Misty Gamble
Assistant Professor of Art
Office: Mary Moody Northern Hall 134
Email: mgamble@wtamu.edu
Phone: 510-520-8013
Professional Profile
Misty received her MFA from San Francisco State University in 2007. She was a full time Assistant Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute for nearly a decade and has taught throughout Italy. Currently, she is 3D Area Head and Assistant Professor of Art at West Texas A&M University.
Teaching and Related Service
Gamble is the Founder of Studio Nong: International Sculpture Collective and Residency Program which travels to China and the US to accomplish residencies that focus on clay figurative sculpture. Misty is also the founder of TETRA: Women of Ceramics at the Texas A&M System, a partnership of four contemporary ceramic artist/educators who are dedicated to the pursuit of creative exchange and public outreach through exhibitions, symposiums and workshops. She has been a visiting artist at over 40 schools and art institutions and taught numerous workshops throughout the country and abroad.
Research and Creative Activity
A California transplanted feminist vegan living deep in cattle country on the High Plains of Texas, Gamble creates life-size ceramic figurative sculptures and installations of multiple ceramic cast fragments, focusing attention on issues surrounding ecofeminism.
Her current work sits at the intersection of feminism and environmentalism and looks to the relationship between human animals and non-human animals. She is currently looking at the overlap of feminist and vegan critical theory that discusses consumptive culture, and objectification in language and “the absent referent” in literature. Her work is inspired by research from The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams, which has become the classic articulation of the hidden connections between meat eating and patriarchy, vegetarianism and feminism.
Misty is the recipient of a number of awards, grants and fellowships from the National Conference for the Education of Ceramic Arts, the Ellice T. Johnston Foundation, Ruth Chenven Foundation, Martin Wong Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Windgate Foundation, Howard Kottler Fellowship, Byrdcliffe Fellowship, Ansley Park Fellowship, Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist Award, Lighton International Artists’ Exchange Program Grants, multiple development grants from the Kansas City Art Institute and the Texas A&M system.
Misty has been awarded over 20 long-term and short-term residencies and fellowships and exhibits her work both nationally and internationally.