Artwork by Liz LangdonPublic Art Installation, School and Community Collaborations,

Exhibitions, Personal Works

Public Art Commissions

AnDramaDoe, 2001, J Doe Project, Omaha’s first public art project

Douglas CountyCourt House, Omaha, NEfiberglass figure with

ceramic tile

Currently in residence at The Rose Theater for Young People, Omaha, NE

Rear view

Iron Tail , Elements, Fontenelle Forest, Omaha, NE 2003

Resides at Hotshops Arts Center, Omaha. 6’x 12’

Tile, tesserae, and steel. Steel frame fabricated by Loken Forge, Omaha

The First Meeting, Lewis and Clark Memorial Icon, N.P. Dodge Park, Omaha, NE 2004

Clay relief pieces created to fill one of eight Icon monuments placed along both sides of the Missouri River in Nebraska and Iowa.

Panel is 48” x 25”Stoneware and porcelain, salt-fired and oxidation glazes

The Seasons Clock, Omaha Hilton Hotel Lobby, 2007

Slip cast and wood fired porcelain with glass tesserae, hand blown glass blubs, and clock parts.

Blue Willow Tale in Tangrams, ArtisTree, Joslyn Art Museum 2005

Plates, tile, sand-blasted glass, wood, cast and wrought iron

4 views, 1 view w/shadows, 1 detail, Dimensions 36” x 36”

School/Community Collaborations

Children’s Hospital Waiting Room, Omaha, NE 1999

Collaboration with Joslyn Art Museum students and Community, Low fired clay and glaze, commercial ceramic tile 4’x16’.

Dragon Bench, Omaha Children’s Museum, 2003

Collaboration with Shop Class students and Ceramic students atBryan Senior High, Omaha, NE40”x 48”x 24”

Low fire clay and re cycled porcelain tesserae on wood and concrete.

Bryant Center Community Mural, Omaha, NE 2011

Cypress Street Café and Symbol Tiles, 2013

Collaboration with the Day Resource Center for the Homeless and TCU Students, Fort Worth , TX

Still Lifes in the Age of Conflict, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2007

All Hands on the Table, ceramic and utensils

Endangered Species, 2 views, salt-fired cast porcelain and wheel thrown clay, a vine

Bountiful Babe, wheel thrown, cast ceramic and found object, and seamstress mannequin, 18”x 28”

Making the Political Personal, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Nebraska City, NE 2009 Installation views

The pedestal sculptures represent the diverse places and situations the students in my classroom came from. They are bricolage, made from discarded student work and other found objects which I treated to create the desired effect.

Reaching, hand-built and slip cast ceramic,with found objects and glass

Hiding, hand-built and slip cast ceramic,with found objects

Shotgun, hand-built and cast ceramic and found object

Cozy, hand-built and cast ceramic and found object

Seeking, hand built and slip cast ceramic,with found objects and glass

Seeking, 2nd view

Pope Pius Xll , Bound and Blind Pope John Paul’s Ascendency

Whose Story Space- aged Babies

Curb Your Appetite 1 Curb Your Appetite 2

Personal Art Work

Since 2004 I’ve taken classic and kitsch imagery found in commercialplates and ceramic decals, combined them with overglaze decalslusters, as well as other ceramic additions for purposes of fun, fantasyand sometimes, for critical reflection.

Clocks Out of Step

Desserts, handbuilt, wheel thrown and altered clay, found objects

Portal, 1984 , 18’x 24’ colored pencil Heart Attack, 1998, 16” x20” mixed media

Early drawings envisioning installations, 1980’s