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