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For Immediate Release						June 12, 1996
 
Lawrence University's Timm-Ballard Cited in National Art Competition
 
 
APPLETON, WIS. -  Lawrence University artist Charles Timm-Ballard was named the
third-place winner from among more than 1,500 entries in the recent Lincoln
(Calif.) Arts Alliance "Feats of Clay" national ceramics competition.  He was
cited for his 1995 work, "Emanations in the Spring Orchard," a landscape tile
piece.

Timm-Ballard, the Frederick Layton distinguished visiting professor of studio
art at Lawrence, has had his work featured in exhibitions at the Jane Hartsook
Gallery in New York City, the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, the
Thomas Berry Fine Arts in Minneapolis and the Lincoln (Calif.) Arts Center and
LawrenceUs own Wriston Art Center.  The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and
Letters Gallery in Madison will feature a solo exhibition of his work in
February, 1997.  

Named to Lawrence's Layton professorship in 1994, Timm-Ballard earlier this
year was one of 30 recipients of an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the
Arts Regional Visual Artist Fellowship.  He earned his bachelor of fine arts
degree from UW-Milwaukee and his master of fine arts degree from the University
of Nebraska.  -30-