“A Sense of Identity: Contemporary Ceramic Art”, Indiana University, Indianapolis and, Purdue University, Fort
Wayne, Indiana
“Made of Brick by Brick”, curated by Beth Coleman, The Ohio Art League, Columbus, Ohio

“The Vitrified Image”, International Invitational curated by Paul Scott (UK), Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College,
El Cajon, California
“21st Century Ceramics in the USA and Canada”, Columbus College of Art & Design, Cinzanni Center, Columbus, Ohio
“Are you sitting comfortably”, The Water Closet Workshop, The Bowes Museum, England, The Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, England

“Connections: Ohio Artists Abroad” organized by the Ohio Arts Council, Curated by Susan Channing, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, (Catalogue), Spaces Gallery, Cleveland and Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
“Materials Speculations”, The H&R Building, The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, (Catalogue Essays by Donald Kuspit and Roger Brown)

“Taking Measure” 50 American Artists (NCECA) World Ceramic Exposition, Korea (Catalogue)
“Petite Morte”, The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio
The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina

10th Year Anniversary Exhibition, The Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Catalogue)
Watercloset Workshop, exhibitions in Sweden: Gustavsbergs Porslinsmuseum / Konstfack, Vita Havet / Rohsska Museet, Goteborg / Runda Huset, Gustavsberg (Catalogue)
Political Work, The Clay Studio, curated by Gail Brown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

New Work: Three Person Exhibition, Lynn Mayhew Gallery, Humphrey Art Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
“Displacement”, Three Person Exhibition, Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio
“Made in Ohio”, RPA at Smith Brothers Hardware Building, (in conjunction with NCECA)

“Howling at the edge of a Renaissance”, Spaces and Alternative Art in Cleveland, (The Moody Pete Bathroom Show), Cleveland, Ohio (Catalogue)

“Explorations in Clay”; Akron Art Museum; Akron, Ohio
“Ecstasy, Sickness and Confusion: Examples of Travel Art”; The Columbus Art League; Columbus, Ohio

“Vital Passages”; The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
“Majolica/Maiolica”; The Northern Clay Center; Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Forum, “Dreams and Journeys” Two Person Exhibition; The Clay Studio; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lill Street Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
“New Art Forms”; Navy Pier; Chicago, Illinois (in conjunction with Objects Gallery and Lill Street Gallery)
Northern Arizona University; Exchange Exhibition with the United States and Soviet Union
“New and Improved”; Acme Art Co.; Columbus, Ohio
Swidler Gallery; Detroit, Michigan

“Main Stream/Hidden Stream”; Emily Davis Gallery; Akron University; Akron, Ohio
“Selected Ohio State Faculty Exhibition”, Contemporary Ohio Ceramics and Printmaking; Fort Hayes Visual Art Gallery; Columbus, Ohio

“Responses to the Urban and Industrial Landscape: Photography and Sculpture”; School of Art Gallery; Kent State University; Kent, Ohio
“Coffee and Tea Service”; New Stone Age Gallery; Los Angeles, California

Artists of the Governor’s Residence Art Collection; Columbus, Ohio
“Expression in Color; Ceramics”; New Jersey Center of the Visual Arts; Summit, New Jersey
“Color, Form and Function”; two-person Exhibition; Central Michigan University Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

“Cleveland May Show”; Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio. Honorable Mention, Crafts

“What’s New in American Ceramics: Al and Mary Shands’ Collection”; J.B. Speed Art Museum; Louisville, Kentucky
“Cleveland May Show”; Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio

Three-person Show; Spaces Gallery; Cleveland, Ohio

Two-person Exhibition; Jane Harsook Gallery; Greenwich House Pottery; New York

“Domo Show”; Spaces Gallery; Cleveland, Ohio (Pedestal Sink and Bathroom Humor Tiles)
“Contemporary American Ceramics: Twenty Artist” Newport Harbor, Art Museum; Newport Beach, California. (Organized by Karen McCready for Independent Curators Inc.)
Timothy Burns Gallery; St. Louis, Missouri

“A Passionate Vision-Selections from the Daniel Jacobs Collection”; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
“Sculpture Invitational” College of Wooster Art Museum; Wooster, Ohio

“Works Off Walls; Exhibition 280"; Huntington Galleries; Huntington, West Virginia
“Contemporary Clay Sculpture: Selections from the Daniel Jacobs Collection”; Heckscher Museum; Huntington, New York
“Local Flavor”; Cleveland State University Art Gallery; Cleveland, Ohio

“Cleveland May Show”; Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio (Sculpture Award)

“Cleveland May Show”; Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio

“Cleveland May Show”; Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio (Honorable Mention in Sculpture)

International Travel Grant, College of the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Arts Council Project Grant, Columbus, Ohio

Action Grant, (Spring) College of the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Level I Grant, (Autumn) College of the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Action Grant, College of the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Level II Grant, College of the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Individual Fellowship Grant, The Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Inc., New York, New York

Professional Development / Action Grant Award, College of the Arts, The Ohio State University

Professional Development / Action Grant Award, Level I, Level II, Travel Grant, College of the Arts, The Ohio State University
Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship Grant (in the Visual Arts)

Andy Warhol Foundation Grant thru Woman’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York

Faculty Development Grant, OSU College of the Arts

Travel Grant; College of the Arts; The Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio

Emergency Grant; College of the Arts; The Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio
Emergency Grant; College of the Arts; The Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio
Level II Research Grant; College of the Arts; The Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio
Regional Artist’s Project Grant Program (NEA) Administered; through Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois)

Professional Development Grant; The Ohio Arts Council; Columbus, Ohio

Funding for the exhibition “My Yard”; The Wexner Center; Columbus, Ohio

University Small Grant; Office of Research; The Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship Grant; Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship Grant; Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship Grant; Columbus, Ohio

Cleveland Foundation; Cleveland, Ohio (as Guest Curator, responsible for a grant received to do a   color catalogue
for “Local Flavor”, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship Grant; Columbus, Ohio

“Arts Reach:  Department of Art at Work around the Globe”, Pg 3. January 6, 2005, On Campus, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Mary Jo Bole by Ann Bremner, Sculpture Magazine, New York City, NY

“Mortality and the Immortal” by Glenn R. Brown. Ceramic Art and Perception, Issue 54, pgs 77-80, Australia

The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri, “Craft is a given, Concept is lay”, by Marcus Cain, pg 33, Review of Material Speculations, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute

Other Paper, Columbus, Ohio, Sept 7 - 13 issue, pg 20 By Rob Harvilla
Columbus Alive, Columbus, Ohio by G.A. Benton, October 5 issue, pg 19

Dialogue, Columbus, Ohio, Jan/Feb issue, pg 46 By Kitty McManus Zirco

Free Times, Cleveland, Ohio, February 4 - 10 issue; Cover 8 pgs. 12 - 13 By Amy Braken Sparks “The Woods”

Columbus Alive, Columbus, Ohio July 17-23 issue; pg. 12. By Kim Leddy “Aesthetic Antics”
The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, Sunday, July 28, Issue; pg 8F By Jacqueline Hall “Beauty, Creativity
Mark Feats in Clay”
Columbus Alive, Columbus, Ohio; June 18-25 issue; pg. 12. By Kim Leddy “Dog Days”

Ceramic’s Monthly; Columbus, Ohio; May issue; pgs. 22-24, by Ruth Butler “News and Retrospect”
Akron Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio; February 11; pg. E-4, by Dorothy Shinn.”Feats of Clay from Ohio”
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio; February 18; pg. J-3, by Steven Litt “Individualistic Voices in Clay Speak to eye, Mind”
The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus; Ohio February 11; Visual Arts, section

The Star Tribune, Twin Cities, MI.; September 23; pg., E-1, by Mary Abbe, “Sculpture, Still Life        fills Galleries”
The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio; November 8; pg. J-5, by Michael Drexler, “Ohio Arts Council awards grants to 9 in Region”

Columbus Alive, Columbus, Ohio; September 1-2; cover and pg. 11, by Laurie von Endt, “M.J. Bole’s Yard of
Graves”
The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus; Ohio, August 15; pg. H -10, by Leslie Constable “Meditations on Death Rich in Gentle, Universal Symbols”
The Associated Press, New York, July 2-5; Art section and Photo section.
The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio; April 18; pg. C-9, by Leslie Constable, “New Art  Gallerie’s First exhibition strong on its mix of local talent”

Respublika, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 9, pg. 9; by Dalia Karatajiene,”Porcelain Mittens from Mary”
7 Meno Dienos,  (7 Days of Art) Vilnius, Lithuania, May 12; Interview with Lolita Jablonskiene, “Fit and Misfit an
interview with Mary Jo Bole”
Lietuvoi Aidas, (State Newspaper), Vilnius, Lithuaia, June 6; pg.45.
Literatura ir Menos, (Weekly  “Literature and Art”) Vilnius Lithuania, June 6; pg. 2

Literatura un Maksla, (Literature and Art), Riga, Latvia, Nov 27; pg 13, by Ines Baranovska
Neatkariga, Riga, Latvia, November 16; front page, by Ilze Steinfelde.
The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, January 15;  Arts section, by Jacqueline Hall.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4; pg. 3-4, by Steven Litt.

The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, August 26; pg.  F-7, by Jacqueline Hall, “Sensitivity Holds Exhibit Together”

Morbid Curiosity, Issue 8, “Lasting Images by Bole”, Pgs 54-56, Automotism Press, San Francisco, California

“21st Century Ceramics”, Catalogue, The Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio

“Material Speculations” Essays by Donald Kuspit and Glen R. Brown (Catalogue published by N.C.E.C.A., Erie, Colorado)
Connections: Ohio Artists Abroad, organized by The Ohio Arts Council (Catalogue published by The Ohio Arts Council)
“Year of the Artist”, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery (Book of postcards) (Published by The Ohio Arts Council)

“Taking Measure” American Ceramic Art at the New Millennium World Ceramic Exposition, Korea (Catalogue published by N.C.E.C.A., Erie, Colorado)
“Ten Years in Retrospect” (A History and Teaching Collection) The Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Morbid Curiosity”, Issue 5, Automatism Press, San Francisco, California
“Watercloset Workshop” Rohsska Museet, Goteborg, Sweden
“Die Kunst und das clo” pgs. 28-33, Keramik Magazin, Februar/Marz Issue, Berlin, Germany

“Contemporary Ceramics”, Susan Peterson, Watson Quotill, U.K
“Painted Clay: Graphic Arts and the Ceramic Surface”, Paul Scott, A & C Black, UK

Dialogue, Voicing the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, July/August Issue, “Reflections” section
“The New Maiolica”, Matthias Ostermann (Canada) University of Pennsylvanian Press

“Howling at the Edge of a Renaissance, Spaces and Alternative Art in Cleveland,” Spaces Gallery Cleveland, Ohio
Morbid Curiosity, Issue 2, “Smiling at Death: The Fine Art of Mary Jo Bole” (Interview), Automatism Press,
San Francisco, California

“Deaths Garden”, Automatism Press, Loren Rhoads, Editor.

Stone Magazine, (The American Monument Association); Volume 106; Number 12; pgs. 18-22; “In Her Yard” by Susan Porter.
American Craft Museum, New York, slide set “Political Ceramics”; organized by Mark Harris.

Neue Keramik, September/October issue;  pg 303; “News out of U.S.A.”
Ragnarok #11; edited by Steve Wainstead, Cleveland, Ohio; “First Impressions from the Land that Loves Riddles” (a visit to Latvia and Lithuania); pgs. 13-20.

Newport Harbor t Museum, “Contemporary American Ceramics, Twenty Artists’ pgs. 14-15;  May;  by Karen
McCready, guest curator, for I.C.I., New York.

The Ohio Historical Museum, Columbus, Ohio, for Museum Branch Development,  Columbus, Ohio

MJ’s Daily Spy History, Knust Press, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Edition 400

Thankful Subjects, Knust Press, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Edition 230

Splitting Pictures, collaboration between  Bole and  Berry  van Boekel (with 30 invited artists), Edition 350

Rust/Rest; Knust Press, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, collaboration between Mary Jo Bole, Berry van Boekel and
Birdie Thaler, Edition 400

Cheater Slicks, “Your Last Record”, In The Red Label, Los Angeles, California

Pram, “Owl Service” Domino Recording Label, London England

Cheater Slicks, “Refried Dreams” In The Red Label, Los Angeles, California

“Sounds of Cleveland” (part of “Local Flavor” catalogue), Cleveland, Ohio

Pamela & Steve Hootkin Collection, New York, New York
The Musuem of Modern Art (Artist Book Collection Archive) New York, New York

The Gustavsberg Factory Collection, Stockholm, Sweden

The Northern Clay Center, “The Teaching Collection” Minneapolis, Minnesota

Shiffler Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio

The Museum of Modern Art (Artists Book Collection Archive) New York, New York
The Getty Museum (Artists Book Collection) Los Angeles, California

Shiffler Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio

The Clay Studio; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gallerija Langas; Vilnius, Lithuania

Pushkin Museum; Moscow, Soviet Union
Foreign Art Museum; Riga, Latvia
Dottie Campbell; Miami, Florida

John Michael Kohler Arts Center; Sheboygan, Wisconsin

National City Bank Drawing Commission;

John Sinker

Bob Pfannebecker

Al and Mary Shands

Daniel Jacobs

Juror, N.C.E.C.A. Student Juried Exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland
Who’s Who in Fine Arts, Higher Education, http//fineArts.academickys.com

Juror, for The Greater Columbus Arts Council (Arts Fair), Columbus, Ohio

Invited Panelist N.C.E.C.A., Charlotte, North Carolina, “Vessel: Relevance”

Elected to Board of Re-Art, Solid Waste Authority, Columbus, Ohio

N.C.E.C.A. (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art), On-Site Co-Chair (2 year term)
Juror, McKnight Fellowship, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Juror, Programming, Acme Art Company, Columbus, Ohio

Juror, Programming, Acme Art Company, Columbus, Ohio

Full Professor, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

M.F.A.; New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University; Alfred, New York

B.F.A., Cum Laude; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan