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Education
| 1965 | BFA Cleveland Institute of Art, triple major in Sculpture, Ceramics, and Printmaking |
| 1965-66 | Gund Scholarship travel and study in Europe and Egypt
1965 Atelier 17 of Stanley W. Hayter in Paris 1966 Centro Internazionale di Ceramica of Nino Caruso in Rome |
| 1968 | MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, major in Sculpture, minor in Printmaking |
Selected Site-Integrated Sculpture Installations (*indicates solo show):
| 2012 | *Once Was, outdoor installation, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA |
| 2009 | Sorting the Residue of Years, outdoor installation for Endurance, Visualizing Time, curated by Sue Spaid, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA |
| 2008 | *Drawing Dock Creek, 2 square block ground drawing in the Independence Historic National Park, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2007 | *Mason Dixon Lines-Past to Present and *Invisible Sky, Two separate installations, one in the American Philosophical Society Hall, one in the Society's Jefferson Garden, the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2006 | time after time, a clearing for Inside/Out: Sculpture at Evergreen, biennial, Evergreen House, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
| 2003 | Site and Insight, an Assemblage of Artists, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, artist did separate installation room: The no longer view (transposition) Permeable Boundaries, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY |
| 2001 | *Flux & Interruption: Contingencies in the Field, Haystack Mt. School of Crafts, ME |
| 1999 | The Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT |
| 1998 | *Site Unseen (Fluid Bodies), Gahlberg Gallery, College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn,IL |
| 1997 | *Threshold/Interface/Transition (when), ICA of the Univ. of PA, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1996 | Ornament, an installation for Nature Morte: Contemporary Still Life, The Museum of American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1995 | *Congruence/ Correspondence (Paradigm), The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
| 1995 | Serving Time, 3-cell installation for The Prison As Site/The Prison As Subject, national invitational, Historic Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1992 | *Floor to Ceiling/Surface to Edge/Vista, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| 1991 | Mending Room, installation for Philadelphia Art Now: Artists Choose Artists, ICA of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1990 | *Ago/Anon, Grand Lobby installation, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1989 | *Schema: Parity Symmetry, Distinguished Alumna Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 1988 | Correspondences, installation for Creative Time group exhibition at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1988 | Correspondent Not Equivalent, part of "Paper Makes Space", International Paper Biennial, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany & Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark Generator, for “Paper Art”, International Invitational, Provencial Museum, Hasselt, Belgium |
| 1987 | *Ecco/Echo, Kunstcentrum "Het Bassin", Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| *Analog, Johnson Art Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT | |
| 1986 | *Light Cycle, Sculpture performance, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK |
| *A Point of View, A Vista, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| *Salient Points/Salient Lines, outdoor installation on creek, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS | |
| 1984 | Margin Threshold, outdoor installation for annual national invitational, Connemara Nature Conservancy, Plano, TX |
| 1976 | *Blowout: The Accumulator Barriers and The Locator Cone, dune installation for Oxbow School of Painting and Sculpture, Saugatuck, MI |
Solo Exhibitions (sculptural works in paper/not site-integrated)
| 2012 | Between Perception & Definition, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA |
| 2007 | Winifred Lutz, New Work, Zabriskie Gallery, NYC, NY |
| 2004 | findings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2002 | New Works by Junko Yoda and Winifred Lutz, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA |
| Sheehan Gallery at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA | |
| 1999 | (stillness), The Gallery of the Dieu Donné Paper Mill, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Place of Nature/Nature of Place, Retrospective & installation, Lsurveyevy Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1992, | Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY Previous solo shows with Marilyn Pearl also in 1990, 1988, 1985, 1984, 1981, 1979, & 1977 |
| 1990 | Dolan-Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
Commissions: Permanent Public Sculptural Gardens
| 2003-05 | Cairngorm Landscape Initiative, Scotland. 900 meter site, design study selected in international competition; design developed 2004-05. Not built. |
| 1998-01 | Zones of Change, GSA % for Art commission, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA |
| 1997-00 | Confluences, Environmental Sculpture for the new Schuylkill River Park, Philadelphia, PA, with Stacy Levy. Design study selected and developed. Indefinitelypostponed. |
| 1997-98 | Finalist to propose environmental sculpture for the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Models exhibited fall, 1998. Model purchased for the permanent collection. Decision postponed indefinitely due to university endowment drive. |
| 1997 | Sculptural Garden for Peekskill, NY, Design study selected. Not built. |
| 1993-94 | Memorial for the Pennsylvania Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Harrisburg, PA, with Stacy Levy |
| 1992-97 | The Garden, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1992-97 | Reclamation Garden, Abington Art Center, PA |
| 1991 | Lifetime/Earthtime, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH |
| 1989 | How to Retain Site Memory, While Developing the Landscape, Buttonwood Apartment Complex, Philadelphia, PA |
Selected Group Exhibitions (sculptural works in paper, models/not site-integrated installations)
| 2008 | International Paper Biennial, CODA & Rijswijk Museums, Apeldoorn & Rijswijk, The Netherlands 6th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2006-07 | Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL |
| 2005 | Full Circle, drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA |
| Cranbrook to Lancaster and Back: Contemporary works from the Robert Pfannebecker Collection, Network Gallery of the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI | |
| 2004 | The AFF Art Fair, 6 artists representing the Philadelphia Print Center at the exhibition, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Summer Drawing Show, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA |
| Collaborations, with Jennifer Shanker, Dieu Donné Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Luminaries, The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pa | |
| 2001 | 25th Anniversary Exhibition, nationally traveling exhibition, Dieu Donné Paper Mill, New York, NY |
| Drawing Projects, wall installation, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 1998 | The Spirit of Place: Art, Environment, Community, Group show of finalists' public project proposals for the Ackland Art Museum front grounds, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC |
| 1998 | Through the Heart of the City, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1997 | Drawing Currents, Art in City Hall, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA |
| Crossing Over/ Changing Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | |
| 1996 | A Century of Women Landscape Architects && Gardeners in Pittsburgh, included my model for the Mattress Factory Garden, The Heinz Architectural Center of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Crossing Over/Changing Places, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark and the National Gallery, Athens, Greece | |
| 1995 | Crossing Over/Changing Places, Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy |
| 1994 | Totems & Other Objects, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA |
| U.S.A. Within Limits, Galleria De Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
| Paper Exhibition 1994, Amstelle Museum, Aemstelle, The Netherlands | |
| 1990 | A Natural Order, The Experience of Landscape, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY |
Grants and Awards
| 2011 | NEA Project grant to Abington Art Center for Winifred Lutz outdoor installation and catalog |
| 2007-08 | Artist in Residence, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2007 | Artist in Residence, Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood, WA |
| 2001 | Artist in Residence, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME |
| 2000 | College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award Appointed Laura H. Carnell Professor of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Tyler School of Art of Temple University |
| 1995 | Andy Warhol Foundation Grant to Abington Art Center for the completion of my ongoing project, The Reclamation Garden |
| 1994 | NEA Public Project Grant to Abington Art Center, PA for my ongoing project, The Reclamation Garden |
| 1992 | Pew Fellowship in the Arts |
| Temple University Creative Achievement Award | |
| Tyler School of Art Summer Research Grant | |
| 1990 | Frances J. Greenburger Foundation Award, NYC |
| Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship in Sculpture | |
| 1989 | Creative Time, Inc. NYC, project grant |
| Residency at Corridor Press, The Print Center, Philadelphia | |
| 1984 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture |
| 1976 | Artist Residency, Oxbow School of Painting and Sculpture, Saugatuck, MI |
| 1965 | Agnes Gund Traveling Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH |
Collections
| The American Philosophical Society Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
| The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Abington Art Center, Abington, PA |
| Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, MI |
| Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| Cleveland Museum f Art, Cleveland, OH |
| Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
| Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI |
| Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastrict, The Netherlands |
| Dewitt Cultural Center, MI |
| Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
| Ox Bow School of Painting & Sculpture, MI |
| J. Patrick Lannan Foundation |
| International Paper Company |
| AT&T |
| Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI |
| The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA |
Catalogues & Books
| 2012 | Between Perception & Definition: The Work of Winifred Lutz, essays by Janet Koplos (editor), Richard Torchia, Mina Takahashi and Carol Franklin, published by Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA |
| 2007 | Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, catalog essay Polly Ulrich, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL |
| 2006 | Inside/Out: Sculpture at Evergreen, catalog essay Julie Courtney, Published by Evergreen House, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
| 2005 | Papermaking for Printmakers, by Elspeth Lamb, published by A&C Black, Soho Square, London, UK |
| 2004 | Die Sprache des Papiers, by Therese Weber, published by Haupt Verlag AG, Bern, Switzerland |
| 2002 | Designing the Worlds Best Public Art, by Garrison Roots, published by The Images Publishing Group, Victoria, Australia |
| 2001 | Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from the Dieu Donné Paper Mill, essays by Trudy Hansen and Donna Stein, Published by Dieu Donné Paper Mill Inc., New York City, NY |
| 2000 | Art Lessons for Beginners: Paper Art, by Akira Kurosaki, published by Rikuyosha Publishers Inc., Tokyo, Japan. In Japanese only. Photograph of work and technical methods featured. |
| 1999 | (stillness), catalog of exhibition, essay by Janet Koplos, published by Dieu Donné Handmade Paper Mill Inc., New York City, NY |
| 1998 | The Spirit of Place: Art, Environment, Community, writing by curator Barbara Matilsky, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Through the Heart of the City, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 1997 | Threshold/Interface/Transition, color brochure on the installation, published by ICA of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| The Garden by Winifred Lutz, photographic essay on the garden. Photos by John Charley, text by Claudia Giannini & Winifred Lutz, funded by Pew Charitable Trust, PA Council for the Arts, Queequeg Foundation, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, published by the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Place of Nature/Nature of Place, brochure with essay on the artist's work, published by Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 1996 | The Reclamation Garden 1993-95, The Abington Art Center, Abington, PA |
| 1995 | Included in Art in America Slide Survey of Contemporary Art. Piece: Serving Time, p-38 |
| Prison Sentences: The Prison as Site/The Prison as Subject, with essays by L.R. Lippard, E. Neff, published Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 1994 | A Student Guide to The Mattress Factory Permanent Collection, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1993 | The Reclamation Garden of Winifred Lutz, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA |
| 1992 | The Frances J. Greenburger Foundation Award, New York, NY |
| Crossing Over/Changing Places, an exhibition of collaborative Print Projects and Paper | |
| Paper Works, by Jane Farmer, published by Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD | |
| 1991 | Philadelphia Art Now: Artists Choose Artists, Writing by Julie Courtney, Janet Kaplan and Judith Tannenbaum,Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1990 | A Natural Order, The Experience of Landscape in Contemporary Sculpture, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY |
Selected Reviews & Articles
| 2010 | Archives of American Art, U.S. General Services Administration, Design Excellence and the Arts oral history project, interview of Winifred Lutz conducted Jan. 30 and Feb. 3, by Avis Berman |
| 2009 | Winifred Lutz, American Philosophical Society Museum, L. Kaufman, Sculpture, September, pg. 74-75 Cover photo, Context, Art and the City, The Journal of AIA Philadelphia, Fall |
| 2008 | www.phillyh2o.org/backpages/DockCreek_WLutz.htm |
| 2005 | Gallery, American Crafts, February/March, pg. 79 |
| Unrealized Public Art, J.P. Schwartz, Public Art Review, p-34, Spring-Summer | |
| Winifred Lutz: findings, S. Hagen, p 25-29, Hand Papermaking, Vol. 20, #1, Summer | |
| 2004 | Second Nature, Philadelphia City Paper, Susan Hagen, Oct. 28 |
| Finding your way in the woods, Roberta Fallon, http://www.fallonandrosof.com/artblog.html, Oct.27 | |
| Softly, Quietly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Edward Sozanski, Sept. 24 | |
| Resurrecting Nature, Patterson Sims, Orion, March/April | |
| 2002 | Winifred Lutz and Junko Yoda at Zabriskie, by Cynthia Nadelman, Art News, October |
| Winifred Lutz at Zabriskie Gallery, by Nelanie Marino, Dieu Donné Pulp, issue 39, October/December | |
| Winifred Lutz, Zones of Change, by Rebecca Dimling Cochran, Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 21, #7, Sept. | |
| 2001 | A Way of Being, by Janet Koplos, Hand Papermaking, Vol. 16, #1, Summer |
| 2000 | Approaches to a Path, Patricia Phillips, Public Art Review, Vol. 12, #1, Fall/Winter |
| Winifred Lutz, Gallery Joe, Twylene Moyer, Sculpture Magazine, October | |
| New Paper, Edward Sozanski, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 21 | |
| A Thread Runs Through It, Robin Rice, The City Paper, April 6 | |
| Be Still My Heart, Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, p. 51, April 5 | |
| 1998 | Perception's Nature: The Sculpture of Winifred Lutz, Tom Csaszar, Sculpture Magazine, P 38-43, Mar. |
| 1997 | Brooding Forest as Artist's Medium, Mac Griswold, The New York Times, November 30 |
| Winifred Lutz at the ICA, Miriam Seidel, Art in America, October | |
| Layers of Meaning, Gerard Brown, Philadelphia Weekly, September 17 | |
| Art Doesn't Grow on Trees, but Materials Do, Edward Sozanski, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 26 | |
| Winifred Lutz's Threshold/Interface/Transition, Michal Ann Carley, Sculpture Magazine, July/August | |
| Winifred Lutz, ICA, University of PA, Ellen Steinberg, The New Art Examiner, June | |
| 1996 | Sculpting the Land, John Beardesley, Sculpture Magazine, June |
| 1995 | Report from Philadelphia: Art Behind Bars, Miriam Siedel, Art in America, November |
| Go Directly to Jail- Prison Sentences: Art in the Ruins of the Eastern State Penitentiary, James Dickinson, The New Art Examiner, November | |
| 1992 | On View- Philadelphia, Miriam Siedel, The New Art Examiner, November |
| Winifred Lutz, Stanley Abercrombie, FAIA, Interior Design, September | |
| 1991 | Philadelphia Stories, Don Chantbohn, The New Art Examiner, December |
| Winifred Lutz at Marilyn Pearl & The Brooklyn Museum, L. Campbell, Art in America, April | |
| 1990 | New York in Review, Arts Magazine, October |
| Review, Elaine A. King, Sculpture Magazine, January / February |
Selected Publications (Writing by W. Lutz)
| 2011 | Hand Papermaking, Vol. 26, number 1, summer 25 year anniversary edition, Flood Paper, essay on my research of water wool, a filamentous algae that leaves a paper-like residue after flooding. |
| 2004 | Flux and Interruption: Contingencies in the Field, by Winifred Lutz, Published Philadelphia, PA, by Gallery Joe and W. Lutz |
| 1988 | In/On/Of Paper, Catalogue Essay, Surface as a Function of Distance, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
| 1985 | A Gathering of Papermakers, Carriage House Press, MA, Shrinking to Expand, essay on my research using shrinkage of bast fiber paper to develop surface color imagery and to develop 3 dimensional form without casting. |
| 1983 | Essay on my research done testing fibers from plants growing in the U.S. for use in the nagashizuki technique; included in Japanese Papermaking: Theory & Practice, by Timothy Barrett, Weatherhill Publishers |
| 1982 | Making Paper, American Craft Museum, NYC: Catalogue Essay, Thoughts on Paper Making Today; The Sheet Makers, Contemporary Mills; Annotated Catalogue of Artists |
| 1981 | International Conference of Hand Papermakers, Carriage House Press, MA, essay Casting to Acknowledge the Nature of Paper, a summary of a new casting technique I developed for papermaking |
| 1980 | American Crafts Magazine, Felting Exhibition Review |
| 1978 | Papermaking, Jules Heller, pub. 1978, Watson Guptill, photo of work, statement, technical contribution |
| 1991 | Paper-Art & Technology, Edit. By J.A. Flint, pub. 1979, World Print Council, photo, statement |
Teaching
| 2008-present | Professor Emerita, Sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University |
| 1986-08 | Professor, Sculpture Area Head (alternate years), Tyler School of Art, Temple University |
| 1982-86 | Associate Professor, Sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1975-82 | Assistant Professor, Sculpture, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 1968-75 | Assistant Professor, Sculpture, Printmaking, & Ceramics, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI |