Rate My Professor Ingrid Lilligren

Her ceramic sculptures explore climate change, limits of knowing, and social, cultural, and political blindness via incorporated Braille, with technical research into Cone 6 glazes using Iowa's wind-generated electricity for kiln firing. Signature research areas include Engagement and Social Issues, History, Culture and Heritage, Making and Materiality, and Sustainability, Environment, and Planning. Awards and honors encompass the Janet Harris Squires Clay Award (2021), Faculty Professional Development Assignment (2020), Miller Faculty Grant (Co-PI, 2013), Artist in Residence at the State Academy of Art in Tbilisi, Georgia (2007), and selection for Artist in Residence in Vallauris, France (2005). Key exhibitions include "Ingrid Lilligren: Tactile Meditations" at Grinnell College Museum of Art (2024), "Underneath Everything: Humility and Grandeur in Contemporary Ceramics" at Des Moines Art Center (2023), "A Clay Sermon" at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021), and "TOUCH: The World at Your Fingertips" at Musée de la Main, Lausanne (2012). Her artwork features in publications like Ceramics Monthly ("Finding Meaning at the Fingertips," 2007) and Hands In Clay (1998). Lilligren has advanced community arts outreach through initiatives such as Artist Next Door, Biorenewables Art Competition, and Brunnier Art Museum exhibitions, promoting visual arts innovation across Iowa State University and communities. She contributed as Artist Advisory Committee member for Des Moines Art Center (2023) and board member for Creative Artists' Studios of Ames (2015-2022).