Education
1997 MFA in Ceramic Sculpture, University of Cincinnati
1991 BFA in Sculpture, Art Academy of Cincinnati
Selected Teaching Experience:
2010 Visiting Artist, Two-day Workshop/Lecture, University of Kentucky, Lexington
KY, Upcoming
Visiting Artist, Cincinnati Arts & Technology Center, Cincinnati, OH, Upcoming
2010, 09, 08 Guest Artist / Presenter, Professional Practices, University of Cincinnati, OH
2009 Visiting Artist, Cincinnati Arts & Technology Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Visiting Artist, One-day Workshop, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
2008-05 Visiting Artist, University of Cincinnati, Ceramics Department, Cincinnati, OH
2008 Alternative Firing Techniques with Clay, School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri, One-day Workshop
2007 Special Studio:Paper Clay, One-day Workshop, Lillstreet, Chicago, IL
2007-01 Art Instructor, St. John’s the Evangelist, Deer Park, OH
2006 Incorporation of Multi Media into Ceramics, One-day Workshop,
Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
Alternative Firings: Raku, Pit, Smoke & Sagger, Three-day Workshop, FUNKe FIRED ARTS, Cinti, OH
Cincinnati Create & Celebrate 2008, Kite Project Grant, 52 Communities in Cincinnati Recreation Centers, Cinti, OH
2005-1999 Adjunct Instructor, University of Cincinnati, Ceramics Department, Cinti, OH
2006-05 Art Instructor, City-Wide Drug Prevention Grant, The Caring Place, Cinti, OH
2006-05 Art Instructor, Dater Montessori, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati, OH
2004-1999 Art Instructor, North Avondale Montessori, Afterschool Art Beautification Program, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati, OH
2004 LIVING ARTIST, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
1999-98 Graduate Teaching Instructor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1997-1996 Graduate Assistant, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1996-95 Fine Arts Shop Assistant, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1991 Guest Artist, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH
Selected Professional Experience:
2010, 09, 08 Juror / Judge, SUMMERFAIR at Coney Island, Cincinnati, OH
Juried national exhibition and awarded prizes to competing fine artists
2010, 09 Curator / Director, ALL FIRED UP, Montgomery, OH
Annual event responsibilities include: Planning, administering, budgeting expenses and implementing of one-day event for the City of Montgomery, creating an open call to 25 fine artists for exhibition and sales, co-ordinate and contact Montgomery Arts Commission and local businesses for sponsorship
2007 - Present Gallery Director, FUNKe FIRED ARTS, Cincinnati, OH
Gallery Director responsibilities include: Initiate, develop and implement Exhibition Gallery Season, researching and contacting high quality visual artists for gallery and workshops, initiate, develop and implement FUNKe Visiting Artist Workshop Program in conjunction with Exhibition Season, acquire sponsorship for operating and production costs, stipends for artists, marketing / publicity of Exhibition Season / Visiting Artist Workshop Program, hanging and displaying work for all exhibitions, creating exhibition cards, labels, signage, obtain FUNKe Gallery / FUNKe Visiting Artist Workshop sponsorship; including all operating costs, marketing, stipends for artists, create bi-laws for exhibition & retail gallery
2010 - 07 Curator / Director, SILVERTON ART & WINE FEST, Cincinnati, OH
Annual event responsibilities include: Planning, administering, budgeting expenses and implementing of one-day event for the City of Silverton’s Blockwatch Association, creating an open call to 33 fine artists for exhibition and sales, co-ordinate and contact City of Silverton businesses for sponsorship of event, artist participation, and awards, organize invitational children’s exhibit
2006 Workshop, CLAY IMMERSON, Sedona Art Center with Dennis Ott, Sedona,
AZ, May 22-26 Attended and participated in alternative art process workshop
2004 Founder & Curator, 100 ARTIST GUILD, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, OH
Curator, ARTisans@45213 Exhibition, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cinti, OH
Curator, WORKS of heART Exhibition, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cinti, OH
Curator, CINCY TALENT Exhibition, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cinti, OH
Curator, UNTITLED Exhibition, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cinti, OH
2004 Art Director, KENNEDY HEIGHTS ART CENTER, Cincinnati, OH
Art Director responsibilities include: Initiate, develop and implement Exhibition Gallery, one hundred artist guild and retail gallery, researching / contacting high quality visual artists for gallery and workshops, intiate, develop Visiting Artist Workshop Series in conjunction with Exhibition Season, marketing / publicity of Exhibition Season / Visiting Artist Workshop Series, hanging and displaying work for all exhibition, creating exhibition cards, labels, signage, obtain Visiting Artist Series sponsorship; including all operating costs, marketing, stipends for artists
Juror, SUMMERFAIR Exhibition, Coney Island, Cincinnati, OH
Juried and selected fine artists to exibit in Summerfair event at Coney Island
Co-Curator, the essence of a thing…, TRAVELING EXHIBITION, Zanesville Art Museum, Zanesville, OH to the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH
Responsibilities include: Initiate, develop and implement Traveling Exhibition, researching and contacting eleven high quality visual artists for venue, acquire sponsorship for operating and production costs, marketing / publicity of Exhibition, hanging and displaying work for exhibition
Gallery Committee Member, INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE ‘05, Cinti, OH
Committee Member, CARNEY ARTS COLLECTIVE, Cincinnati, OH
2002 Workshop / Lecture, American Ceramics Society, Jack Troy, Columbus, OH
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Markers, Boger Gallery, School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO
2006 Not for Human Consumption, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL,
2003 From Water to Air & Back Again, Aronoff Center for Design and Art, Cinti, OH
1999 Memories, Rosewood Art Center, Kettering, OH
1997 Discoveries, 840 Gallery at Aronoff Center for Design and Art, Cincinnati, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 426 RAW WALLS: An Exhibition of Cincinnati’s Finest Artists, JBar Studios, Cincinnati, OH, Upcoming
2010 Form from Form, Cincinnati Museum Center, John A. Ruthven Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Upcoming
2009 Form from Form, Traveling Exhibition, Philip M. Meyers, Jr. Memorial Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH
Animal Logic: Artists Contemplate Creature Kingdoms, Tower Fine Arts Gallery, The College of Brockport, Brockport, NY, Upcoming
Art Prize, Huntington Building, Grand Rapids, MI
2009 Installation: 4 Artists 4 Perspectives, NCECA - Arizona
Lisa Marie Barber / Holly Hanessian / Lisa Merida-Paytes / Jeff Pender ‘Endangered’, Gloria Kennedy Gallery, New York, NY
2009-1988 Art Academy Biennial Garden Sculpture, Civic Garden Center, Cincinnati, OH
2008, 05 The Artist Studio, Cincinnati Flower & Garden Show at Coney Island, Cinti, OH
2008 Visual Awakenings, Artonomy, Rookwood Commons, Cinti, OH
2007 Merida-Paytes/Sutherland/Harris, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL
Essence of a Thing, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Traveling Exhibition,
A Women’s View, Carnegie Art Center, Covington, KY
Forecastle Festival, The Belvedere, Louisville, KY, forecastlefest.com/res/pdf/velocity_forecastle_rescue.pdf
Summerfair Select, Marx Gallery, Covington, KY
Massive: Intrinsic, Mac Farm & Sculpture Center, Cinti, OH, (Catalog),
2006 Essence of a Thing, Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH, Co-Curator
Studio B Invitational, Crossroads Cinti- International Sculpture Conference
9th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL,
Juror, Margaret Hawkins, Art Critic, Chicago Sun-Times, Juror’s Award
2005 23rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY,
Juror, Jordan Kantor, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Modern Art
Fish Follies, Cordova Museum, Cordova, Alaska, www.cordovamuseum.org/FF2005/follies6.html
Juror, Rie Munoz, Internationally Recognized Artist/Illustrator
2004 ISCities: Cincinnati Juried Slide Exhibition, International Sculpture Center Website, http://www.sculpture.org/documents/ISCities/cinci_exhibit/index.htm
Summerfair Select, N. Kentucky University Art Gallery, KY, (Catalog)
2004 12: University of Cincinnati’s Ceramic Sculpture, 2004 NCECA Indianapolis, Indiana at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Without Walls 2004, Mac’s Farm & Sculpture Center, Cinti, OH. (Catalog),
http://www.macsfarm.org/sculpture/pecker/index.html
2003 Massive: Presence, SSNOVA Gallery, Mockbee Building, Cinti, OH, (Catalog)
1998 Cinergy Collection, Cinergy Foundation Traveling Art Exhibit, OH, KY & IN
International Juried Show 1998, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Rituals, Albrecht Gallery, Bluffton College Sauder Art Center, Bluffton, OH
Of & About Clay II, Gallerie Hertz, Louisville, KY
1993 Art Speak: Works in Abstract, The Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL.
Year of American Craft: A Celebration of the Creative Works of the Hand, The White House, Washington D.C.
1991 Hispania, McFall Center Gallery, Bowling Green University, OH
1990 Women’s Eye Conference, Carnegie Art Center, Covington, KY
Selected Publications
2010 SPECIAL STUDIO: Preserving Memories with Paperclay, Series 1, Authored
Book, Art-to Art Publishing, ISBN-10: 0-615-375898, ISBN-13: 978-0-615-37589-2
Studio Ceramics: Advanced Techniques, (cover / feature artist), Published by The
American Ceramics Society, ISBN: 978-1-57498-308-1
Ceramic Arts Daily Week in Review for July 13-17 2009
2009 10 Tried and True Raku Glaze Recipes, Published by Ceramic Arts Daily, Cover /
Feature Artist
Ceramic Arts Daily Week in Review for July 13-17 2009,
http://ceramicartsdaily.org/methods-techniques/handbuilding-techniques/fish-tales-a-ceramic- artist-interprets-personal-history-through-raku-sculpture/?floater=99
Pottery Making Illustrated, July/August Issue, Cover & Feature Article
In The Mix, “Lose Weight, Get Strong”, Pottery Making Illustrated, March/April, Issue, Feature Article, http://ceramicartsdaily.org/ceramic-supplies/pottery-clay/lose-weight-get-strong-put-your-ceramic-work-on-the-paper-clay-diet/
NCECA Annual Journal, Feature Article
2008 Art-to-Art Palette, Feature Article
Art-to Art Palette, 500 Animals in Clay, Book Review
Outlook, College of the Ozarks, Vol. 55, No. 9, October 24, 2008, Feature Article
2007 Raku, Pit & Barrel, Feature Article, Published by The American Ceramic Society,
ISBN 978-1-57498-288-6
Art-to-Art Palette, The Potter’s Shed, Article Published
HER MARK 2007, Image Selected, International Datebook/Calendar, http://womanmade.org/show_pics.cgi?type=group&gallery=hermark2007&pic=19
The Cincinnati Post, A Women’s View; Top Regional Artists
City Beat, An Accidental Ghetto, Review by Laura James
2007 Downtowner – The Pulse of the City, Preview, Page 18
City Beat, The Nature of Nature, Review by Tamera Lenz Muente
The Journal News, Hamilton, OH, Review by Richard Jones, Feature Article
2006 Ceramics Monthly, Feature Article
500 Animals in Clay, Four Images Published, Lark Books, ISBN 1-57990-757-1
Sculpture Magazine, Pages 14-15, Review, May Issue
The Columbus Dispatch, Exhibit Zanesville Art Center
2005 Ceramics Monthly, Image Selected & Exhibition Preview, September Issue
HER MARK 2006, Image Selected, International Datebook/Calendar
For A Better World, Regional Poetry/Drawings on Peace/Justice, Drawing Published
City Beat, Articulations, Feature Article, by Jacquelyn Vaughn, March 2-8, Issue
2005 Sycamore Living, Written by Roz Friedman, April Issue
2004 Cincinnati Enquirer, Written by Jennifer Edwards, June 25
Cincinnati Enquirer, Review by Marilyn Bauer, August 6
Community Press, Review by Amy Monahan, September 29, Issue
City Beat, Written by Stacey Recht, August 4-10
2003 “From Earth to Water and Back Again”, WLWT Channel 5,
Feature Story on 6:00 news, by Tony Gnau, May 6
Ceramics Monthly, Image Selected & Exhibition Preview, September Issue
Art Calendar, Image Selected, Vol. 17, No. 7 - July/August Issue
2001 Best Photos of 2000, Image Selected, ISBN 1-58235-805-2
Suburban Life, Review by Annette Stierwalt, April 4, Issue
2000 Scope of Time, Image Selected, ISBN 1-58235-633-5
Extruded Ceramics, Image Selected, Published by Sterling Books,
ISBN 1-57990-322-3
1999 Dayton Daily News, Review by Jane A. Black, October 17, Issue
Dayton Daily News, Review by Ron Collins, October 31, Issue
Selected Awards:
2009 NCECA Panel, INSTALLATION: 4 Artists 4 Perspectives
2006, 01 Summerfair, Individual Excellence Grant
2003 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowship
2002 Ohio Arts Council, Artist Project Grant
1999 Art Calendar’s Crabbie Awards
1997, 96, 91, 90 Three Arts Scholarship Fund, Grant
1997 University of Cincinnati Dean’s Award, Outstanding Graduate Student
University of Cincinnati Research Council, Summer Research Fellowship
1996-97 University of Cincinnati, University Graduate Scholarship
1995-96 University of Cincinnati Albert C. Yates Fellows & Scholars, Full Tuition
1995-96 University of Cincinnati Albert C. Yates Fellows & Scholars, Fellowship
1990, 89, 88, 87 The Art Academy of Cincinnati, Scholarship
1990 The Art Academy of Cincinnati, Drawing Scholarship
Selected Public Commissions:
2008 Fish in Wood, College of the Ozarks, Missouri
2007 Fish in Bronze, DSS Direct TV, Cincinnati, OH
2004 Mosaic Planters, Cincinnati, OH
2002 Ed Reed Sculpture Award, Skystone Ryan, International Headquarters, Cinti, OH
2002 St. John the Evangelist, Deer Park, OH
2001 Sowverton Express, City of Silverton, OH
Mr. Farron Allen, Cincinnati, OH
Mrs. Anne Allman, Branson, MO
Mrs. Susan Bernstein, DDS., Cincinnati, OH
Mrs. Janet Bloch, Chesterton, IN
Mr. Roy Cartwright, Cincinnati, OH
Mr. Keith Ekstam, Springfield, MO
Mr. Saad Goshen, Cincinnati, OH
Mrs. Mary Heider, Cincinnati, OH
Mr. Craig Jenson, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Jeff Johnston, Nixa, MO
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Marshall, Cincinnati, OH
Mr. Stacey Payne, Westerville, OH
Mr. Jeff Pender, Moorseville, NC
Dr. Prather, Springfield, MO
Mr. Allen Shiff, Cincinnati, OH
Mrs. Ginny Sykes, Chicago, IL
Mr. Larry Wulkner, Charleston, SC
Mr. & Mrs. Anton Viditz-Ward, Cincinnati, OH
Selected References:
Roy Cartwright, Professor of Art, University of Cincinnati, 513.489.8186, roydee@fuse.net
Pat Sand, Former Principal of St. John the Evangelist, 513.779.4007
Ray Miller, President, Montgomery Arts Commission, raymiller@fuse.net
Janie Stephens, Professor of Art, University of Cincinnati, jane.stevens@uc.edu
Jan Brown Checco, 513.751-4783, 360 Resor Ave., Cinti, Ohio, 45220, www.brownchecco.com
Rebecca Seeman, Professor, Cincinnati, OH, 513.562.8755, 513.703.0274
Dennis Harrington, Director of Weston Art Gallery, 513.977.4165, dharrington@cincinnatiarts.org
Jack Lucia, Co-Chair of Siverton Art & Wine Festival, 513.313.3786, jack.lucia@meierswinecellars.com
Jeff Johnston, Professor, Point Lookout, MO, 417.334.6411, Johnston@cofo.edu
Selected Links:
http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/article/20100806/NEWS/8060320/Boone-grad-publishes-art-book
www.womanmade.org/show.html?type=solo&gallery=meridapaytes06&pic=1
nceca.net/static/conference_presenters.php
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Lisa-Merida-Paytes/108380384245?ref=ts
cinweekly.com/article/20070829/ENT07/708220345/1067/rss05
www.summerfair.org/Support_Artists.htm
gkgart.com/pages/endangered.html
rodeo.cincinnati.com/getlocal/gpstory.aspx?id=100042&sid=150844
www.westonartgallery.com/ex2007-03.php
artfromthebox.com
www.cincinnati.com/freetime/080604_exhibit.html
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/ProgramsAndEvents/ProgramsAndEvents.aspx?
kennedyarts.org/KHAC_Newsletter_March-08.pdf
www.woxy.com/boards/showthread.php?t=58473
connection.ebscohost.com/content/article/1043117014.html
www.historyandissues.org/louisville/viewtopic.php?p=476#476
www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/print-article-3159-print.html
art2day.com.sapo.pt/archives/2006/03/entry_249.html
www.brockport.edu/finearts/calendar.html
www.brooklynartproject.com/page/culture4110209-1
www.kennedyarts.com/artists.htm
cincinnatiarts.org/files/uploaded/BDAAC_March_2007_website.pdf
www.summerfair.org/a_media/docs/10_newsreleases/07SF_Select_Returns_NR.doc
www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2006/03/03/33739.html
http://www.artacademy.edu/New%20Material/PDFs/AAC_News09_Summer_WEB.pdf
www.axner.com/axner/books/p856.php
nceca.net/static/documents/ExhibitionsListing2.3.09_000.pdf
http://www.macsfarm.org/artists/merida/index.html