CURRICULUM VITAE
Selected Education
2015
Art 4 Healing Certificate Program, Brandman University-Chapman University System, Laguna Hills, CA
2003
MFA, California State University, San Diego
1998
BA, Applied Arts and Science, Magna Cum Laude, California State University, San Diego
1988
Ceramic Teaching Degree, Duke’s School of Clay and Fine Arts, Charleston, SC
Solo Exhibitions
2027
Remember: A Show to Honor those who have Experienced Sexual Trauma, Installation, Grossmont College Hyde Gallery, El Cajon, CA
2026
Remember: A Show to Honor those who have Experienced Sexual Trauma, Installation, Las Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Linda Litteral: Work in Progress, Homestead Gallery, Mojaveland, 29 Palms, CA
2022
Linda Litteral: New Work, Cowboy Dressing Room Gallery, Mojaveland, 29 Palms, CA
2020
Linda Litteral: Pathways, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
2019
Flourish, Klamath Art Gallery, Paintings and Ceramics, Klamath Falls, OR
2002
show and tell, Everette G Jackson Gallery, MFA Exhibition, San Diego, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Fall of Freedom: FIG Artists Respond, online exhibition, Feminist Image Group
Studio Door Artists Past and Present, Curator: Patric Stillman, The Studio Door, San Diego, CA
An Artist’s Duty: Written Words, Spoken Truth, Curator: Yvette Roman, Xikanx Collective, The Woo, San Diego, CA
FIG: 15 Years, Curator: Stacie Birky Greene, Art Produce, San Diego, CA
Women Work Together, Feminist Image Group, Curator: Elizabeth Tobias, Shoebox Projects, Las Angeles, CA
FIG: 15 Years, Curator: Stacie Birky Greene, Art Produce, San Diego, CA
2024
Holding Onto Hope, Curator: Aleric Lopez, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA
Room in a Room in a Room, Curator: Cornel Fodoreanu, LOS/NR (los not required), La Jolla, CA
Creating in Community, Curator: Alessandra Moctezuma, Space 4 Art Artists, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
Roots, Curated by Ellen Spertz and Paul Henry, Phes Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Women Work Together, Curator: Elizabeth Tobias Mandell Weiss Gallery, Feminist Image Group, NTC Liberty Station, San Diego, CA
Allied Craftsmen: Hands on Design, Juror: Guusje Sanders, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Trauma, Curated by: Ted Meyers and Annie Claflin, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
Collective Retrospective, Jurors Cindy Zimmerman and Judith Christensen, Art Produce, San Diego, CA
2023
Collective Retrospective, Instagram show, Jurors: Cindy Zimmerman and Judith Christensen
The Last Group Show, Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA
Common Spaces, Curator: Kanthy Peng, Space 4 Art, San Diego CA
Waiting Room: Contemporary Craft & Wellness, Curator: Bonnie Domingos, San Diego Central Library Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
Climate Reckoning, Curator: Alex Decosta, Feminist Image Group (FIG), Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
2022-2023
Portraits from the Anthropocene Part 1, We Gallery, NTC Liberty Station, Dance Place, San Diego, CA
2022
Evocations: Memory, Art Prize 2022, Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI
Unfolding, Allied Craftsman Group show, Francis Parker Rose Gallery, San Diego, CA
Portals, Feminist Image Group show, Curated by Ellen Spertz and Paul Henry, Phes Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2021
Mojaveland, Installation Art Exhibition, Curated by Anna Stump, 29 Palms, CA
Crafting Memory: Allied Craftsmen of San Diego, Curated by Beth Solomon Marino: Associate Director of Museum and Visual Arts, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
2020
The Walk: A Meditation, Desert Dairy Artist Residency, Permanent Earthworks, Project, 29 Palms, CA
Contingent Upon, Allied Craftsmen, Curated by Marisol Rendon, Soutwestern College Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
Allied Craftsmen, Front Porch Gallery, Curated by J. Weaverling, Carlsbad, CA
Artist Books, Central Library, Dickinson Popular Library, Feminist Image Group, (FIG) San Diego, CA
2019
Tiny Pricks Project, online exhibition, Curated by Diana Weymar
That's What She Said...Artists Speak Out, Curated by Stacie Birky Greene, Martha Pace Swift Gallery, San Diego, CA
Indoors/Outdoors, Bread and Salt, Curators: Sarah Trujillo-Porter, Daniela Kelly, Antheneum Art Center, San Diego, CA
Inside/Outside, curator: Kathleen Mitchell, Art Produce, San Diego, CA
2018
Space 4 Art - Convergence, Curator: Emily Knapp, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
Women: Art and Poetry, FIG (Feminist Image Group), Lyceum Theater Lower Gallery at the REP, Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA
Futurecraft, Allied Craftsman, Curator: Sasha Jonestein, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Eye See Me, Curator: Tish McAllise Sjoberg, Expressive Arts, San Diego, CA
Betrayed: Kathleen Mitchell and Linda Litteral, Krogen Amerika Gallery, Linkoping, Sweden
Feminism Now, FIG (Feminist Image Group) Curators: Asa Kvissberg, Anna Stump, Grafiska Sallskapet Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Mind the G A P, FIG (Feminist Image Group) Curator: Prudence Horne, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
2017
Chroma, Curator: Petra Wright, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Material Obsessions, Allied Crafsman, Curator: Emily Knapp, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
Haven, Curator: Mesa College Museum Studies, Cultura Gallery, San Diego, CA
Don’t Shut Up, Feminist Image Group (FIG), Curator: Linda Litteral, San Diego City College Gallery, San Diego, CA
Nasty Women Exhibition, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
2016
Finding Walter Hopps, D&H Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Nightstand, Feminist Image Group (FIG), Women's History Museum, San Diego, CA
Feminism Now, Feminist Image Group (FIG), Gallery D, San Diego., CA
2015
Beauty: The Hidden Story, Encinitas Civic Arts Program, Community Center, Encinitas, CA
Date Night, TARP Reform, Friends Collective, Helmuth Projects, PoderesUnidos,
A ship in the Woods, Space 4 Art, SPF 15, UAG, and Untitled Space, Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA
Women at War, Feminist Image Group (FIG), Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
2014
Jars, Feminist Image Group (FIG), Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Fence/La Barda, Feminist Image Group (FIG), in Collaboration with Tijuana’s Distrito Diez Gallery, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
Storyteller Pyro Sync’d, Burning Man, Ryan Ellis and Linda Litteral, Black Rock City, NV
Spectrum, Raw Artists, Curator, Brittany Guarino, House of Blues, San Diego, CA
2013
Art Prize, Elizabeth Hertl, Curator, Cathedral Square Exhibition Center, Grand Rapids, MI
Allied Craftsmen Today, Curators Jackie Hwang, Christine Knoke, Rob Sidner and Jerry Maloney, Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
Gift, Feminist Image Group, Curator, Allessandra Moctozuma, San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2012
Officially Unofficial, ArtPrize, Curator, Ron Pederson, Cathedral Square Exhibition Center, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI
Reflection: A Look into the Mirror of Society, Benjamin Dehart, Linda Litteral, Jessica Rose, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA
2011
Working With Clay, Sierra Mesa Library, San Diego, CA
Toy Art International, Museu Brasileira De Escultura, (The Brazil Museum of Culture), Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010
Works on Paper, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
ArtPrize, Curator, Ron Pederson, Cathedral Square Exhibition Center, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI
Material Matters: Selected Works by Members of Allied Craftsmen, Curator, Olivea Luther, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
The Self Portrait Project, Curator: Steven Peterman, The Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
The Teapot Show,Curators, Barbara Broadwell and Charleen Weidell, JRB Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Faculty Exhibition, Mesa College, Mesa Gallery, San Diego, CA
2009
The Canvas Project, Curator, The Art House Co-op, Atlanta Airport, Atlanta, GA
2008
Global Positioning/ China, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdzhen, China.
Contemporary Craft, Curators, Barbara Broadwell and Charleen Weidell, JRB Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Faculty Exhibition, Mesa Gallery, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
2006
San Diego Design: New work from Allied Craftsmen, Curator, Beth Smith, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Southwestern Clay, Curator, Judith Nicolaidis, Southfair, Del Mar, CA
2005
Home Sweet Home, Curator, Terri Hughes, San Diego International Airport and San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Diego, CA
2004-08
Faculty Exhibition, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
2004
Allied Craftsmen: New Work, Grove Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2003
NCECA, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
NCECA, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
California State University, San Diego Graduate Alumni, NCECA, Town and Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA
Grossmont College Graduate Alumni, NCECA, Town and Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA
2001
Altered State, Curator: Linda Litteral, Flor y Canto Gallery, California State University, San Diego
1992
The Art of Healing II, National Invitational, Lake Shore Hospital, Manchester, NH
1990
The Art of Healing I, National Invitational, Forum Court, Dover, NH
1989 – 1991
Member Exhibitions, York Fine Art Gallery, York, ME
1988
North and South Carolina Ceramic Invitational, Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, NC
Murals
2014
Portrait of a Community, Visiting Artist: Linda Litteral, Teacher: Bryan Black, 5’x112’, Retaining Wall, Crawford High School, 51st Street, San Diego, CA
2002
Summer Days, 10’x12’, Barn Mural, Jackson, MI
Awards, Grants, and Residencies
2026
Grantee, Healing Through the Arts and Nature Initiative, Prebys Foundation, San Diego, CA
2025
Grantee, Healing Through the Arts and Nature Initiative, Prebys Foundation, San Diego, CA
Award of Recognition, Healing Through Arts Initiative, Tasha Boerner, Assemblymember, District 77, California Legislature
Artist in Residence, Dorland Mountain Arts, Temecula, CA
2024
Artist in Residence, Dorland Mountain Arts, Temecula, CA
2023
Artist in Residence, Desert Dairy, 29 Palms, CA
2022
Artist in Residence, Desert Dairy, 29 Palms, CA
2021
Artist in Residence, Desert Dairy, 29 Palms, CA
2020
Artist in Residence, Desert Dairy, 29 Palms, CA
2018
Artist in Residence, Centre Pompadour, A Laboratory for Neo-Feminism, Ercourt, France
2009
Artist in Residence, Sculpture Symposium, Gyorgy Bronze Foundry, Ogens, Switzerland
2005
Teaching Excellence Award: Adjunct of the Year, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
2003
Artist in Residence, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
2001
Ecuador Travel Grant, California State University, San Diego
Recognition Award, “Dysfunctional,” Colorado Springs, CO
1999
Scholarship, Peter King Workshop, Nottingham Center for the Arts, San Marcos, CA
1997
Scholarship, San Diego Weavers Guild, San Diego, CA
1995
Photography Workshop Scholarship, Museum of Photographic Art
Selected Teaching, Curatorial, and Related Professional Projects
2025
Instructor, “Healing Art Process,” East Mesa Reentry Facility, Otay Mesa, CA
Curator, Duets, Feminist Image Group (FIG) exhibition, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Instructor, “Healing Art Process,” Space 4 Art, Monarch School, San Diego, CA
2022
Instructor, “Healing Art Process,” Space 4 Art, Crawford High School, San Diego, CA
2019
”Arts In Corrections: Reframing the Landscape of Justice”, California Lawyers for the Arts, The Williams James Association, The Justice Arts Coalition, Santa Clara University
Workshop, “Working with Women Inside, Linda Litteral and Dave Barton,” Master Artist Class: “Expressing Trauma With Line,” Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2018-21
Instructor, ”Healing Art Process: Project Paint,” Donovan Correctional Center, San Diego, CA
2018
Panel Speaker, Fresh Start Art Exhibition, Project Paint, Donavan State Prison, San Diego, CA
”Healing Process Meets Stupid Art Class,” Bluestocking Bookstore, New York, NY
2017
Art Instructor, STARS: Helping Girls from Human Sex Trafficking
Curator, Don’t Shut Up, Feminist Image Group (FIG) exhibition, San Diego City College Gallery, San Diego, CA
2015 - Present
Visiting Artist, "Drawing Trauma with Line,” “Developing a Coloring Book,” “Healing with Color,” Las Colinas Women's Detention Center, Santee, CA
Director, “Voice for the Voiceless: Healing Art Process”
2014
Visiting Artist, “Self portraiture and Murals,” San Diego Cultural Arts Alliance, Crawford High School, San Diego, CA
House Building Workshop, Art Produce, San Diego, CA
”Portrait of a Community,” Mega Conference, San Diego County Art Education Association, Balboa Park, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
2012 – 2015
Director of Arts Education, San Diego Cultural Arts Alliance, San Diego, CA
2009
”A Woman Artist Influenced by Women Artists,” Women's History Month, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
2008
Adjunct Faculty: Contemporary Crafts, Miramar College, San Diego, CA
Figurative Work in Ceramics, Coronado High School, Coronado, CA
”Photographing your Artwork,” CASD, San Diego, CA
2005 – 2010
Adjunct Faculty, Beginning, and Intermediate and Advanced Ceramics, Ceramics: Emphasis in Women Studies, Glaze Calculation, Three Dimensional Design, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
2005 – 07
Board of Directors, Clay Artists of San Diego
2005
Adjunct Faculty, Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Ceramics, History of Ceramic Art, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2004 - 2008
Adjunct Faculty:,Art Portfolio for Ceramic Students, Ceramic Issues Development, Clay & Glaze Technology, Beginning Ceramics, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
2003 – 2004
Adjunct Faculty, Art Appreciation: Intro to Art, California State University, San Diego
2001
Slide presentation, Ecuador Workshops, California State University, San Diego
Ceramic hand building workshop, Coronado High School, Coronado, CA
Work and Influences presentation, Universidad Nationale, Quito, Ecuador
2000
Panel presentation, Women and Self-Portraiture, California State University, San Diego
1999
Glaze Workshop, El Capitan High School, Lakeside, CA
1998
Throwing and Glazing Workshop, Navy Wives Club, USS Pogy SSN
Professional Affiliations
2019-Present
Board of Directors, San Diego Space 4 Art
2017-Lifetime
Member, Women's Caucus for Art
2013 – 2015
Member, San Diego Cultural Arts Alliance
2012 - Present
Member, Feminist Image Group (FIG), San Diego, CA
2011 - Present
Member, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA
2005 – Present
Member, American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
2005 – Present
Member, Clay Artists of San Diego (CASD)
2004 – Present
Member, Allied Craftsmen, San Diego, CA
2002 – Present
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 – Present
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1996 – Present
National Council for Ceramic Education (NCECA)
Selected Bibliography & Media
2025
The Perch Journal Fall edition #8, 2025, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Eric Brown, ”Space 4 Art: A Home for Art and Healing in San Diego’s East Village,” Visual and Performing Arts Blog, Prebys Foundation, January 14, 2025
2024
”Art of the City: Showing and telling is the goal for San Diego multidisciplinary artist”, San Diego Union Tribune, Seth Combs, April 30, 2024
Brad Weber, ”Linda Gail Litteral—Artist,” The Faces of San Diego, CA, February 1, 2024
“Mandell Weiss Gallery,” L’Chaim San Diego Magazine, February, 4, 2024
2023
Vallo Riberto, “Waiting Room: Craft and Wellness at the Central Library Gallery,” SD Visual Arts.Net, August 29, 2023
Linda Litteral, Show and Tell, Empress Publications
2022
Madalyn Buursma, “Artprize: For abuse survivor, art is ‘easier than words,” Wood TV, September 19, 2022
”Q & A with Linda Litteral,” Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
Karla Peterson, ”She was saved by art. Now abuse-survivor Linda Litteral is sharing the healing power of creativity to save others, too”, San Diego Union Tribune, May 19, 2022
2021
Taylor Griggs, “Love Letter to Linda Litteral,” Variable West, February 9, 2021
”The Walk Project by Linda Litteral,” video interview, Art and Med, January 10, 2021
2020
Shoutout SoCa, SD Voyager, Patrick Harris
California Clay Competition, The Artery, Juror: Scott Parady, Davis, CA
”Linda Litteral: A Solo Show,” Art Beat: Pacific Magazine, March, 2020
2019
Randi Bjornstad, “Healing Herself and Others Through Art Has Been the Driving Force Behind Linda Litteral’s Paintings and Ceramics”, Eugene Scene, July 12, 2019
“Warrior, Artist, Woman. A Litteral Champion of the Cause”, Apotheosis Art
Sarah Pfledderer, “San Diego Art Institute Gives Female Artists the Reins”, San Diego Magazine, May 24, 2019
Justine Aura Nemoy, “Linda Litteral: Klammath Falls, Oregon,” video, July 20, 2019
”Beyond Blue: Echoes of Color,” Project Paint and Linda Litteral, KDP
2018
Stephanie Hernandez, "Meet Linda Litteral", SD Voyager, November 20, 2018
Centre Pompadour, Interview of Linda Litteral An Interview by Micheala Spiegel
Linda Litteral, "Linda Litteral Art", Tribal Print Source, Pala, CA
Leif Mattsson, "In Feministic Manifestation", June 6, 2018
Linda Litteral, "Words from Las Colinas", Catalog, Krogen Amerika, Linkoping, Sweden
Ostgota Correspondenten, Victor Bomgren, "Krogen har fatt besok fran Amerika", May 23, 2018
Peter Rowe, "A Different Kind of Prison Experience," The San Diego Union Tribune, April 8, 2018
Linda Litteral, "Meditation 10," Creative Handbook, Production Resources, Sinclair Printing, Entertainers Preimier Resources, Pg. 16
2017
Don't Shut Up, Catalog, Tribal Print Source, Pala, CA
Laurie Delk,"Don't Shut Up Exhibit Showcases Female Artists," Pacific/Discover San Diego
2016
Mary Burzlaff Bostic, Artists' & Graphics Designer's Market 2016, Center for Diversified Art
Seth Combs, "To See or Not to See: Night Stand", San Diego City Beat
Laurie Delk, "Artists Present an Impressive Body of Work at Sparks Gallery," San Diego Union Tribune
A Feminist Coloring Book, Feminist Image Group (FIG), San Diego., CA
Art Collector World Magazine, May, 2016, ArtCoWo Press
The Monthly, The Studio Door, Promoting Contemporary Artists, San Diego, CA
2015
"The Studio Door Provides An 'Arts Incubator,” video, KPBS Public Media, May 1, 2015
”50 To Watch: Highlighting San Diego Visual Artists," The Studio Door, San Diego, CA
2014
International Contemporary Artists, Curator, Julie Adison, I.C.A. Publishers, Athens, Greece.
2013
Allied Craftsmen Today, Mingei International Museum, Produced by Allied Craftsmen, San Diego, CA
”Spotlight on Linda Litteral,” video interview, Space for Art Documentary Series, May 30, 2013
2011
International Dictionary of Artists, Despina Tunberg-Biannopoulou, World Wide Art Books, Santa Barbara, CA
2010
Joseph Becherer, "ARTPRIZE: Unexpected Art at Church", The Grand Rapids Press, October 1, 2010
2008
“Crafting Content”, J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Linda Litteral, “Letter from China,” Critical Ceramics
2007
Patricia Morris Buckley, “Trios Gallery Hosts Allied Craftsmen Exhibition”, North County Times, November 1, 2007
Paul Lewing, “China Paint and Overglaze,” The American Ceramics Society, Westerville, OH
2002
Marsha Manna, “Refining (and Redefining) Fine Art”, San Diego Union Tribune, September 12, 2002
2001
Dave Rootes, “Artbreak Improbable Pottery”, Colorado Springs Independent, June 28, 2001
1999
Dextra Frankel, “California Contemporary Craft”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Associated Websites
Sparks Gallery
Clay Artists of San Diego
Feminist Image Group (Facebook page)
Space 4 Art Resident Artists
Allied Craftsmen of San Diego
Sugar Museum: Gingerbread Houses by Contemporary Artists
Wheels of Clay: Linda Litteral
Collections
Bob Calland
Denise D. Johnson
Kirstin Young
Marilee Hong
Museu Brasilerio da Escultura, Brazil
Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts, California State University, San Diego
Art Department, California State University, San Diego
Patricia Alksne
Sherry and Dan Mckim
Andrea Schmidt
Eric Rempe
Ben Aubert
Suzanne Schmidt
Suzie and Ron Triplet, Suzies Gourmet Gifts
Antoinette and Alexandra Williams
Leonard and Nancy Litteral
Michael McCright, Body Mind Connection