Sisavanh Phouthavong
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    • 2022 Knoxville Museum
    • 2021 Gadsden Museum
    • 2021 KCKCC
    • 2021 Slocumb Gallery ETSU
    • 2020 Minnesota Museum
    • 2020 Asian Arts Initiative
    • 2020 Tinney Contemporary
    • 2019 Tipton Gallery ETSU
    • 2018 Hunter Museum
    • 2018 Lauren Rogers Museum
  • 2D
    • 2023-24 Token Specimen
    • 2022
    • Glimpses of Lives Interrupted
    • 2021
    • This Land was Made
    • 2020
    • Quantify Tactical Zone
    • Disillusioned
    • Indirect Traffic
    • 2019 >
      • Unstable
      • Rain 1-20 >
        • Rain 21-40
        • Rain 41-60
        • Rain 61-80
        • Rain 81-100
    • 2018 >
      • Clustered Debris
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      • Secret War on Laos: UXO
      • Crumbling Facade
      • Secret War Part 2
    • 2017 >
      • Legacies of War
      • Nong Khai
      • Re-Imagined Space
      • Defied Structures
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RESUME C/V (CURRICULUM VITA): 

Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton CV
E-mail:  [email protected] & [email protected]
Website: https://www.sisavanhphouthavong.com
 
EDUCATION           
2000-2003       MFA Painting, Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
1995-1999           BFA Painting, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2003-Recent           Professor of Studio Arts in Painting, Middle Tennessee State
                                         University of Liberal Arts College, Murfreesboro, TN
July 21-26, 2024             Painting Instructor, Oil Painting Workshop, Arrowmont School of Art & Design
                                         Gatlinburg, TN
May 20-June 8, 2022     Painting Instructor, Watercolor Workshop, Arrowmont School of Art &            
                                          Design, Gatlinburg, TN
Summer 2004-2007     Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, Painting Instructor, MTSU
 
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Tinney Contemporary, 237 5th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37219
 
EXHIBITIONS
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2024                ctl+alt+del, Solo Show, Tinney Contemporary Gallery, Nashville, TN
2022                Glimpses of Lives Interrupted, University Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
                         Legacies of War, Bagwell Gallery, Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville, TN
2021                 Excavating Tradition, Two Person Show, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL
2020                The Infinite Monsoon, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2018                 Impact, Sam Ross Gallery, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN
2017                  Art for Change “Laos Transpired”, Rooftop Lounge- The Westport, NYC, NY
                          Legacies of War, Tinney Contemporary Gallery, Nashville, TN
                          Defied Structures, University World College Library, Phuket, Thailand
2011                  Back-to-Back, Collaborative Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Murfreesboro, TN
2010                 The Spring Collection #2: Collaboration Exhibition with Jarrod Houghton, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
                          The Spring Collection, Collaboration Exhibition with Jarrod Houghton, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2007                 Things That Suck, Joan Derryberry Art Gallery, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN
2004                 Displacement, Union Groove Gallery, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
2003                 The Working Body, MFA Thesis Show, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale, IL
2002                 Smell of Art Through Culture, Vergette Gallery, Carbondale, IL
                           Dri-Bottoms, Vergette Gallery, Carbondale, IL
 
Juried / Museum Exhibitions
2027  TBA          Unlikely Southerner",#2, Invitational Exhibition, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL
2025-26            Unlikely Southerner, #1, Invitational Exhibition, The Mint Museum of Art, Curator: Myloan Dinh, Charlotte, NC
2026 TBA          Women Exhibition, Invitational, Frist Museum of Art, Curator Katie Delmez, Shaun Giles, Sai Clayton, Nashville, TN 
2023                  Intent/Content, Lehr Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum (SAM), Chief Curator Nandini Makrandi, Harrisburg, PA
                           38th Positive/Negative, Slocumb Gallery, Juror: Mark Scala, Chief Curator The Frist Museum, ETSU, Johnson City, TN
                           WoreFair, Outdoor Sculpture, James Polk Museum, Curator: Kate Holt, Columbia, TN
2022                  The F-word: We mean Female, Knoxville Museum of Art, Curator: Nandini Makrandi, Knoxville, TN
2020                 Scattered 1.5: Art from the Southeast Asian Diaspora, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
                           The F-word: We mean Female, Hunter Museum of American Art, Curator: Nandini Makrandi, Chattanooga, TN
                           Thank You, No Thank You, Asian Arts Initiative Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
                           Precarious Memory: Artist Respond to War, UCF Art Gallery, Orlando, FL
2018                   Hunter Invitational Exhibition IV, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
                           The Power of Color, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
                           Legacies of War, Flying Solo Exhibit, Arts in the Airport, BNA, Nashville, TN
2017                   Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Juror: Gerry Bergstein, Huntsville, AL
2016                   Poetic Logic, Group Show, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Juror: Shawn Watrous, Won Purchased Award,
                           Sewickley,  PA
                           Intersectionalities: Defining the Lao American Narrative in Visual Arts, Centro Cultural De La Raza, Juror: Sayon                                           Syprasoeuth, San Diego, CA
2011                    20”x20”x20”, Juried Group Exhibition, LSU Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
                           More is More, Group Show, The Xerox Culture LAL @ Loudoun House, Juror: Melissa Vandenberg, Lexington, KY
                           A Sense of Place, Group Show, Main Gallery, Juror: Tom Hammond, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
                           Mountain Vision, Group Show, Reece Museum, Juror: Greg Shelnutt, Mary B. Martin School of the Arts East Tennessee                               State University, Johnson City, TN
2010                  Fahrenheit 180, Group Exhibition, Ann Street Gallery, Curated by Virginia Walsh, Newburgh, NY 
2009                 Texas National 2009, Juror: Mel Chin, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
2006                 8th International Collage Exhibition & Exchange, Juror: Dale Copeland, Traveling Exhibition: Hill Country Arts                                             Foundation in Ingram, TX, Turchin Center at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, Real Tart Gallery at New                                         Plymouth, New Zealand
                           20”x20”x20”, Juried Group Exhibition, LSU Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2005                 The 7th Bakers Dozen International Collage Exchange, Juror: Dale Copeland,
                           Traveling Exhibition:  Durango, Colorado; Museo de Collage, Mexico; New Plymouth Gallery, New Zealand
                           Soft Boundaries, Biggin Gallery, Juror: Liz Martin, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
                           Diversity, Juried Group Exhibition, Giles Gallery, Juror: Deborah Borrowdale-Cox, Eastern Kentucky University,                                           Richmond, KY
2004                 7th International Open Exhibition, Juried Group Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Juror: Claudia DeMonte, Chicago, IL
 
Selected Exhibitions
2024                 Southern Highland Craft Guild, Curator Heather Wetzel, Asheville, NC
                          Instructor Exhibition, Sandra Blain Galleries, Gatlinburg, TN
2023                 Stories from the Camp, Mundi Foundation, Gallerie Delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy  
           
               Southern Voices/Global Visions, Artfields Collective Group Invitational Show,  Co-Curators: Dr. Amalia                                                        Amaki and Eleanor Heartney, Lake City, SC
                          Adopted/Adapted, Tipton Gallery, Curator Karlota Contretras-Koterbay, Johnson City, TN
                          Sabaidee Cultural Festival, Silver Lakes Complex, Norco, CA
                          50 Years Since the Vietnam War Bombing, Minnesota Humanities Center, Saint Paul, MN 
2022                  Art and Conflict Exhibition, Thessaloniki Municipal Gallery, curated by Vasia Deliyianni, Thessaloniki, Greece 
                           Sponsored by Mayor of Thessaloniki Office and UNESCO
                           Instructor Exhibition, Arrowmont Gallery, Gatlinburg, TN
                           Group Show, Asurion Gallery, Nashville, TN
                           AbstracTenn, Channel & Channel, Chattanooga, TN
2021                   Her Liminal Asian-Appalachian Experience, Slocumb Gallery, curated by Jose Ardivilla and Kreneshia Whitesite,
                           ETSU, TN
                           Becoming: Bodies of Trauma, Displacement & Dissent, KCKCC Gallery, curated by Karlota Contretras-Koterbay,
                           Kansas City, KS
                           Artfields, The R.O.B., Lake City, SC
2020                  100 Hundred Year Women Suffrage, Rotunda Exhibit, Murfreesboro, TN
2019                   Things to Come, Tinney Contemporary Gallery, Nashville, TN
                           Rumors of Necessity, 3-person Show, Tipton Gallery ETSU, Johnson City, TN
                           Women of Abstraction, Tinney Contemporary Gallery, Nashville, TN
                           Artfields, The R.O.B., Lake City, SC ** Won Best of Painting
2018                   Benefit Exhibition for The Rail Park on Spring Garden St, Bridgette Mayer Advisory,  Philadelphia, PA
                           MTSU Faculty Show, Todd Art Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN
                           Winter Gala: Legacies of War & Friends Without a Border, Olmsted Lodge at Highland
                           Park, Rochester, NY
                           Collage Collection, Nelson Mullins Law Firm, Nashville, TN
2017                    MAMA MADE, Elizabeth Holden Art Gallery, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
                            Lao Writer’s Summit: Lao’d and Clear, Highland College, Seattle, WA
                            Spring Collection, Nelson Mullins Law Firm, Nashville, TN
2016                    It Takes A Village: Rebirth and Transformation, ART Exchange, Long Beach, CA
                            Tools of the Trade, Faculty Group Show, Todd Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN
                            Permanent Collection Exhibition, American Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname
                            18th International Collage Exhibition & Exchange, Traveling Exhibition: The Verbeke Foundation in Belgium, Percy                                      Thomson Gallery, Startford, New Zealand
                            Boro Art Crawl: The Block, Murfreesboro, TN
2015                    Paradise, postcard show, Ugly Art Room, Corvallis, Oregon
                            Exquisite Corpse, Community Engagement Group Invitational Show, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2014                    Intersections, Group Invitational, Space 204 Gallery, Vanderbilt University, TN, Group Invitational Show
2013                    Print Lust, Group/Fundraiser Show, Leg UP Studio, Minneapolis, MN
                            Quarterly Art Show, Three Person, Beth Haley Design (BHD), Nashville, TN
                            Student Art Alliance Show, Group Benefit Show, The Greenway Murfreesboro, TN        
2012                    Refueling, Collaborative Exhibition with Jarrod Houghton, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
                            National Association of Art Dealers NAAD, Nashville Airport, Nashville, TN
2011                     Converging Vision, Faculty Group Show, Todd Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN
                             80/Square, Fundraising Group Exhibition, Tinney Contemporary Gallery, Nashville, TN 
2009                   Winter Walls, Group Exhibition, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
                             Identity, Two-Person Exhibition, St. Claude Gallery, University of New Orleans, LA
                             Mixed Emotions, Three Person Show, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
                             Reflected Ambivalence, Two-Person Exhibition, Salon Gallery, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2008                   Observation / Interaction, Two Person Exhibition, Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville, TN
2007                   Ideal, Two-Person Exhibition, Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery, Nashville, TN
                             Rat Race, Two Person Exhibition, Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
                             Four Person Exhibition, Ruby Green Contemporary Art Center, Nashville, TN
                             E-Volution 2, Group Exhibition, Dangenart Gallery, Nashville, TN
                             Undercurrent, Vanderbilt University Law School, Curator: Lain York, Nashville, TN
                             Group 62901, Group Exhibition, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, Alaska
2006                   Evolution, Group Exhibition, Dangenart Gallery, Nashville TN
                             MTSU Faculty, Group Exhibition, Chumley/Orr Gallery Contemporary American Art, Cleveland, TN
 
COLLECTION
2023               Stories from the Camp, Mundi Foundation, Gallerie Delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy  
2017-22          Pinnacle Bank: Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Murfreesboro Branch, TN
2021                Alliance Bernstein, Nashville, TN           
2019                Prime Health Services, Franklin, TN
2018                Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
2017                Legacies of War Office, Washington, DC
2016                American Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname                      
2016                Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA
2016                The Verbeke Foundation, Belgium          
2010                Susan Tinney, Nashville, TN
2010                Juel Salon, Franklin, TN
2010                Cleophus Thomas, Alabama (The Cleo and Carla Thomas Collection)
2008               Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
2006               Turchin Center for the Visual Art, New Zealand
2005               Museo de Collage, Mexico 
2005               The Learning Connexion, New Zealand
 
PUBLISHED ITEMS (TV, Radio, Print, On-line)
2024                -Arts Break, Nashville Public Television (NPT), Megan Grisolano, Executive Producer
​                          video.wpsu.org/video/the-token-specimen-tfsbdb/
2024               -Show Review on the Nashville Scene, by JoeNolan
www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/visualart/art-crawl-april/article_e7ee80be-f077-11ee-80a5-0f488fdd5d51.html
2022                -  www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8KFee4ScLI(Exhibition in Greece) with curator Vasia Deliyianni     
2022                www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI9KPpGce0M (Exhibition in Greece) with curator Vasia Deliyianni   
2022.               -livability.com/tn/love-where-you-live/creative-talents-flourish-throughout-rutherford-county-tn/      
2021                 -Magazine, New Art Examiner, “Telling Their Stories”By Professor Dr. Peter, Chametzky, Print and Online,                                                     www.newartexaminer.org/artfields.html
2021                 -Drawing South Podcast with Mike Mitchell, Episode #3 open.spotify.com/episode/2EP3CISMOjbJJLJtbjFBFQ? si=O3HjD1aCSfOqEVkT4dx7wQ&fbclid=IwAR1y3VaFQE1fay4X8ugbws5hfzTOHNcylyNnik0QZDFzHmUFl3abK3 ​ T2wRE&nd=1
2021                 -Online Interview for Let’s talk launch by Justin Stokes
                          https://launchengine.io/sisavanh-phouthavong-houghton-explores-heritage-through-art/​
2021                 -Published Catalogue: Welcome Home, ETSU, by Karlota Contretras-Koterbay
2021                 -Radio Interview For Voice of America, by Buasawan Simmala. https://lao.voanews.com/a/interview                         
2020                 -Online interview for ShoutoutHTX, by Editor Iris Garcia, Voyage Houston
                           shoutouthtx.com/meet-sisavanh-phouthavong-houghton-professor-of-painting-and-social-advocate-for- the-arts/
2020                 -Online interview by Vekonda Luangaphay for The Lao Project, a collection of narrative portraits of Lao Americans.                                   www.vekonda.com/sisavanh     
2020                  -TV Interview: Patterns of Progress Virtual Art Reception, Rotunda Exhibit, Murfreesboro, TN                                                                         www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-ZVh1_GjA
2020                  -The Painting “Bryan Thao Worra”, Book Cover of, Before We Remember We Dream, Poems, Author, Bryan Thao                                        Worra, Sahtu Press, 62 Pages
                           -Lao Citizenship Portrait Displacement Series was incorporated in lesson plans by Author Professor Debrah C. Sickler-                             -Voigt, printed book, Teaching and Learning in Art Education: Cultivating Students’ Potential from Pre-K through High                               School, Routledge Textbook
2019                  -Lantern Review, On-line Journal, the painting Aftermath was on the cover of the spring issue and the Painting Secret                               War on Laos: UXO will be featured in their October online issue. 
                           Aquifer: Florida Online Review, my painting Secret War on Laos: UXO and portfolio was featured in their spring issue
                           https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/article/the-secret-war-on-laos-uxo/ 
                           https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/
2018                  -Dab Art, where the painting Secret War on Laos: UXO will be part of their upcoming CLICKBATE Political Art                                              Publication and on-line exhibition from Sept 1st-Dec 1st. Printed publications will be released on Oct. 1st. The book                                  will be added to the permanent catalog in the LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Balch Art Research                                          Library. The chief curator and co-owner of H-Gallery Yessica Torres helped juried over 1200 submission.
                           -The Pinch Journal Publication: UXO:Laos, University of Memphis, TN
2017                  -MT Conversations, MTSU TV forum, interview with Gina Logue about Art+Life+Refugee+Immigrant=Issues of the                                       World
                          -Artist of the week: Five paintings were displayed on the Digital Nashville Sign Billboard on 1615 Broadway/ West End                               split, 36 feet x 38 feet)
                          -Wall Street International (WSI) online review on Legacies of War show at Tinney Contemporary Gallery, April 4, 2017
                           http://wsimag.com/art/24789-the-legacy-of-the-secret-war-in-l
                          -Create Magazine: Issue III, Print, Page 168, March 18, 2017 https://create-magazine.com/blog/2017/2/7/issue-iii-                                       selected-artists
                          -MTSU on the Record, 30 Minute Public Affair Interview, WMOT-FM,  by Gina Logue
                          College of Liberal Arts Magazine, interview print, by Darby Campbell
                          -The Tennessean, Print, Review by Melinda Baker, “Tinney Contemporary Exhibition delves into ‘Legacies of War,
                           March 12, 2017, www.tennessean.com/story/life/arts/2017/03/12/tinney-contemporary-exhibition-delves-into
                          -legacies-war/98867506/
                          -Voices of America, Online Interview by Kingsavanh Pathammavong on Legacies of War Show, March 16, 2017
                          http://lao.voanews.com/a/voa-interview-ms-sisavanh-phouthavong-houghton
                         -Legacies of War (on-line) Lao-American Artist Sisavanh Houghton: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Legacies-of-                            War---A-Message-From-The-Lao-American-Artist-Sisavanh-Houghton.html?soid=1101814490173&aid=YjqWfUeBdas
                          -Asians Doing Everything: Sisavanh Phouthavong-Houghton, by Bryan Thao Worra, thaworra.blogspot.com (on-line)
                          https://thaoworra.blogspot.com/2017/02/lao-artist-spotlight-sisavanh.html
2012                  -Oxford America: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing, 100 under 100 The New Superstars of Southern Art                                            http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2012/feb/29/100-under-100/#sisavanh February 29, 2012 On-Line       
2012                  -Winging It, Posted by Danielle, Write-up about the Hummingbird Painting, “Cacophony”     
                           http://blogtinneycontemporary.com/
2010                 -Michelle Jones, Show Write-up, The Tennessean, “Spring Collection more lion than lamb”, June 6, 2010, Art &                                            Entertainment
2010                 -Gwyneth Paltrow, Goop Website, “Race to Renovate”, http://goop.com/newsletter/85/
2010                 -Nashville Arts Magazine, Full Color Ad for the Show at Tinney Contemporary Gallery, June 2010 Issue.
2010                 -Website Name: Auburn Family, Auburn Social Network, Date: October 15, 2010
                          -Website:  http://family.auburn.edu/video/2010-spring-collection-of?xg_source=activity Video:  Jarrod Houghton is                                 being interviewed by Betsy Ann Rogers during our Spring Collection #2 at Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, AL
2010                 -Barb Bondy, Auburn Villager, “Spring Collection” Opens at Biggin Gallery (has a write-up about the show, artist                                        statement and our biography), October 7, 2010, Auburn Community
2008                -Studio Visit Magazine, Volume One, The Open Studios Press, April 2008, juried by Michael Lash, former director of                                  Public Arts for the City of Chicago, A Juried Selection of International Visual Artists
2007                 -David Maddox, Nashville Scene, “Culture Clash”, Art Review, May 17th
2005                 -New Zealand National Radio on the Wayne Mouat Current Affairs Program, International, The 7th Bakers Dozen                                       International Collage Exchange, Traveling Exhibition
                           -New Zealand “Front Seat” TVNZ Station and on “Living Room” Arts Television Program Show TV3 Station,                                                 International, The 7th Bakers Dozen International Collage Exchange, Traveling Exhibition
 
ACADEMIC AWARDS/ GRANTS
Spring 2024               MTSU/C-USA Faculty Achievement Award and finalist for the National C-USA Professor of the Year Award
Spring 2023               Won Best of Show for 38th Positive/Negative, Slocumb Gallery, Juror: Mark Scala, Chief Curator, Frist Art                                                     Museum, ETSU, Johnson City, TN
​Fall 2022                     Tri-Star 2022 Current Art Funded by the Warhol Foundation Grant
Fall 2022                     Distinguished Creative Award, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN

Fall 2022                     South Arts, Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant
Spring 2022                Access and Diversity Funds, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
Summer 2021             Art Prize Equity Grant, Grand Rapids, MI
Fall 2020                     Nominated for a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
Spring 2020                Won Meek Aquifer Award for Visual Art, University of Central Florida, FL
Spring 2019                 Won Best in Painting Award, Artfields, Lake City, SC
Fall 2018                      Won a Collage Creative Expression Award, Collage Journal, Vol. 28, MTSU
Spring 2018                 Access and Diversity Funds, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
Spring 2017                 TN Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for 2D
Spring 2017                 Non-Instructional Development Grant, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
Spring 2017                 Access and Diversity Funds, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
February 2016            Faculty Development Grant, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
March 2016                 Purchase Award, Poetic Logic, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA
May 2012                     Summer Faculty Research Creative Activity Grant, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
March 2011                  Faculty Research and Creative Activity Grant, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
February 2011              Faculty Development Grant, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
August 2010                Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN
October 2009             Faculty Research and Creative Activity, MTSU, TN
August 2009               Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN
December  2008        Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN
December 2008         Faculty Development Grant, MTSU, TN
May 2008                    Instructional Development Grant, MTSU, TN
July  2007                     Professional Development Support Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN
May 2007                     Faculty Development Grant, MTSU, TN
May 2006                     Faculty Curriculum Development Grant, MTSU, TN
June 2004                     Faculty Research and Creative Activity Grant, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
 
LECTURES, PODCASTS, ZOOM & PROFESSIONAL VISITS
2023                -Artist Lecture, Southern Voices/Global Visions, Artfields Collective Group Invitational Show, Co-Curators: Dr.                                             Amalia Amaki and Eleanor Heartney, Lake City, SC
2023                -Artist Lecture, MTSU Professor Olaf Berwald's World Literatures Murfreesboro, TN 
2022                -Artist Lecture, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN 
2022                -Artist Lecture, Chattanooga State Community College, Chattanooga, TN
2022                -Artist Lecture, Asurion for Asian Pacific Islander Month, Nashville, TN
2022                -Artist Lecture, Arrowmont School of Art and Design, Gatlinburg, TN

2022                -Artist Lecture, Rutherford Art Alliance, Todd Gallery, Murfreesboro, TN
2021                 -The Art of Outreach Podcast by Mike Mitchell, Episode #16 https://anchor.fm/taea-outreach/episodes/Episode-16-with-Sisavanh-Phouthavong-Houghton-em2la0/a-a3oprgv
2021                 -Drawing South Podcast by Mike Mitchell, Episode #3 https://open.spotify.com/episode/2EP3CISMOjbJJLJtbjFBFQ?si=O3HjD1aCSfOqEVkT4dx7wQ&fbclid=IwAR1y3VaFQE1fay4X8ugbws5hfzTOHNcylyNnik0QZDFzHmUFl3abK3T2wRE&nd=1
2021                 -Zoom Artist/Educator/Presenter for Becoming: Bodies of Trauma, KCKCC Gallery, Kansas City, KS, Curated by Karlota                               Contretras-Koterbay
2021                 -Zoom Artist/Educator/Presenter for Her Liminal Asian-Appalachian, Slocumb Gallery, ETSU, Curated by Jose Ardivilla                             and Kreneshia Whiteside
2020               -Art Fight Podcast, interviewed by Joe Nolan, Nashville, TN
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fOu8hNntUIrteWWemB8Lc?si=qhshn4kfRPOfh9Eg5RFHmA&fbclid=IwAR1BKI4SODIj30UVtRLku1kb9lfPvjjYdR8SDYgCSg4nLHD-uGnoQWppY1s
2020              -1.5 A Southeast Asian Diaspora Remix FB: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=410829916971751&ref=watch_permalink
2020               -Asian Art Initiative Zoom Interview
https://asianartsinitiative.org/scattered-bomblet-sisavanh-phouthavong
2020             - University of Central Florida Zoom Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-aCTyqFWcs
2019                -Visiting Artist/Educator/Presenter Rumors of Necessity, ETSU, John
2019                -Artist Lecture, Google Hangout, Arcadia University Art & Design, Glenside, PA
2019                -Lecture: Making Time for Artmaking to Artist and Educators for First Spark, at the Frist
                         Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
2018                -Artist Talk, Christian Brothers University, Beverly +Sam Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
2018                -Artist Talk, Hunter Invitational Exhibition, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
2018                -Visiting Artist/Educator/Presenter of the Topic “Why Art?” for Father Ryan’s High School, 3D Art Teacher, Michael                                     Mitchell and 2D Teacher John Durand
2018                -Artist/Educator/Presenter, Artist Educator Series, led by Kris Bespalec-Davis, Manager of School and Teacher                                            Programs, Hunter Museum of Art
2018                -Artist Lecture/MTSU Anthropology Professor, William Leggett’s Southeast Asian Class
2018                 -Artist Panel for “The Power of Color”, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MI
2017                 -Lecture: “Thai Art” for MTSU Honors College, TN
2017                 -Artist / Teacher in Residence (two weeks), University World College, Phuket, Thailand
2017                 -Visiting Artist (two days), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2016                 -Artist lecture: “Conversational Spaces” for MTSU Honors College, TN
2016                - Artist Panel, Lao Writer’s Summit, San Diego, CA
2015                 -Skype Artist Lecturer, Fayettville High School, Fayettville, TN
2014                 -Visiting Artist/ Lecturer, Warren Wilson College, Swannoanoa, North Carolina
2014                 -Conducted & Led Encaustic Workshop at Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN
2010                 -Visiting Artist / Lecturer, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2009                -Visiting Artist / Lecturer, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
2007                - Visiting Artist/ Lecturer, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN
2007                 -Visiting Artist / Lecturer, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
2007                 -Visiting Artist, Juror, Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2005                 -Artist Lecturer, Laotian American Outreach Organization, Nashville, TN
2005                 -Volunteer Panel Speaker for McNair Scholars about obtaining a MFA Degree
2005                 -Artist Lecturer, Governor’s School for the Arts, MTSU, TN
2004                 -Visiting Artist / Lecturer, The University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL    
 
COMMUNITY SERVICE / VOLUNTEER WORK
2024     -Juried Arts & Culture Alliance, 18th National Juried Exhibition, Art Symposium, Emporium Center, Knoxville, TN 

2023     -MTSU TN Wildflower in Acrylic Workshop Instructor, Saturdays at Todds, Murfreesboro, TN

2022     -Juried White Oak 32nd Craft Fair, Woodbury, TN

2022     -MTSU Open Model Session Instructor, Saturdays at Todds, Murfreesboro, TN

2020     -Zoom Watercolor Workshop for SEAD (Southeast Diaspora)

2020     -Zoom Watercolor Workshop Instructor for: Central Magnet School Visual Art Class,   Murfreesboro TN

2020     -Zoom MTSU Watercolor Workshop Instructor, Saturdays at Todds, Murfreesboro, TN

2019      -Watercolor Workshop Instructor for MTSU STEAM SIP and Paint at Hops Springs,  Murfreesboro, TN

2019      -MTSU Watercolor Workshop Instructor  Saturdays at Todds, Murfreesboro, TN

2018      -Leading one night course called, “Looking at Art: Chaos and Awe”, Frist Art Museum
               Nashville, TN

2018      -Part of the Creative Team for SEAD (Southeast Asian Diaspora) group project, “Mapping Our Diasporic Future”, Lao Now                           Legacies of War 2018, NYC

2018      -How to be an Art Professor: Career Day at Siegel Middle School, Murfreesboro, TN

2017      -Two Day Workshop: Exquisite Corpse Monsters for the 4th LAWs (Lao American Writer Summit), Seattle, Washington (team                teaching with Jarrod Houghton)

2017     -PowerPoint Presentation at Hobgood Elementary School for Teacher’s In-Service: How to integrate diverse projects based on                the conversation of immigration and refugees in the classroom

2016     -Organized / Collaborated with Antonio Vasquez, Global Studies and Cultural Geography,
              Migration with Dignity: multi-media community art show/project and be shown at the Heritage       Center in Murfreesboro, Tn

2016     -Curated & Installed MTSU Painting Students’ work at the Refugee and Immigrant Conference
              reception at the Foundation House.

2016     -Donated three framed collages to Fashion for Philanthropy: Legacies of War, NYC

2015     -Work with the Center for the Visual Arts and the CRIT (Center for the Refugee in Tennessee) in Nashville as a visiting                                artist/teacher with 8–14-year-old refugee/international Kids. Using the theme: Crossing Culture I collaborated, designed and                  instructed students in producing five large artworks that were displayed on the hallway at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts                  from March to June 2015

​2012     -Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Juror for the TN High School Art Show

2011      -Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Encaustic Instructor for The Tennessee Art Educator

2011       -Frist Center for the Visual Arts and the Oasis Center (Youth Organization) in Nashville as a visiting artist/teacher with 14–18-                   year-old refugee/international Kids to make an art piece that will be traveling to different locations in Nashville. 

2011       -Juried the Chamber of Commerce’s K-12 Art Competition for the Murfreesboro Art School at the Rotunda.

2010      -Worked with the Frist Center as a visiting artist/teacher with the KAYO (Kurdish American Youth Organization) August-                           November 2010.  Using the theme of Cultural Story Telling the group ranging from 14–20-year-old produced a piece that will                 be displayed on the long hallway at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts from April 2011-May 2012.



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