Lisa M. LeMair
Outer Banks, North Carolina
lisamlemair.com
lemairhandcrafts.com
Profile
Multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, textile, collage, and wearable forms. My practice explores the relationship between making and meaning—how materials carry identity, memory, and contradiction. Recent work engages themes of environmental precarity, belonging, and the tension between individual agency and systemic forces.
Selected Projects
Eleven Words — multimedia installation exploring overwhelm, climate anxiety, and agency
(be)longing — mixed media work examining place, identity, and the contradictions of the Outer Banks
Blue in the Face — mixed media work addressing gender, voice, and systems of dismissal
The Notion of Luxury — mixed media collage interrogating value, labor, and fashion
Selected Exhibitions
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Feminism 250: Woman Made America (2026)
Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA
Feminine Spirit (2026)
Fashion Passion (2025)
DareArts, Manteo, NC
In Good Company: Inspirations from the Outer Edge Film Series (2025)
Surface & Undercurrents: Influences from Iceland, the Arctic & the Anthropocene (2024; curator & exhibiting artist)
Mollie Fearing Memorial Art Show (multiple years)
Frank Stick Memorial Art Show (multiple years)
Glenn Eure Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC
My Outer Banks (2026)
Self Portrait Show (2025)
Selected Craft Shows & Exhibitions
American Craft Council Shows, Baltimore, 2010–present; San Francisco, 2018–2020
Piedmont Craftsmen Fair & Gallery, 2021–present
SNAG Exhibition in Motion, 2016, 2018, 2021
Wear/Ware, Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft, 2018, 2021
Bellevue Arts Museum ArtsFair, 2018
Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, 2016
Bethesda Row Arts Festival, 2014–2016
One of a Kind Show, Chicago, 2015
Cherry Creek Arts Festival, 2014
Curatorial Experience
Surface & Undercurrents: Influences from Iceland, the Arctic & the Anthropocene (2024)
Curator and exhibiting artist, DareArts, Manteo, NC
Curated a multidisciplinary exhibition inspired by an independent artist retreat in northern Iceland, bringing together artists working across media to explore climate change, landscape, and interconnected ecosystems
Awards & Grants
North Carolina Arts Council Artist Support Grant (2022–2023)
DareArts
Excellence Awards, Mollie Fearing Memorial Art Show (2022, jewelry; 2025; 2026)
Virginia Beach Art Center
Honorable Mention, Feminine Spirit (2026)
Honorable Mention, Fashion Passion (2025)
Glenn Eure Ghost Fleet Gallery
Honorable Mention, Self Portrait Show (2025)
Professional Leadership & Service
Juror, New Member Jury, Piedmont Craftsmen (2025)
Gallery & Jury Committee, DareArts, Manteo, NC (2012–2018; 2024–2025)
Juror, Frank Stick Memorial Art Show, DareArts (2023)
Exhibition Juror, New World Festival of the Arts, Dare County Arts Council (2018)
Board Member, Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild (2017–2019)
Education & Professional Development
Independent Artist Retreat, Northern Iceland (co-organizer and participant) (2023)
College of the Albemarle — Advanced Certificate in Professional Crafts: Jewelry (2019)
Penland School of Crafts (2012, 2021)
Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft (2017, 2025)
Georgetown University — B.S., Russian Language
Representation
Artful Home, catalog and online (2017–present)
Publications & Media
Camera Meets People, Episode 6, artist profile/video interview (2026)
Estuaries: A Visual Arts & Literary Review, College of the Albemarle, multiple issues
Exhibition in Motion catalogs, Society of North American Goldsmiths (2016, 2018)
Professional Affiliations
American Craft Council
Piedmont Craftsmen
Society of North American Goldsmiths
Dare Arts