Lisa Glickman McDonough has considered herself an artist since childhood. Although born in Princeton, she was raised in the Philadelphia area. As a child, she accompanied her parents to Israel, Tanzania and South Africa.
"The first piece of art I made was a linoleum print in third grade," Lisa says. She carved and printed animals that she remembered seeing in Tanzania as a four-year-old. Since then Lisa has worked in clay, wood, and fiber, and is now concentrating on mixed-media paintings, using collage, acrylic paints, and oil and encaustic pigments.
Her work has been shown at a number of galleries, including Boulder Arts & Crafts, Boulder, CO; Blue Horse Fine Arts, Estes Park, CO; and Rabbit Mountain Cottage Furnishings, Lyons, CO.
Lisa holds a B.F.A. in ceramics from the University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art). In January 1986, she relocated to pursue her M.F.A. in ceramics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Lisa has been involved with Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery ever since. The gallery -- run as an artists’ cooperative since 1971 -- offered Lisa part-time work while she was IN graduate SCHOOL. After completing degree work in 1988, (studying with Betty Woodman & Linda Herrit ) she maintained her association with the gallery, while continuing her artistic explorations.
In her current position as financial manager, Lisa’s tasks include planning the annual budget, cash-flow analysis, preparing all payroll tax reporting, and monthly bookkeeping. Adding to her duties, in 2007, Lisa was elected to the position of director of public relations and advertising. In this capacity, her main focus is to promote and gain exposure for the gallery on a small advertising budget. "We partner with many local nonprofits and other vendors for fundraising events," Lisa says. "The gallery continues to be the cornerstone of creativity on the busy downtown Pearl Street Mall."
Lisa’s studio is in rural Pinewood Springs, where she lives with her husband, Frank, their dog, Zelda, and their cat, Nami. Their small community, in Lyons, outside Boulder, is surrounded by Roosevelt National Forest, where She and Frank enjoy hiking, biking, birding, and animal tracking.
