• “Clay: Applied vs. Fine Art”, Gloria Kennedy Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y., Mar. 28 - May 26
• “Faces of Women” Las Vegas Arts Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico, Mar. 23 - April 27
2006
• “2006 Orton International Cone Box Competition”, Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, March 21 - April 21
• “Gallery North OAS”, Setauket, New York, September
• “Holiday Art Exhibition”, Gallery North, Setauket, New York, Nov. - Dec.
• “Holiday Art Exhibition”, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, N..Y, Nov. – Dec.
2005 and PREVIOUS YEARS
• “Matters of Men”, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, New York, March 25 - April 23, 2005
• “Art in the Park”, Art League of Long Island, Huntington, New York, (Ceramics Award), June, 2005
• “All About Women”, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, New York, March 19 - April 17, 2004
• “John T. Mather Memorial Hospital Invitational Sculpture Show”, Port Jefferson, New York, June, 2003
• “Winners’ Circle”, Gallery North, Setauket, New York, 2003, 2002, and 2001
• “The Bowl-Infinite Form”, Celadon Gallery, Watermill, New York, September 1 - 30, 2000
• “Porcelain 2000”, Esmay Gallery, Rochester, New York, November - December 2000
• “Porcelain ‘97”, Shoestring Gallery, Rochester, New York, November 14 - December 30, 1997
• “DECADES”, School For American Craftsmen Alumni Show, Rochester, New York – March, 1996
• “Scents and Non-Scents”, National Scent Bottle Invitational-Signature Gallery, Boston, Mass.,1985 and 1986
• “Clay: Long Island”, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York, 1983
• “Long Island Artists Invitational", Islip Art Museum Islip, New York, 1975
• “Craftsmen of the Northeast”, American Crafts Council Slide Collection, 1973
• “Artists of Suffolk County”, Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York, August 5 – September 2, 1973
• “Rochester Finger Lakes Invitational”, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York – 1967 and 1968
TEACHING:
• Adult workshops in watercolor and drawing, Dowling College, Islip, N.Y.
• Art Dept. Chairman, Center Moriches H.S., Center Moriches, N.Y.
• Ceramics Instructor, University Craft Center, State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook
• Ceramics Instructor, Shoreham-Wading River H. S., Shoreham, N.Y.
• Art Dept. Lead Teacher, Webster Central School District, Webster N.Y.