Teresa Faris
Arts/Industry: Foundry, 1999
Teresa F. Faris draws connections across species boundaries. In wearable and nonwearable sculpture she juxtaposes chewed wood—what she views as the byproducts of a captive, rescued bird’s soothing practices—with sawed, pierced, and pieced metal.
Faris has exhibited her work at Bright at Rose Turko Gallery (VA), WomanMade Gallery (IL), Peters Valley Gallery (NJ), Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts (WI), Turchin Center for Visual Arts (NC), Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (China), Ayse Taki Gallery (Turkey), Heidi Lowe Gallery (DE), Werkstatt Galerie (Germany), Racine Art Museum (WI), Verdes Art Center (CA), and Boston Center for the Arts (MA), among others.
Her work has been featured in Society of North American Goldsmiths, WFUMC Anesthesiology Journal 500 Silver Jewelry Designs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Casco Bay Weekly, among others. Her work is in the collections of Racine Art Museum (WI), Museum of Contemporary Craft (OR), and Amway Inc. (MI), among others.
She has received numerous awards and grants, including the Alliages Choice Award, Women in Leadership Award from UW-Whitewater, a NEA award, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation Mary A. Tingley Fund Award, the Albert Murray Fine Art Education Fund Scholarship, and a College of Art and Communication Excellence in Teaching Award, among others.
Faris earned her BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and her MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Faris is an associate professor and area head in the department of jewelry and metalsmithing at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
