| LINDA GANSTROM Professor of Art - Ceramics Fort Hays State University Art Department - Rarick Hall 123 Home and Studio 600 Park Street 206 West 26th Street Fort Hays State University Hays, KS 67601 785-628-4273 EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts Degree, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, 1990, Major in Ceramics Master of Arts Degree, Fort Hays State University, 1986, Major in Ceramics Bachelor of Arts Degree, Fort Hays State University, 1980, Summa Cum Laude, Art Education St. John High School, Valedictorian, 1976 EXPERIENCE Professor of Art, Ceramics, Fort Hays State University, 2005 to present Associate Professor of Art, Ceramics, Fort Hays State University, 2000 to 2005. Assistant Professor of Art, Fort Hays State University, 1994- 2000 President's Distinguished Scholar, 2002 Art Instructor, Barton County Community College, Great Bend, KS, 1987 to 1994. Distinguished Instructor Award, 1992 Taught courses in ceramics, sculpture, art history and various other art courses. Art Teacher, Unified School District #350, St. John - Hudson, KS, 1982 to 1987. SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS Mish Mash Redux, NCECA, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2004 Kansas Artist Craftsman Membership Exhibition, Emporia (1999), KSU (2000) Spiva's National Contemporary Crafts Competitive, Joplin, MO, 1999. The Kennedy-Douglas Center for the Arts National Ceramic Competition, 1999, Florence, AL Baker Arts Center National Exhibition. 1999 - 2004. 1st place in Sculpture. Liberal, KS, 1999, 2003 International Ceramist Juried Biennial Exhibition, 1998, Zanesville, OH Crafts National 32, 1998, University Park, PA 1998 International Orton Cone Box Show, Baldwin City, KS USA Craft Today '97, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT The Wichita National 1997, 2001, 2003 Wichita, KS Planetary Rennaisance International Art Spectacular, 1997, Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN The Octogon's Clay, Fiber, Glass, Metal and Wood Exhibition, 1997, Ames, IA 8th Annual Teapot Goes on the Road, A. Houberbocken, 1997, Oconomowoc, WI, Chicago, IL Platters: Functional and Decorative, 1996, Norman, OK 1996, 1998, 2000, 2004 International Orton Cone Box Shows, Baldwin City, KS Feats of Clay, Merit and Purchase Award, 1996, Lincoln, CA 11th Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art, 1996, Toronto, Canada Topeka Competition 20, 21 and 22, Merit and Purchase Awards, 1996, 1997, 1998, Topeka, KS National Teapot Show III, 1996, Creedmoor, NC No Body's Perfect National Exhibition, 1996, Milwaukee, WI SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS Pygmalion's Gaze Re-Imagined: The Figure in Contemporary Ceramics, NCECA, The Creative Alliance, 2005, Baltimore, Maryland Body Book: Marriage, Hesston College, 2004, Hesston, KS Body Book, Pittsburg State University, 2003, Pittsburg, KS Deeply Rooted, Bethany College, 2003, Lindsborg, KS Sabbatical Exhibition - Body Book, Moss-Thorns Gallery, Fort Hays State Univiersity, 2003 Bodytext, New Works Gallery, Kansas City Artists Coalition, 2002, Kansas City, MO Sculptural Clay Invitational, Daum Museum of Art, 2002, Sedalia, MO Out of Academe:Clay Artists Who Teach, Manhattan Arts Center, 2002, Manhattan, KS 2001 a Rendezvous, Museum of Nebraska Art, 2002, Kearney, NE Kansas Clay Connections, University of Kansas Art and Design Gallery, 2002, KS Once Upon a Time, Craft Alliance Gallery, 2002, St. Louis, MO Through Women's Eyes, Mulvane Art Museum, 1996, Topeka, KS Handle, Spout, Story, Shrine: Ceramic Art Professors, Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln Art Gallery, 1996, Lincoln, NE Metals/Ceramics Invitational, Southwest Missouri State University, 1997, Springfield, MO PUBLICATIONS 500 Figures, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 2004 500 Bowls, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 2003 500 Teapots, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 2002 "BodyText," Ceramics Monthly, October 2002, pp.35 - 37 "Body and Text," Ceramics Technical, 2002 "Deeply Rooted," Ceramics Monthly, June, July, August, 2001, pp. 80 - 84 "Stained Surfaces," ClayTimes Magazine, Volume 6, No. 2, March/April, 2000 The Ceramic Design Book, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 1998 The Best of Pottery II, Quarry Books, Rockport Publishers, Glouster, Massachusetts, 1998 The Studio Potter, June 1999, vol. 27, No. 2, p. 81. SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS "Linda Ganstrom - Sabbatical Exhibition of BodyBook" Kansas Arts Today, 2003 Beauty and the Figure, Hays, KS, 2003 Distinguished Scholar Presentation on the Art of Linda Ganstrom, Hays, KS, 2002 Contemporary Ceramics and the Art of Linda Ganstrom, 2002, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE Kansas Arts Today, Jan. 1997, No. 38 TV Station KOOD, 30 minute program Keynote Speaker for the Kansas Art Therapy Association, 1998 Keynote Speaker for the Kansas Art Educators Association, 1998 |