Kelsie Ward
kelsieward18@gmail.com
Education:
May 2016
Master of Fine Arts, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), Edwardsville, IL.
May 2012
Bachelor of Arts, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN (Summa Cum Laude)
Majors: Economics & Psychology Minor: Art
Professional Experience:
January 2018
Substitute Teacher, John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO.
October 2017
Artist in Residence, Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN.
2016-2017
Visiting Professor, Division of Fine Arts, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY.
July 2016
Artist in Residence, Gulkistan Center for Creativity, Laugarvatn, Iceland.
2015-2016
Teaching Assistant, SIUE (Foundation Studio: Visual Organization II, Instructor of Record)
2014-2015
Painting and Drawing Graduate Assistant
Summer 2014
Ceramics Graduate Assistant
2012-2013
Post Baccalaureate Student, SIUE
Spring 2012 `
Ceramic Internship, Jorgenson Pottery Studio
Selected Exhibitions:
2023
Solo Exhibition, Trace, Paul Whitney Larson Gallery. St. Paul, Minnesota.
2022
Two-Person Show with Steven Lemke: Dislocation, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, Minnesota.
Faculty & Alumni Show, Invitational, Art & Design West Gallery, Edwardsville, Illinois.
2020
Solo Exhibition, Shifting Densities, Bonsack Gallery, John Burroughs School, St. Louis,
mISSOURI.
2019
Landscapes, Lights, Space, & Time Gallery, Jupiter, Florida.
Synthetic Landscapes: Translations of Place (Invitational), Edwardsville Arts Center,
Edwardsville, Illinois.
2018
Permanent Flux & Everyday Fragility (Two Person Exhibition), St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri.
Natural Confluence (Invitational), Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas.
Surface Delineated: Texture in Art (Invitational), Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, Illinois.
Landscapes, Light, Space, & Time Online Art Gallery, Jupiter, Florida.
2017
Small Works, Wood River Museum, Wood River, Illinois. Juror: Barbra Nwacha, Art & Design Chair and
Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois.
Art Kudos International Juried Virtual Exhibition, Art Kudos, Juror: Mike Calway Fagan, Assistant
Professor of Sculpture at the University of Georgia.
Landscapes, Light, Space, & Time Online Art Gallery, Jupiter, Florid.
HERStory Manhattan Arts International 2017 Art Exhibition, Manhattan Arts International. Jurors:
Caronlyn, Edlund, Karen Gutfreund, Jill Pankey, Nancy Reyner, Bren Sibilsky.
Shrode Fine Art & Craft Competition and Exhibition, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon,
Illinois. Stefanie Kirkland, Director of Exhibitions & Artists-in-Residence Programs at the Craft
Alliance Center in St. Louis.
2016
Sculpture on Campus: Revisited (Invitational), Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois.
July Residents Show, Gulkistan Center for Creativity, Laugarvatn, Iceland.
Multiplicity: Repetition in Contemporary Art, Invitational. Edwardsville Art Center, Edwardsville,
Illinois.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois.
Lineage: 41 Years of SIUE MFAs Invitational, Morton Ball Room, Kansas City, Missouri.
Shrode Fine Art & Craft Competition and Exhibition, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon
Illinois. Juror: Pattie Chalmers, Assistant Professor at SIU Carbondale, Illinois.
Friends of Art Exhibition, juried art auction, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois.
MFA Invitational, St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, Missouri.
SIUE Graduate Student Juried Exhibition, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois. Juror:
Cheryl Wassenaar.
2015
Holiday Show Invitational, Edwardsville Art Center, Edwardsville, Illinois
Small Works, Wood River Museum, Wood River, Illinois. Juror: Aimee Howard, Associate Professor at
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Sculpture on Campus, Edwardsville, Illinois. Juror: Patrick Dougherty, Internationally Acclaimed
sculptor.
SIUE Graduate Student Juried Exhibition, SIUE, Edwardsville, Illinois. Juror: Libby Reuter, professional
artist.
2014
Small Works, Wood River Museum, Wood River, Illinois. Juror: Laura Strand, Associate Professor at
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Sculpture on Campus, Edwardsville, Illinois. Juror: Amy Hauft, Leslie Waggener Professor in Sculpture,
Ceramics Department Exhibition, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois. Curator: Eric
Hoefer, Associate Professor, St. Louis Community College.
SIUE Graduate Student Juried Exhibition, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Illinois. Juror:
Stefanie Kirkland, Director of Exhibitions, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri.
Ashed, Governor French Academy, Belleville, Illinois
2013
Small Works, Wood River, Illinois.
SIUE Ceramics Invitational, GreenvilleCollege, Greenville, Illinois.
SIUE Graduate Student Juried Exhibition, SIUE, Edwardsville Illinois.
ArtEast Studio Tour, Edwardsville, Illinois.
2012
Solo Exhibition, Imperfections, Recent Work: Kelsie Ward, Paramount Theatre & Visual Arts Center, Saint
Cloud, Minnesota.
Central Time Ceramics 3rd Biennial, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. Juror: Delores Fortuna,
professional artist.
2011
17th Annual Nellie Allen Smith, Cape Fears Studios, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Juror: Gertrude Graham
Smith, professional artist.
15th Annual Lines into Shapes Art Competition, Art Center of Estes Park, Estes Park, Colorado. Jurors: Dr.
Connie Stewart, Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado & Denny Haskew, professional
artist.
It’s Only Clay, The Bemidji Community Art Center, Bemidji, Minnesota. Juror: Guillermo Cuellar,
professional artist.
Private/Public Collections:
Gullkistan Center for Creativity, Laugarvatn, Iceland
Cedarhurst Sculpture Park & Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois.
The University Museum, siue, Edwardsville, Illinois.
Exhibitions Curated:
2019
Synthetic Landscapes: Translations of Place, Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, Illinois.
2016
Co-curated, organized and installed KSU Studio Art Senior Exhibition, Unlocking Hope (Kristen
Braham), St. Clair Avenue, Frankfort, KY.
Co-curated, organized and installed KSU Studio Art Senior Exhibition, Just Me & You (Marcus Jackson),
Shauntee Hall, Frankfort, KY.
Co-curated, organized and installed KSU Studio Art Senior Exhibition, The Experience (Christina
Wallace) Shauntee Hall, Frankfort, KY.
Co-curated, organized and installed KSU Studio Art Senior Exhibition, Come Together (Grace Wilson),
Shauntee Hall, Frankfort, KY.
Co-curated, organized and installed KSU Studio Art Senior Exhibition, (Denise Cole), Shauntee Hall,
Frankfort, KY.
Co-curated, organized and installed KSU Studio Art Senior Exhibition, (Brandon Hargrave), Shauntee
Hall, Frankfort, KY.
Co-curated, organized and installed KSU Studio Art Senior Exhibition, Origins (Alex Stanford),
Shauntee Hall, Frankfort, KY.
Artist Lectures, Panels & Service:
2022
Friends of Art, Non-Profit, Board Member.
2020
Visiting Artist: Auburn University, Auburn Alabama.
Artist Lecture: John Burroughs School, St. louis, Missouri.
2019
Juror: Sculpture on Campus project proposals with stipend, Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, Illinois.
2018
Artist Lecture: St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri.
2017
Artist Lecture/Workshop: Tower View Alternative High School, Red Wing, Minnesota.
Juror: Kentucky PTA Reflections Art Program, Frankfort, Kentucky.
2014
Juror: Scott Air Force Base Annual Art & Craft Show, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
Awards/Honors/Grants:
2019
Fifth Place, Landscapes, Light, Space, & Time, Online Art Gallery, Jupiter, Florida.
2018
Special Merit, Landscapes, Light, Space, & Time Online Art Gallery, Jupiter, Florida.
2017
First Place, Three Dimensional Category, Landscapes, Light, Space, & Time, Online Art Gallery, Jupiter,
Florida.
The Karen Gutfreund Featured Artist Award, HERStory, Manhattan Arts international.
Certificate of Merit Award, Shrode Fine Art & Craft Competition and Exhibition, Cedarhurst Center for
the Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois.
2016
Graduate Student Travel Grant, SIUE, Edwardsville, Illinois.
Friends of Art Honor Award in Studio Art, Friends of Art Organization,
Edwardsville, Illinois.
Best of 3-Dimensional, Shrode Fine Art & Craft Competition and Exhibition, Cedarhurst Center for the
Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois.
2015
Second Place, Rosa & Robert Cusa Award, Sculpture on Campus, SIUE, Edwardsville, Illinois.
Southern Illinois University Sculpture on Campus Award, (proposal selection and stipend), Juror: Emily
Dunlap.
RGGS Grant, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois.
2014
First Place Luis Jimenez Award, Sculpture on SIUE, Edwardsville, Illinois.
Southern Illinois University Sculpture on Campus Award, (proposal selection and stipend).
2013
Competitive Graduate Award, SIUE, Edwardsville, Illinois.
2012
Omega Chapter of Delta Epsilon Sigma National Scholastic Honor Society.
Publications:
2022
Hue Magazine, Spring 2022 Edition, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN.
2018
The Gallery’s Top Twenty-Five 3D Artists to Watch, Light, Space, & Time Online Gallery, jupiter, Florida.
2017
Visiting Artist ‘Connects with Nature,’ Ruth Nerhaugen, Red Wing Republican Eagle: Community
Connections.
Artists, Writers Close Out Residency Season, rUTH nERHAUGEN, rED wING republican Eagle: Community
Connections.
Karen Gutfreund, curator and artist, online blog post.
Kentucky Rivers Magazine, 2017 Edition.
2016
MFA Thesis: Artifice: Deconstructing the Divide Between Natural and Synthetic Environments, SIUE,
Edwardsville, IL.
Sculpture en Plein Air, John Foster, Design Observer, AIGA.
Gulkistan Center for Creativity website, Laugarvavtn, Iceland.
Multiplicity, Julia Biggs, On the Edge of the Weekend.
MFA Invitational to Feature Artworks by Local Grad Students, St. Charles Community College News.
2015
Art Project, Bill Tucker, The Intelligencer.
SIUE Plans Annual Sculpture Walk, Julia Briggs, The Intelligencer.
Commentaries on the Economy of Art, Notes pg. 22, All the Art, Winter
Sculpture on Campus Segment, Segue Radio Show, SIUE.
Sculpture on Campus Program Returns 2015, College Talk, The Intelligencer.