The document details the artistic works of Liz Langdon, focusing on public art installations, collaborations with schools and communities, and exhibitions of personal artworks. It highlights various projects including ceramic and tile pieces, community murals, and contributions to notable locations in Omaha, Nebraska. Langdon's art often incorporates collaboration and reflects on personal and political themes through a variety of materials and techniques.

1. Artwork by Liz Langdon
Public Art Installation, School and Community Collaborations,
Exhibitions, Personal Works

2. Public Art Commissions

3. AnDramaDoe, 2001, J Doe
Project, Omaha’s first public
art project
Douglas County
Court House, Omaha,
NE
fiberglass figure with
ceramic tile
Currently in residence at
The Rose Theater for
Young People, Omaha, NE
Rear view

4. 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

5. 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

6. The Seasons Clock, Omaha Hilton Hotel Lobby, 2007
Slip cast and wood fired porcelain with glass
tesserae, hand blown glass blubs, and clock
parts.

7. 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”

8. School/Community Collaborations

9. 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’.

10. Dragon Bench, Omaha Children’s Museum, 2003
Collaboration with Shop Class students
and Ceramic students at
Bryan Senior High, Omaha, NE
40”x 48”x 24”
Low fire clay and re cycled porcelain
tesserae on wood and concrete.

11. Bryant Center Community Mural, Omaha, NE 2011

12. Cypress Street Café and Symbol Tiles, 2013
Collaboration with the Day Resource Center for the Homeless and
TCU Students, Fort Worth , TX

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

14. All Hands on the Table, ceramic and utensils

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

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

17. 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.

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

19. Shotgun, hand-built and cast ceramic and
found object
Cozy, hand-built and cast ceramic and found object

20. Seeking, hand built and slip cast ceramic,
with found objects and glass
Seeking, 2nd view

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

22. Whose Story Space- aged Babies

23. Curb Your Appetite 1 Curb Your Appetite 2

24. Personal Art Work
Since 2004 I’ve taken classic and kitsch imagery found in commercial
plates and ceramic decals, combined them with overglaze decals
lusters, as well as other ceramic additions for purposes of fun, fantasy
and sometimes, for critical reflection.

25. Clocks Out of Step

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

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

28. Early drawings envisioning installations, 1980’s