About the Artist


My work is tied to social and political narratives and a keen awareness of the fragility of our moment in time. The surfaces on my ceramic sculptures, the arbitrary marks and patterns, speak for the arbitrary events that affect each being even before birth. I hope to suggest a sense that these forms arise, like seeds from the earth and from vast spans of time.

Throughout the many chapters in my art making, I find myself returning to the female form and the theme of women as vessels of knowledge and nurturers of seeds. My forms pay homage to the many unheard voices and the challenges of being female. In solving problems of aesthetics, I meditate on proportion, both the physical and the spiritual, and try to find a place of equilibrium in the swirling chaos of life.These ceramic forms honor our ancestors, the grief experienced at  inevitable changes and loss and the emotional connections that nurture, sustain and cultivate hope.

solo exhibitions

2024

“Connection & Loss”, Ceres Gallery, NY

2021

“Observing Women”, Ceres Gallery, NY

2018

“Where Is Home?” Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

2015

“Layers”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

2013

“Spirit”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

2010

Bronze Warriors, Woodstock Art Association & Museum, NY

2010

“Warrior Women”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

2008

Conversations, Futernick Art Gallery, Alper JCC, Miami, FL

2008

“Bearing Witness”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

2006

“Generation To Generation”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

2004

“Travelers”’, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

2002

“Journey Through Fire”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP exhibitions

2024

“Diversity of Women’s Voices”, Ceres Gallery, NY

2021

“Don’t Shut Up” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY

2021

“Outside My Oeuvre”, Ceres Gallery, NY

2017

“Vulvacular”, Ceres Gallery, NYC

2016

“Women Under Siege”, Ceres Gallery, NYC

2011

Affordable Art Fair, NYC

2009

“Big Stuff”, LBI Science & Arts Foundation, NJ

2009

“Ineffable Woman”, CIIS, SF, CA

2008

“All Fired UP”, Maxwell Gallery, Peekskill, NY

2008

“Women in Wood”, NCECA, Pittsburgh, PA

2007

“Paths”, Byrdcliff Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Woodstock, NY

2007

“Tabletops, Ceramic Invitational”, LBI Foundation, Loveladies, NJ

2007

Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibition, Catskill Mountain Foundation, NY

2007

“Scratching The Surface”, Ceres Gallery, NY

2006

“Friendship Ceramic Competition”, Nippon Gallery, New York, NY

2006

“Maverick Spirit”, Woodstock Art Association and Museum, WDSTK, NY

2006

Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibition, Catskill Mountain Foundation, NY

2006

“Ceres Gallery Revisited”, Krasdale Foods Inc. NY

2005

“Voices in Clay”, Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

2005

Catskill Mountain Foundation Gallery, Hunter, NY

2005

Sugar Maples Faculty Exhibition, Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury,NY

2005

“Angles & Issues”, Ceres Gallery, NY

2004

Lexington Center for the Arts, Lexington, NY

2004

Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2003

Gallery 221, New York, NY

2003

Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2002

“Ceres At 20-Birthday Duet”, Ceres Gallery, NY

2002

“Hallelujah’02”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

2002

“A Different Purim Sound”, Tisch Sussman Gallery, JCC in Manhattan, NY

2002

“Explorations in Clay”, Firehouse  Gallery, Nassau Community College, NY

2001

“Go Figure”, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY

1999

“Hallelujah ‘99”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

1999

“Arts Walk”, The Premises Gallery, Hudson, NY

1999

“Members Open”, Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA

1999

“Raising Miriam’s Cup” , Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD

1998

“Ceremony in the Desert”, Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1997

“Drawing from the Source”, Miriam’s Cup Invitational, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY

1997

“Artists of Carnegie Hall Gallery Show”, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

1995

“Artist/Teacher Exhibition, Avery Fisher at Lincoln Center, New York, NY

1994

“Artists of the WCA”, Krasdale Gallery, New York, NY

1993

“Hallelujah ‘93”, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

1992

“Seven Showing”, Highland University, NM

1985

“Sawdust Firings”, Peters Valley Crafts Center, NJ

1984

“Alumni Exhibit”, CCNY, New York, NY

1983

“Works in Clay”, 78th Street Pottery Collective, New York, NY

1980

“Timeless Motifs”, Bridgehampton Artist’s Coop, New York, NY

1979

“Womenart”, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2004

Catskill Mountain Guide, December 2004

2004

Ceramic Monthly, March, 2004

2003

Provincetown Arts, Volume 18, 2003/04

2000

Sculptures by Tania Kravath in Bridges, Volume 8, Nos. 1, 2

1998

Self-Portrait in Sh’ma, A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, January 9, 1998

1997

Moment, The Magazine of Jewish Culture and Opinion, Vol 22 #2

1996

Passages: Jewish Women’s Immigration and Family History,  Art review in Bridges

1992

Matriarchs,  Article and photographs in Bridges

1989

The Woman Spirit Sourcebook, Harper & Row

1987

Healing, Illness, Death & Mourning, Sinister Wisdom

1986

The Tribe of Dina, A Jewish Women’s Anthology, Sinister Wisdom

Art educator

New York City Board of Education, 1967-1999