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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)
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