Rimas T. VisGirda 2111 Belmont Park Lane Champaign, IL 61822-9401 217.398.1956 [email protected]
BORN Kaunas, Lithuania -U.S. Naturalization Certificate No. A-441216 EDUCATION MFA Washington State University; Ceramics, 1973 MA California State University, Sacramento; Art, 1971 BA California State University, Sacramento; Physics, 1966
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES -selected 2018 Lecture, Cure for the Pure, NCECA-Minneapolis 2016 Lecture, Lusters aka Lustres, NCECA-Portland 2015 Artist in residence: Mission Clay Products, Phoenix, AZ 2014 Artist in Residence: Kim’s Girls, Pearson Lakes Art Center, Okoboji, IA 2013 Artist in residence: Mission Clay Products, Phoenix, AZ 2010 Participating artist: “Porcelain Jewelry Symposium” IAC, Kecskemet. HUNGARY 2009 Presenting artist: Figure Symposium, International Ceramic Studios, Kecskemet, HUNGARY 2007 Participating artist: North American Museum Innaugural Collection, FLICAM, Fuping, CHINA 2006 Presenting artist: “Clay Expressions” American Ceramics Society/AMACO, Indianapolis, IN Participating artist: XVI International Ceramic Symposium and Conference, Panevezys, LITHUANIA 2002 Participating artist: XXVI International Ceramic Symposium, Walbrzych, POLAND 2001 Presenting artist: Michigan Potters Association Annual Conference, Grand Valley, MI Presenting artist: Clayfeast -International Conference, Gulgong, AUSTRALIA Presenting artist: New Zealand Potters Convention, Cambridge, NEW ZEALAND 1997 Participating artist: Loucky International Porcelain Symposium, Loucky, CZECH REPUBLIC 1994 Participating artist: Bechyne International Symposium, Karlovy Vary-Dalovice, CZECH REPUBLIC ** participant in over 30 international symposiums and residencies since 1985
ONE & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS -selected 2017 Denver, CO: PLINTH GALLERY 2016 Panevezys, LITHUANIA: PANEVEZYS CIVIC GALLERY 2015 Adrian, MI: VALADE GALLERY AT SHIPMAN LIBRARY, ADRIAN COLLEGE 2013 Okoboji, IA: GOODENOW GALLERY, PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER 2011 Taipei, TAIWAN: ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY 2010 Pomona, CA: ARMSTRONG’S GALLERY 2009 Indianapolis, IN: AMACO/BRENT GALLERY 2008 Shanghai, CHINA: ART 800 CERAMIC GALLERY 2007 Taipei, TAIWAN: ART ASSOCIATION GALLERY University Center, MI: SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY 2006 St Louis, MO: CRAFT ALLIANCE 2005 Okoboji, IA: LAKES ART CENTER 2004 Chicago (Lemont), IL: LITHUANIAN MUSEUM OF ART 1999 Sacramento, CA: SOLOMON DUBNICK GALLERY 1996 Pittsburgh, PA: THE CLAY PLACE 1993 Vilnius, LITHUANIA: ARKA GALLERY ** 50 one & two person exhibitions since 1973
EMPLOYMENT 1992-99 CLINTON IMPERIAL CHINA, Clinton, IL: Consultant: Product Design 1987-97 ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Bloomington, IL: Ceramics 1983-86 DRAKE UNIVERSITY, Des Moines, IA: Assistant Professor: Ceramics, Sculpture 1979-83 BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY, Bemidji, MN: Ceramics, Jewelry 1973-78 MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY, Decatur, IL: Ceramics, Sculpture, Drawing 1966-68 AEROJET-GENERAL CORP, Associate Physicist, Research and Development GROUP EXHIBITIONS -selected -page 2 2018 Thematic Juried IAC Members’ Exhibition, Yingge Ceramic Museum, New Taipei City, TAIWAN 2017 POTS @ ASP, Ash Street Project, Portland, OR 2016 Yunomi-2015, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA 2015 The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2015, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN Pavasaris 2015, Ceramics Museum, Kaunas, LITHUANIA 2nd International Teapot Exhibition, Art Gallery of Noble Seafood, Shanghai, CHINA ErotiCLAY, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA 2014 14th Biennial Teapot Exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO Image, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR National Teapot Show IX, Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor, NC American iPottery, Sarah Silberman Gallery, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD 2013 6X6X30, San Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, TX KCDA International Invitational, Hanyang Univesity, Ansan City, SOUTH KOREA Plates and Totem Show, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA 2012 Teapots from the Collection of Arthur Goldberg, Hand Art Center, DeLand, FL Figure It Out, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY 2nd Vilnius Ceramic Art Biennial / 2012, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, LITHUANIA 2011 Red Clay Menagerie, Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA KCDA Council Exhibition, Hanyang University, Ansan-si, Kyungki-do, KOREA TEA, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL 2010 Illinois Clay, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL A Tribute to Robert Arneson, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA USA Contemporary Ceramic Art, DAO ART SPACE, Xian, CHINA 2009 Figura, MUSEION NO. 1, Budapest, HUNGARY Infinite Teapot, OHIO CRAFTS COUNCIL, Columbus, OH 2008 Clay & The Transferred Image II, ROWAN UNIVERSITY, Glassboro, NJ Confrontational Ceramics, WESTCHESTER ARTS COUNCIL, White Plains, NY 2007 Figures, AMACO GALLERY, Indianapolis, IN Kovo 11, LITHUANIAN MUSEUM OF ART, Chicago (Lemont), IL Panevezys Collection Selected Works, LITHUANIAN CENTER, Warsaw, POLAND 2006 20+1 Invitational, NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY, Flagstaff, AZ 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, -TOURING Surface Matters, EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Emporia, KS 2005 Panevezys Collection Selected Works, JACOBIPAROCHIE, Het Bildt, NETHERLANDS Master Artist Exhibition, ARMORY ART CENTER, West Palm Beach, FL 30 Sculptors, JOHN NATSOULAS GALLERY, Davis, CA 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Indianapolis, IN Fifteenth National Ceramic Competition, SAN ANGELO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, San Angelo, TX 60th Scripps Annual, RUTH CHANDLER WILLIAMSON GALLERY, SCRIPPS COLLEGE, Claremont, CA 2003 Keramika Sisak 1700, GALERIJA ZVONIMIR, Zagreb, CROATIA The Vitrified Image: International Ceramic Invitational, GROSSMONT COLLEGE, El Cajon, CA Panevezys Collection Selected Works, PRESIDENTIAL GARDENS, Vilnius, LITHUANIA 2002 Made from Scratch, THE CHICAGO ATHENEUM, Schaumburg,IL Necessary Object, THE ARTS CENTER, St. Petersburg, FL Clay City, NEW FAHRENHEIT GALLERY, Kansas City, MO 2001 Armory National Ceramics Invitational, ARMORY ART CENTER, W. Palm Beach, FL 12th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, GOLD COAST CITY ART GALLERY, AUSTRALIA Millenial Metal: The Art of Precious Metal Clay, BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER, Brookfield, CT CEBIKO, WORLD CERAMIC CENTER, Ichon, SOUTH KOREA Ciurlonis Festival Selections, LITHUANIAN EMBASSY, Washington D.C. 2000 6th Taiwan Golden Ceramics Award, TAIPEI COUNTY YINGKO CERAMICS MUSEUM, Taipei, TAIWAN Millenium Platters, CERAMIC ARTS GALLERY, Sydney (Paddington), AUSTRALIA Political Clay, THE CLAY STUDIO, Philadelphia, PA International Figurative Invitational, MILLER GALLERY, New York, NY **Over 450 group exhibitions since 1973 COLLECTIONS -PUBLIC & CORPORATE page 3 American Art Clay Company, Indianapolis, IN American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK Ateliers D'art De France, Paris, FRANCE Belgium State Museum, Brussels, BELGIUM Benaki Museum, Athens, GREECE Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID California State University, Sacramento, CA Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Cheng-gong High School, Taipei City, TAIWAN Civic Art Gallery, City of Panevezys, LITHUANIA Continental Clay Company, Minneapolis, MN Curlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, LITHUANIA Edward Orton Jr. Ceramic Foundation, Westerville, OH Fabryka Porcelany Walbrzych, Walbrzych, POLAND FLICAM, IAC Collection, Art Pottery Village, Fuping, CHINA Georgian State Museum, Tbilisi, GEORGIAN REPUBLIC International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, HUNGARY JM Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Kasahara Health Center, Kasahara, JAPAN Kent State University, Kent, OH Keramion Museum, Frechen, GERMANY Kohler Company, Kohler, WI Lakeside Studios, Lakeside, MI Loket Castle Museum of Czech Porcelain, Loket, CZECH REPUBLIC Leslie Ceramics, Berkeley, CA Lithuanian Artist Union, Vilnius, LITHUANIA Lithuanian National Museum, Vilnius, LITHUANIA Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Scripps College, Claremont CA Margaret Harlow Collection, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN McDonald Corporation, Chicago, IL Minnesota Clay, Bloomington, MN Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC Muzeum w Walbrzychu, Walbrzych, POLAND Nelson Museum, University of California, Davis, CA New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA North American Museum, FLICAM, Fuping, CHINA Panevezys Glass Factory, Panevezys, LITHUANIA Polish National Museum, Wroclaw, POLAND Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Riga Porcelain Museum, Riga, LATVIA San Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, TX Sanbao Institute, Jingdezhen, CHINA Scripps College, Claremont, CA Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA Society for the Promotion of Culture, Ena-City, Gifu-pref, JAPAN Sokolov Castle Porcelain Museum, Sokolov, CZECH REPUBLIC Southern Illinois University University Museum, Carbondale, IL Tajimi City Culture Hall, Tajimi City, Gifu-pref, JAPAN Tennessee State Museum, Nashville,TN University of California, Davis, CA Washington State University, Pullman, WA Numerous private collections