Resume

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585 South Rodney St.
Helena, MT 59601
(406) 442-8106

Born

St. Paul, Minnesota, 1944

Education
  • M.F.A., Sculpture, University of Montana, Missoula, 1994
  • M.S., Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine, 1969
  • B.A., Biology, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1966

Public Art Commissions

2023

The Myrna Loy, Helena, Montana

2009
  • Myrna Loy Center, Helena, Montana
  • Metro Center, Williston, North Dakota
2008
  • University of Oregon, School of Music and Dance, Eugene, Oregon
  • Southern Oregon University/Rogue Community College, Medford, Oregon
2007

Helena College, University of Montana, Helena, Montana

2006

Lewis and Clark Library, Helena, Montana

2005

Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana

2001
  • Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
  • Paris Gibson Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana
2000

Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

1999

Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018

Art Spirit Gallery, Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho

2014
  • Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
  • AKAR, Iowa City, Iowa
  • A.L. Swanson Gallery, Helena, Montana
2008

Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana

2006

Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana

2005
  • Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
  • AKAR, Iowa City, Iowa
  • A.L. Swanson Gallery, Helena, Montana
2004

Utah State University, Logan, Utah

2002
  • Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
  • Turman Gallery, Helena, Montana
  • Botanica Gallery, Bozeman, Montana
1999
  • Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
  • Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming
1998

Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota

1997

Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana

1996-97

Site-specific landscape installation, near Drummond, Montana

1996

Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, Montana

1995
  • National Congress of Art & Design, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Myrna Loy Center, site-specific installation, Helena, Montana
  • Holter Museum of Art, site-specific installation, Helena, Montana
1994
  • Paxson Gallery, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
  • Salem Art Association, Salem, Oregon

Sculpture/ Dance Collaborations

2020

“Resonance Reimagined,” Great Northern Amphitheatre, Helena, Montana

2019

“Resonance,” Dennison Theatre, Missoula, Montana

2018

“Resonance,” The Myrna Loy, Helena, Montana

1999

“Material Forces,” Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho

1998

“Altered States,” Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota

1996-97

“Balance and Bounty: A Collaboration in the Landscape of the Agrarian West”, near Drummond, Montana

1996

“Shimmerings,” Performing Arts Building, University of Montana, Missoula

1995
  • “Wishbones,” Myrna Loy Center, Helena, Montana
  • “V’vesa,” Montana Theater, University of Montana, Missoula
  • “Immigrants,” Performing Arts Building, University of Montana, Missoula
1994

“Building Bridges,” Van Buren Street Bridge, Missoula, Montana

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

“Bodies of Work,” Ross Art Museum, Delaware, Ohio

2018

“Montana Triennial,” Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana

2014
  • “That Figure in Clay,” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • “Hot Tea!-An Exhibition of Art Teapots,” del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2013

“Silhouettes, Tisdale Invites,” Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana

2011
  • “Then & Now,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
  • “Priority,” Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa, Hawaii
2010
  • “Double Vision,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
  • “Hot Tea: 13th Biennial Teapot Exhibition,” Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri
  • “Multiples,” Lincoln Arts, Lincoln, California
2009

“New Acquisitions,” Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana

2008

“Naughty Pots,” Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts, Washington, D.C.

2007

“Kinetic Art in the Northwest,” Yellowstone Art Museum Billings, Montana

2006

“California Dreamin’,” ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

2004
  • “Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition,” Bellevue, Washington
  • “A Ceramic Continuum,” Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, Washington
2003
  • “Beyond Boundaries,” ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
  • “Short Stories,” Center for Ceramic Arts, Berkeley, California
2002
  • “Entanglements,” Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
  • “Terra Sutra,” Arts Incubator, Kansas City, Missouri
2001

“The Yixing Effect,” Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts

2000

“Defining Moments in Contemporary Ceramics,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

1999

“Erotica in Ceramic Art,” Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

1998

“New Art of the West 6, ” Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana

1997
  • “Purple Sands-Western Potters in China,” JBK, Amsterdam, Holland
  • “Montana: Myth & Reality,” Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, Montana
  • “Crosscurrents,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
1996
  • “Montana Choice”, Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana
  • “Land Inspired,” Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
1995
  • “SOFA Exposition 1995”, Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  • “ANA 24,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
1994

“Invented Memories: Installations by Three Artists,” SAA, Salem, Oregon

1993
  • “Three Person Show,” Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, Montana
  • “Please Touch the Art,” Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana

Selected Awards and Honors

2000

Helena Presents (Helena, MT), Individual Artist Grant

1999

Montana Arts Council, Percent-for-Art Award, Sculpture

1997

Helena Presents (Helena, MT), Individual Artist Grant

1996
  • Art Matters Foundation (New York, NY), Individual Artist Fellowship
  • Invited Participant, Yixing Symposium for Western Potters, Yixing, China
1995
  • New Forms: Regional Initiative Grant (7 western states)
  • Montana Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts
  • First Place Award, National Congress of Art and Design, Salt Lake City
1994, 1988

Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT), Individual Artist Grant

1992-94

Fell-Oskins Scholarship, University of Montana, Missoula

1974-76

Resident Artist, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana

Public Collections

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
  • Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
  • Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming
  • Yixing Red Pottery Arts Factory #5, Yixing, China
  • The Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs, Washington, D.C.
  • Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
  • Montana State Historical Society Museum, Helena, Montana,
  • School of Fine Arts, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana
  • Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
  • Holter Museum, Helena, Montana
  • Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, Montana