Resume
CV/Resume
Work History:
- Professor, Medical Ethics and Aesthetics, Oregon State University, 2026 -
- Artist and Arts Consultant, – August 2012 – present
- Owner, Director, Curator, The Gallery at the Watershed, Eugene, OR August 2012 – August 2015 (a private, high-end visual arts gallery)
- Executive Director, Watershed Arts, August 2012 – August 2015 www.watershed-arts.org. W.A. was a non-profit we built out to add as a sister org. for The Gallery at the Watershed (a private gallery) whose mission was contemporary arts education for the general public.
- Owner/Director/Curator, The Gallery at the Watershed August 2012 - August 2015 gallery focusing upon modern through contemporary art. I mentored many interns from the Univ. of Oregon Art Dept. + their Arts and Admin. Program.
- Oregon Licensed Professional (Mental Health) Counselor, August 1996– present
I maintain my OR license and continuing ed. in this field. Along with private practice, worked at or volunteered in several community agencies in the Eugene/Springfield area: The Center for Family Development, The Center for Community Counseling, Volunteers in Medicine, Planned Parenthood SW OR. Art therapy, family systems therapy.
- Temporary Academic Curator for Support Services, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Univ. of Oregon Jan. – June, 2016- December 2016. (Director Jill Hartz)
I organized all classes/faculty that made use of the JSMA for teaching while the Museum did a national search to replace the Curator for Latin American Studies. I organized all student-use data for the Museum’s Annual Report and was trained to handle and retrieve art from the Museum archives for use in Museum classes.
- Instructor, Philosophy, Oregon State University, September 1986 -June 1990.
My Ph.D. (UNC-CH, 1991) is in Analytic Philosophy. Special interest in theories of epistemology, mind, science, psychology, language and ethics and aesthetics. Dissertation on the work of Iris Murdoch. Particular focus on “the idea of the unconscious.”
Private Practice Counseling, August 1997-August 2008
-*Early at Oregon State University I regularly taught formal and informal logic/writing to beginning students of philosophy. Advanced classes included comparisons of the formal ethics of female and male writers (inspired by writer Carol Gilligan), the work of Iris Murdoch, and Advanced Ethics.
- Grant-writing/Fundraising: As an undergrad wrote, won and directed a major grant under the NSF Student Study Program to examine minority enrollment trends in Ohio’s 12 State Universities. Results were presented in Washington, D.C. I also wrote, won and directed a grant from Lane County Mental Health Services to work with mothers of sexually abused children (a part of the puzzle often ignored) at The Center for Family Development, Eugene. In 2015 co-wrote a successful $3000 grant from Eugene Cultural Services for Print!Eugene. Prior Lead Fundraiser for public schools and Dem. Party of Lane County, OR.
Volunteer Counseling:
- Center for Community Counseling, Eugene, OR
- Volunteers in Medicine, Springfield, OR
- Planned Parenthood (counseled staff when they were first giving HIV tests)
- General: I like unusual solutions. I developed and taught chess to children when my own were young – primarily for the secondary gains of sequential thinking and learning how to deal with competition in a graceful way. The program grew to three schools under my leadership. When my students began being bullied for playing chess, I raised funds and in-kind services to develop a series of ten posters featuring community leaders plus UO top athletes playing chess in unusual situations with young kids. The caption was: “Some of the coolest people play chess.” We were able to donate all ten posters to every public school in three cities.
Academic History:
1975-1979: B.Phil. Interdisc. Studies in the Western College Program at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio.; focus on philosophy and literature;
1980-1982: M.A. Philosophy, Univ. of Oregon, GTF all years;
1982-1991: Ph.D. Philosophy, Univ. of N. Carolina- Chapel Hill, GTF all years;
1991-1993: M.S. Counseling Psychology, University of Oregon;
2011: One year at Lane Community College Small Business Program
2010 – 2016: Art and Art History at Lane Community College, Eugene, OR;
2017 – 2019: BFA, Oregon State University, School of Arts and Communications; major in studio arts, focus on painting and sculpture; minor in (cont.) art history.
2020 – 2022: MFA in Art/Visual Studies. Pacific NW College of Art (Portland, OR) Low-residency/intensive mentorship from world-wide artists, philosophers, writers. *My MFA and most of my art for the last ten years has been on the topic of effects of incarceration for those inside and their families.
2011 I took a certificate course at Lane Community College in business before opening gallery.
International Volunteer: In September, 2015, I was invited to teach art in Moshi, Tanzania. Good Hope is a support school for children who have failed the national exam that allows them to attend public secondary school. Each year 50 - 80% of Tanzanians fail this exam due to issues related to subsistence living or health. I then served on the Good Hope Support Organization’s Board of Directors for one year.
Amy Isler Gibson: Art Exhibitions:
“From Holga with Love,” Karin Clarke Gallery, Eugene, OR, Nov. 2016
“Art Civil War: OSU Art in Eugene,” Fertilab, Eugene, OR March 2017
“Connecting Territories,” Linn-Benton Community College, Sept.-Oct. 2017
“The Gorgeous Nothings,” Moreland Hall, OSU, Sept 2017 - 2018
“Call and Response,” Moreland Hall, OSU, Sept. 2017 – 2018
“OSU Sea Grant Celebration Show,” (Creative Coast Program) Hatfield Marine
Science Center, Newport, OR 2017
“Montage,” Fairbanks Hall, OSU, Corvallis, OR Dec. 2017
“Life on a Grain of Sand,” permanent exhibit, Hatfield Marine Science Center,
Newport, OR, 2017 – present
“Tribute,” solo show, West Gallery, Fairbanks Hall, OSU, Feb. 2018
“Tension,” performance piece for show “Superregional,” Fairbanks Hall,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Feb. 8, 2018
“Howland Community Open,” The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, Feb 2018
“Our Energy, Our Planet, Our Future,” Giustina Gallery, La Sells Ct., OSU,
Apr., 2019
"Mnèmon VIII" Caselli Eventi e IL PRISMAmultimedia Siena. Anno europeo dell
acqua" -- Fortezza Medicea, Siena, Italy. 22-30 aprile 2018
“Sea and Me,” Oregon State University, May 2018
“VP Faculty Excellence Awards, Creative Oregon,” Oregon State Univ., May 14, 2018
“Space,” OSU-NASA Offices, one year exhibition, 2018-2019
“Art Saves Lives,” The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, Feb 2018
“A Lived Experience: A For-Freedoms Exhibition," West Gallery, Oregon State Univ., Oct. 2018
“Fahrenheit 481,” Linn-Benton Comm. College, Albany, OR Nov. 2018 – Jan. 19
“The Power of Collaboration,” featured artist, Blue 7 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA,
Feb., 2019
“Encaustics,” Lotus Gallery, Eugene, OR Feb 2019
“Veer,” Pleinkeiwisch Scholars Show, Fairbanks Gallery, Corvallis, OR, 3/2019
“Weapons of Micro Destruction,” Corvallis Public Library, Corv., OR 3/31, 2019
“OSU BFA Show, “ Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 6/2019
“Jackie and Amy: In Conversation,” art show + talk, Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR, 2019
“You Have Not Asked Enough of Me” Solo BFA Thesis Show, OSU, November 2019
“Light,” The Arts Center, Corvallis, November 2019
“Black Carbon,” Strand Gallery, Oregon State Univ., Nov. 2019
“2020: Moving Forward,” Linn Benton Community College, Oregon, January 2020
RADLAB: permanent installation, Oregon State University
PRISM: Oregon State University Art and Literary Magazine, Spring 2017
PRISM: Oregon State University Art and Literary Magazine, Spring 2018
“Dinner as Sculpture,” Eugene, OR, Spring 2018, 2019
“Artshine,” Featured online artist, 2020 ongoing
“AWAY” online gallery , British Columbia, Canada, 2020
“How Do We Heal?” The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, Winter 2020
“Black Box,” Pacific Northwest College of Arts, Portland, OR, Summer 2021
“Lane Community College Student Show,” Eugene, Oregon, April-May 2022
“Tiny Works for Ukraine,” Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, June, 2022
“Under the Net,” Solo Show, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, July 2022
“Little Art Gallery,” Oakland, CA, January 2022
“Still Under the Net,” Tate Gallery Eugene, Oregon May – June 2023
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Community Show, Eugene, Oregon, July 2022 and 2023
“Small and Weird,”Gagallery, Portland, OR, September 2023
“Portland Textile Month Collab” Gagallery, Portland, OR November 2023
“Bright Futures” ongoing collab UO/OSU artists/scientists, 2024/25; shows 2025 & 2026
Asian Celebration Eugene, OR, Feb. 7 2025
“Instruction Manual For A New Era,” Pacific NW Conceptual Art Center, May 2025
“One Thing Leads to Another,” Littman Gallery at Portland State University, Portland, OR,
PacificNorthwest Conceptual Art Center 75th Anniversary Retrospective, October 2025
False Faces and Facades, Gagallery, Portland, OR 2025
-(At my own gallery, The Gallery at the Watershed, 2012-2015 I curated all shows, plus as Ex. Director of Watershed Arts, same, plus:)
Curated “University of Oregon MFAs” Eugene, Winter 2016
Curated “The Unique Eye of Eric Johnson” Spring 2016
Organized lecture: “Conceptualism in Photography” by UO Professor Dan Powell, March, 2017
Organized many guest lectures by faculty and artists from Eugene and University of Oregon
Co-Curated: “March On” Broadway Commerce Building, Eugene, January 2017
Co-Curated show: “Fahrenheit 481” Linn Benton Community College, Fall 2018
Co-Curated “Vice Provost Awards for Faculty Excellence/Student Art Exhibition”
Oregon State University, 5.14.18
Curated Invitational: “OSU ART Civil War” Watershed Arts at Fertilab, Eugene, May, 2018
Co-Curating LB2020 OSU Art Linn Benton Comm. College, Albany, OR, Jan 2020
Guest Curator for The Arts Center, Corvallis, Oregon, November 2020.
Jurying/Judging: 1) UO Undergraduate Award Show, 2014
2) Coos Bay Community Art Show, 2016
3) Guest Jurist, Lake Oswego Art Fair, Spring 2021
Scholarships:
LCC : Scholarship for Women, 2014/2015
OSU: Truckenbrod-Kimball Art+Science Scholarship (2017/2018 + 2018/2019)
OSU: Pleinkeiwisch Prestigious Scholarship Award (2018/19, 2019/20, OSU)
PNCA: Merit Scholarship, 2020/2021, 2021/2022
Awards: Faculty Purchase Award, OSU BFA Show, Spring 2019 (work on permanent display at OSU Offices in Portland, OR)
Residencies: Wait-Listed, Djerassi 2020
Awards:
Faculty Purchase Award:
Oregon State University, 2019