Lynn Elizabeth Whitford

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EDUCATION

1984-1988 University of Wisconsin-Madison

           M.F.A. in Art Metal

1980-1983 University of Wisconsin-Madison

           B.S. in Art

1961-1965 University of Wisconsin-Madison

           B.A. in American History

 

RECENT EMPLOYMENT

1991-present             Self employed metalsmith at MetalPeople

Oct/Nov, 1998 and        Visiting lecturer, Tainan National College of the Arts

Mar, 2005                 Tainan, Taiwan

   1990, spring semester   Part-time lecturer, Metals

                           Art Department, Madison Area Technical College

1988-1989                 Part-time lecturer

                           Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

GRANTS

1990                 Wisconsin Arts Board Percent for Art Grant

1989-90              Arts Midwest/N.E.A. Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Award

 

SELECTED REVIEWS

Metalsmith magazine, vol. 18, no. 5, fall, 1998, pp. 52-53.  "Lynn Whitford: No Ideas But in Things".  Review by William Baran-Mickle.

Metalsmith magazine, vol. 15, no.2, spring 1995, pp. 44-45 "The Effects of Good Chemistry-Metalwork by Lynn Whitford".  Review by Annette Mahler.

Reflex, vol. 3, No. 6, Nov-Dec, 1989, pp. 26-27.  "Lynn Elizabeth Whitford at William Traver (Seattle)".  Review by Elizabeth Bryant.

Monthly Crafts, 1989/2, pp. 48-49.  ( Korean journal).  Featured foreign artist.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2014  “Woman of Unknown Etiology” (solo show)

          Traver Gallery, Seattle

2008  “Fred Fenster:  Metalsmith: Created and Collected

          Indiana University-Purdue University Visual Arts Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

2008  “Women in Metal” (group show)

          University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

2007  "Portraits in Metal" (solo show)

          Traver Gallery, Seattle

2006  "Metalsmiths and Mentors: Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty" (invitational)

          Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI

2004  "A Decade of Art from the Wisconsin Academy Gallery" (invitational)

          James Watrous Gallery of the Wisconsin Academy, Madison, WI

2003  "The Bottle is Half Empty" (solo show) 

          William Traver Gallery, Seattle

2000  "Assemblage" (group show)

          William Traver Gallery, Seattle

1999  "Exhibition in Print"

          Metalsmith magazine, vol. 19, No. 4

1997  "No Ideas But in Things" (solo show)

          William Traver Gallery, Seattle

1995  Exhibition of actual fork from "Exhibition in Print" (1994) at S.O.F.A. Exposition

          Navy Pier, Chicago.  Participant in panel discussion of the Exhibition in Print.

1994  "The Effects of Good Chemistry" (solo show)

          Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Madison, WI

1989  Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee (two person show)