Penn State Scranton
120 Ridge View Drive
Dunmore, PA 18512
Biography
Thompson has been teaching art professionally since 2008 in various educational settings, and began teaching for Penn State in 2014. Corianne earned both her MAT and BFA from MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD).
Courses Taught: Intro to Ceramics; Intro to Drawing; Intro to Painting; Intro to Sculpture; Reception of the Arts; Intro to Art; Intro to Visual Studies
Research Interests
Corianne Thompson creates wheel thrown, porcelain vessels with added hand built elements. Formally, her work is reminiscent of creatures and forms found in the ocean. The abstraction of these organic forms lends an infinite formal language to the design of her wheel thrown and hand built porcelain vessels. Certain forms often repeat themselves in her visual repertoire - namely the threatening, yet elegant spines of sea urchins. To Thompson, these spines express feelings of both danger and vulnerability as well as beauty and strength.
Her work also serves as a type of visual journal representing growth and learning throughout life. Her work is a type of memorial to these moments where we begin to understand something new and the ideas are just beginning to come together.
Although most of her recent work includes porcelain sculpture, Corianne explores various other mediums as a means of expression such as drawing and painting. She has exhibited her work in fine art shows regionally, nationally and internationally.
Education
- BFA; General Fine Arts; Emphasis: Ceramics; Maryland Institute College of Art, 2007
- MA; Teaching; Emphasis: Fine Arts; Maryland Institute College of Art, 2008
Papers and Presentations
Presentations, Seminars, Workshops
- Thompson, Corianne (Author and Presenter). Reading Art, Women's Studies 106N Guest Lecture, Dunmore, PA, USA. (September 3, 2021)
- Thompson, Corianne (Presenter). VIRTUAL EXCHANGES: BRIDGING STUDENT CULTURES AND PROMOTING PEER CONNECTION, VIRTUAL EXCHANGES: BRIDGING STUDENT CULTURES AND PROMOTING PEER CONNECTION, Virtual. (September 3, 2021)
- Thompson, Corianne (Panel Member). Summer Bridge PASSS, Summer Bridge Success Skills Session, Dunmore, PA, USA. (August 15, 2021)
- Thompson, Corianne. Art, Abstraction and Echinoderms, Lunch and Learn, Dunmore, PA. (March 12, 2019)
Performances and Exhibits
- Art - Exhibition, Competitive, Shifting Currents, Something Blue, Gallery 840, Allentown, PA, USA, Regional, peer-reviewed/refereed, Competition. (June 2, 2022 - August 2, 2022)
- Art - Exhibition, Competitive, Home, Mythologies of Motherhood, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, USA, State, peer-reviewed/refereed, Competition. (March 10, 2022 - June 26, 2022)
- Art - Exhibition, Competitive, Fight or Flight, Thinking Through Drawing Virtual Exhibition, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA, USA, Regional, peer-reviewed/refereed, Competition. (August 31, 2021 - December 4, 2021)
- Art - Exhibition, Competitive, Untitled (Coral cup), Virtual Cup Exhibition and Auction, National Council on the Education of the Ceramic Arts, Boulder, CO, USA, National, peer-reviewed/refereed, Competition. (September 2, 2021 - September 7, 2021)
- Art - Arts Festival, (Various original artworks), Arts Thrive in Carbondale, Carbondale, Local, Competition. (June 5, 2021)
- Art - Exhibition, Group, Worth Protecting, To Give Rise To, Community Room on King, Lancaster, PA, USA, Regional, Invitation. (May 7, 2021 - June 4, 2021)
- Art - Exhibition, Invitational, Treasured II, To Give Rise To, Community Room on King, Lancaster, PA, USA, Regional, Invitation. (May 7, 2021 - June 4, 2021)
- Art - Exhibition, Group, In the Quiet, Projection Project, Penn State Lehigh Valley, Center Valley, PA, USA, Regional, Invitation. (March 2021 - April 2021)
- Art - Curating, 2021 Undergraduate Research Web Showcase, Penn State Scranton, Online, State, Invitation. (April 5, 2021 - April 9, 2021)
- Art - Art Works in Publication, A Skunks Tale (illustrations), Brenda Fritz, Bethlehem, PA, USA, Local, Commission. (December 2020 - March 2021)
- Art - Curating, Penn State Scranton Student Art Exhibition, Penn State Scranton Students, Library Express Bookstore, Scranton, PA, USA, Local, Invitation. (July 2020)
- Acquisition - Private Collection, Bob's Lake, Local Individual, Northampton, PA, USA, Regional, Commission. (June 2020)
- Acrylic painting commissioned by David Alban, Jr. of Northampton, PA.
- Art - Exhibition, Invitational, Worth Protecting, To Give Rise To, Motherhood Journey Exhibit, Lancaster, PA, USA, Regional, peer-reviewed/refereed, Invitation. (May 2020)
- Art - Curating, Undergraduate Research Fair and Exhibition, Student Art Exhibition, Penn State Scranton, Dunmore, PA USA, Local. (April 2020)
- Acquisition - Public Collection, Robin's Room, Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Northampton, PA, Regional, Invitation. (July 12, 2019 - November 17, 2019)
- Art - Exhibition, Group, A New Beginning, VAST Voices Gallery, The Joint, Bethlehem, PA, State, Invitation. (September 12, 2019 - November 11, 2019)
- Art - Exhibition, Group, A New Beginning, Voices Gallery, The Joint, Allentown, PA, State, Invitation. (July 30, 2019 - September 12, 2019)
- Art - Exhibition, Competitive, In the Quiet, The Art of Storytelling, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA, State, peer-reviewed/refereed, Competition. (June 6, 2019 - July 31, 2019)
- Art - Exhibition, Invitational, Worth Protecting, Motherhood Journey, Folklore, Elizabethtown, PA, State, Invitation. (June 1, 2019 - June 30, 2019)
- Art - Exhibition, Group, A New Beginning, VAST Voices, VAST, Allentown, PA, State, Invitation. (May 1, 2019 - May 16, 2019)
- Art - Exhibition, Invitational, Bling Your Bra, Real Men Wear Pink - Lehigh Valley Chapter, American Cancer Society, NE Region, Easton, PA, USA, Regional, Invitation. (October 25, 2018)
- Art - Exhibition, Competitive, Contemporary Renaissance Women, Banana Factory, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA, USA, Regional, peer-reviewed/refereed, Competition. (May 11, 2018 - June 17, 2018)