Lisa Goldfarb

Get to Know Lisa

Lisa Mulmed Goldfarb was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lisa was introduced to artistic talent at a young age through her main inspiration, her mother, Rosetta Froug Mulmed. Her mother’s love for finding the beauty in everything, combined with her artistic talent of oil portraits, gave Lisa an introduction to the creative world of art. Lisa received a BFA in Art Education, with a minor in ceramics from the University of Oklahoma in 1974. At OU, another inspiration, ceramics teacher Roger Corsaw, established Raku into her hand-building repertoire. After college, Lisa began her career as an Art teacher. However, soon recognizing that art was integrated into all academic disciplines, she started her career as a teacher, for the next 35 years, at Undercroft Montessori School. With great satisfaction, Lisa has been crafting ceramics her entire life. However, she only recently began exhibiting and commissioning her unique designs. Lisa’s contemporary pieces she makes using the raku glazing skill, with a variety of glazes. Her signature technique creations are slab-built reliquaries. Although a ceramic piece may be created with a particular emotion in mind, Lisa loves the mystery and unpredictability of her end products. She believes they encourage the element of surprise, combined with one's interpretation of feeling and emotion. Lisa continues to love learning new techniques, enjoys challenging herself creatively and continues to carry on her mother’s love for beauty by integrating nature into her ceramics.
Showings to Date:
Steve Liggett’s Gallery
108 Contemporary Featured Artist in Gift Shop
108 Oklahoma Artist’s Show
Audubon Wildlife Show
Sherwin Miller Jewish Women in Art
One Woman Show Sherwin Miller Jewish Museum
108 Gift Shop 2023-2024

More About Lisa's Work

I attended the University of Oklahoma, receiving a BFA in Art Education with a minor in ceramics. This began my insight into the infinite possibilities with clay, creating unique ceramics since. Constantly thinking of new creative ideas, I crave ways to assimilate new mediums into my pottery, with the emergence of new shapes, forms, and textures. Each piece is formed with loving creation, believing the element of unpredictability brings the aspect of incredible surprise. While they may turn out to be the opposite of the original intention, all are structurally beautiful, function individually, and uniquely free for all to discover their own emotions. Feeling honored when one wants to bring pieces into their home, with hopes it inspires those on their own artistic journey, filled with love and exploration. Now 71 years young, with the same energy and enthusiasm for clay, my current focus is slab-built forms. Not only do I still maintain the canvas of magic, but hopes it gives the observer the same enchantment and empowerment of voice it gives me.