Tip Toland

Toland's early works were wall reliefs in wood, clay and pigment. Her more recent three-dimensional stoneware sculptures are close to life size, sometimes larger. She uses paint, encaustic technique and hair to create figures with "uncanny skin quality, utterly convincing hand gestures and eerily spontaneous facial expressions."

Tip Toland studied at University of Colorado and Montana State University. Works named in the authority record are The Whistlers. Work by Tip Toland is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the American Craft Council.

In 1984 Toland moved to Seattle. Her various teaching positions have included Louisiana State University, the University of Washington, the University of Montana, and Montana State University; she has taught workshops around the U.S. and abroad. Toland's 2014 exhibit titled "The Persecution of People with Albinism in Tanzania" at the Portland Art Museum included sculptures of children and teens with albinism, drawing attention to prejudice and other dangers faced by those with albinism in some East African countries. In 2016, she was the Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University's Eleanor D. Wilson Museum. Tip Toland is currently represented by the Traver Gallery in Seattle.

• 2013-2014: Body & Soul: New International Ceramics, Museum of Arts & Design, New York

• 2007: Pacini Lubel Gallery • 2008 - 2009: Melt: The Figure in Clay, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington (catalog) • 2014: Apex: Tip Toland, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.

Tip Toland is recorded as having received Fellow of the American Craft Council.

Works by Toland are held by galleries and museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts (Arizona State University), Yellowstone Art Museum (Billings, Montana), Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, Missouri), and the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, Montana).