Tip Toland
{{Short description|American ceramic artist (born 1950)}}
Tip Toland (born May 9, 1950) is an American ceramic artist and teacher who was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. She earned a BFA in Ceramics from the University of Colorado and an MFA in Ceramics from Montana State University.{{Cite web|url=https://artisttrust.org/index.php/award-winners/artist-profile/tip_toland|title=Artist Profile - Artist Trust|website=artisttrust.org|access-date=2018-03-29}} Her works, which are figurative and often described as "hyper-real," are held by galleries and museums around the United States.
Toland's early works were wall reliefs in wood, clay and pigment.{{Cite journal|last=Mabry|first=Wolfgang|date=Fall 2013|title=Compelled to make exactly that|journal=Sculpture Review|volume=62|issue=3|pages=16–25|via=Art Index Full Text}} Her more recent three-dimensional stoneware sculptures are close to life size, sometimes larger. She uses paint, encaustic technique and hair to create figures with "uncanny skin quality, utterly convincing hand gestures and eerily spontaneous facial expressions."{{Cite journal|last=Kangas|first=Matthew|date=August–September 2007|title=Tip Toland: Prayer and Preoccupation.|journal=Ceramics Monthly|volume=55|issue=7}}
Career
In 1984 Toland moved to Seattle. Her various teaching positions have included Louisiana State University, the University of Washington, the University of Montana, and Montana State University; she has taught workshops around the U.S. and abroad.
Toland's 2014 exhibit titled "The Persecution of People with Albinism in Tanzania" at the Portland Art Museum included sculptures of children and teens with albinism, drawing attention to prejudice and other dangers faced by those with albinism in some East African countries.{{Cite journal|last=Yoshioka|first=Kyle|date=2015|title=Apex|journal=Ceramics: Art & Perception|volume=99|pages=80–82|via=Art Index Full Text}}
In 2016, she was the Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University's Eleanor D. Wilson Museum.
Tip Toland is currently represented by the Traver Gallery in Seattle.{{Cite web|url=http://www.travergallery.com/gallery_artist_details.aspx?aid=207|title=Tip Toland|website=www.travergallery.com|access-date=2018-03-29}}
Selected exhibitions
= Group exhibitions =
- 2013-2014: Body & Soul: New International Ceramics, Museum of Arts & Design, NY{{Cite journal|last=Merino|first=Anthony|date=2015|title=The Female Body and Identity: Four Artists from Body & Soul|journal=Visual Culture & Gender|volume=10|pages=89–96|via=Art Index Full Text}}
= Solo exhibitions =
- 2007: Pacini Lubel Gallery
- 2008 - 2009: Melt: The Figure in Clay, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA (catalog){{Cite book|title=Melt : the figure in clay|publisher=Bellevue Arts Museum|year=2008}}
- 2014: Apex: Tip Toland, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.{{Cite news|url=https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/apex-tip-toland/|title=APEX: Tip Toland - Portland Art Museum|work=Portland Art Museum|access-date=2018-03-30}}
Collections
Works by Toland are held by galleries and museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY),{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/494716|title=The Whistlers|last=Metropolitan Museum of Art|website=The Met|access-date=19 March 2019}} the Museum of Arts and Design (NY),{{Cite web|url=https://madmuseum.org/audio/03-tip-toland|title=Tip Toland|website=Museum of Arts and Design|access-date=19 March 2019}} Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts (Arizona State University),{{Cite web|url=https://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/research-and-initiatives/ceramics-research-archive/artist-bio-project|title=Artist Bio Project|website=ASU Art Museum|access-date=19 March 2019}} Yellowstone Art Museum (Billings, MT),{{Cite web|url=https://yellowstoneart.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/7E95563B-1CC9-4B9B-B738-508061437104|title=Object Record: Broken Heart|date=1998|website=Yellowstone Art Museum|access-date=19 March 2019}} Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, MO),{{Cite web|url=https://daummuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/B85600C2-2E25-415E-BF4C-639156604670|title=Object Record: Weeping Giant|date=2016|website=Daum Museum of Contemporary Art|access-date=19 March 2019}} and the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, MT).{{Cite web|url=http://archiebray.org/|title=Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts|access-date=19 March 2019}}
Awards
Toland received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986. She also received a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award in 2004{{Cite web|url=http://www.virginiaagrootfoundation.org/artists/2004/13/|title=Tip Toland: 2004 1st Place Recipient|website=Virginia A. Groot Foundation|access-date=19 March 2019}} and a fellowship from Washington State's Artist Trust in 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://artisttrust.org/index.php/award-winners/past|title=Award Winners/Past|website=Artist Trust|access-date=19 March 2019}} In 2014, she was awarded a United States Artist Fellowship.{{Cite web|url=http://www.unitedstatesartists-2014fellows.org/|title=Fellows|website=2014 United States Artists Fellows|access-date=2018-03-30}}
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Category:Montana State University alumni
Category:University of Colorado alumni
Category:Ceramists from Pennsylvania
Category:20th-century American ceramists