Liza Myers Resume, Artist, acrylic painting, ceramic sculpture, Vermont Artist

Liza Myers

Resumé

• Galleries
• Selected Exhibitions & Performance
• Selected Teaching Experience
• Awards and Honor s
• Education
• Other Activities
Galleries:
11111Co/So, Newbury Street, Boston MA

11111Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge MA 1

11111Artisans, Waitsfield VT

11111Liza Myers Gallery and Studio 22 Center Street, Rte 7, Brandon VT

11111Brandon Artists Guild, Brandon VT

11111Southern Vermont Art Association, Manchester, VT

11111Cape Cod Art Association
11111Gopalan Gallery, Terre Haute IN

Selected Exhibitions and Performances:

200911Scheduled: Solo Exhibition, Christine Price Gallery, Castleton, VT.
11111Solo Exhibition, Gopalan Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
2008 Invitational Exhibition Gallery in the Field, Brandon VT

11111Bellevue Museum ArtsFair, Bellevue, WA
11111Solo exhibition: Dorset Playhouse, Dorset VT

11111Summer Invitational: Gopalan Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
11111Contemporary Realism National, Academic Artists Association, Springfield, MA
11111Paradise City Arts Festival Marlborough MA March 16-18
11111Form, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA

2007 1Gallery in the Field, Brandon, VT
111111Paradise City Arts Festival, Marlboro, MA & Northampton, MA
111111Glastonbury Artists Guild Fall Arts, Glastonbury, CT

111111Mountain Lakes PBS Exhibition, Stewart Museum, Montreal Canada

111111All New England Exhibition, Cape Cod Artists Association, Barnstable, MA

111111Southern Vermont Art Center, Fall National Exhibition, Manchester VT

111111Green Mountain Gallery , Stowe VT, Vermont Watercolor Society

111111Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge MA

111111Art in the Snow, Brandon, VT
111111Brandon Artists Guild Reigning Cats and Dogs, Brandon, VT

200611Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield VT

111111Art on the Mountain, West Halifax, VT

111111Reflections on Basin Harbor, Vergennes, VT

111111Contemporary Vermont Artists Invitational, Gallery in the Field, Brandon VT

111111Arts Alive, Burlington VT

200611Featured artist: North Carolina Musem of Natural Science, Raleigh, NC
111111"53 Flavors" Tease your Palette Exhibit Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont
111111Palette Project, Brandon Artists Guild Invitational
111111Rutland All Aboard! "Moonlit Equinox Express"
111111Artists of New England Calendar Invitational, Brooks Pharmacy

200511Featured artist Grand Parada, Rutland Vermont
111111Brandon Rocks Invitational
111111Vermont Handcrafters Exhibition, Burlington Vermont

200411Featured Artist Art on Main, Bristol, VT
111111Art on the Mountain, Wilmington, VT
111111Brandon is For the Birds, Brandon VT
111111Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield VT
111111Vermont Handcrafters Exhibition, Burlington Vermont

200311Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT
111111Quail Hollow Arts Festival, Woodstock, NY
111111Reflections of Basin Harbor, Panton, VT
111111Meredith Fine Arts Festival, Meredith, NH
111111Art on the Mountain, Wilmington, VT
111111Corn Hill Arts Festival, Rochester, NY
111111Solo Exhibition, Vermont Works, 18 Years
111111Christine Price Gallery, Castleton College, VT
111111Syracuse Arts Festival, Syracuse, NY
111111Southern Vermont Arts Center Juried Exhibition, Manchester, VT
111111The Really Really Pig Show, Brandon Artists Guild, Brandon, VT

200211Solo Exhibition, Chaffee Center for the Arts, Rutland, VT
111111Southern Vermont Art Center, Fall National Juried Exhibition, Manchester, VT
111111Arts Alive Exhibition, Burlington VT
111111Allentown Arts Festival, Buffalo NY
111111Berkshires SummerArts Festival, MA
111111Corn Hill Arts Festival, Rochester NY
111111Syracuse Arts Festival, Syracuse, NY
111111Adirondack Mountain Arts Festival, Saratoga NY
111111Stratton Arts and Crafts Festival, Stratton VT

200111Southern Vermont Art Center, Fall National Juried Exhibition, Manchester, VT
111111Featured Artist, Brandon Artist's Guild, September, Brandon, VT Art on the Mountain, Wilmington, VT
111111Glastonbury Artist's Guild Art Fair, Glastonbury, CT
111111For Art's Sake, Stowe, VT
111111Southern Vermont Arts Center Summer Members Exhibition, Manchester, VT
111111Food For Thought, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, VT
111111Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, Ocean City, MD
111111Wetlands and Arts Festival, Amherst, MA
111111Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
111111Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival, Syracuse, NY

200011Solo Exhibition Connecticut Audubon Center, Glastonbury, CT
111111Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT
111111Art at the Station, Burlington, VT
111111Southern Vermont Art Center Summer Member's Exhibition, Manchester, VT
111111Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Theater, Hartford, CT
111111Arts Alive, Burlington, VT
ç111111T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier VT, Invitational Exhibition
111111Solo Exhibition "1984-1999 Emerging into Clarity"
111111Geissler Gallery, Greenfield, MA
111111Amsden House Contemporary Art Center Invitational Exhibition, Stanstead, Quebec

?1999-2000

111111Art of the Animal Kingdom IV National Touring Exhibition, NY, VA, MN
1999 111Small Works, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
111111Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting, Shelburne, VT
111111Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, VT
111111Reflections of Basin Harbor, Panton, VT
111111Art of the Animal Kingdom IV, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT
111111XII Annual International Exhibition of Animals in Art, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
1998 Southern Vermont Arts Juried Fall National Exhibition, Manchester,VT
111111"Animal Kingdom" Chaffee Center for the Visual Arts, Invitational Exhibition, Rutland, V
1111111996 Chaffee Center for the Visual Arts, Invitational Wildlife Art Exhibit, Rutland, VT
111111Juried Wildlife Art Exhibition,Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Woodstock, VT
111111River Odyssey, children's musical, Pittsford VT, Fort Ticonderoga, NY, Montpelier VT
1995 1Wildlife Art Exhibition, Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Woodstock, VT
1993 11A Planet For All Species, a children's musical melodrama, Audubon NE, Lake George, NY; Washington DC
1992 11Book Illustration Invitational Exhibition, Chaffee Arts Gallery, VT
1991 11Our Own Special Place children's musical written by Liza Myers Performances: VT, Westport, CT & DC
111111Woman's Work, Invitational Exhibition, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
111111Solo exhbition, Chaffee Gallery, Rutland, VT
1990 This is Our Forest , a children's musical co-authored by Liza Myers, Pittsford, VT
111111Faculty Exhibition, Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT
111111Dirty Laundry Installation, Paramount Alternative Space, Rutland, VT
111111Arts Alive, Burlington, VT

19891Solo exhibition "Emissaries", Moonbrook Arts Union Rutland, VT
111111Arts Alive Invitational Exhibition, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
111111Lee Sclaar Gallery, Morristown, NJ

19881 Albany Museum of Art and History, Rice Gallery, Albany, NY
111111Lee Sclaar Gallery, Morristown, NJ

19871 Invitational Exhibition, Chaffee Gallery, Rutland, VT
111111Installation, Lee Sclaar Gallery, Morristown, N J
111111"Interplay", Juried N E Competition, Albany Museum of Art and History, NY
111111"Four Vermont Sculptors" Invitational , Christine Price Gallery, Castleton, VT

19861 Art's Alive, Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Vermont Artists, Burlington VT
111111Solo Exhibition, Moonbrook Gallery , Rutland VT
111111Art on Paper, Gallery on the Circle, Annapolis, MD

19851"Recent Ceramic Sculpture" Invitational, NM Museum of Fine Arts, Albuquerque,NM

19841 Faculty Exhibition, Towson University, Towson, MD
111111NCECA, National Juried Members Exhibition, Boston, MA

19831"Perspectives" Mill Gallery National Competition, Guilford, CT

198411"Shards" Solo Exhibition, Bloodroot Collective, Bridgeport, CT
111111New Directions in Traditional Media" Center for the Creative Arts, Wilmington, DE
111111"The Great American Bowl" National Competition, Newport Art Association, Newport, RI

19801"Lo Que Esta Pasando" Galeria Agustin Barrios,
111111Centro Cultural Paraguayo-Americano Asunciòn, Paraguay

197911"New Directions in Crafts", Albuquerque United Artists Gallery, NM
111111Mixed Media Juried Exhibition, Teaching Gallery, University of NM

197811"Cuatro Americanos en Latino America"
111111Invitational Exhibition, Galeria Augustín Barrios, Asunciòn, Paraguay

197711"Cuatro Tecnicas de Ceramica" Clay sculpture, Galeria Barrios, Asunciòn, Paraguay

Awards and Honors:
2008 1 Orton Foundation Finalist, Art and Soul
11111 Artist's Residency Centre de Arte i Natura, Farrera, Catalonia Spain

111111Vermont Arts Council Grant to support Farerra residency

11111Castleton College Grant to support Farrera residency
2007 1"Showstopper" Paradise City Arts Festival, Northampton and Marlboro, MA
111111Glastonbury Artist's Guild Acrylic Painting Award, Glastonbury CT 111111111111111111111111111

2006 0Vermont Arts Council Calendar Artist

111111Selected as Cover artist for HUNGER MOUNTAIN JOURNAL
111111111111The Vermont College Journal of Arts and Letters, MOntpelier VT
111111Artists of New England Calendar Invitational, Brooks Pharmacy
111111Basin Harbor Artist's Residency Award

20051Selected as Grand Parada Featured Artist, Rutland Vermont

2004 0 Selected by Cambridge Press for Book Cover Illustration, The World's Largest Wetlands by Paul Keddy
111111Nest Image selected by VT Arts Council for commemorative 40th anniversary gicleé series.

20031 Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship, Johnson VT Basin Harbor Residency, Panton VT

20021 Vermont Arts Council Opportunity Grant

2001-7 Juried Member of Vermont Art's Council Artist Registry

2001 111111Ralph Seeley Award, Best in Show, Chaffee Center for the Arts, Rutland VT
111111Vermont Week, Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson VT

20001 Honorable Mention, Hildene Peony Festival, Manchester, VT
111111Vermont Arts Council Opportunity Grant

19991 Basin Harbor Artist's Residency, Vergennes Vermont
111111Best in Show, Chaffee Spring Exhibit, Rutland Vermont

1998 Vermont Alliance for Arts in Education "Outstanding Educator of the Year Award"

1996 Travel award: Invited to present at a conference entitled "Children, Environmental Activism and
11111111Grassroots Democratic Action" Suzdal, Russia

19931 National Audubon Society All Species Day Cash Award to take "A Planet For All Species" to D.C.

1991 "Vermont Woman Making A Difference" Award, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT

19861 First Place, Chaffee Gallery, Fall Exhibition, Cash Award
111111Best of Show, Md Federation of Art, Summer Juried Exhibition, Cash Award
111111Second Prize, Sculpture, Norwich University Juried VT Artists Exhibition

19821 Award for "The Bowl as Concept" Great American Bowl Competition, Newport RI

1980-821 Full Graduate Assistanceship, Maryland Institute College of Art

1979 Best of Show, Feria de Guggiari, Asuncion, Paraguay

Teaching Experience

2005-9 111 Castleton College, Professor of Art.

2008-9 111 Community College of Vermont Professor of Art

2003-2009 Adult & children's classes: watercolor, acrylic, drawing, mixed media, clay

1988-2006 Arts and the Basics Coordinator, Arts Instructor, Lothrop School, Pittsford,VT

1997-2006 Armadillo Aartz Director, after-school arts program, Pittsford VT

1990-91 1 Assistant Professor, Green Mt. College: Art History, Ceramics, Sculpture

1989-901 Adjunct Professor, Ceramics, Green Mountain College

1986-871 Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 10-12 Studio Arts, Painting, Ceramics, Art History, Quilting

1984-861 Art Educator, West Rutland School, K-12, Studio Arts

1983-841 Towson University, Towson, MD, Visiting Instructor, 2-D Design, Ceramics.

1982-841 Loyola Blakefield, Towson, MD, Art History, Studio

1976-801 Art Educator, American School of Asuncion, Paraguay South America

Other Activities:

1999-20041 Board Member Brandon Artists Guild

2000-20031 Vice President, Vermont Watercolor Society

2000111111 Vermont Alliance for Arts in Education 2000 Conference Program Coordinator

1996-20081 Vocals, Harmony & Rhythm Guitar with the Sleeping Dogs, blues & rock band

1995-9711 Co-founder, Great Blue Educational Horizons, a not-for-profit organization
11111111dedicated to the integration of the arts and environmental education.

1991-95 Director, Great Blue Productions: Co-designed & produced "MarshMaster, the wetlands game"

199011 1990 Statewide Coordinator of Earthday 1990 Educational Activities, Vermont Audubon Council

1982-84 1989-98 Vermont Audubon Council Board Member

Education:
111111MFA Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
111111BFA University of New Mexico, ABQ, NM

20041 Vancouver Academy of Art, Arleta Pech

20031 Summer, Taos Institute of the Arts, Timothy Tyler, NAOP

2001 & 2002 Summer:1 Art New England, Bennington VT, Patricia Tobacco Forrester

20001 Spring: Artisans of Santa Fe, Santa Fe,NM, Evelyn Boren

19981 Summer: Academy of Realist Art, Camano Island, WA

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