LISA MARIE BARBER
Biography

Originally from Tucson, AZ, Barber has been an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside since the fall of 2003. In 1998 she received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2002, she received the Emerging Artist Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). Regarding recent professional achievements, Barber was awarded a 2006-2007 McKnight Artist Residency Award, an internationally competitive award in ceramic art, and her work was featured in American Craft Magazine. In 2006, she held an 8-month position as Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the City University of New York, Hunter College in Manhattan, where she also had a solo exhibition and mentored graduate and undergraduate students. Listing of recent solo exhibitions include Gallery 221 in New York City, the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, and the NCECA (National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts) 2004 and 2007 conferences in Indianapolis and Louisville. She recently exhibited as part of the “Providence Art Windows Project”, a public art program in Providence, RI, and is an alternate for an international artist residency at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC in 2009-2010.

(updated 12/08)