Lisa Kay Orr
Northborough, MA USA
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts 1992 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York
Post-Graduate Study 1989-90 University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota
Post-Graduate Study 1989 with Betty Woodman University of Colorado; Boulder, Colorado
Post-Graduate Study 1983-1988 Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1983 University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
PROFESSIONAL
Studio 2021-Present, Northborough, Massachusetts
Studio 1996-2021 1502 Alta Vista Ave, Austin, Texas
Studio/store 1994-1996, 712 S. St Mary’s, San Antonio, Texas
Studio/store 1986-1989, 601 E. Ashby, San Antonio, Texas
Studio 1983-1986 San Antonio, Texas
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Fulbright Award for Participation in Bienal de Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay 2015
Critics Choice Award for Architecture, Austin Chronicle, Austin TX 2011
City of Austin Council Proclamation for Deep Eddy Mural Project, City Hall, Austin TX 2011
Austin Livable City Award for Esthetics for Deep Eddy Mural Project, Austin TX, 2011
Art in Public Places Award for mural at historic Deep Eddy Pool. Austin TX 2009
Cups of Merit Purchase Award, NCECA, 2005
1st Place, Attorney’s Award 11th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National 2003
NEA Mid-America Arts Alliance Fellowship 1995
Fulbright Scholarship to Bulgaria 1992-1994
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Harvey Preston Gallery, Aspen CO
ArtStream Nomadic Gallery, Carbondale CO
The Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia PA
Schaller Gallery, St Joseph MI
RESEARCH FILM/EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
Cohorts.Art Mentorship Program, Online, 2022-Present
Current research: a low fuel, low emission wood kiln from recycled materials, 2021-present
Producer of Pottery of Mexico Video Series: Pineapples of Patamban and San Jose de Gracia, Ceramic Trees of Life, Fantastical Figures of Ocumicho, Released 2008, 2010, 2015 www.potteryofmexico.com
@PotsInAction Instagram Guest Host PIA Movement 2017, PIA Mexico 2019
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
518Profiles, https://www.518profiles.com/issues/ 2025
Versatile Firing with Rocket Kilns, Studio Potter Magazine, October 2025
The Makers Playbook Podcast, Hosted by Rebecca Ickes Carra, March 2025
For Flux Sake Podcast, Hosted by Kathy King, Rose and Matt Katz, Oct 2024
The Potters Cast with Paul Blais http://ThePottersCast.com/1046 2024
Tales of A Red Clay Rambler, Ben Carter Host, https://www.talesofaredclayrambler.com/episodes/514-lisa-orr-on-developing-high-sodium-low-fire-glazes 2024
The Complete Guide to Low-Fire Glazes, Ben Carter, Quarto Publishing Group, 2024
Mao na Massa, Artes do Fogo, Issue 64 Interview and Back Cover 2022
Form and Fire: American Studio Ceramics from the John Bullard Collection, LSU Museum of Art 2021
Creative Pottery, Deb Schwartzkopf, Quarto Publishing Group, 2020
Ceramics Monthly, Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight Times, Coauthor, March 2019
Ceramics Monthly, Up Front, Photo of In Tandem Gallery Show, August 2018
Mastering the Potter’s Wheel, Ben Carter, Quarto Publishing Group, 2016
The Clay Studio: 100 Artists 1000 Cups, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia 2016
Electric Kiln Ceramics, Frederick Bartolovic, Krouse Publishing, 2014
The Best of 500 Ceramics, Lark Crafts, 2012
Ceramics Monthly, Studio Visit with Lisa Orr, September 2011
500 Vases, Ed. by Julia Galloway, Lark Books, 2010
The Studio Potter, Backwards into the Future: Technology and Sustainability, Author 2008
The Studio Potter, Synaesthesia: A Potter’s Experience and Research, Author 2006 Cover Photo
Diverse Domain, Contemporary North American Ceramic Art, Catalog by Yingge County Ceramics
Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2005
World of Teapots: Delightful Teapot, World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, 2005
Ceramics Monthly, “A Dialogue with Lisa Orr,” May 2000, Cover Photo
The Studio Potter, “A Macedonian Pottery Village,” Author1998
Surface Decoration for Low-Fire Ceramics, by Lynn Peters, Lark Books 1999
Ceramics Monthly, Up Front, March 1999
The New Ceramics by Peter Dormer, 2nd ed. 1995
USA Today, August 16, 1995 Featured in an article about Fulbright Fellowships
RESIDENCIES
University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC 2026
Craigarden Farm and Art Center, Elizabethtown, NY 2024
Visiting Artist, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred NY 2017
Ash Street Project Summer Session 2015, Portland OR 2015
Florida Heat, St. Petersburg Clay Co, St. Petersburg, FL 2014
Northern Clay Center, Exquisite Pots II: Red Handed, July 2013
Watershed Center for the Arts, Terracotta Warriors, July 2009
Odyssey Center for the Arts, Asheville NC 2004
JURYING/CURATING
Ceramics Biennial 2026, Earthworks: Evolution, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA 2026
Imbibition, Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit MI 2026
Treading Lightly: Walking the Talk, NCECA featured show, Salt Lake City UT 2025
Flower City Pottery Invitational, Rochester, NY 2022-2026
Pitchers, Good Earth Pottery, Bellingham, WA 2023
Art of the Pot Studio Pottery Invitational, Austin TX 2003-2021
Miami Potters Guild Members Show, Miami FL 2016
Kansas City Clay Guild Tea Bowl National, Kansas City MO 2015
Shake it Baby, (co-juror Bryan Hopkins) Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore MD 2014
Culinary Cultures: Ceramic Perspectives, Southwestern Univ. Art Gallery, Georgetown TX 2012
The Exotic Table, Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio TX 2009
ClayHouston Festival, Contemporary Craft Museum, Houston TX 2008
Tactile Poetry, National Biennial Invitational, Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, IL 2008
SELECTED RECENT SOLO*, DUO** & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Solo Show, Clay Akar, Iowa City, IA 2026
Flower City Pottery Invitational, Rochester, NY 2026
Featured Artist Show, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN 2026
St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour, Peter Jadoonath Studio, Schafer, MN 2026
Dallas Pottery Invitational, Dallas TX 2026
Mom’s Collection, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, NCECA Detroit, MI 2026
The Protest Cup, NCECA Conference, Detroit MI 2026
Emerging and Demonstrating Artists, NCECA Conference, Detroit, MI 2026
ArtStream Nomadic Gallery, NCECA Conference Detroit, MI 2026
New England Potters, Schaller Gallery, Baroda, MI 2026
ICF Presenters Show, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK 2025
St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour, Peter Jadoonath Studio, Schafer, MN 2025
Dallas Pottery Invitational, Dallas TX 2025
ArtStream Nomadic Gallery, NCECA Salt Lake City, UT 2025
Old Church Pottery Invitational 50th Annual, Demarest NJ 2024
Flower City Pottery Invitational, Flower City Art Center, Rochester NY 2024
St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour, Peter Jadoonath Studio, Schafer, MN 2024
Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail, Studio of James Guggina, Florence MA 2024
Together At The Table, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD 2024
Dallas Pottery Invitational, Dallas TX 2024
Functional Ceramics Exhibition, Ohio Designer Craftsman, Wooster OH 2024
ArtStream Cup Extravaganza, Online 2024
NCC Featured Artist, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis MN 2024
Old Church Pottery Invitational, Demarest NJ 2023
Clay To Table, Potters Promotional Event, Online 2023
Hilltown 6 Pottery Tour, Mark Shapiro Studio, Worthington, MA2023
Out of the Frame: Painterly, Schaller Gallery, Baroda MI 2023
Worcester Pottery Invitational, Worcester Center for Craft, Worcester MA 2023
Dallas Pottery Invitational, Dallas, TX 2023
ArtStream Nomadic Gallery, NCECA Cincinnati, OH 2023
Brimful: Indiana University, Richmond IN 2023
**In Focus with Eiko Maeda, Schaller Gallery, Baroda MI 2022
Flower City Pottery Invitational, Rochester, NY 2022
Featured Artist, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN 2022
*Schaller Maker Focus, Baroda, MI, 2021
Functional Ceramics 2021, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH, 2021
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Rosenfield Collection, Dallas, Texas
The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, Claremont, California
The Dinnerware Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Yeoju World Ceramic Livingware Gallery, Icheon, Korea
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconson
South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred, New York
ArtStream Ceramic Library, Carbondale, Colorado
National Council for Education in Ceramic Arts
CONFERENCE PRESENTER
ICF International Woodfire Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales UK 2025
Woodfire NC 2025: Sustain, Starworks, Star NC 2025
Panelist, Wood Fired Rocket Kiln, NCECA Salt Lake City, UT 2025
2024 Functional Ceramics Workshop, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Wooster OH 2024
Project Soils Annual Conference, Governors Island NY 2023
Contaf Brazil, Foz de Iguacu, Brazil, 2022
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY 2022
Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Functional Ceramics Workshop 2021
Soils: The Living Fabric of Health- USI 5th Annual Symposium 2020
Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell PA 2018
South Carolina Clay Conference, Newberry SC 2018
Kansas University NCECA Pre-Conference, Lawrence, KS 2016
Florida Heat 2014, Surface Design, Morean Arts Center, St Petersberg FL 2014
NCECA Conference, Creating an Epic Community Mural, Houston, 2013
NCECA Conference, Screening of Pottery of Mexico: II, DVD, Tampa 2011
MSUM Community College Arts Symposium Presenter, Moorhead MN 2010
NCECA Pre-conference Panel, “Making through Living, Living Through Making”, MCCC, Blue Bell PA 2010
Presenter, East Carolina Potters Conference, Greenville, NC 2008
NCECA Conference, Screening of Pottery of Mexico DVD, Pittsburgh, PA 2008
Potters Conference in the Caribbean, Clay Times, 2008
Presenter, Alabama Clay Conference, Florence, AL 2007
NCECA Demonstrator, National Council on Education in Ceramic Arts Conference, Indianapolis, IN 2004
Presenter, 16th Annual North Carolina Potters Conference, Moring Arts Center, Asheboro, NC 2004
American Pottery Festival, Minneapolis MN Spring 2003
Angelo State University, San Angelo TX, Symposium Demonstration Spring 2002
Utilitarian Clay Conference III, Presenter, Gatlinburg TN Fall 2000
Different Directions-Coming Together in Clay, Symposium & Workshop, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX 1999