Ginger Lukas (download PDF) b. 1986, Two Rivers, Wisconsin Currently in residence at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia. EDUCATION: MFA - University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2011 BFA - Maryland Institute - College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, 2008 HONORS and SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2012: “Alle machen jetzt in Keramik”(everyone's working with ceramic nowadays), Neuer Saarbrücker Kunstverein, Saarbrücken, Germany, May 2012 Manifest Destiny - White Space Gallery, Philadelphia, May 2012 Small Favors VII - The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, February - April 2012 Ossuary, Laurie Beth Clark's Installation in "Compendium, 2012", Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, February - April 2012 2011: Hello/Goodbye - The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA, July 29 - August 21, 2011 Tree Line - Master of Fine Arts exhibition, UW Art Lofts Gallery, May 14 - 20th, 2011 Incognito - with Sophia Flood, Class of 2000 Gallery, Middleton High School, Middleton, WI, January - February 2011 2010: Everything is Happening [right now] - 4D survey, UW Performance Lab, November 2010 Triple Crown - Final year review show, UW Performance Lab, August - September 2010 Edge of Reason - UW Art Lofts Gallery, July 2010 Prom 2010 (Almost Paradise) - Master’s of Fine Arts qualifiers, School Woods Supper Club, Madison, WI, April 2010 NCECA National Student Juried Exhibition - University of the Arts’ Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, March - April 2010 Campin’ - with Jaclyn Matelski, UW-Madison plaster lab, March 2010 Forward: UW-Madison Graduate Student Exhibition - In conjunction with the CAA Chicago Conference, February 2010 15 Seconds - Art Lofts Gallery, February 2010 The Pursuit of Happiness - Installation at the Cedar Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, January - March 2010 2009: Hot Shit! - Art Lofts Gallery, December 2009 When a flash of lightning illuminates a dark landscape, there is a momentary recognition of objects. UW-Madison Performance Lab, July 2009 Art Lofts Grand Opening - UW-Madison Performance Lab, May 2009 MFA Oshkosh - Reeve Union Gallery, UW-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI, April 2009 UW at the Meriter - Capitol Lakes Gallery, February 2009 It’s My First Time.. - 7th floor Gallery, February 2009 2008: New Kids on the Block - The Project Lodge, Madison, WI, November 2008 Gallery Night and Day - Dark Star Galleria, Milwaukee, WI, July 2008 Gathering No Moss - Senior Exhibition, Baltimore, MD, Meyerhoff Gallery, May 2008 MICA Juried Ceramics Show (three pieces chosen) - Middenorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD, March 2008 2007-2005: Step Up 2: The Streets -Touchstone Pictures props department, August 2007 Binge and Purge - Woodard Gallery, Baltimore, MD, April 2007 DIRT - Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD, January 2007 Inbred Clay: Adelaide Paul’s Contextual Ceramics Class - Middendorf Gallery, November 2006 MICA 2004 Freshman Exhibition - Pinkard Gallery, November 2005 University of Wisconsin - Madison Temkin Award - Spring 2011 David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts, Spring 2010 Ernie Moll Scholarship, Fall 2009 William J. Wartmann Graduate Scholarship in Sculpture, Fall 2009 Merton R. and Peggy E. Barry Fellowship, Fall 2009 Professional Development Grant, Summer 2009-2010 Haystack Mountain School of Craft Assistant to Lisa Orr, July 2009 Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts Kiln God Fellowship, July 2008 Maryland Institute - College of Art Dean’s List, 2006-2008 Ceramics Department Competitive Scholarship, April 2007 Talent Grants, 2005-2008 Academic Honors Scholarship, June 2004 Trustee Scholarship, June 2004 VISITING ARTIST APPOINTMENTS: Maryland Institute - College of Art, Baltimore, MD, November 2011 Middleton High School, Middleton, WI, February 2011 Murray State University, Murray, KY, September 28 - October 2, 2009 BIBLIOGRAPHY: "The MFA Factor", Ceramics Monthly, December 2011 Chele Isaac’s “Wisconsin Artists to Watch”, November 2010 On Wisconsin magazine, September 2010 - “State of the Art[s]”, profile of the UW Madison art department in preparation for Year of the Arts on campus, page 46 Ceramics Monthly, September 2010 - page 27-28, review of the 2010 NCECA NSJE by Glen R. Brown Review of “The Pursuit of Happiness” in Milwaukee Magazine Gallery Night Winter Preview - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel print edition, January 15th, 2010 Art City (Gallery Night Picks by Sara Mulloy) - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online edition, January 11th, 2010 Beauty and Its Pursuit - The Aesthetics of Pleasure, a lecture presented by Kim Cridler at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, September 2009 Ornamentation in Contemporary Craft, a lecture presented by Kim Cridler at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR, July 2009