EDUCATION

2014                Artist Trust/ EDGE Professional Development Program for Visual Artists

2008-2012      Artfest (Port Townsend, WA annual mixed media retreat)

2007                Art & Soul Portland (Portland, OR annual mixed media retreat)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo shows

2021 Seattle Public Library, “ ‘Seattle Reads’ Commission,” Seattle, WA

Wa Na Wari, “Lisa Myers Bulmash: Holding Patterns,” Seattle, WA

Gallery One, “Lisa Myers Bulmash: New Works,” Ellensburg, WA

2020 Morton Fine Art, “The Home Inside My Head,” Washington, D.C.

Gallery One, “Never the Same Book Twice,” Ellensburg, WA

2017    Northwest African American Museum, "You're Not From Around Here, Are You?", Seattle, WA

             Front Room Gallery @ Juan Alonso Studio, "Lisa Myers Bulmash," Seattle, WA

             Centennial Center Gallery, "Lisa Myers Bulmash/ Kathleen McIver," Kent, WA

2015    Hanson Scott Gallery, "Lisa Myers Bulmash: Is This Not Home," Seattle, WA

2014    Hanson Scott Gallery, “Lisa Myers Bulmash,” Seattle, WA

2013    Mountlake Terrace Library, “Every Family’s Secrets,” Mountlake Terrace, WA

Group shows

2024 Russo Lee Gallery, “The Office,” Portland, OR

2023 Morton Fine Art, “Salon Style: Summer Smalls,” Washington, DC

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, “2023 BIMA Spotlight Exhibition,” Bainbridge Island, WA,

Helen S. Smith Gallery (Green River College), “Like Mother,” Burien, WA

2022 Centennial Center Gallery, “Kent Summer Art Exhibit,” Kent, WA

Ida Culver House Broadview, “CLUSTER,” Seattle, WA

2021 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, “Black Lives Matter Artist Grantees Exhibit,” Pullman, WA

J. Rinehart Gallery, “Off the Wall,” Seattle, WA

ArtistTrust.org, Artist Trust Auction 2021,” Seattle, WA

            Highline Heritage Museum, “Like Mother,” Burien, WA

Vashon Center for the Arts, “Like Mother…”, Vashon Island, WA

ArtistTrust.org, “Artist Trust Auction 2021,” Seattle, WA

2020 Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA Seattle), “20/20 Vision: CoCA Members’ Show,” Seattle, WA

Gallery 114, “With Bated Breath,” Portland, OR

2019 Ghost Gallery, “Red List: Moths & Butterflies,” Seattle, WA

Kirkland Arts Center, “Fracture,” Kirkland, WA

CoCA Seattle, “2019 Art Marathon & Auction,” Seattle, WA

Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts & Sciences, “2019 Works on Paper” [curator: Dr. Louis Marchesano, Philadelphia Museum of Art Audrey and William H. Helfand Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs], Loveladies, NJ

CoCA Seattle, “Motherland: 2019 Members’ Show” [curator: Amanda Manitach], Seattle, WA

Shoreline City Hall, “Living the Dream, Dreaming the Life,” Shoreline, WA

Ghost Gallery, “The Art of Tarot III,” Seattle, WA

North Seattle College Art Gallery, “Like Mother,” Seattle, WA

2018   CoCA Seattle, “2018 Art Marathon & Auction,” Seattle, WA

St. Tammany Art Association, “53rd National Juried Artists Exhibition” [curator: Katie Pfohl, New Orleans Museum of Art], Covington, LA

            Columbia City Gallery, "Locally Sourced" [curator & artist], Seattle, WA

            Tacoma Art Museum, "TAM Local Community Installation [Like Mother…],” Tacoma, WA

2017   BONFIRE Gallery, "ARTRUMPS: Resistance and Action," Seattle, WA

            Gallery One, "Like Mother...", Ellensburg, WA

            Art Xchange Gallery, “Like Mother…: Women’s Work 2,” Seattle, WA

            King Street Station, “Truth B Told: Onyx Fine Arts,” Seattle, WA

            Alki Arts at Pacific Place, “6th Annual Exhibit Honoring Black History Month,” Seattle, WA

2016   Twilight Gallery, "HEX and the Monstrous Feminine," Seattle, WA

            Centennial Center Gallery, "Kent Summer Art Exhibit," Kent, WA

            SPACE at Magnuson Gallery, "Like Mother," Seattle, WA  

            Edith Green/ Wendell Wyatt Federal Building, "National African American History Month Art Exhibit," Portland, OR

2015    Washington State Historical Museum, "Onyx Fine Arts: A Decade of Art," Tacoma, WA

             Gary Henderson Gallery, "BALLYHOO," Seattle, WA

             Jacob Lawrence Gallery, "Onyx Fine Arts 11th Annual Exhibition," Seattle, WA

   Tashiro Kaplan Building, "TK Art of the City," Seattle, WA

             Columbia City Gallery, "Black Lives Matter: Humanity Not Negotiable," Seattle, WA

             Alki Arts Gallery, "February Art Walk: Honoring Black History Month," Seattle, WA

2014    Washington State Convention Center, "Real and Imagined Spaces," Seattle, WA

   NW African American Museum, “Onyx Fine Arts Collective: A Decade of Art,” Seattle, WA

            Schack Art Center, “Biennial Juried Art Show,” Everett, WA

            Mill Creek Town Center, “2nd Thursday Art Walk,” Mill Creek, WA

2013   Phinney Neighborhood Assn. (PNA), “Winter Festival & Craft Fair,” Seattle, WA

            Mountlake Terrace Library, “Arts of the Terrace,” Mountlake Terrace, WA

  A/NT Gallery, “9th Annual Onyx Fine Arts Collective Exhibit,” Seattle, WA

  Schack Art Center, “The Creative World of Book Arts,” Everett, WA

  Mill Creek Town Center, “2nd Thursday Art Walk,” Mill Creek, WA

  Seattle City Hall, “A Wider View: Onyx Fine Arts Collective,” Seattle, WA

2012   Mountlake Terrace Library, “Arts of the Terrace,” Mountlake Terrace, WA

            Brass Screw Confederacy steampunk festival, Port Townsend, WA

2011   Fraker/Scott Gallery, "ICON," Seattle, WA

  Schack Art Center, "Biennial Juried Art Show," Everett, WA

2010   Lynnwood Arts Commission Art Gallery, “It's Not Easy Being Green,” Lynnwood, WA

            Bothell Sons of Norway Hall, “Eastside Miniatures Show,” Bothell, WA

  climate/gallery, “The Artful Scriptorium,” Long Island City, NY

  Edmonds Art Walk, Edmonds, WA

COLLECTIONS

Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection

Shoreline, WA Portable Works Art Collection

Seattle Public Library Special Collections

University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library

Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection

Nina Hickson, City Attorney of Atlanta, GA

AWARDS

2021 Grant for Artist Progress (GAP), Artist Trust

Black Lives Matter Artist Grant, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

2020 Juror’s prize (20/20 Vision: CoCA Members’ Show”)

2019 Second Place (LBIF 2019 Works on Paper)

2018   Honorable Mention (STAA 53rd National Juried Artists Exhibition)

2016   Visual Arts Award, Sustainable Arts Foundation

2014   Second place ("Real and Imagined Spaces”)

2013   First place (9th Annual Onyx Fine Arts Collective Exhibit)

            Poster Artist (“A Wider View,” Seattle City Hall)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Morton Fine Art Gallery

Artist Trust

Puget Sound Book Artists

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022 Graphite Arts Center, inaugural artist-in-residence

Instructor, Kirkland Arts Center

Columbia City Gallery, “Interconnection: Finding Connection in These Siloed Times” exhibit juror

“The Story of Art in America” docuseries (episode 10), featured Seattle artist

2021 Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA) Public Artist Roster (through 2025)

InterIm Community Development Association, “Uncle Bob’s Place” Apartments balcony railing design

Seattle Public Library, “Seattle Reads” featured speaker

North Seattle College (NSC) Art Gallery, “Visiting Artist Lecture: Lisa Myers Bulmash”

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, “Black Lives Matter: An Intergenerational Discussion” featured panelist

Wa Na Wari, “Artist Talk with Lisa Myers Bulmash and Carletta Carrington Wilson,” virtual artist discussion

2020 Artist Trust, Artist takeover of AT Instagram Stories [during BLM/ George Floyd murder protests]

Carla Sonheim Presents, “Bugs! An Online Class for Kids” guest teaching artist

Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, “Seattle Together: Imagining the Future” purchase award panelist

Northwest Collage Society, Shoreline, WA, “2020 Fall Members’ Show,” exhibit juror

Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA, “Between the Fold” group art exhibit juror

2018    Liberty Bank Building development, Seattle, contributing artist, producing 11 collage portraits

             Amazon.com Expressions Lab, Seattle, featured speaker

             North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, "Art & Community" panelist

2015    Artist Trust At Large, Seattle metro-area designated speaker 

             Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Seattle, WA, Black History Month speaker

2013    ArtistsConnect, Edmonds, WA, “Creating an Online Presence” panelist

2012    Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (LHPAI), communications consultant for social media and email marketing

2011    ArtistsConnect, Edmonds, WA, Keynote speaker on assemblage

2010    Eastside Miniatures Show, Bothell, WA, Featured speaker on art dollhouses

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024 KING5 Evening Magazine, “Tapestry Apartments in Seattle’s Central District transformed into a living gallery” by Jim Dever

2022 Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine Revolution by Natasha Marin (curator), McSweeney’s Publishing

2021 Black Collagists: The Book by Teri Henderson, Kanyer Publishing

Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage by Laurie Kanyer, MA, Kanyer Publishing

South Seattle Emerald, “Photo essay: rediscovering the Central District with Wa Na Wari’s ‘Walk the Block,’ ” by Susan Fried

Northwest Public Broadcasting (NWPB), “Washington Artists Explore Hopes, Fears In Black Lives Matter Exhibit” by NWPB staff

Spokesman Review (Spokane, WA), Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), “ ‘Artists have always been the chronicle[r]s of our time’: WSU’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art debuts Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibit” by Amber D. Dodd

Crosscut.com, “A wave of Black art rises in Seattle’s Central District” by Margo Vansynghel

Q13Fox.com (KCPQ-TV), “Seattle artist featured in new docuseries” by Q13Fox staff (and on Q13 YouTube channel)

KING5.com, “An oasis of art in a neighborhood under stress” by Jim Dever

Seattle Times, “Artist Lisa Myers Bulmash chosen to represent Seattle in a docuseries on art in America” by Crystal Paul

2020 Washington Post, “In the galleries: A satire on images of women and the objects they advertise” by Mark Jenkins

The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), “Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Winners Announced” by Azaria Podplesky

Moscow-Pullman Daily News (Moscow, ID), “WSU art museum announces Black Lives Matter artist grant winners” by Daily News staff

Morton Fine Art, “The Home Inside My Head” catalog

Center on Contemporary Art Seattle, “CoCA 2020 Members’ Show” catalog

Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, “2019 Works on Paper” catalog

Center on Contemporary Art Seattle, “CoCA 2019 Members’ Show” catalog featured artist

2019 The Stranger, “The Top Eight Things to See at the October 2019 Capitol Hill Art Walk” by Jasmyne Keimig and Joule Zelman

2018    New Orleans Advocate, "Art exhibition winners announced for juried show" by Advocate staff

            Real Change News, "Enduring Query: Artist Lisa Myers Bulmash explores the complex experience of being Black in the PNW" by Lisa Edge

            Seattle Magazine, "Pioneers of Place" by Gavin Borchert with Gwendolyn Elliott

            LibertyBankBuilding.org, "Get to know the Liberty Bank Building artists" by Ashwin Warrior

            KING5 New Day NW, "Art exhibit spotlights race relations and encourages civic engagement" by Su Ring

2017   Crosscut, "The impact of white spaces on Black identity" by Carla Bell

            KING5 Evening Magazine, "An artistic answer to a rude question" by Saint Bryan

            CityArts, "Lisa Myers Bulmash and 'Saint Felicia' at NAAM" by Margo Vansynghel

            Real Change News, "Mixed media artist Lisa Myers Bulmash cuts and pastes each statement" by Lisa Edge

2016    Vanguard Seattle, "The Witching Power: Pop & Protest in Occult Art and Fashion" by Sarra Scherb

             Kent TV21 (city arts channel), "Art at Centennial - Summer Exhibit 2016" featured artist

2015    A World of Artist Journal Pages, Dawn DeVries Sokol (curator), Stewart Tabori & Chang

             Real Change News, "A Matter of Black" by Rianna Hidalgo

2014    Seattle Times, "Onyx artists celebrated at NW African American Museum" by Nancy Worssam 

            Queen Anne & Magnolia News, “Local artists taking center stage at Bumbershoot” by Sarah Wyatt

2011    Destination Creativity: The Life-Altering Journey of the Art Retreat, North Light Books

2010    Mixed-Media Dollhouses: Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages, Quarry Books

    Everett Herald, “Sultan Library… Dolled Up”

2009   Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art, Quarry Books

           Collaborative Art Journals and Shared Visions in Mixed Media, Quarry Books

  Edmonds Beacon, “Local artist chosen for postal art book,” by Pat Ratliff

PUBLICATIONS

2015    "StencilGirl Guest Designer Lisa Myers Bulmash," StencilGirlTalk.com, March 19 and April 27

2012    “The Week As Art”: online calendar series for CreateMixedMedia.com