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Bio

Bole's sculptural materials tend to be geologic in origin and she works in drawing and book arts as well. Her sculpture tends to be funereal in content, shaped by her lineage experienced in the urban decay of her hometown, Cleveland. Currently she is working on an artists book project at Logan Elm Press titled"Toilet Worship" edition 120. Her instillation at the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia, titled"Purge Incomplete", centering on the prison's early plumbing and fascinating history, was two years in the making (the work was supported by artist residencies at the Kohler Sanitary Factory (Wisconsin) in iron and resin and bole was the visiting artist at the Pilchuck glass school (Washington). A catalogue will be available in 2010. Recent exhibitions with catalogues available include "Of Other Spaces", curated by James Voorhies, Bureau For Open Culture at Columbus College of Art and Design and Bole's 2005 solo exhibition "Dear Little Twist of Fate" at the Aronoff Center Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati. The Greater Columbus Arts Council recently published a set of catalogues by artists who were recipients of the Dresden Germany Exchange, Bole is part of the set. She has exhibited work in the United States, Russia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Germany. She has lectured extensively about her work and the numerous artist residencies she has attended and self-organized. These include The Ohio Art Council's sponsored Headlands Art Center residency (California), Women's Studio Workshop (New York), Belden Brick Factory (Ohio), Dedouch Monument Plaque Company (Illinois) and KVO Enamel on Steel (California). She has created five artists book editions at Knust Press ( part of Extrapool,in the Netherlands), and she has written for journals such as "Morbid Curiosity" She has received numerous grants including six Ohio Arts Council grants, Andy Warhol Foundation (through Women's Studio Workshop) , Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, and an NEA grant through Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.