ALISON GRIMM
EDUCATION
2020 MA, American History, Culture, and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
2018 MFA, Sculpture, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
2012 BA, Sculpture, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Storefronts, Shunpike Arts, Seattle, WA
2024 Shaping Perspectives, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA
2024 Itty Bitty, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
2023 Creative Clay, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA
2022 Art for STEM, Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds, WA
2022 Sensing the City / Sense of the City, ORi, Berlin, Germany (contribution to project led by artist Elke Burkert)
2021 Edmonds Art Walk, Edmonds, WA (featured artist December and January 2022)
2019 Kunstbasar, Atelier Au, Munich, Germany
2019 Unbekannte Weg, Brillen Schneider, Munich, Germany
2018 Water Sacred, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2018 Klaus von Gaffron Gegen den Rest der Welt, Kunst Block Balve, Munich, Germany
2018 Wayne State University M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Wayne State University Gallery, Detroit, MI
2016 Whitdel Arts Members Exhibition, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI
2015 Route 313, Sculpture X Symposium, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2015 De:limit, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI
2015 Curio Artifacto: The Institute of Lateral Chronology, Madonna University, Detroit, MI
2014 Cascadia NW Arts and Music Festival, Granite Falls, WA
2013 Human/Nature & Salon Anon Anon, Gallery Context, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
2012 MACAA Members Juried Exhibition, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Detroit, MI
2012 Senior Thesis Art Show, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2011 Art Students' Annual Juried Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2010 Art Students' Annual Juried Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Studio Management Apprenticeship, Pottery Northwest, Seattle WA
2016 Graduate Munich Exchange Fellowship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Graduate Professional Scholarship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2015 Graduate Research Assistantship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Assistant to Professor Derek Coté for the 2015-2016 academic year.
2014 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Instructor of Record - Beginning Sculpture, 2014-2015
2012 Graduation with Honors in Studio Art – awarded by the Art Department, U of Puget Sound
Senior Exhibition Materials Grant, University of Puget Sound
2011 University of Puget Sound Art Department Scholarship
Juror’s Award - First Prize, Art Students' Annual Exhibition, University of Puget Sound
Dean’s List
2010 Helen Buchanan Art Scholarship, University of Puget Sound
F. Carlton Ball Scholarship (2010-2012) – Studio Art
2009 Puget Sound Trustee Academic Scholarship (2009-2012), University of Puget Sound
PROFESSIONAL & RELATED EXPERIENCE
2022- Ceramics Instructor, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA
Ceramics Instructor & Studio Manager, Montlake Community Center, Seattle, WA
Studio Management Apprenticeship, Pottery Northwest, Seattle WA
2017 Build Team, Grant Writing, Events at Kunst Block Balve (KBB) - Munich, Germany
2015 Graduate Research Assistant at Wayne State University (2015-2016). Assistant to professor/ artist Derek Coté
in various projects, including production elements of his documentary film, Legends Are Made Here (2016),
featured and supported through the Anchorage Museum’s multidisciplinary residency, Polar Lab.
2015 Healing - a public, interaction-based project focusing on racism and Detroit's racial history, created as part of
German artists Folke Koebberling and Nils-Arne Kässens' project—Route 313, featured at the Sculpture X
Symposium. Detroit, Michigan, 2015
2015 Assistant/Monitor, Wayne State University Art Department Wood Shop, Detroit, MI
2014 Graduate Committee Student Representative. Wayne State University Art Department, Detroit, MI
2014 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record - Sculpture. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2013 Apprentice at NW Wood Design, Seattle, WA (January-April 2013)
2013 Designed and produced unique wooden scroll boxes to hold 1’x9’ reproductions of artist Jave Yoshimoto's
Baptism of Concrete Estuary, an artwork created in response to the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Proceeds donated
to tsunami relief efforts. Gallery Context, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
2012 Assistant to sculptor Michael Johnson in fabricating his sculpture, Monument to the Ordinary (Bottle), selected
for the Bellwether 2012 Biennial Sculpture Exhibition in Bellevue, WA.
2010 Intern, City of Tacoma Arts Commission, Tacoma, WA