Lisa McGaughey Tuttle
1088 Amsterdam Avenue, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30306
404-881-1088
Independent curator, arts administrator and artist
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004 – present Public Art Education and Outreach Coordinator, Fulton County Arts Council
2003 Interim Public Art Program Coordinator, Fulton County Arts Council
12/00-3/01 Interim Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
2000-01 Programming Consultant, Southern Arts Federation -
Programming Consultant: the Hourglass Project, Fulton County Arts Council, and The Caversham Press, South Africa
1997 Curator, Artistic Associate, Arts Festival of Atlanta
1995-1996 Co-Artistic Director, Arts Festival of Atlanta
1992-1996 Visual Arts Director, Arts Festival of Atlanta
1986-1993 Gallery Director, The Atlanta College of Art
1990-1995 Instructor, Gallery Management Certificate program, The Atlanta College of Art
1990-1996 Adjunct Faculty, The Atlanta College of Art
1985-86 Gallery Director, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
1983-85 Associate Curator, Nexus Contemporary Art Center
1985 Co-registrar, "Atlanta in France"
1982 Gallery intern, Nexus Contemporary Art Center
1973-4 Art Instructor, Sarasota County Prisoner Education Program, Sarasota Community College
1973-4 Teaching Assistant, Fine Arts Department, New College
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
1997 Changing Spaces: Artists’ Projects from the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, citywide, multi-venue installation of 17 projects for the Arts Festival of Atlanta as part of international touring exhibition organized by Mary Jane Jacob- artists included Bill Viola, Louise Bourgeois, Chris Burden, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Rachel Whiteread, Anish Kapoor, Carrie Mae Weems, among others
1996 Post-Olympia, or How We Spent the Summer of 1996, Photographic projects and community discussions, Bathhouse, Arts Festival of Atlanta (catalogue)
1995 Messages and Stories from the Everyday World, co-curated with Jane Bickerton, ten multi-media installations; plus billboards and transit cards, Arts Festival Bathhouse and beyond, (catalogue)
1994 Money Changes Everything, or Seeking the Souk, co-curated with Xenia Zed, ten artists reexamining the relationship of artists to the marketplace, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Bathhouse, (catalogue)
1993 The Metaphorical Machine, seven artists who reconfigure mechanical objects to reference the poetic aspects of human consciousness, emotion and sensation, Arts Festival of Atlanta Bathhouse, (catalogue)
1992 Crosscultural Explorations, co-curated with Dr. Arturo Lindsay, Imna Arroyo, Shu Lea Cheang, Mel Chin, Albert Chong, Thornton Dial, Ronald Gonzalez, Lonnie Holley, Patricia Huntington, Raquel Mendieta, Elisabeth Sunday, Ricardo Viera,and Christian Walker - an exhibition which explored cultural differences and the syncretic impulse in the visual arts in the postmodern era. The Atlanta College of Art Gallery
EXHIBITIONS CURATED (continued)
1991 Contemporary Bronze: Process and Object, Suzanne Anker, George Beasley, John Buck, Nancy Fried, Mark Lere, Curtis Patterson, Mia Westerlund Roosen, examination of diverse approaches and sensibilities to bronze as a material, including related transitional objects such as drawings, maquettes, and works made in other materials by the same artist, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery
1990 Oh, Those Four White Walls!: The Gallery as Context, sixteen artists whose work addressed the underpinnings of the art system, notions of display, exhibitions and public art, including Elizabeth Lide, Hans Haacke, James Luna, Tony Tasset, Suzanne Lacy and others (artist's book/catalogue); The Atlanta College of Art Gallery
Ecos del Espiritu/Echoes of the Spirit, Maria Brito, Rimer Cardillo, Ismael Frigerio, Mario Petrirena, Maximiliano Pruneda, Patricia Rodriguez and Angel Suarez Rosado, (catalogue/brochure), The Atlanta College of Art Gallery
New History: Installations by Beverly Buchanan/Mel Edwards/Maren Hassinger, catalogue/brochure, National Black Arts Festival, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery
1989 The Assembled Object, Sanda Aronson, Aimee Rankin, Kn Thurlbeck, Joni Mabe, Vince Jones, E.K. Huckaby and Bill Paul, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery
1988 1938-88: The Work of Five Black Women Artists, Camille Billops, Faith Ringgold, Howardena Pindell, Margo Humphrey and Lois Mailou Jones, catalogue/brochure, National Black Arts Festival, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery
1987 small scale sculpture/LARGE SCALE SCULPTURE, Twenty national and regional sculptors, catalogue, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery and twelve Georgia-based site sculptors, Colony Square Mall and Plaza
PAPERWORK, eight diverse approaches to working with paper as a medium, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery
1986 REVELATIONS: Visionary Content in the Work of Southern Self-Trained Artists, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, catalogue/insert in Art Papers
A Sense of Humor and Subversion, co-curated with Virginia Wright, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, brochure
Vietnam and Its Aftermath, co-curated with Marvin Rhodes, Nexus Contemporary Art Center
1985 Back to Basics: Contemporary Southern Folk Art , Theatrical Outfit, program essay
Tombro/Lariscy/Turk, Theatrical Outfit, program essay
1985 Children's Drawings and Claywork from the Hebrew Academy - Theatrical Outfit, program essay
Work in Color, Theatrical Outfit, program essay
Nabil Kanso, Theatrical Outfit, program essay
EXHIBITIONS JURIED (selected)
2002 Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Station, Stone Mountain Georgia
2000 Georgia State University Student Exhibition, with Barbara Schreiber
1999 Third Annual Juried Exhibition, North Springs High School Arts and Sciences Magnet Program, Atlanta
1994 Fine Art Student Exhibition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1992 Riverview Arts Festival, Greenville, S.C.
1991 Youth Arts Exhibition, Arts Festival of Atlanta
1990 SECAC Exhibition Award
1989 Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, Georgia
1988 Montgomery Arts Guild, Montgomery, Alabama
Georgia Artists with Disabilities
Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, Georgia with Fred Fussell
1988 Juried Student Exhibition, Georgia State University with Dan Talley
l987 Decatur ArtsFest, Decatur, Georgia
"Leading with the Eye", Spelman College
l986 Southeastern Graphics Council Open Portfolio Day with Jane Bickerton and Curtis Patterson
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2003-2008 Organized and developed public art lecture series for MPAC and FCAC “Casting a Vision: Public Art” and “Perspectives in Public Art” which has included presentations by Rick Lowe, Ned Kahn, Renee Piechocki, Greg Esser and others, presented in partnership with several arts organizations in Atlanta
2000 Organized and developed “Professional Development Workshops” for 2000 Southern Arts Exchange, largest regional performing arts booking conference and training institute (Atlanta, October 3-8)
Organized and moderated women artists’ roundtable, “Personal Icons: Marking Time, Making Art at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, for Fulton County Arts Council and Caversham Press, South Africa
l983-present Organized, administrated and designed either as director or part of gallery staff the installation of eighty exhibitions including Outside Cuba/ Fuera de Cuba; Art in Fashion/Fashion in Art; AMERICAN HERSTORY:Women and the U.S.Constitution; I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America; In Grand Perspective;; The 1987 Atlanta Biennale; The 1987 Atlanta Photo Salon; Desire for Life; Revered Earth; Songs of My People
1986-93 Project Director, Six successive National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Forums grants for Visiting Artist Lecture Series for The Atlanta College of Art including:
ARTISTS IN COLLABORATION, with The High Museum of Art, with presentations by Dara Birnbaum, Frances Barth, Pearl Cleage, Henry Geldzahler, Joshua Weinstein and Joyce Kozloff
ISSUES IN REPRESENTATION:The Visibility of the Minority Artist with The High Museum of Art, with presentations by Roy DeCarava, Corinne Jennings of Kenkeleba Gallery; Bernice Steinbaum and Luis Cruz Azaceta
PROCESS including presentations by Donald Lipski, Doug Hall, Barbara Nessim and Linda Connor
ART IN CONTEXT: The Interface of the Artist and the Viewer, with presentations by Cesar Trasobares and Elyn Zimmerman; Buzz Spector and Marcia Tucker; Dorit Cypis and Nathan Braulick; and Tim Rollins and Arlene Raven (transcripts published in Art Papers, March/April 1991)
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS (continued)
ART IN CONTEXT: Public and Private Values, with presentations by Eleanor Heartney and Dennis Adams; Donald Kuspit and Rudolf Baranik; Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Lorna Simpson; and Suzi Gablik and Ned Rifkin (transcipts published in Art Papers, March/April 1992)
ART IN CONTEXT: re-Thinking the New World, Fall 1992, with presentations by Fred Wilson and Dr. Ivan Karp, Lucy Lippard; Jay Murphy and Mel Chin; and Dr. Margaret Archuleta and George Longfish
1988-90 Organized national juried exhibition and grant recipient from Southern Arts Federation for subsequent two-year tour of AMERICAN HERSTORY: Women and the U.S. Constitution, juror: Dr. Eleanor Tufts, catalogue
l985-93 Organizer and Coordinator of numerous visual artist and critic lectures including Faith Ringgold, Bruce Davidson, the Guerilla Girls, and Olivia Parker, and symposia such as "The Politics of Aesthetics", moderated by Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, with participants Howardena Pindell, Margo Humphrey, Faith Ringgold, Lois Mailou Jones and Camille Billops and "Expanding the Definitions," southeastern sculptors panel discussion, moderated by Maria Artemis
l987 Project Director and grant recipient (one of seven programs selected nationally) Metropolitan Life Insurance Foundation in support of l938-l988: The Work of Five Black Women Artists
l986-93 Co-organizer and curator of seven inaugural exhibitions of SAF/NEA Regional Fellowships for the Visual Arts recipients including : Painting, Printmaking and Drawing (1986, 1988, 199l & 93) Sculpture (1987, 1990 and 1992)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS And RELATED ACTIVITIES
2009 Public Art Advisory Committee, Atlanta Beltline, Inc.
2004-2008 Public Art Advisory Committee, City of Atlanta, appointed by Mayor Franklin
2007-present Advisory Board, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
2002-2008 Curatorial Committee, Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta
2002-2007 Artist Resource Council Steering Committee member, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
2000-present Founding Board member, Metropolitan Public Art Coalition
2000 Grant panelist, South Carolina Commission for the Arts
2000 Lecturer, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
2000 Selection panel member, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta, Media Arts Grants
1999&2000 Selection panel member, Emerging Artist Award, Forward Arts Foundation, Atlanta
1999 Selection panel member, Public art projects, Adamsville/Washington Park Recreation Centers, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta
1999&2000 Site visitor, Georgia Council for the Arts
1997-2000 Founding member, Atlanta Arts Think Tank
1997&8 Selection Panel, Southern Arts Federation, Academy in Rome
1995 Art Selection Committee, Airport Art Program/International Concourse "E", Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta
1995 Keynote speaker, Statewide Curator's Roundtable, Richmond, Virginia
1993-5 Public Art Committee, Fulton County Arts Council
1994-2002 Advisory Board, Simmons Gallery, Brenau College, Gainesville, Georgia, Secretary and Chair, Exhibition Committee
1992&93 Grant panel member, Georgia Council for the Arts
199l Presenter, "Issues in Public Art", slide lecture, National Art Educators Conference, Atlanta
199l Chair, Arts Advisory Committee, Arts Festival Atlanta, also, Executive Committee of the Board and Long-Range Planning committee
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS And RELATED ACTIVITIES (continued)
199l Essayist, 1988 SAF/NEA exhibition catalogue, published in New Art Examiner, summer, 1989
1990 Moderator, "The Artist's Spirit," Trinity Presbyterian Church, Atlanta
1990 Advisory Board, North Arts Center
1990 Public Art Selection Committee, Fulton County Arts Council
1989-91 Chair, Arts Advisory Committee, Arts Festival of Atlanta
1989 Moderator, "Southern Images," with William Christenberry, Sidney Guberman and Benny Andrews, Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
1989 Panelist - Illinois Arts Council 1990 Visual Artists Fellows
1988 Panelist/presenter, "Real Opportunities for Regional Artists," Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries conference in Thomasville
1988 Instructor, Docent training for Richard Avedon exhibition, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
1986,87,88 Panelist - Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta, Mayor's Fellowships, Individual Artist's Projects and Arts Organizations
1988 International Art Advisory Board, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta
1987 & 88 Grant panelist - Fulton County Arts Council - Arts Organizations and Individual Artists
1987 Member of the Mayor's Committee of 150 to plan the 1987 Atlanta Sesquicentennial Celebration
1985-87 Visual Arts Representative, Executive Committee, Ad Hoc Committee for the Arts
1985-86 Advisory Board, Atlanta Gallery Association
1988-1997 Institutional Member- Southeastern Museum Conference;Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries; Association of College and University Museums and Galleries; American Federation of the Arts
1986-present Individual Member - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, High Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Society, Hammonds House, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Artist resume:
Gallery Representation: Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta Georgia 30309 (404) 350-8480
Studio: The Arts Exchange, 750 Kalb Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30312, Room #204 (by appointment)
SOLO EXHIHIBITIONS (artist)
2008 Belgian Diary, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
2001 inheritance, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
1996 her place within the order of things, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
1994 Recent Work, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
1989 The Vindication of Lilith, East Gallery, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia, catalogue/brochure, text by Peter Doroschenko
1988 Running Diana, Seven Stages Theatre/Dancer’s Collective, Atlanta
INSTALLATIONS and PROJECTS (artist)
2009 The NPU-V Photovoice Project: Taking It to the Streets, in collaboration with grassroots advocacy group, the Dirty Truth Campaign 303 Community Coalition
2007 The NPU-V Seedling Project, permanent installation, public art project for City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program
2006 Fence, outdoor public art installation, Agnes Scott College
2005 Landscape Poems, Art in Freedom Park, Atlanta
2002 Retreat: Palimpsest of a Georgia Sea Island Plantation, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
2000 Our Dream Trip to Seattle, project with children at the Arts Exchange, 6’ baseball, Official Team Ball for Seattle Mariners, 2000 Allstar Game, Turner Field, Atlanta, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola Company and the Bureau of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta
1999 haunted, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, 2 person exhibition and a collaborative work with artist Jennifer Ray, catalogue/brochure
INSTALLATIONS and PROJECTS (continued)(artist)
1998 Retreat: Palimpsest of a Georgia Sea Island Plantation, installation with historian Melanie Pavich Lindsay, When Tears Come Down Like Falling Rain: Southern Art and the Consideration of the Peculiar, curated by Jason Forrest, City Gallery East, Atlanta
1995 Odalisque, or Olympia, Oshun and Oriente (in the) house! (OoOOOh!), installation with video, museum loans, and performance elements, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, hanging, breathing, reclining, curated by Julia Fenton, catalogue
1994 Screening of video interviews, A False Sense of Security, Day without Art, Nexus Contemporary Art Center
1993 A False Sense of Security: A Meditation on Women and AIDS Awareness, solo installation using selected prints and paintings from the Permanent Collection, video interviews of women affected by HIV/AIDS, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
1992 Martha Stewart, Marie Antoinette and Me,video installation, Selections: SAF/NEA Awards in Sculpture, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, catalogue, text by Jerry Cullum and Thomasine Bradford
1991 The Annunciation, or The Medical Maja, 2 channel, 3 monitor video installation with objects from the museum’s Decorative Arts Collection, Southern Expressions: Tales Untold, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, catalogue, text by Carrie Przybilla
1991 The Kissing Room, or Modern Bovary, 2 channel, 5 monitor video installation, Hearthstones I: Conforming and Confounding, Space One-Eleven, Birmingham, Alabama, catalogue
1990 The Kissing Room, or Modern Bovary, 2 channel, 5 monitor video installation, Metro/Metro: New Art from Los Angeles and Atlanta, curated by Madelyn Grysztejn, Arts Festival of Atlanta, catalogue, text by Grysztejn
Confess-O-Booth, interactive video installation, Re-thinking the Sacred Image, Georgia State University, Atlanta
1989 The World at War, a single channel video installation with decorative arts elements, various configurations at each location, New South Group
112 Greene Street, New York, catalogue, text by Jerry Cullum
Memphis Contemporary Art Center, Memphis, Tennessee
New Visions Gallery, Atlanta (1988)
1988 It May Be a Wonderful Life, But Angels Seldomly Appear, slide/video installation, IMAGE Film/Video Center, Atlanta
1987 The Little Impotentate, video/painting installation
The Upstairs, Tryon, North Carolina
Experiments, Diversions and Lies, curated by the Mattress Factory Group, Arts Festival of Atlanta (1986), catalogue
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS(artist)
2009 Bookmarks, Art Walk, Terminus, Atlanta
2008 Urban Interventions: The Beltline, Georgia State University
2005 Accelerated Sequence: Artists’ Response to Time and Aging, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
2003 Color, Culture, Complexity, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA)
2000 Journal of Influences, Organized by artist M.M./Pinky Bass, Fairhope and Birmingham, Alabama
1999 Portraits: Self and Otherwise, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
A Woman’s Place, artist-initiated exhibition, Black Bear, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 Born Again!: Found Objects in Contemporary Southern Art, ArtWalk at Lenox Square, Atlanta
1997 The Joy of the Journey: Ten Georgia Women Artists, Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, catalogue/brochure
1996 Tragic Wake: The Legacy of Slavery and the African Diaspora in Contemporary American Art, curated by Alan Prokop, Spirit Square, Charlotte, North Carolina, catalogue/brochure
TABOO’s Gone With The Wind: The Fabrication and Denial of Southern Identity, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta
Defying Stereotypes: Seven Southern Contemporary Artists, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
1995 As Scene: New Installation Art, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
SAF Fellowship/Photography exhibition, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
1993 Constructions, Two-person exhibition with Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Spelman College Fine Arts Department, Atlanta, catalogue/brochure
1992 Artists on the Discovery of the New World, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
1991 A Tiny Christmas Memory, organized by TABOO, Municipal Gallery, Arts Exchange, Atlanta
1989 Armstrong/Gumnit/Holcomb/Tuttle, Hillman Holland Gallery, Atlanta
Between Myth and Reality: New Southern Photography, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, catalogue, text by Glenn Harper
Farewell to Forrest Avenue, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
1988 Artists in Georgia, curated by Dan Talley, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, catalogue
Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris, catalogue, text by Sheila Reid
19 American Artists, Mall Galleries, London
1987 Mattress Factory Exhibition, Fulton Bag Mill, Cabbagetown, Atlanta
The 1987 Atlanta Biennale, curated by Alan Sondheim, Nexus Contemporary Art Center
Critic’s Choice, Decatur Arts Festival, Decatur, Georgia
1986 For Fun and For Profit, Mattress Factory Group, Performance Gallery, Atlanta
Artists’ Political Statements, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Nexus Studio Artists’ Show, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
Painfully Recent Work, with Karen Chance and Virginia Wright, Blue Rat Gallery, Atlanta
Four Atlanta Artists, with Chick Lockerman, Alison Ritch, and A.C. Brier, Art on the Tracks, Pensacola, Florida
1985 The All New Mattress Factory Show, Scripto Building, Atlanta
1984 Power and Gender, independently organized artists’ exhibition, Castleberry Hill, Atlanta
The Political Show, Nexus Contemporary Art Center
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS (artist)
2008 Soros Foundation/OSI Documentary Photography Project grant
2003 King Baudouin Foundation-U.S, .Cultural Exchange Fellowship, (Belgium)
2001 Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers, South Africa, Residency, Fulton County Arts Council
1999 Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts Award in Visual Arts, City of Atlanta
1998 Bureau of Cultural Affairs-City of Atlanta Individual Artist’s Grant
1995 Bureau of Cultural Affairs-City of Atlanta Individual Artist’s Grant
1995 Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Photography
1994 Art Matters, Inc. Grant, NYC
1992 Georgia Council for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant
1991 & 1992 Resident/Fellow, Hambidge Arts Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
1989 Fulton County Arts Council Grant - Artists’ Projects (as part of New South Group)
1991 Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Sculpture
1988 Bureau of Cultural Affairs-City of Atlanta Individual Artist’s Grant
COLLECTIONS (artist)
Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA)
Jerusalem House, Atlanta
Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta
Numerous private collections
COMMISSION (artist)
Designed the 1999 Selina Roberts Ottum Award, presented by the Americans for the Arts
Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport
EDUCATION
May 1983-6 Postgraduate study in Photography, Georgia State University, Atlanta
1980-81 Postgraduate study - drawing, painting and photography, The Atlanta College of Art
1972-74 B.A. Humanities/Painting, New College, Sarasota, Florida
1971-72 University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Dean's List
1969-70 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina