SANDRA LUEHRSEN, S Luehr Studios
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Selected Solo & Small Group Exhibitions
Leading Ladies: Outstanding Women Artists of Arizona, invited, 5 artists, West Valley Art Museum at Peoria City Hall, Peoria, AZ, 2014-15
Women’s Work, Women’s Wisdom, 6 artists, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ, 2011
Too Big to Fail, solo, Central Arizona College, Signal Peak Campus, Coolidge, AZ, 2010
Bodacious Botanicals, invited, 4 artists, Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 2008
Kin Spirits, solo, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ, 2007-08
Gifts of Generations, solo, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ, 2007
Selected Invitational and Juried Exhibitions 2011 – Present
37th Annual Contemporary Crafts, national juried, Mesa Conemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ, 2016
Frontier Delay, juried, ASU in conjunction with the Sculpture Center Conference, Tempe, AZ, 2015
Small Works, invited, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ, 2015
Fourth Annual Five15 Small Works Show, invited, Gallery 515, Phoenix, AZ, 2015
All AZ Clay Exhibit, juried, WHAM, Surprise, AZ, 2015
The Sky Above, juried, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ, 2015
Sonoran Desert: Large and Small, juried, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ, 2015
Art at the Center Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Prescott Valley, AZ, 2012-16
Chilis!, juried, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ, 2014
Summer of Love, invited, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ, 2014
Flourish: Artworks inspired by our Gardens, juried, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ, 2014
MicroArt, curator and exhibitor, Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ, 2014
Atomica Ceramica: Redo, invited, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ, 2014
Full Bloom, juried, Phoenix Airport Museum, juried, Phoenix, AZ, 2014
Tea for Two, juried, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2013
Small Works, invited, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ, 2013
All AZ Clay, juried, Peoria City Hall, Peoria, AZ, 2013
CD9: A Richly Diverse Creative Oasis, invited, Rep. K. Sinema’s Office, Phoenix, AZ, 2013
Atomica Ceramica, invited, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ, 2013
Five Fifteen to the Power of Five, invited, Gallery 515, Phoenix, AZ, 2012 & 2013
Contemporary Ceramics, invited, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ, 2012
Arizona Collects, from the permanent collection,Nelson Art Museum, ASU, Tempe, AZ, 2012
LovN Arizona, juried, Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 2012
Yuma Symposium 33, Presenters’ Exhibit, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ, 2012
Creative Nature: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Airport Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 2012
Arizona Valentines: Romancing the State, juried, Airport Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 2011-12
22nd Annual Teapot Show: On the Road Again, juried, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2011
Arizona Artists from the Permanent Collection of the West Valley Art Museum, Peoria City Hall, Peoria, AZ, 2011
All AZ Clay 2011, juried, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ, 2011
Selected Honors and Awards
Juror’s Award, Mesa Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ, 2016
Merit Award, All AZ Clay, juried, WHAM, Surprise, AZ, 2015
Merit Award, All AZ Clay, juried, Peoria City Hall, 2013
Second Place Award, Argillaceous Clay, juried, West Valley Art Muesum, 2009
Career Advancement Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, 2006
Merit Award, Carpe Argillum, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ, 2006
Guest artist, ASU Graduate Ceramics Studios, Tempe, AZ, Spring and Summer, 2003
Selected Honors and Awards, cont.
Second Place, 23rd Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ, 2001
Best of Show, Visions of Grandeur, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ, 1999
First Place Award, All Arizona Clay, Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ, 1998
Merit Award, From the Ground Up XVII, regional juried, Los Paisanos Gallery, El Paso, TX, 1998
Created Governor’s Arts Award object, 1998
Collections
Auckland Institute & Museum, Auckland, NZ
Kamm Teapot Foundation, Sparta, NC
ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ
West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ
Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Philadelphia, PA
Prudential Life Insurance, New York, NY
Cities of Chandler, Peoria, Phoenix, and Tempe, Prescott Valley, AZ
Arizona Republic Newspaper, Phoenix, AZ
Numerous notableprivate collections
Work Featured in Selected Media
500 Teapots Volume 2, Lark Books, 2013, page 29
500 Prints on Clay, Paul Wandless, Lark Books, 2013, pages 292 & 395
The Morning Blend, sculpture at Tohono Chul featured on KGUN9, Tucson, AZ, August 1, 2012
Country Register, Arizona Edition, December & January, 2009 / 2010, front cover & pg. 2
All Things Chandler: Art in Chandler, Cable Channel 11, aired March – April 2009
Surface Design for Ceramics, Maureen Mills, Lark Books, 2008, page 125
Arizona Republic, “Exhibit at WV Art Museum Combines Ceramics, Genealogy”, Michael Senft, December 31, 2007
Tried and True Glaze Recipes, Sherman Hall, editor, Ceramic Publications Co., 2007, page 5
Crafters Coast to Coast, Home and Garden Television (HGTV), episode 1A53, 2005
Phoenix Home & Garden 2004 Resource Directory, featured ceramic art work, pages 62 & 63
Ceramics Monthly, “Hearts and Flowers”, Judith Smith, June/July/August 2002, pages 73 - 75
The Crafts Report, February 2002, front cover
Smashing Glazes, Susan Peterson, The Guild, Madison, WI, 2001, pages 28 - 29
The Best of Pottery 2, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA, 1998, page 28
Ceramic Design Book, edited, Lark Books, Ashville, NC, 1998, page 79
The Best of New Ceramic Art, edited, The Guild, Madison, WI, 1997, page 25
The Best of Pottery, by Angela Fina and Jonathan Fairbanks, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA, 1996, pg. 28
Selected Teaching, Workshops, and Presentations, 2011 - Present
3-D Design (ART 115), adjunct faculty, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ, 2000 – present
Micro-Sculpture Workshop, Marjon Ceramics, Phoenix, AZ, scheduled for March 2016
The Mind of the Artist, presentation for West Valley Art Museum, Peoria, AZ, 2015
All day Hand Building Demo, Marjon Ceramics, Phoenix, AZ, 2015
Sculpture Workshop (Art 295), Paradise Valley (PV) Community College, PV, AZ, Fall 2012
Vision Gallery Kidz Art workshops, Chandler, AZ, 2010 – 2015
Clay & Print: Full Color Fired On Images, Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ, 2011 & 2013
Totems Workshops at Sun City West Clay Club, Surprise, AZ, Mesquite High, Gilbert, AZ, Shemer Art Center & Museum, & AZ Clay Association, Phoenix, AZ, 2011 - 2014
The Sky’s the Limit: Clay Totems, Yuma Symposium 33 & Western AZ College, Yuma, AZ, 2012
Ceramic Transfers Design and Application, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 2011
Education
MFA, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; MA, BA, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Color seminars, International Association of Colour Consultants/Designers, San Diego, CA 2/16