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.
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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