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EDUCATION
- 1986 M.F.A. in Sculpture, with Honors. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
- 1983 B.A. in Art History, with Honors. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
- 2001 The View From Here, William J. Thompson Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
- 1997 all fall down..., an installation, Robert Lowery Gallery, Watkinsville, Georgia.
- 1991 The State of Grace, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia.
- 1990 Four Corners, Memphis Center for Contemporary Art, Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1988 Double Feature, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2002 Raw Womyn, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc., Athens, Georgia.
Mail Box Art, Oconee County Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, Georgia.
Penland Summer Faculty Exhibition, The Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina.
- 2001 Louisiana State University Sculpture Garden, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Members’ Open Exhibit, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, Georgia.
- 2000 Collaborative Couples, The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia.
Ironing: Women’s Work, invitational group exhibition, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
Artscape Oconee, sponsored by the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, collaborative outdoor art sign project with Jim Buonaccorsi, Highway 441, Farmington, Georgia.
Georgia Sculptors’ Society, The Robert Lowery Gallery, Danielsville, Georgia.
- 1999 4 from 3: The Southern Aesthetic Installed, The University Art Museum, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana.
Penland Summer Faculty Exhibition, The Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina.
Ten Hands: A Celebration of Individual Expression Through Drawing, Ballroom Studios, Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1998 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
Not Anointed, two-person exhibition, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia.
- 1997 Reunion, group exhibition, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
Faculty Exhibition, The Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Members Exhibition, The Lyndon House, Athens, Georgia.
- 1996 Ultra Retro Media Torch, ARC Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Faculty Exhibition, The Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
Lincoln Park Sculpture Garden, group exhibition, Springfield, Illinois.
All Over the Place, two-person exhibition, ISIS Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend Indiana.
Ultra Retro Media Torch, Contemporary Arts Center in Shreveport, Louisiana.
MASS Art, outdoor sculpture exhibition, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Ultra Retro Media Torch, The Douglass School Art Place, Murphysboro, Illinois.
Ultra Retro Media Torch, group exhibition, The William J. Thompson Gallery, University of Georgia,
Athens, Georgia.
Just Another Election Year, Robert Lowery Gallery, Watkinsville, Georgia.
Pig Iron: Art Cookers, A Sanctioned Twentieth Anniversary Memphis in May International Festival, Inc., Event. The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS cont.
- 1995 Faculty Exhibition, The Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Orlando National, juried competition, Gaier Contemporary Gallery, Orlando, Florida.
Suwanee, an outdoor installation with the fifth grade art club, Suwanee Elementary School, Suwanee, Georgia.
2D + 3D: a creative adventure, group exhibition, Lowery Gallery, Watkinsville, Georgia.
- 1994 Sculpture Tour 1994-95, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The 621 Sculpture Garden, Tallahassee, Florida.
Georgia Sculptors Society, group exhibition, The 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida.
Georgia Sculptors Society, group exhibition, Ameen Art Gallery, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Sculpture Garden III, Chattanooga State Technical Community College, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Windows of the Dream, public art collaboration with Barbara Bullock, Main Street and
Madison, Memphis, Tennessee, Sponsored by NUMBER: A Visual Arts Magazine.
Sculpture Garden II '93-'94- Chattanooga State Technical Community College, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1992 Radford University Sculpture Purchase Competition, Radford University, Radford, Virginia.
First Annual Rhoneymeade Outdoor Sculpture Invitational, Centre Hall, Pennsylvania.
The Red Wagon Invitational, The PAC Gallery and Anchor Graphics, Chicago, Illinois.
I Love It, What is it?, Ultra Media, The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Tennessee.
- 1991 National Sculpture Exhibition, DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, Florida.
The Louisiana Sculpture Tour, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, University of North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina.
I Love It, What is it?, Ultra Media, Zoller Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University,State College, Pennsylvania.
Art Against the War, Artists' Television Access Gallery, San Francisco, California.
EXPLOIT/EXPOSE-WHY WAR?, B-4 ART, 510 Broadway, New York, New York.
EXPLOIT/EXPOSE-WHY WAR?, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York.
Mixed Signals, traveling portfolio of prints, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Sculpture Garden I, Chattanooga State Technical Community College, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1990 The Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.
Eighth Annual Brooklyn Waterfront Artist's Coalition Outdoor Sculpture Show, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, New York.
Partners of the Americas, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Art Faculty: Centro de Bellas
Artes, Maracaibo, Venezuela; Museo de Barquisimeto; Barquisimeto, Venezuela; Galeria Arte Hoy;
Caracas, Venezuela.
Sculpture Tour 1990/91, Cleveland State Community College, Cleveland, Tennessee.
Sculpture Tour 1990/91, Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee.
- 1989 Mental/Metal, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
Sculpture Tour '89, Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee.
Ceramics in Tennessee, Four Views, Appalachian Center for the Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee.
- 1988 Small Metal, Oak Ridge Art Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Maps/Phobias, traveling portfolio of prints, University of Tennessee, Department of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Eclectic Sculpture Invitational, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania.
Horner, Mitchell, Saftel, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Artistic Harmonic Convergence, Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee.
Continuum '88, The Sublett Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee.
- 1987 Faculty Exhibition, The Customs House, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Hiding in Paradise, installation, Annie's, A Very Special Restaurant, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Best of the New, University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, Colorado.
GUEST LECTURES
- 2000 “Is Sculpture Dead”, panel discussion member, The Contemporary, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Moderator: Helena Reckitt; Education Director, The Contemporary; Panel members: Linda Armstrong, sculptor, Glenn Harper, editor, Sculpture Magazine.
- 1998 State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia.
- 1996 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana.
- 1995 The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
- 1994 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
The University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
- 1993 The Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi.
- 1991 University of North Carolina, Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina.
The Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia.
- 1990 Vanderbilt University, Art Department, Nashville, Tennessee.
The University of Memphis-Sculpture Department, Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1989 Appalachian Center for the Crafts, Smithville, Tennessee.
HONORS/ACTIVITIES/GRANTS
- 1995 Georgia Council in the Arts, Artist in Education Partnership, Technical Assistance Grant, funding to realize a collaborative outdoor sculpture with the art club at Suwanee Elementary School, Suwanee, Georgia.
- 1993 "Windows of the Dream", a public art project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lyndhurst Foundation and the Tennessee Arts Commission.
- 1990 South Central Bell/Tennessee Council for the Humanities, honorarium for an outdoor sculpture for Summer Ideas, Jefferson County High School, Jefferson City, Tennessee.
- 1987 Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
- 1986 University of Colorado Doctoral Fellowship, Boulder, Colorado.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 1999-2003 Central Office Administrator, Artist-Blacksmith’s Association of North America, Inc., Farmington, Georgia.
- 199-2003 President and CEO, LeeAnn Mitchell Arts, Incorporated, Farmington, Georgia.
- 2002 Faculty, Penland School of Crafts, “Mixed-Media Outdoor Sculpture”, Public Art Session, Penland, North Carolina
- 1999 Faculty, Penland School of Crafts, “Mixed-Media Outdoor Sculpture”, Public Art Session, Penland, North Carolina
- 1999-2001 Curator, Special Projects, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1994-2003 Director / co-founder, sculpto-WERKS. An independent organization devoted to professional curatorial consultation of interior and exterior sculpture for both private and public clients, as well as full service installation assistance, rigging and transportation of large-scale sculpture.
- 1994-1998 Adjunct Faculty, Sculpture Department, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE cont.
- 1997 Adjunct Faculty, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Sculpture Area, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Fall quarter.
- 1996 Public Art Assistant, The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad, Atlanta, Georgia. Assisted with the planning, installation and crew management for: "High Rise of Trees", Vito Acconci; "Halo", Deborah Butterfield; "Apostasy", Kristin Jones & Andrew Ginzel; "Diaspora's Spirit, Pause Here, Sanctuary Awaits", Betye Saar; "Atlantic", Yukinori Yanagi. Served as installation project manager for installation of "World Events", Tony Cragg.
- 1996 Client: Dennis Peacock, project management for "Other (Voices)", permanent commissioned outdoor sculpture for Winston-Salem State University through the N.C. Artworks for State Building Program. Also transported and assisted with installation of companion retrospective "Dennis Peacock: With Roots in the Recognizable", Diggs Gallery, W.S.S.U., Winston- Salem, North Carolina.
- 1987-1993 Administrative Assistant/Associate Curator, The University of Tennessee, Sculpture Tour. Organizational skills, administrative responsibilities, grant writing, knowledge of contemporary sculpture, public relations, the ability to guide tours (ages K-senior citizen), workshops, fabrication situations and lectures. Installation of large outdoor sculpture and a knowledge of sculptural materials and application.
- 1983 Administrative Assistant, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
CONSULTANT/CURATOR
- 2002 Coordinator, Forging Traditions, ABANA 2002 Juried Exhibition, The Pump House Regional Arts Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
- 2000 Curator, Art Cookers 2000, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1999 Curatorial Assistant, Forging Character, Forging Iron: The Work of Thomas F. Googerty, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1998 Co-curator, Mental Bluff: An Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1993 Consultant, Sculpture South '94, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina.
Curator, 8' Ceilings, The Old City, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Consultant, Walker & Company, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Reston, Virginia.
- 1992 Consultant, Shreveport Regional Arts Council, N.E.A. Public Art Projects, hosted by Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Consultant, Sculpture Tour, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- 1991 Guest Curator, Mental/Metal Squared, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
Consultant, Louisiana Sculpture Tour Symposia, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Consultant, The Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Reston, Virginia.
Advisory Board Member, NUMBER, a visual arts magazine, Memphis, Tennessee.
Consultant for Chattanooga State Technical Community College, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1989 Guest Curator, Mental/Metal, The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
Consultant, Walters State Community College, Artistic Harmonic Convergence II, Morristown, Tennessee.
COLLECTIONS
- Edwina Bringle, Penland, North Carolina.
- Tom & Kathleen Lamar, Hillsborough, California.
- Sandra & Bruce Kirkman, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Suwanee Elementary School, Suwanee, Georgia.
- The National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
- Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee.
- University of Tennessee, Department of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee.
- Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee.
- References and Full Vitae Available Upon Request
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