Liza E. Halvorsen liza.havorsen4@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Mills College, Oakland, CA, M.F.A.
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, B.F.A.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012-2020
Bellevue Art Museum, Northwest Designer Craftsman Virtual Exhibition, Bellevue, WA; Kirkland Art Center, Ceramic Invitational, Kirkland, WA
Vashon Center for the Arts Invitational, Vashon Island, WA
Currents 2020, Schack Arts Center, Everett, (in coordination with) Museo Gallery, Langley, Whidbey Is, WA
Kirkland Arts Center, Instructors Virtual Exhibit- Heritage In Clay, Kirkland, WA
Halvorsen & Halvorsen, The Bainbridge Island Arts and Craft Gallery, Winslow, WA
Northwest Designer Craftsman Exhibit, Art/Technology, The Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
Northwest Designer Craftsman Exhibit, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA; ’Like Mother, Like Daughter & A Few Sons’, North Seattle College; Seattle, WA
‘Tip Toland’ NWDC-Living Treasures Video, Show & Auction, Pots Gallery, Seattle, WA
‘Tribute to Bob Purser’, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA; ‘Ron Ho’ Living Treasures-Video Project, Self-Portrait Show & Auction, Pots Gallery, Seattle, WA; NWDC, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon Island, WA; Artful Home, Winter 2017 Online Catalogue; Larry & Liza Halvorsen at Brace Point Pottery, West Seattle, WA; Summer Show, Water Street Gallery, Douglas, Michigan; ‘Soups On! Tureens’, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA; NWDC at Northwind Arts Alliance, Port Townsend; NWDC at UW Medical Research Center, Seattle, WA; NWDC 60th Anniversary, Whatcom Art Museum, Bellingham, WA; North Seattle College Faculty Exhibition, Seattle; National Conference on Education in Ceramic Arts, North Seattle College Gallery; NWDC, NW Woodworker Gallery; ‘Teapot Invitational’, Bellevue College; ‘Tulipieres’ NW Museum of Art, La Conner, WA.
2006-11
‘Art of Trees’, Whatcom Art Museum, Bellingham, ‘Faculty Show’, North Seattle College, Seattle, WA; ‘After Robert Sperry’ Pots Gallery, Seattle, WA; Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, ‘Ceramic Sculpture’ Winslow; Bellevue College- Clayspeak Symposium; Poncho: ‘All About Art’ Seattle, WA; ‘Tacoma Sculpture Showcase’, Tacoma Museum, Tacoma WA;
‘Hot Art’, Northwind Arts Alliance, Port Townsend; ‘En Plein Air: Art in the Natural Environment’, Edmonds CC; ‘Monsen Cup Collection’, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001-05
‘Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 50’, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Wa; ‘National Council on Education In the Ceramic Arts, Portland, Oregon: Lewis & Clark College, Portland; Washington Potters Assoc., Beaverton Library, OR; NW Craft Center; Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, WA; Yuma Art Museum, Symposium Contributor Exhibition, Yuma, AZ; NWDC: Evidence of the Body, WSCC; The Figure, Bellevue CC; WCA, NWCC; Seattle, WA; American Crafts Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1990-95
Foster/White Gallery; Art Center Gallery, Seattle Pacific U; Fire Arts, UW, Seattle, WA; Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973-85
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle; Spokane Falls CC, Spokane, WA; Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA; American Art Inc., Atlanta, GA
American Porcelain, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC & International Tour;
Ceramic Invitational, Cheney Art Museum, Cheney, WA; Marietta College Crafts National,
Marietta, OH; Henry Gallery, UW; Seattle Art Museum, Monsen Collection, Seattle, WA
INSTALLATIONS, COLLECTIONS
2018 Installation, Watermark, Sutter Mission Bernal Hospital, San Francisco, CA
2015-17 Installation, Dorfketal Corporation, Mumbai, India;
Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Long Beach, CA; Private art commissions, Seattle, WA
2009-14 Intercultural Art: Yamanashi Prefecture Hospital, Japan; Evergreen Commission, Tokyo, Japan; Corporate Installations, Denver, CO; UW Medical Art Program, Seattle, WA; Kaiser Permanente Hospital, San Diego, Los Angeles, CA;
Henry Art Gallery, Monsen Collection, UW, WA, Seattle, WA;
Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA; Axis Collection, Hamilton, Bermuda
1992-06 Broadview/Thompson School; Licton Springs Park, Seattle, WA;
Microsoft Corporate Collection, Redmond, WA
1980-85 Viewcrest Park, City of Tukwila, WA; Washington State Arts Commission,
Sunrise Elementary School, Redmond; South Seattle Police Precinct, City of Seattle, WA
HONORS
2011-12 North Seattle College Faculty Grant Funds for NCECA National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts, Seattle, Wa; Universal Technology Fund Grant, Seattle, WA
2002 Washington Potter’s Association, Northwest Craft Center, Best of Show, Seattle, WA
1997 South Seattle Community College, Faculty Fund for Excellence Grant, Seattle, WA
1987 & 88 Eleanor Crumb Art Award; Alumnae Scholarship, MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1982 Seattle 200+One Club, Sculpture Grant, Seattle, WA
1972 Lamda Rho Art Scholarship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Reaching Beyond, Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 60, Whatcom Museum,
Exhibit & Catalogue, Bellingham, WA.; Photo, Bellevue Art Museum, Publication.
2009-2014 Crosscurrents, Washington Community College Humanities Association, Photo.
2004-06 Ceramics Monthly, Vol.52, Upfront; Pacific Northwest, Seattle Times.
1997-98 Clay Lover’s Guide to Making Molds, Clayton, Lark.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Review: Bellevue Annual, Regina Hackett, Photo.
1990-92 Artweek Review: Vision and Object Intertwine, John Rapko.
Art in Seattle’s Public Places, A Master Guide, Rupp, UW Press,
Seattle; A Field Guide for Seattle’s Public Art, Seattle Arts Commission, WA
1988-89 San Francisco Chronicle: Judging the Art and Jury, Baker, 2/2/89; Artweek, Review: The Sequence of Choices, HJ Willson Connecting Conversations: Interview 28 Bay Area Women, ‘Viola Frey’ by Liza Halvorsen, Roth, Editor, Eucalyptus Press.
1985-86 Art In America, Report from Seattle: In the Studios, Berkson.
Artist and Architect Collaborations, Interview: Spokane Public Radio.
1980-84 American Craft, 4/5/84, South Seattle Police Precinct;
Images In Clay Sculpture, Charlotte Speight, Harper and Row, NY.
American Ceramics, 2/3/83,Tablets of Earth, Kangas. American Craft and Ceramics Monthly, Photo; Seattle Arts, Feature Story, Joseph. Artweek, Balancing Multiple Concerns, McNeil; Smithsonian Magazine, American Porcelain, Scholl;
American Porcelain: New Expressions in an Ancient Art, Exhibition organized by the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1980, National & International tour 1984, Lloyd E Herman, Timber Press.
Seattle Post Intelligencer, 1981, Major Show, Emmet Watson.