Lynn Elizabeth Whitford
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)