Beth Lo, Professor
Girl, Boy

Beth Lo, Professor

Selected Curriculum Vitae

Honors and Awards:

2003,1993,1991 Demonstrator, NCECA Conference
2002, 1996 U of M School of Fine Arts Distinguished Faculty Award
1995 Presenter, NGO Conference on Women, Beijing, China
1994 NEA Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1989 Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1986 American Craft Museum Design Award

Solo Exhibitions

2005, 2001 Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Santa Fe Clay Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM
2002, 2000 Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA
2001 Paris Gibson Center for the Arts, Great Falls,
2000 Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1996, 1993 Mia Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996, 1993 J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1992 Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
1990 Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT

Group Exhibitions

2005 Clay Menagerie, Garth Clark Gallery, NYC, NY
2005 NCECA Exhibition, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei Taiwan
2005 A Tale to Tell, J. M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2004 Arizona State University Ceramic Arts Center, Tempe, AZ
2003 Center for Ceramic Arts, Berkeley, CA
2002 S.O.F.A. New York, Ferrin Gallery
2002 Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston
1999 International Ceramics Exhibition, Hap Pottery, Beijing, China
1994 New Orleans Museum of Art
1994 Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
1989 State Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico
1988 Simms Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
1986 American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1984 American Ceramics National, Downey, CA

Selected Publications

2005 Mahjong All Day Long, by Ginnie Lo (children’s book)
2000 American Craft Magazine, cover story by Rick Newby
1996 Artweek, December 1996, review by Ron Glowen
1995 Ceramics Monthly, May 1995
1990 Artists at Work: 25 Northwest Glassmakers, Ceramicists and Jewelers, by
Susan Biskeborn
1987 "American Ceramics," New York Times Sunday Magazine

Statement

My work in ceramics and mixed media collage revolves primarily around issues of family and my Asian-American background. Since the birth of my son in 1987, I have been interested in commemorating major events in my family’s history, the day to day challenges of parenting, and my own childhood memories of being raised in a minority culture in the United States. I also enjoy investigating, celebrating and sometimes satirizing traditional Asian aesthetics, much of which carries a moral tone to it; I often make visual reference to calligraphy, origami, scrolls, Socialist Realist artwork, mahjong, as well as the many rich traditions of Chinese pottery and Tang and Han dynasty figurines. From Western contemporary art, I draw from many sources, including cartooning, assemblage, popular culture, and the manipulation of alternative materials.

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