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EXHIBITIONS
Solo and Small Group Exhibitions
2025 “Cycles,” solo exhibition, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2025 Montpelier Arts Center 44th Annual Sculpture Invitational Exhibition, Laurel, MD
2024 “Interconnections,” solo exhibition, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2024 “Monocacy River Pottery: The Art of Coalescing,” NCECA Conference Concurrent Exhibition, Richmond, VA
2023 “Twilight,” solo exhibition, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2023 “Portals & Passages,” solo exhibition, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2021 “Earth | Fire | Form,” solo exhibition, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2021 “Earth, Water and Fire,” solo exhibition, Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth Beach, DE
2020 “Forces of Nature,” Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
2020 “Rock/Canyon,” Studio Gallery, Washington, DC (two-person collaboration with photographer Gary Anthes)
2020 “Conscious Transitions,” Uptown Gallery, Richmond, VA (Co-curated by Lisa Battle and Nina Kawar in conjunction with NCECA)
2019 “Echoes,” Solo Exhibition, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2018 "Traveling Full Circle," Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
2018 "Copper, Clay & Steel," Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
2017 “& Co.” Artists & Makers, Rockville, MD
Juried Group Exhibitions
2025 “Women Artists of the DMV,” Artspiration, Frederick, MD (Juror: Lenny Campello)
2025 “Women Artists of the DMV,” Artists & Makers, Rockville, MD (Juror: Lenny Campello)
2025 “Off the Wall,” Maryland Federation of Art, Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD (Juror: Jennifer Hecker, Sculpture Professor, SUNY)
2025 “35th Biennial Exhibition of Fine Crafts,” Creative Crafts Council, Strathmore Mansion, Rockville, MD (Jurors: Bob Devers, Mary Higgins, Michael Janis)
2025 “Full Circle,” Strathmore Annual Juried Exhibition, Rockville, MD (Jurors: Glen Kessler & Darryl Patterson)
2024 “Sculpture Now 2024,” McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA (Juror: Nancy Sausser)
2024 “Manic Ceramic,” Artworks, Richmond, VA
2024 “Small works,” Modern Visual Arts gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2023 “Beyond the Horizon: Explorations of Landscape,” Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomons, MD (Juror: Carolyn Russo)
2023 “Beyond Mud,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Talia Shiroma, Brooklyn Museum)
2023 “34th Biennial Exhibition of Fine Crafts,” Creative Crafts Council, Strathmore Mansion, Rockville, MD
(Jurors: Jaimianne Jacobin, Executive Director of the James Renwick Alliance for Craft; Lynda Smith-Bugge; April Wood)
2023 “Breaking Ground: Art about the Earth,” Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomons, MD
2023 “2023 Juried Show,” Artists Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2023 “Her Voice, Her Vision,” Women’s History Month Exhibition 2023, Chesapeake Arts Center, Baltimore, MD
2022 “Breaking Through: The Rise of American Women Artists,” American Women Artists, Customs House Museum & Cultural Center, Clarksville, TN
(Jurors: Rose Frederick, Kristin Hoerth, Marianne Wardle)
2022 “I’ll Be There: An Exhibition about Love,” Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomons, MD
2022 “National Juried Exhibition,” Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD (Juror: Gerald Ross)
2022 “Spring Member Show,” Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD (Juror: Mark Thomas Anderson, Georgetown University)
2022 “Sculpture Now 2022,” Washington Sculptors Group, Harmony Hall Arts Center, Fort Washington, MD (Juror: Fitsum Shebeshe)
2022 “Art in 3D,” Reston Art Gallery, Reston, VA
2022 “Handcrafted,” Blackrock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD (Juror: Rula Jones)
2022 “2022 Artists’ Gallery Juried Show,” Artists’ Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2021 “2021 National Juried Exhibition,” Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD (Juror: Margaret Winslow, curator of contemporary art at Delaware Art Museum)
2020 “Proximity 2020,” The Clay Co-Op, Rockville, MD
2020 “Local Color,” Artists’ Gallery, Ellicott City, MD
2020 “Winter Member Show,” Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD (Juror: Adah Rose Bitterbaum, director of Adah Rose Gallery)
2019 “Proximity 2019,” The Clay Co-op, Rockville, MD (Juror: Judit Varga)
2019 “32nd Biennial Exhibition,” Creative Crafts Council, Rockville, MD (Jurors: Susan Main, Curator at VisArts; Chris Darway, Joe Dickey)
2019 “Radius 250,” Artspace, Richmond, VA
2019 American Craft Council (ACC) 2019 Show, Baltimore, MD
2019 “Sculpture Now 2019,” Washington Sculptors Group, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD (Juror: Spencer Dormitzer, Brentwood Arts Exchange)
2019 “Night: The 28th Annual Juried Exhibition,” Strathmore Hall, Rockville, MD (Jurors: Erwin Timmers, Washington Glass School; Adah Rose Bitterbuam)
2019 “Winter Member Show,” Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2018 “International Juried Exhibition,” The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
(Juror: Midori Yoshimoto, professor and gallery director at New Jersey City University)
2018 “Ceramic Dimensions,” Montgomery Potters, The Clay Coop, Rockville, MD (Juror: Ray Bogle)
2018 “Really Affordable Art Show,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
(Juror: Brinda Kumar, assistant curator Modern/Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2018 “Proximity 2018,” The Clay Co-op, Rockville, MD (Juror: Kevin Rohde, Corcoran School)
2018 "8th Annual Workhouse Clay International 2018," Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA (Juror: Eva Kwong, Kent State University)
2018 “ViewPoints 2018,” Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ (Juror: Gary Garrido Schneider, Executive Director of Grounds for Sculpture)
2018 “Wide Open 9,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
(Juror: Carmen Hermo, Assistant Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center at the Brooklyn Museum)
2018 “Spring Member Show,” Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD (Juror: John Shipman, Associate Director of Development at the University of Delaware)
2018 “Act 2,” Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
(Jurors: Jennifer Adele Zwilling, The Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Brienne Rosner, Gallery Director at Peters Valley School of Craft)
2018 “Neoteric Abstract VI,” Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2018 “Claywork,” Blue Door Arts Center, Yonkers, NY
2018 American Craft Council (ACC) 2018 Show, Baltimore, MD
2018 “Winter Member Show,” Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD (Juror: Kim Banister, Director of Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola University in Baltimore)
2017 “Material Matters”, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Lilian Tone, Assistant Curator, Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art)
2017 “New Directions 2017”, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (Juror: Ruth Erickson, Associate Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
2017 “Black and White”, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Alison Hokanson, Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2017 “Proximity”, The Clay Coop, Rockville, MD (Juror: Tim Sherman)
2017 “Representing Ourselves”, Montgomery Potters Juried Show at Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD (Juror: Lisa York, Hood College)
2017 “2017 National Juried Exhibit”, Delaplaine Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD (Juror: Laura Augustin, Smithsonian American Art Museum)
2017 “Wide Open 8”, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
(Juror: Cara Manes, Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art)
2017 “Dimensional Expressions”, Fredericksburg, VA (Juror: Robert S. Hunter, Fredericksburg Center for Creative Arts)
2017 “Big Ideas, Small Packages”, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY
2017 “Sculpture NOW 2017”, Washington Sculptors’ Group and McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2016 “Proximity”, The Clay Co-Op, Rockville, MD (Juror: Catherine White)
Invitational Exhibitions
2025 The Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, Artists Circle Fine Art, Washington, DC – duo show of sculptures by Lisa Battle and paintings by Michael Gross
2025 “Le Salon 2025,” TAG/The Artists Gallery, Frederick, MD
2025 “My Heart Leaps Up,” Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2025 Artist Open Studios, Stevensville, MD
2025 “Arts on the Green,” Montgomery Potters, Arts Barn, Gaithersburg, MD
2024 Artist Open Studios, Stevensville, MD
2023 “The Urge to Create: Annual Invitational,” Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, MD
2023 “Arts on the Green,” Montgomery Potters, Arts Barn, Gaithersburg, MD
2023 “Reimagining Landscapes,” Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2022 “Signs of Spring,” Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2022 “Out of the Artists Closet,” Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2019 “Montgomery Potters Sculpture Show,” Rockville Library, Rockville, MD
2019 “Me and My Shadow,” Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2018 “The Artist’s Closet,” Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2018 “Clayborhood,” Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2017 New York Ceramics and Glass Fair, New York, NY
2016 Studio Open House Exhibition, The Clay Co-Op, Rockville, MD
2016 Opening Exhibition, The Clay Co-Op, Rockville, MD
AWARDS
Pocosin Arts Summer Residency (July 26 - August 5, 2026), Columbia, NC, 2026
1st Place, “Manic Ceramic,” ArtWorks, Richmond, VA, 2024
2nd Place, “Beyond Mud,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
Excellence in Hand Building, “34th Biennial Exhibition of Fine Crafts,” Creative Crafts Council, Rockville, MD, 2023
2nd Place Sculpture, “Artists’ Gallery Juried Show,” Artists’ Gallery, Ellicott City, MD, 2023
Juror’s award, “I’ll Be There,” Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomons, MD, 2022
Honorable mention, “Artists’ Gallery Juried Show,” Artists’ Gallery, Ellicott City, MD, 2022
Honorable Mention, “Local Color,” Artists’ Gallery, Ellicott City, MD, 2020
3rd Place in 3-Dimensional Art, 9th Annual “All Women” Art Exhibition, 2020, LightSpaceTime https://www.lightspacetime.art/all-women-art-exhibition-january-2020/
Honorable mention, “Winter Member Show,” Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD, 2019
Special recognition, “Really Affordable Art Show,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition, 2018
Best sculpture, “Ceramic Dimensions,” The Clay Coop, Rockville, MD, 2018
Conley Award, “Spring Member Show,” Maryland Federation of Art, May 2018
Honorable mention for 3-D art, “Women Artists Online Juried Art Exhibition,” Fusion Art, Jan 2018
1st Place, “Representing Ourselves,” Montgomery Potters Juried Show, July 2017
Special recognition, “Black and White” juried show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition, 2017
EDUCATION
MA Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Board Member, Washington Sculptors Group, Washington, DC 2017-present
Board Member, Creative Crafts Council, Washington, DC 2022-present
Board Member, Baltimore Clayworks, 2011 – 2014
Board Member, Montgomery Potters, Bethesda, MD, 2018-2019; Member 2017-Present
Member, Washington Ceramic Guild, 2022-present
Member, Monocacy River Pottery wood fire community, Thurmont, MD 2016 - present
Member, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)
Member, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
Resident artist, The Clay Coop, Rockville, MD, 2016 – 2022