Springfield Steampunk 2014
Springfield Museums, Springfield MA
“South End Art Hop” Burlington Vermont, September 2000 through 2015
Selected for annual juried exhibition and technical demonstration
2nd place Artist Award 2015
3rd Place Artist Award 2014
1st Place Artist Award 2012
3rd Place Artist Award 2008
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne Vermont
“Time Machines: Robots, Rockets and Steampunk” 2012
“In Fashion, High Style 1690-2011” 2011
“All Fired Up” 2010
“Arts Alive” Burlington Vermont, June 2000 through 2015
1st Place Best Artist Award 2008
2nd Place Best Artist Award 2006
Smithsonian Institute “Barn Again, Celebrating an American Icon”
National Exhibit 2004-2005
Major Commissions
“Time Machines: Robots, Rockets and Steampunk” 2012
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne Vermont
Sculptures of the Spanish Missions commissioned by the City of San Antonio, presented to President George W. Bush, Pope John Paul II,
Queen Elizabeth and King Juan Carlos of Spain
Barn Sculptures commissioned by the State of Vermont and permanently installed in the General Services Building
Documentation
“Stuck in Vermont” video John Brickels Mad Scientist episode # 266
Eva Sollberger via Seven Days Newspaper, Burlington Vermont
Ceramics Monthly Magazine, January 2009
“Focus, a Life in Clay” Featuring John Brickels
“The Artist John Brickels” Video
Regional Educational Technology Network
Juror’s Statement, Arts Alive Juried Show Burlington Vermont 2008
“ ‘Rusty’ “ is a piece that has it all…technological virtuosity combined with fantasy based on originality and creatively displayed…this is world class work.”