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Lisa Gralnick Professor UW–Madison Department of Art, since 2001 Metals 1980 Master of Fine Arts, State University of New York at New Paltz 1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Kent State University Recent achievements 2015 Residency grant, European Ceramic Work Centre, Oisterwijk, Netherlands 2014 Creative Arts Award, UW–Madison Arts Institute 2014 Unique By Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection, group show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2014 Museum acquisition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, New York 2013 Kellett Mid-Career Award, UW–Madison 2013 The Tool at Hand, group show, Milwaukee Art Museum 2013 Faculty development grant, travel to Japan for technical training and lecturing 2013 Museum acquisition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2013 Two Generations, One Dialog: Lisa Gralnick and Venetia Dale, James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy, Madison, WI Artist’s statement Lisa Gralnick received her MFA in gold and silversmithing. After teaching at Kent Sate University and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, she became chair of the Jewelry and Metals Department at Parsons School of Design in New York, a position she held until 2001 when she joined the UW–Madison faculty. An artist and professor who has worked in and taught metalsmithing for thirty-five years, Gralnick recently became interested in ceramics, and spent three months in 2015 at the renowned European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands, a facility devoted to residencies for international artists to work in large-scale sculptural ceramics. Gralnick has received numerous awards for her work, including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, four New York Foundation for the Arts grants, and a Wisconsin Arts Board grant. Her works can be found in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. In 2012 she completed an oral history for the Archives of American Art for the Smithsonian Institution. Her work was included in the 2011 exhibition Ashbutan, held in New Delhi, India as part of the World Craft Council Conference held once every ten years. Work in the Show Lisa Gralnick (American b. 1956) Un-Pink, 2015 Ceramic with terra sigillata, 50 x 20 x 15 in. (Illustrated) 26 Quadrennial 2016 | Faculty