Lisa Walcott has been a faculty member at Hope College since 2018. With a deep commitment to both education and her artistic practice, she teaches a variety of sculpture courses, the capstone course for art majors, and a First-Year Seminar that introduces students to the artistic process. She has also been involved in multiple student-faculty research projects, guiding students through collaborative explorations, and is the founder and mentor of the Art Club at Hope College.

Lisa is an active and widely exhibiting artist known for her innovative work that often involves the manipulation of familiar objects and the use of kinetics. Her studio practice involves investigations into the materials and processes that bring deeper meaning to her work. 

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Professional Experience

Lisa specializes in sculpture and installation and the dialogue that surrounds the three-
dimensional medium. She makes kinetic sculpture and installation work revolving around ideas
of home, the everyday, and the feminine experience. Installations of idiosyncratic motion—like
swarm mobiles, or soap piles emerging from the floor—immerse the viewer in a familiar but
different reality. Hybrid machines multitask, becoming portraits of ingenuity.
Lisa has exhibited her work nationally including at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, ACRE
Projects and Three Walls in Chicago, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, and The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan.

Education

• MFA, sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2010
• B.A., Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL, 2005

Selected Exhibitions

• Slant: Perspectives on Sculpture (presented by the International Sculpture Center), Gallery 14C, Jersey City, NJ, 2024
• Self |Portraits, Chicago Sculpture International Project Space, Chicago, 2024
• The Way I Figure It, Compound Yellow, Oak Park, IL, 2023
• Home Again, Home Again, Manifest Gallery solo exhibition, Cincinnati, 2022
• Drawn Out: How Artists Break Through Creative Ruts traveling exhibition, Hope College, Ohio University, Denison University and elsewhere, 2022 
• Tight Spots, Saugatuck Center for the Arts solo exhibition, Saugatuck, MI, 2021
• Sink In, The Sculpture Center solo exhibition, Cleveland, 2020
• Visual Thinking: International Juried Drawing Exhibition, Ronald L. Barr Gallery at Indiana University Southeast, 2019
• Thin Air, Washington Pavilion Visual Art Center solo exhibition, Sioux Falls, SD, 2018
• and not forget what feet are, Sadie Halie Projects two-person exhibition with Haley Prochnow, Minneapolis, 2018
• (Not) Staying Still (curated by Anna Adler), Bethany Arts Community, Ossining, NY (2018
• Doubled Over, Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery solo exhibition, Fort Wayne, IN, 2017
• Making Room, ParProjects solo exhibition, Cincinnati, 2016
• Do To Do, Elon University solo exhibition, 2016
• Living with Myself, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art solo exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015
• Less Still, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum solo exhibition, Michigan State University, 2013

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Outside the College

Lisa enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids at the Lake Michigan coast, where she enjoys swimming and spending time in nature. She frequently visits art museums and her curiosity drives her to take workshops that allow her to explore new processes, which she integrates into her art.