I am a visual artist working in collage, assemblage sculpture and altered books. My practice explores identity, memory and the history of the African diaspora. Vintage and contemporary images collide to convey how the past informs the present.


Artist bio


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
*A/NT Gallery, "9th Annual Onyx Fine Arts Collective Exhibit," Seattle, WA, Sept. 2013
*Mountlake Terrace Library, "Lisa Myers Bulmash: Every Family's Secrets" (solo exhibition), Mountlake Terrace, WA, May 2013
*Seattle City Hall Gallery, "A Wider View," Seattle, WA, March-April 2013.
*34th Annual Arts of the Terrace, Mountlake Terrace, WA Sept.-Oct. 2012.
*Brass Screw Confederacy steampunk festival, Port Townsend, WA, June 2012
*Fraker/Scott Gallery (now Hanson Scott Gallery), "ICON," Seattle, WA, Sept. 2011.
*Schack Art Center, "Biennial Juried Art Show," Everett, WA, July-Aug. 2011
*Lynnwood Arts Commission Gallery, "It's Not Easy Being Green," Lynnwood, WA Sept.-Nov. 2010
climate/gallery, "Artful Scriptorium," Long Island City, NY, April 2010
*Edmonds Art Walks, Feb. 2010, Oct. 2010

AWARDS
First prize (9th Annual Onyx Fine Arts Collective Exhibit)
Poster artist ("A Wider View")
Liquitex Merit award (Arts of the Terrace 2012)
Golden Art Supplies Award (ICON 2011)

SELECTED BODIES OF WORK
Tell Me a Story, Mommy, assemblages and artist book, ongoing
If Wishes Were Horses, dimensional canvas & assemblage, 2010
Someday, artist book, 2008
Altered Dollhouses, assemblages, 2006

PUBLICATIONS - CONTRIBUTING ARTIST
  • "The Week As Art" online calendar series (July 22-28, 2012), CreateMixedMedia.com
  • Destination Creativity: The Life-Altering Journey of the Art Retreat, North Light Books (2011)
  • Mixed-Media Dollhouses: Techniques and Ideas for Doll-size Assemblages, Quarry Books (2010)
  • Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art, Quarry Books (2009) 
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE
    • "Podcast with Lisa Myers Bulmash & Aimee Myers Dolich," interview with Ricë Freeman-Zachery, Notes from the Voodoo Cafe blog http://voodoonotes.blogspot.com/2010/10/podcast-with-lisa-myers-bulmash-aimee.html 
    • “Sultan Library... Dolled Up,” Everett Herald, March 14, 2010
    • “Local artist chosen for postal art book,” by Pat Ratliff, Edmonds Beacon, Nov. 19, 2009
       

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