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, KCAI Faculty Development Grants, Lighton International Artists’ Exchange Program Grant and multiple grants from the Texas A&M system.
Misty has been awarded long-term residencies and fellowships at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, New Harmony Clay Project and the Armory Art Center and short-term residencies as an invited artist at Watershed, Project Art, C.R.E.T.A Rome, SACI Florence, Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, University of Montana, Buffalo Creek Art Center, Rowan University, Wildacres, and Vermont Studio Center.
Gamble is the Founder of Studio Nong: International Sculpture collective and residency program and Women of Ceramics at the Texas A&M. Studio Nong travels to China (2013, 2016), and the US (2015) to accomplish residencies that focus on clay figurative sculpture. Misty 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. She exhibits her work both nationally and internationally.
