Vita + Exhibitions

Education

 1997      Masters of Fine Art, Printmaking and Drawing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin

 1989       Bachelor of Fine Art-Ceramics and Drawing, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan

 

Teaching                             

1999 – present       Member of the Faculty (tenured, 2002), Visual Arts, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington

 1997 – 1999       Lecturer (painting, drawing, printmaking and art history),  University of Wisconsin-Marathon County, Wausau, Wisconsin

 

Selected Exhibits, Publications, and Conferences

 2013

Like, Gallery artists group exhibit, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA

Finish, Faculty group exhibition, Evergreen Gallery, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

2012

Pacific States Biennial National Printmaking Exhibit, Juror:  Karen Kunc, University of Hawai’i – Hilo. Catalog

2010

What I See, three-person exhibit, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA

Demonstration and Devotion, solo exhibit, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound.  Exhibit held in connection with the Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Conference.

 Lecture, “A Pacific Northwest Artist Responds to the Medieval Tradition,” Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Conference.

 “Re-envisioned Medieval” review by Alec Clayton, March 17, 2010, weeklyvolcano.com

“Postmodern Stigmata” review by Rosemary Ponnekanti, March 26, 2010, The News Tribune, Seattle

 “Lisa Sweet’s Divine Inspiration,” by Virginia Bunker, CityArts Magazine, April 2010

2009                            

18th Annual National Exhibit (honorable mention), Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, MD

2008

Dreams and Visions (juried group exhibit), Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL

 2007

Personal Narrative group exhibit, Davidson Contemporary, Seattle, WA

Work included in The Eighth Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA.  Curated by Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art/Tacoma Art Museum and David Kiehl, Curator of Prints/Whitney Museum of Art.

 2004

Co-presenter, “Teaching Medieval/Renaissance Studies through Science and Visual Art” Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), State University of New York, Binghamton, October 22-23

2002

“What a Doll!” Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Ellensburg, Washington.  Curated by Janet Marstine

1999

Invitational Printmaking Exhibit, Edna Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Steven’s Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Bound:  Prints, Sculpture, and Paintings (solo exhibit), Center for the Visual Arts,  Wausau, Wisconsin

First Annual National Exhibition, Cinque Gallery, New York, New York, Juror: Eugenia Tsai, Senior Curator of Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art

The Agony and the Ecstasy (Juried group exhibit), Christopher Gallery, Prairie State College, Chicago, Illinois

1998

Solo exhibit, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, Waukesha, Wisconsin

Printmakers ’98, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

La Grange National Biennial, Chatahoochee Valley Art Museum, La Grange, Georgia (Juror’s Merit Award/Juror:  Siri Engberg, Associate Curator, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Outside Constraints:  Extending the Medium.  Three-person printmaking exhibit, Wright Art Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin

1997

third person. Exhibit of collaborative drawings with Jennifer Dailey, Arhnsbach Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Marathon County and Porter Butts Gallery University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin

Alumni Printmaking Exhibit, Calder Fine Art Gallery, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan

Objects from a Pilgrimage, Masters of Fine Art thesis exhibit,  University of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, Wisconsin