Statement on the Artist
Lissa Hunter’s 30 plus years as a nationally acclaimed mixed media artist have revealed her to be a story teller, a journalist, and magician with materials.  Ideas and materials are what inspire her, combined with everyday life experiences, nature and observations of the systems and rituals of being human.  Lissa states, “Sharing our experiences is a necessary gift we offer to one another, if only to bear witness to our having lived.  Like other artists, storytellers hold one key to our history; they are the keepers of our collective memory kept alive in generations of minds.”  Lissa’s focus is on the nuances of the natural world.  She shares with us simple moments and makes them into a precious experience.  Lissa has exhibited and instructed nationally for over 30 years. 

Education
MFA, Textile Design, Indiana University, Bloomington, .....IN, 1971
BA, Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1967

Selected Collections
Albuquerque Museum of Art and History,
..... Albuquerque, NM
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young
.....Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
.....Renwick Gallery, Washington DC
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
The Kennedy School of Government,
.....Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Critical Acclaim
“Lissa Hunter is an explorer.  In her art making she goes on journeys and enters into a world where not everything is clear.  But for her, the exploration isn’t a linear journey – it’s circling back to what she has always known, only with each circle her art becomes richer and more mysterious.”
.....Stuart Kestenbaum, Surface Design, Winter 2008