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Lisa Kurtz Current 2017 Resume June
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Education
1985 University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky
Master of Arts Ceramics
Studied under Tom and Ginny Marsh
Teaching Experience
Jan.2016- Liberal Arts Department Pellissippi State Community College Knoxville, Tennessee
Present Classes: Ceramics 1 and Drawing 1
Adjunct Professor of Art (Ceramics and Drawing) Develop course structures,
core principles, syllabi, and assessments; teach students ceramic and drawing concepts
and skills; lecture and demonstrate ceramic and drawing techniques, career
opportunities in the arts, and art history; develop projects, rubrics, tests, and essay
prompts and evaluate student work; provide individualized instruction, problem solving,
and support for each student; teach and pit fire student work; photograph student work.
2015-2016 Master Artist Apprentice Program (MAAP) Tennessee Arts Commission and Tennessee
Craft Knoxville, Tennessee
Master Artist Juried position to mentor a young potter, helping her develop the
artistic and professional skills to be a viable producing artist; artistic skills demonstrated
and taught included throwing, hand-building, glaze mixing, glazing, and firing; MAAP
program culminated with a gallery show in Nashville at the Tn. Arts Commission Gallery
featuring work by the master artists and apprentices.
1989 University of Louisville Continuing Education Department Louisville, Kentucky
Ceramics Instructor Taught wheel throwing, hand-building, and glazing to adult
continuing education students; adapted traditional ceramics curriculum to suit adult
learners; provided individualized instruction; facilitated student critiques; ordered
supplies and fired student work.
Curatorial/Juror Experience
2017 Tennessee Craft Spring Show
Invited Juror, February-May, 2017 (online and on site jurying)
Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee
Sevier County Student Art Show Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Invited Juror, March, 2017, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2014 ART FAIR KMA 2014 Knoxville Museum of Art and Foothills Craft Guild Knoxville, TN
Artist Coordinator, Juror, and Show Manager Recruited more than 50 local
professional artists in just four months to take part in a fine arts and craft show at the
Knoxville Museum of Art; this was a paid position that required administrative,
marketing, and management skills. I brought in The Foothills Craft Guild as a partner and
served as a liaison between the president/members of the Guild of the Knoxville Museum
of Art and the president/members of the Foothills Craft Guild to produce the show.
Additionally, I designed and mailed call to artist postcards, devised and distributed
artist applications, served as the artists liaison throughout the show process, developed
the show site layout, and coordinated booth assignments. I also met with the museum
staff and board members and proposed advertising strategies to promote the show.
2016-2017 The Art Market Gallery Knoxville, Tennessee Featured Artist Scheduler
Scheduled monthly 2D and 3D featured artist exhibits for local cooperative art gallery
with over 60 members; sent out email reminders about set up and follow through.
2007-2014 The Art Market Gallery Knoxville, Tennessee
Scheduler Paid position that required coordinating with more than 60 members of
an artists cooperative gallery to ensure sufficient staffing for daily operations and
monthly First Friday events; maintained digital work calendar; regularly emailed and
called artists with reminders, scheduled extra workers for special events, and generally
kept gallery running and staffed.
2014 First Place Award of Distinction at the Gatlinburg Fine Arts Festival in conjunction with
the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Juror: Liza Zenni
2014 Commission from the Knox Area Womens Golf Association in Knoxville, Tennessee.
2012 Commission from the Loudon County Classic Womens Golf Tournament in Loudon,
Tennessee.
2005 Honorable Mention at the Fountain City Open Show in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Juror: Sam Yates
1989 Honorable Mention at the Kentucky Arts and Crafts Market in Louisville, Kentucky.
Juror: Adam Ash
1989 Second Place at the Old Brownsboro Road Art Fair in Louisville, Kentucky.
1988 First Place (Wheel, Hand Built, and Sculptural Divisions) at the Kentucky State Fair
in Louisville, Kentucky.
Selected Regional and National Exhibitions, Group Shows and Craft Fairs
2017 Deep Inner Cups, (National Juried), Gallery Zeke, Steelville, Missouri, August 4-27,
Juror: Richard Wehrs
November 2017: Live and Local Recent Works by the Pellissippi Art Faculty,
The Emporium Gallery, November 3-27, 2017, Knoxville, Tennessee
Artisan Market Foothills Craft Guild, (Juried) March 3-4, 2017, at the
Jackson Terminal in Knoxville, Tennessee
Upcoming:
December: Highland Pottery Holiday Sale and Open House, December 8-9, 9am-3pm,
9193 Hemingway Grove Circle, Knoxville, TN
January: Lisa Kurtz: New Work (invitational) at Schilling Gallery, Westminster Presbyterian
Church, Knoxville, TN
March: Foothills Craft Guild Artisan Market (juried) at the Jackson Terminal, Knoxville, TN
2017 Featured Artist Exhibit (Group Clay) at The Art Market Gallery in Knoxville, TN,
March 2-31, 2017
2016 Lisa Kurtz and Ginger Oglesby (invitational) at The District Gallery in
Knoxville, Tennessee, November 4-26, 2016
MAAP: Master Artist Apprentice Show (juried) at the Tennessee Arts Commission
Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, September 23 - November 11, 2016
The Art of Native Plants Group Exhibition (juried) at the Townsend Visitor Center
in Townsend, Tennessee
Terra Madre: Women in Clay (group juried) at The District Gallery in Knoxville, TN
Lisa Kurtz: Featured 3-D Artist with Dennis Sabo (2-D) at The Art Market Gallery in
Knoxville, TN
2015 Clay for the Wall Solo Exhibition (juried), at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian
Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, July 2015
2012-2015 Dogwood Arts Studio DeTours,(group juried), as part of the Dogwood Arts Festival in
Knoxville, Tennessee, April 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
2006 thru 2015Arts Xtravaganza Group Show (Juried), at the Webb School of Knoxville in
Knoxville, Tennessee, March
2014 Artscapes 2014, Group Show (Juried), at the Knoxville Museum of Art in
Knoxville,Tennessee
Alchemy and Art Group Show (Juried), with the Farragut Arts Council in Knoxville,
TN
Terra Madre: Women in Clay Group Show (Juried), at The District Gallery in
Knoxville, TN
2012, 2013 Terra Madre: Women in Clay Group Show (Juried), at Blount Mansion in Knoxville,
TN
2010 thru 2014Featured Artist: Lisa Kurtz Solo Exhibition (Juried), at The Art Market Gallery in
Knoxville, TN
2005 thru 2015Whittington Creek Art Show Group Show (Juried), at the Whittington Creek
Clubhouse in Knoxville, TN
2009 New Expressions Group Show (Juried), at the Fountain City Art Center in Knoxville,
TN
2007 Rewedged, Group Show (Invitational), at the NCECA National Council for the
Education of Ceramic Arts, Hite Gallery, in Louisville, Kentucky
2006-2007 Fountain City Open Show, Group Show (Juried) at the Fountain City Arts Center in
Fountain City, TN
2006 Treasures of Terra Madre Group Show (Juried), at The Art Market Gallery
2005 Terra Madre: Women in Clay Group Show (Juried), at Mighty Mud Ceramic Studios
in Knoxville, TN
2004 Artscapes 2004 , Group Show (Juried), at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville
2004 thru 2013Bowlicious , Group Charity Benefit (Invitational), at the Knoxville Museum of Art &
Hunter Valley Farms in Knoxville, TN
The Wedding Show, Group Show (Invitational), at the Kentucky Guild of Artists and
Craftsmen Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky
1990 Group Show (Invitational), Fine Crafts Exhibit at Perlow Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA
1989 Group Show (Juried), Art Mix at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky
Group Show (Juried), Dinnerware Exhibition at the Kentucky Arts and Crafts
Foundation in Louisville, Kentucky
1988 Group Show (Invitational), Alumni Exhibition at the Morris B Gallery at the
University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky
1987 Group Show (Juried), Waterside Exhibition at the Louisville Water Tower in
Louisville, Kentucky
1987 thru 1990Buyers Markets of American Crafts Wholesale Craft Fairs (Juried), in Miami,
Florida and Boston, Massachusetts
1986 25th Anniversary Exhibition Group Show (Juried), at the Kentucky Guild of Artists &
Craftsmen Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky
1985-1988 Ky Crafted Market (wholesale and retail juried) at the Fairgrounds in Louisville,
Kentucky
1985 Solo Exhibition (Invitational), Clay Baskets: Thesis Exhibition at the University of
Louisville Hite Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky
1984 Group Show (Juried), Eight States Annual at the Speed Museum in Louisville, KY
2016 Spotlight on Terra Madre Clay Artists, Bearden Shopper News (Knoxville, TN),
pg. A-19 and Farragut Shopper News (Knoxville, TN), April 27, 2016
Artful Abundance, Weekender Shopper News (Knoxville, TN), March 30, pg. A-9
Art Market Gallerys April Featured Artist Exhibit, Everything Knoxville Magazine
April, 2016, pg. 10, Knoxville, TN
2015 Warm Temperature Heats Up Art Show, Bearden Shopper News (Knoxville, TN),
Dec. 23, 2015, pg. A-3
Words withLisa Kurtz, Knoxville Mercury (Knoxville, TN), Dec. 10, 2015, pg. 7
2014 KMA Announces Expanded Art Sale, Related Family Activities, Everything Knoxville
Magazine, (Knoxville, TN), Oct. 2014, p. 60
2013 Whittington Creek Art Show to feature local talent, Bearden Shopper-News
(Knoxville, TN), Oct. 21, 2013
Q&A: Lisa Kurtz, a Potter Who Will Open a Retrospective Show Benefitting Alzheimers
at the District Gallery, Metro Pulse (Knoxville, TN), Aug. 28, 2013
Your Stories: Lisa Kurtz, WBIR (Knoxville, TN), Aug. 21, 2013
Artist Questions and Answers with Lisa Kurtz, Knoxville News Sentinel, Mar. 23, 2013
(Knoxville, TN)
2012 Art DeTour 3: Highland Pottery, Oh the Places We See, May 19, 2012,
http://ohtheplaceswesee.com/2012/05/19/art-detour-3-highland-pottery/
2011 Little army aliens - at Terra Madre pottery sale, Bearden Shopper-News,
Knoxville, TN, November 21, 2011,
http://issuu.com/shoppernews/docs/bearden-shopper-news-112111/3
West Knox Artists Show off Work, Knoxville News Sentinel (Knoxville, TN), Oct. 25,
http://www.knoxnews.com/knoxvillle/life/allison-rupp-west-knox-artists-show-off
Whittington Creek Art Show, Knoxville Magazine (Knoxville, Tn), October 2011
http://newpointmediadigipub.com/publication/index.php?i=84026&m=&l=&p=8&pre=
Whittington Creek Art Show, Skirt Magazine (Knoxville, Tn.), October 2011, pg. 13
Anything But Square, Sky Vision Magazine (Vision Airlines), Summer 2011, pg. 34
2010 Whittington Creek Art Show Moves Outdoors, Bearden Shopper News (Knoxville, Tn)
October 25, 2010, pg. A-3
2007 Local Artist to Hold Open House, Knoxville News Sentinel (Knoxville, Tn.), Nov. 26
2007, pg. A-3
2012 thru 2015 Studio Host and Ceramics Demonstrator (wheel throwing and hand building) for
Dogwood Arts Studio DeTours in Knoxville, Tennessee
2012 Artist Talk, My Journey in Clay: 35 Years, for the Tellico Village Art Guild
in Loudon, Tennessee
Invited Speaker, A Day in the Life of a Studio Potter, at Knoxville Catholic High
School, Knoxville, Tn.
2011 & 2012 Workshop, Clay Vase Project, at Knoxville Catholic High School, Knoxville, Tn.
2007 Workshop for Teachers, Slab Bowls, at Sacred Heart Cathedral School, Knoxville, Tn.
1999 thru 2007 Clay Workshop, Clay Crosses, at Sacred Heart Cathedral School, Knoxville, Tn.
Current Galleries
Roots Up Gallery
6 E. Liberty St., Savannah, GA 31401.
http://www.rootsupgallery.com/artist/lisa-kurtz