VICTORIA HANSEN
Associate Professor
Department of Art home/studio
University of Southern Colorado 5007
county road 123
2200 Bonforte Boulevard Penrose,
Colorado 81240
Pueblo, Colorado 81001 (719)
372-3522
(719) 549-2118
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics, Kansas State University, 1993
Thesis: Working with the Elusiveness of Fire:
The Design and Construction of a
Wood Burning Kiln.
Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, College of William and Mary, 1971.
Graduate Courses in education, University of Virginia, 1986-1987.
Teacher Certification, K-l2th grade, Mary Washington College 1987.
Workshops with nationally recognized artists: John Reeve, Warren
McKenzie,
Clary Illian, Sandra Simon, David Shaner, Robert Turner, Michael Cardew,
Frank Boyden, Yoshi Ikeda, Philip Cornelius
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1993- Associate
Professor, University of Southern Colorado
1991-93 Graduate
Teaching Assistant, Kansas State University
1987-89
Art
Teacher, Edison High School, FCPS, Alexandria, VA.
1979 Adobe
Workshop, Earthworks 11, with USC
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
2003 Vance
Kirkland Museum, curator Hugh Grant, 3pieces, Pilobolus, Kage Series
Denver,
Co.
2003 National: Clay Making Connections, juror Chris Staley, Canyon Series Piece, Roswell N.M. Museum of Art
Regional: Art Market, Arvada Center for the
Arts
Regional:
Colorado State Fair Art Exhibition, juror Michael Bergt, 2 pieces
Regional: Own Your Own, Sangre de Cristo Art
Center
Regional:
Interior Spaces, jurors Patricia Aaron and Marie Gibbons, Kage Series, Lakewood Cultural Center
2002 International:
Aomori Wood Fire Festival 2002, Goshogawara, Japan, exhibition (piece donated
to museum), lecture and demonstrations
National:
Abstract Conceptions, 6 pieces, group exhibition, lecture, workshop, Central
Wyoming College Gallery, Nov.-Jan.
Regional:
Veterans in Clay, juror Tom Turnquist, 3 pieces, Lakewood Cultural Center
Regional:
Women, CORE Gallery, Denver
2001 National:
Westworks 2001, 2 pieces Tesuque and Pale Angle of Time, Central Wyoming College
Gallery
Regional: Colorado State Fair Art Exhibition,
juror F. David Reif, 2 pieces from Canyon Series
National: Dysfunctional, juror Marty Ray,
Business of Art Center,
Manitou Springs, Co.
National: Ceramics
2001, juror John Glick, Guilford Handcraft Center, CT.
Regional: Colorado
Clay, juror Wayne Higby, Wheeler Family
Award, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Co.
Regional: Colorado Art Open 2001,
Foothills Art Center
Regional: Own Your Own,
Sangre de Cristo Arts Center
2000 National:
Focus on Function University of Minnesota National
Ceramics Biennial, jurors Linda Sikora and Sandy Simon
National: Woodfired
Exhibition, “Natural Materials” Central
Michigan
State Gallery (3 pieces selected)
Regional: Colorado State Fair Art
Exhibition, juror R.G. Brown,
meritorious Award for Canyon Series
Regional: Arvada
Center Art Market Christmas Exhibition
Local: Sangre de Cristo “Own Your Own” exhibition
1999 International:
14th Annual Greater Midwest International
Exhibition, juror Jan Schail, Zostera
Regional: Colorado Clay Exhibition
1999, juror Jeff Oesueich
1998 Regional:
Arvada Center Art Market Christmas Exhibition
Local: Sangre
de Cristo “Own Your Own” exhibition
Regional: Colorado State Fair, juror Phil
Cornelius, 2 meritorious awards
1998 Regional:
Colorado Clay Exhibition 1998, juror Paul Soldner
1997 National:
Spiva’s Contemporary Crafts Competitive,
Deep Ancestral
Air
National: Brand XXVII exhibition, juror Phil
Cornelius
Regional: Arvada Center Art Market Christmas
Exhibition
Local: Sangre de Cristo “Own Your Own” exhibition
Regional: Colorado State Fair Art Exhibition,
juror Yoshi Ikeda
selected collaborative piece (Birr and Hansen)
Regional: 14th Annual All Colorado Art Show,
juror Simon
Zalkind, 2 pieces selected, Curtis Arts and Humanities
Center
6-State Regional: Topeka Competition 21, juror
Eddie
Dominguez Watercourse
Way
1996 Regional:
Arvada Center Art Market Christmas Exhibition
Regional: Colorado State Fair Exhibit, juror
Jenny Lind,
Meritorious Award for Pale Angle of Time
International: Wood-fire Exhibition, juror Dr. Joel Eide, Zostera
6-State Regional: Topeka Competition 20 juror
Robert Ebendorf
1995 Regional:
“Alchemilla Currents” Collaborative Exhibition,
Marlene Birr and Victoria Hansen, Commonwheel Gallery,
Manitou Springs, Co.
Regional: Colorado State Fair, juror Frank
Boyden, three
collaborative pieces
Local: 48th Annual Blossom Festival Exhibit,
juror Virginia
Blackstock, 2 pieces, Fremont Center for the Arts
6 state Regional Topeka Competition 19 Purchase
Award for
hidden Geometry juror Paul Dresang
Regional: “Emerging Traditions” The Colorado
Springs Fine Arts
Center (3 individual pieces plus 2 collaborative pieces
Hansen/Birr).
1994 Regional:
“Colorado Art Open” Foothills Art Center, Golden.
Regional: Colorado State Fair, juror Chris
Staley, Meritorious
Award for Moon
Glitter Rippling
Regional: Colorado Clay
1994, Foothills Art Center, 10 pieces
1993 Master
of Fine Arts, Graduate Exhibit, Kansas State University,
“The Presence of a Rippling Quiet.”
National: Competition, ‘Le Petit” Adler Gallery,
2 pieces
Regional: Competition AEAI Exhibition, juror
Connie Weinzaptal
(Director New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art) award
Konza
6 State Regional: Topeka Competition 17 juror
David Shaner
1992 “Student
Art Show KSU” juror Inge Balch
Regional:
Colorado State Fair, juror Ann Curry.
1991 Regional:
Colorado State Fair
Kansas Artist Craftsmen, traveling exhibition.
2004 National:
Invitational Exhibit with Angelo Garzio, The Columbian, Wamego, Ks. 3 pedestal
pieces.
Regional:
Spring Into Art at Foothills Art Center, garden sculpture
Local:
Florence Clay Daze, Fremont County Potters
2003 National:
Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas, 5 pieces
National:
From Inside the Clay Studio curator Bob Nelson, Pale Angle of Time, Lakewood Cultural Center
Regional:
Convergence CSU Faculty Exhibition
2002 National:
Wood Fire Pottery Exhibition: Vicky Hansen and Friends, curated and exhibited
with nationally known potters: Kevin Crowe, John Baymore and Diane Kenney as
well as regional potters, Commonwheel Gallery, Manitou, Co.
National: Elementals, 4 person group exhibition
at Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
National: Kansas State Alumni Exhibition in
conjunction with National Clay Conference, Kansas City, color poster of
exhibition
2001 Regional:
Colorado Women in Clay, Artists on Santa Fe, Denver, Co.
Local
Faculty Art Show, University of Southern Colorado
Regional:
Business of Art Center, The Gifted Hand
Regional:
The West, Fremont Center for the Arts, Canon City, Co.
2000 Regional:
“Together/ Working” 15 Regional and 15 National Artist
Couples, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of
Colorado at
Colorado Springs
Local Faculty Art Show, University of Southern
Colorado
Regional:
Colorado Kilns: A Century of ceramics in Colorado,
Colorado historical Society, Denver, Co.
Regional: “High Degrees: Ceramics by Colorado Art
Faculty”, Center
for the Visual Arts, The Metropolitan State College of
Denver
National: Kansas State Alumni Exhibition, NCECA
Conference
Regional: The Tzedakah Box Invitational, Mizel
Museum of
Judaica, Denver
1999 International:
Wood-Fire Conference Invitational,
The University of Iowa Museum of Art.
Regional: Mindgames: Colorado Clay Invitational,
Commonwheel
Gallery
1998 Local:
“Second Sight: Nature, Women & Intuition” USC Art Gallery
1997 Regional:
“Colorado Teaches Clay” group exhibition at Roundtree
Local: “Hot Pots and Classic Clay” group exhibition V. Hansen and
1996 Regional:
“Western Art: A 3D Feature” USC Gallery, October L~L”XL and the
Center
for the Arts
1995 Regional:
“Treasured hands” One West Art Center, Fort Collins, Co.
Regional:
“Farther South” University of Southern Colorado faculty group show, Arapahoe
Community College, Littleton, Co.
1994 Local:
Artisans Open Studio Tour, Fremont Center for the Arts.
Local:
“Contemporary Artists’ Exhibit” Pueblo Art Guild USC faculty exhibition
1993 Local:
Fremont County Artisan’s Tour
National: College of William and Mary Alumni
Exhibit
Local: Wall Pieces at Cafe Espresso, Manhattan
Kansas
Regional: Kansas Artist Craftsmen Invitational,
Lawrence Art
1992 Regional:
“The Works” Kansas University Art Gallery
1991 Local:
Manhattan Public Library, One-person exhibition, Manhattan, Ks.
Local:
Canon City Fine Arts Center
CHASS Outstanding Faculty Award 2002, University of Southern
Colorado
Wheeler Family Award, Colorado Clay Exhibition 2001
Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant, 2000 An Interactive
CD-Rom
Featuring the Ceramic Work of Nan and James McKinnell
Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Grant 2000 to support the
Nan and
James McKinnell CD-ROM project
Outstanding Faculty Award 1999. University of Southern Colorado
Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant. 1997-1998,
Creative Fire II.
Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant. 1995-1996, XL and
the Creative
Fire.
Provost’s Service Award: 1996, University of Southern Colorado
Meritorious Awards- Regional: Colorado State Fair 2000, 1998,
1996, 1994.
Purchase Award-Regional: 6 State Topeka Competition 19
Merit Award- Regional: honoring Craft Traditions, 1993.
PUBLICATIONS
February 2003 Ceramics Monthly, feature article about my work “Insights into the
Resume of Vicky Hansen,” by Jean Latka
May 4, 2001 The Denver Post, work shown in article “Clay Comes Alive at
Foothills.”
May 3-9, 2001 Westword, photo and write up about work in “Thermo-dynamics,” by
Michael Paglia.
May 2001 Ceramics Monthly, work shown in article “Natural Materials” pg. 47.
March 2001 Ceramics Monthly; work shown in article “Focus on Function.” Feature
Article about my work, Notes from Academia, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29, 1998, by David Wheeler
“Art and Community, A Reflection” NCECA Journal, Vol. 16 1995 p. 24. by V. Hansen
“Larry Elsner Retrospective” Upfront Article, Ceramics Monthly, Vol. 41 Nov. 1993 P. 24, by V.
Hansen
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
2002 Aomori
International Wood Fire Festival, lecture, demonstrations and exhibition
Visiting
Artist lecture and demonstration, Central Wyoming College, Nov. 21.
12th
Annual Clayfest 2002, juror, Manitou Springs, Co.
Arvada
Center slide show and lecture, June 14.
2000 Conducted
Arvada Center Woodfiring Workshop June 10-12, 2000
1999 Presenting
“Alternative Avenues to Ash and Flash” International Woodfiring
1998 Conducted
Wood Fire Kiln Building Workshop, Kansas State University
Attended NCECA
1997 Lead
Connections Group Discussions at NCECA
1996 Lead
Connections Group Discussions at NCECA “Clay Projects that Work” and Networking
Session “Creative Collaborations”
1995 “Feminine
Archetypes in Ecological Art” 12th Annual Women’s
Conference at the University of South Dakota
5th Annual 51551 Conference with R. Hansen “Divide and
Conquer the Body, the Earth and Ecological Violence.”
1994 Visiting
Artist, lecture and slide show about my work, Kansas State University Art
Department,
1993 ARSC
Conference, presented “Ecological Artists”, Adams State College
COMMISSIONED WORK
2003 CSU-Pueblo
commissions gift for Val Borge and two platters for the President’s Awards for
Outstanding Service to the University
2001 USC
commissions gifts for retiring President Tito Guerrero and Dean Bev Moore
2000 USC
commissions two fountains for retiring Provost and Mrs. Robert Glennen
USC
commissions work for retiring Dean jack Sellheimer
1999 USC
commissions fountain and dish set for retiring Dean Ed Wright
1998 Commemorative
plates for National Hispanic Caucus Awards, commissioned by President Tito
Guerrero III, USC
1997 USC
Auxiliary Services commissions gift of ceramic fountain
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2003 CHASS
Teaching Committee
Workshop
leader for District 60 Art Teachers (August 2003)
Juror
for District 60 Student Art Show
Community
Arts Board for “Day of the Arts for Teachers”
CHASS
Representative Student Life Task Force
CHASS Representative Faculty Senate through
May
2002 CHASS
Representative University Evaluation Committee
CHASS
Representative Faculty Senate
Community
Arts Board for “Day of the Arts for Teachers”
CHASS
Teaching Committee
2001 CHASS
Teaching Committee
Juror
for 53rd Annual Blossom Festival, Fremont Center for the Arts
Provost’s
Award for Excellence Advisory Board
CHASS
Representative Faculty Senate
CHASS
FOCUS Faculty
Program Review Committee for Mass Communications
Department
Representative USC Education Board
2000 CHASS
Representative Education Board
Chair, Art in Public Places Committee. USC Math and
Life Sciences Building Renovation
CCA Young Audiences Visual
Artists Selection Committee
1999 Interim
Chair, Art Department
Chair, CCA Committee for Public Art at USC
1998 CHASS
Representative Faculty Senate
1995- Faculty
Advisor, Art Club
1996-98 CCHE
Faculty-to-Faculty Co-chair
1997 Chair,
USC Art Festival
1996 USC
Provost’s Award for Excellence in Service
1995-98 Alliance
Advisory Council, Art Linkage Co-Chair
1996-97 Chair
USC Library Board
1994 Member,
Search and Screen Committee for Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
1994-98 Chair,
Teacher Performance and Evaluation Committee, College of Humanities and Social
Sciences
1994-98 Liaison,
Senior to Sophomore Program, District 60 Alliance
1994-98
Board
of Directors, Fremont Center for the Arts, Canon City
1992 Curator
of Art Department Exhibitions at the Union Gallery, KSU
1988-89
Board
of Directors, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
1992
Travel
and study in Italy for a semester
2002 Travel
to Japan for International Wood Fire Conference
2003 Travel
to Peru and Japan