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See Hiroshi  Suzuki  - Silver Waves
Silver Seduction, The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
From the Village to Vogue, The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
American Modernist Jewelry, 1940 - 1970
Calder Jewelry

Painting with Fire, Master Enamelists in America, 1930-1980
Rising Stars: A blazing trail of new talent
Woven in Time: The Intimate Relationship Between Costume and Jewelry
Objects of Desire, 500 Years of Jewelry
Modernism in American Silver

Alaska

Fairbanks

University of Alaska Museum of the North

Fairbanks began as a gold-mining town. The gold case displays small to fist-sized nuggets recovered from streams, as well as gold worked into artistic objects. This is the largest display of gold nuggets in the state.

www.uaf.edu/museum/exhibit

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Anchorage
 

RARE NATIVE HERITAGE OBJECTS RETURN HOME

In the first arrangement of its kind, the Smithsonian Institution is loaning hundreds of indigenous Alaska artifacts to their place of origin and allowing access for hands-on study by Alaska Native elders, artists and scholars. These cultural and historical treasures are exhibited in the new Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in the Anchorage Museum.

The center houses more than 600 objects from the Smithsonian's collections that were selected and interpreted with help from Alaska Native advisers. Examples include an 1893 Tlingit war helmet from the southeast Alaska village of Taku and a 1935 Inupiaq feast bowl from Wales, near Nome on Alaska’s northwest coast.

http://www.anchoragemuseum.org/expansion/smithsonian.aspx


Anchorage, Alaska

http://www.anchoragemuseum.org/

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Alabama

Huntsville
 
Huntsville Museum of Art

Jewelry artist Kathy Chan displays more than 75 works at the Huntsville Museum of Art

through August 16, 2010

Huntsville Museum of Art will present “Amore” and more than 75 other pieces of jewelry by Chan in its latest “Encounters” exhibition. “Encounters” is the museum’s long-standing showcase of regional artists and their works. Several paintings and dresses designed by Chan will also be on view.
 

http://www.hsvmuseum.org

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Mobile

Claudia DeMonte: Real Beauty Claudia DeMonte (American, b. 1947),
Female Fetish: 9/11 Teddy,2001, pewter and brass on wood.

April 30 - July 11, 2010

Claudia DeMonte is an accomplished and gifted artist, a dedicated teacher, a curator and a collector. The development of her art has taken her through a variety of materials: painted pulp paper sculptures, works in clay, photography installations, bronze and recently, in her Female Fetish series, pewter milagros nailed onto wooden sculptures.

Throughout her explorations of media, she has remained consistent. In each stage of her career, with each medium, she has combined sobering commentary on the status of women in the world with lighthearted humor. The exhibition of DeMonte’s work will be complemented in the Education Wing with her collection of handmade folk dolls from around the world.

Real Beauty will be accompanied by a new book on DeMonte’s career by Eleanor Heartney, with an introduction by Agnes Gund.

The exhibition is organized by the Mobile Museum of Art and Claudia DeMonte.

African and Asian Collection Gallery: Houses the David and Inger Duberman Collection of Chinese cloissoné as well as selections of works by African, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Turkish artists from the permanent collection.

Altmayer Gallery: Features works of American art from the permanent collection.

Katharine C. Cochrane Gallery of American Fine Art: Installation of American paintings, sculpture and furniture from the nineteenth century through contemporary art from the permanent collection and "The American Way" loan exhibition.

Maisel European Gallery: Overview of European paintings, prints, sculpture, and decorative arts from the permanent collection.

Riddick Glass Gallery: Features gifts of European decorative arts and contemporary European studio glass.

Public Information Officer
eric.gallichant(at)MobileMuseumOfArt.com

Chief Curator
prichelson(at)MobileMuseumOfArt.com

Curator of Exhibitions
dklooz(at)MobileMuseumOfArt.com

http://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/

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Arizona

Glendale

Bead Museum

www.beadmuseumaz.org.

New Greek Ceramic Beads!!

The Bead Museum Store has a shipment of incredible Greek Ceramic beads and metal spacers from Mykonos Beads!  The finishes include raku, copper, gold, antique silver, green patina, and various colors of the Mediterranean. 

The Measure of a Man in a Head-Taking Land:
Tribal Adornment of Nagaland India

Arizonans will soon get a glimpse into a culture that has traditionally been vehemently guarded and tucked away from the rest of the world. The Measure of a Man, which opens September 18, will take museum visitors on a journey to Nagaland, chronicling the unique cultures and practices of the peoples of Nagaland in northeast India. The exhibition will showcase an ornate society, layered with various types of adornment that hold intrinsic and societal importance.

The History of Beads                           

The exhibition presents a "time-line" of hundreds of original bead examples and their origins in time and place from 40 000.BCE until today. This showcases the originals in a display curated by Jamey Allen and the time-line first developed by researcher, Jamey Allen.

The Language of Beads

An introduction to the terminology used by bead researchers, collectors, traders and crafters to describe the vast variety of bead types, shapes and makes that make up this common language of reference for the specialist and bead enthusiast.

Beads from Nature

The rich diversity of beads fashioned from the natural materials of the earth using examples from the cultures of the world. The exhibition is presented in two sections: Organic Materials, or carbon based sources that include plant and animal based products

Nature has been the source for human adornment long before recorded history, as is evidenced by pierced shells found in ancient burial sites. The oldest confirmed beads are ostrich eggshell, found in the Rift Valley, Kenya dating 37,000 to 39,900 years ago.

Organics refer to carbon-based matter, which are largely plant and animal materials and/or the products produced by them. Organic material often decomposes, making the rare occurrence in a primitive burial site an exceptional find. So highly valued are many organic materials such as shells, amber, feathers and tusks that they have been used as objects of trade, hence a form of currency.

Inorganics or non-carbon based materials, are therefore naturally occurring material, which is non-biological in origin, ex. minerals and rocks. Carved stone beads and other inorganic materials have been prized for their beauty and rarity of perceived magical properties from early in human history.

Observing our physical world, appreciating its beauty and using it for personal adornment is a part of the universal human experience. The desire to embellish ourselves seems deeply ingrained, if not for personal pleasure then for symbolic attributes often expressing a spiritual belief. Products from nature remind us of our shared stewardship on Earth, all around us and a part of us. This exhibition shows examples of these products used as jewelry and trade, bringing distant tribal expressions to us.

http://www.beadmuseumaz.org/

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Mesa

Mesa Arts Center

The Mesa Contemporary Arts Collection contains nearly 200 objects in all media including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and decorative arts objects, and is presented in a series of exhibitions in the SRP Permanent Collection Gallery.

30th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition

Highlighting the finest in contemporary crafts from around the country, Mesa Contemporary Art’s Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition has become a benchmark for innovation and quality. This year represents a milestone for the museum as it celebrates the 30th anniversary of this popular juried exhibition. Representative of traditional craft mediums including ceramics, fibers, basketry, metals, wood, glass, jewelry, papermaking and book arts, this exhibition showcases 58 artworks by 39 artists from 14 states.

Jewelry & Metals Studio

The Jewelry and Metalsmithing Program was designed to teach traditional and ancient techniques as well as contemporary innovations using a combination of technology, history and art. Beginners learn the art and craft of metal work while accomplished artists find a stimulating environment where they can explore new techniques and develop and share ideas with other artists.

Sculpture Studio

The new Sculpture Studio and Terrace provide a fluid indoor/outdoor space ideal for creating in a variety of media. Students master techniques while creating work that explores visual history, human-made forms and the natural world.

The Sculpture Program is new to the Mesa Arts Center. Courses offered in the inaugural session are based on the skills of our first Artist in Residence, Derrell Tousley. Basic Sculpture, Steel Fabrication, Welding, Stone Carving and Kinetic Art are offered as initial classes.

Resurrect

http://www.mesaartscenter.com/main.aspx

http://www.mesaartscenter.com/

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Phoenix

Heard Museum

HOME: Native People in the Southwest
 
Experience the Heard's most prized masterpieces, sweeping landscapes, poetry and personal recollections on an unforgettable journey through the Southwest and the vibrant arts and cultures of Native people. Quotes and interviews with artists and Native community members are interwoven throughout the exhibition reflecting on the importance of family, community, land and languages. Join us for an exciting trip through the American Indian Southwest, from the distant past to today.

HOME features:

* Nearly 2,000 treasures including jewelry, cultural items, pottery, baskets, textiles, beadwork and more.
* 500 Hopi katsina dolls on display from the Goldwater and Harvey Company collections.
* 30-foot stunning glass and clay art fence by Tony Jojola, Isleta, and Rosemary Lonewolf, Santa Clara/Tewa.
* Garden filled with native plants and trees.
* Interactive e-room with access to Web sites, radio stations, and Native newspapers and magazines.
* Multimedia and interactive displays, free films and a video gallery showing the new production HOME.
* Full-sized Navajo hogan, Hopi piki room, Yaqui ramada and Pueblo oven.
* 21-foot mural featuring a cultural portrait of the Yaqui people by Mario Martinez, Pascua Yaqui.

Tour the global span of the Heard Museum’s permanent collection. This exhibit will focus on more than 75 years of collecting and preserving Native art and cultures in the Southwest and beyond. Starting with examples of work collected by museum founders, Dwight and Maie Heard, and including donations by artists and collectors such as Byron Harvey and Richard Faletti, the exhibit features objects and artwork from indigenous peoples of North and South America as well as Oceania. Housed in the newly renovated COMPAS gallery.

Gifts to Celebrate! The Heard Museum's 75th Anniversary

This exhibit showcases an extensive array of objects most of which have never before been on display from the Heard’s renowned 32,000 object collection. From textiles to jewelry, metalwork to sculpture and katsina dolls, the show’s diversity is a testament to the growth and development of the Heard’s collection during its 75-year history.

http://www.heard.org/

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Santa Fe

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Tucson

Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona

PATHS OF LIFE: American Indians of the Southwest

This exhibition showcases the origins, history and contemporary cultures of southwestern indigenous peoples in an exciting mix of prehistoric artifacts, historic objects, commissioned artwork, video interviews, and life-cast dioramas.

WATERCARRIER," a bronze sculpture by Apache artist Craig Dan Goseyun, adorns the front entrance of ASM's north building. Purchased by Arnold and Doris Roland as a generous gift to the museum, "Watercarrier" represents one of the most vital elements to a desert community—water.

http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/

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Arkansas

Little Rock

Arkansas Arts Center

The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK


 

May. 28 — Aug. 22
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
http://www.arkarts.com
Skillfully crafted figurative jewelry, infused with caustic humor, engages the unsuspecting viewer with stories of social, moral and political issues.

 

World of the Pharaohs
Egyptian Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 25, 2009 - July 3, 2010

World of the Pharaohs consists of more than 200 objects spanning 3,000 years of dynastic history. Dramatically illustrating the rich and diverse aspects of one of the world’s great civilizations, this exhibition showcases excavated material from the Pyramid age, widely regarded as Egypt’s finest hour. This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Arkansas Arts Center has been steadfastly committed to building a collection of unique works on paper, primarily American and European, from the Renaissance to the present. Among the most recognizable works in the collection are sheets by Cézanne, Van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alison Saar, Rembrandt and Rubens. The Arts Center Collection also features 135 drawings and watercolors by the Post-Impressionist Paul Signac, over 100 Post-Minimalist drawings, Arthur Dove's Sketchbook "E", and nearly 80 works by Will Barnet.

Masterworks in the collection include paintings by Diego Rivera, Odilon Redon and Francesco Bassano; sculpture by Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson and Roy Lichtenstein; and prints by Rembrandt, Whistler and Dürer.

The second major area of collecting is contemporary objects in craft media, including teapots by contemporary artists, contemporary baskets, turned wood objects, studio glass, ceramics, metalwork and jewelry designed by artists. Among the highlights are works by Dale Chihuly, Albert Paley, Peter Voulkos and Dorothy Gill Barnes.  

Currents in Contemporary Art

Ongoing
Organized by the Arkansas Arts Center

Currents in Contemporary Art features works of art from the permanent collection of the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation. The installation focuses on commonalities in the technique, materials, subject matter and concepts that have informed artists and their work in the 20th and 21st centuries.

52nd Annual Delta Exhibition

Young Arkansas Artists 49th Annual Exhibition

http://www.arkarts.com/

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California

Anaheim

MUZEO

241 S. Anaheim Blvd.
Anaheim, CA 92805

Parking is available in the structure on the corner of Center Street Promenade and South Lemon Street. Directions, Parking & Transportation >>

Phone: 714-95.MUZEO (714-956-8936)

Email: info@muzeo.org

http://www.anaheimmuseum.com/

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Carlsbad

The Gia Museum - The Gemological Institute of America
 
The museum's various collections are an opportunity to give the viewer some scientific understanding of gem's and gemstones and to enhance the public appreciation of the same when used in jewelry. The museum is also an invaluable resource for gemologists, scholars, craftspeople and jewelry historians.

Exhibits

Collections

Gems and Minerals

This collection comprises exceptional examples of gems and minerals from all significant global localities.

The Jewelry Collection

Historical and contemporary jewelry depict classic workmanship and signature elements related to specific styles and periods.

The Historical Collection

This sophisticated collection is dedicated to jewelry and objets d’art from earlier periods and cultures, and gemstones with known provenance from significant localities. Building this collection is the Museum’s current focus.

Contact GIA

800-421-7250

International
760-603-4000

marketing@gia.edu

http://www.gia.edu/research-resources/museum/collections/index.html

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Fresno

Fresno Art Museum

Phone: (559) 441-4221
Fax: (559) 441-4227
2233 N. First Street
Fresno, CA 93703


http://www.fresnoartmuseum.org

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Long Beach

Long Beach Museum of Art

Permanent Collection

The Museum's prized permanent collection includes approximately 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative arts objects (furnishings and accessories). Particular strengths lie in 300 years of American decorative arts objects, early 20th century European art, California Modernism and contemporary art of California.

 

NEW ADDITION GRACES LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART SCULPTURE GARDEN 

The Long Beach Museum of Art recently installed an untitled Norman Hines sculpture for permanent outdoor display in the sculpture garden. The untitled piece is part of the Museum's collection and was received as a gift in 2000 from Dr. Seldon and Sheriden Beebe. It is an abstract white marble sculpture approximately 24" tall by 18" deep by 46" wide. The sculpture has gained several monikers including "the egg," "the taco," and "the dumpling." Located in the Museum's Ella Reid Rose Garden on a specially constructed base, the 1,000 pound sculpture it is now on display free of charge and is accessible Tuesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90803
562-439-2119
Fax: 562-439-3587

http://www.lbma.org/

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Los Angeles

Hammer Contemporary Collection

Diana Al-HadidMay 15 - August 15, 2010

Sculptor Diana Al-Hadid constructs baroque architectural forms such as towers, labyrinths, and pipe organs that appear to be in a state of ruin. Using materials such as cardboard, plywood, plaster, and resin, Al-Hadid's sculptures are informed by an array of influences, both eastern and western–ancient Biblical and mythological narratives, Arabic oral traditions, Gothic architecture, iconic western painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy. For her first solo museum exhibition, Al-Hadid will be making a new piece inspired by the Islamic astronomer and inventor Al-Jazari's famous water clock built in 1206 and early Netherlandish Renaissance paintings.

Hammer Contemporary Collection

Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden

One of the most distinguished outdoor sculpture collections in the country, the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden spans more than five acres in UCLA's campus with over 70 sculptures by artists such as Jean Arp, Deborah Butterfield, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Auguste Rodin, and David Smith. 

In 2005 the Hammer launched a new initiative to build a collection of contemporary art. This growing collection is led by works on paper, particularly drawings and photographs, but also includes painting, sculpture, and media arts. The focus of the collection is on art created in the last ten years. Particular attention is paid to works by artists from Southern California, but the collection also represents artists working throughout the United States and internationally. When possible, artists are represented in depth, and works are acquired in tandem with exhibitions at the Hammer, particularly from the Hammer Projects series.
The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection is one of the most extensive collections of prints, drawings, paintings, and sculpture by the nineteenth-century French satirist Honoré Daumier. Also included are prints and drawings by many of Daumier's fellow nineteenth-century caricaturists. This collection provides a humorous window onto politics, culture, and day-to-day life in nineteenth-century France.10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310.443.7000

http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/exhibitions

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Fowler Museum UCLA

The Fowler's collections comprise more than 150,000 art and ethnographic and 600,000 archaeological objects representing ancient, traditional, and contemporary cultures of Africa, Native and Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific. From Yoruba beaded arts of Southern Nigeria, to pre-Columbian ceramic vessels of Peru, to elaborate batik textiles of Indonesia and the vibrant papier-mâché sculptures of Mexico, the Fowler's collections offer a comprehensive resource for exhibitions and scholarship central to the Museum's mandate.

Make Art/Stop AIDS is an internationally traveling exhibition debuting at the Fowler that explores how artists around the world are responding to HIV/AIDS and how their work raises awareness, inspires activism, and can ultimately help end global AIDS. Featuring examples primarily from the United States, South Africa, India and Brazil—four disparate nations whose distinct experiences with and responses to the epidemic make insightful studies —Make Art/Stop AIDS presents approximately sixty works including contemporary paintings and sculptures, photographs, performance videos, posters, animated shorts, digital media, installations and more to record the history of the epidemic, to appreciate its enormity, and to share information and ideas about future interventions. The exhibition features work by Robert Gober, David Wojnarowicz, Fiona Kirkwood, Daniel Goldstein, Jean Carlomusto, and the collective Gran Fury, among many others.

Inscribing Meaning brings together outstanding works of art from a range of periods, regions, genres, and peoples in order to consider the interplay between African art and the communicative power of graphic systems, language, and the written word. Explore the multiple messages and aesthetic intent of more than one hundred exceptional artworks—including ancient Egyptian funerary arts; masks, sculpture, textiles, and adornment from across the continent; illuminated liturgical texts; and the work of contemporary artists Rachid Koraïchi, Ghada Amer, Berni Searle, Ike Ude, Victor Ekpuk, Sue Williamson, Kim Berman, Yinka Shonibare, Wosene Kosrof, and many others.

Mailing:
Box 951549
Los Angeles CA 90095-1549

Phone: 310/825-4361
Fax: 310/206-7007
Email: fowlerws@arts.ucla.edu


See: http://www.modernsilver.com/silver_seduction.htm

http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/incEngine/

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Oakland

Oakland Museum of California

The Work of Margaret de Patta at the Oakland Museum from the Museum's permanent collection.

1000 Oak St.
Oakland, CA 94607

Phone: 510-238-2200
    TTY 510-451-3322

http://www.museumca.org/

12th Biennial International Juried Enamel ExhibitionOakland Art Gallery

http://www.museumca.org/

Northern California Enamel Guild's 10th International Juried Exhibition
Sep. 6 — Oct. 16, 2010
Lireille - Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art, Oakland, California
http://www.lireille.com

 

The Enamelist Society:
PO Box 920220
Norcross, GA 30010
Telephone: 770-807-0142
FAX: 770-676-9368
Email Us at info@EnamelistSociety.org


http://www.enamelistsociety.org/

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Palo Alto

Tom De Hoog, Metal Weaving & Sculpture Exhibit
 

14 July 2010 - 1 October 2010
M-F 8:00-5:00
PARC Lobby
Description

Tom De Hoog is an emerging artist and sculptor working from his studio in the hills above Woodside. There, he is applying his own approach to the concept of metal sculpture outside of the more mainstream metal art community.

His use of the weave as a central focus of many of the pieces offers his viewer something visually familiar and recognizable. He then continues to add layers of color and texture to each piece, adding shadows, weight, and complexity. The work’s attraction becomes more apparent over time because the full effect is not always immediately perceived. The application of unusual materials, and the way he handles the contours, finishes and patinas breaks with much of conventional metal art.

His work involves a great deal of physical labor and many pieces are time consuming and even exhausting. Tom believes that this energy transfer to the art is felt by the viewer.  This clear use of directly applied hands-on force, and special attention to detail, sets his work apart. Most pieces have minute detailing seen only at close range, although each also has an impact from normal viewing distance as well as a distance away.
 

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Pacific Palisades

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Golden Graves of Ancient Vani

About the Golden Graves of Ancient Vani

The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani presents an array of precious objects from the ancient kingdom of Colchis, in what is today the Republic of Georgia. The excavation of a series of rich burials and other discoveries at the city of Vani have revealed a highly developed culture that had its own religious and artistic practices, yet also embraced and adapted influences from neighboring peoples.

Highlights of the exhibition include spectacular assemblages of jewelry that display the talent and skill of local goldworkers, groups of imports from the Greek world and the Persian Empire, a series of enigmatic ritual figurines, and a life-size bronze torso. In addition, four bronze lamps that were discovered in 2007 are being displayed together in the exhibition for the first time. Two have been conserved by the Getty in collaboration with the Georgian National Museum.

Vani's Golden Graves

Known in myth as the destination of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece, the kingdom of Colchis was renowned as a region rich in gold. Excavations at the inland site of Vani have confirmed this reputation. Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered 28 burials dating to about 450–250 B.C. The bodies of the elite were typically adorned with a resplendent array of gold jewelry. Evidence from the site indicates that much of this jewelry was locally made.

The graves were usually covered with pebble mounds, and iron nails found in some of the burials suggest that wooden constructions were set inside. The deceased were sometimes accompanied by a number of servants and animals (such as horses and dogs), presumably sacrificed as companions for the afterlife. A variety of vessels and other grave goods were also deposited with the dead, many of which provide evidence for banqueting in the local funerary rituals.

Visitor Information:
The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.

Where to Find Us
17985 Pacific Coast Highway
Pacific Palisades, California 90272
(310) 440-7300

See hours, directions, parking for maps and directions and contact us for our mailing address: http://www.getty.edu/visit/hours/index.html

Please note that access to the Getty Villa entrance is only from the northbound right-hand lane of Pacific Coast Highway (PCH).

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Richmond

Richmond Art Center

Gallery I – "ODD MAN OUT"
Art and Objects (by Other Folks)

A Group Exhibition and Sale featuring Contemporary Southern Folk Art, Self-taught artists and Outsiders

"Odd Man Out" will feature unusual works from the hands of some of today's most noted names in Contemporary Southern Folk and Self-taught Art. With little or no formal art training, these creative folks have been recognized for their unique use of materials and techniques and have been featured in major folk art shows, galleries and museums throughout the United States. The show will include the raw red mud paintings of Georgia's Steven Chandler, the bluesy creations of Miz Thang, Rose Rosely's Southern fried half-baked folk art animals, Mama Girl's heartwarming paper mache sculptures and paintings, and the masking tape art of Richmond's Bart Schultz, along with others. Bart Schultz (VA), Liz Schneider (PA), Rose Rosely (NC), Miz Thang (GA), Mama Girl (VA), Chicken George Zupp (TX), The Georgia Red Mud Painter - Steve Chandler (GA), Mark May (PA)
 

Crossroads Art Center

Call For Entries For March Shows

Entries will be accepted
Wednesday March 10th - Sunday, March 14th
Three Shows To Enter

The "All Media Show", located in Rhoda MacCallum Gallery featuring the art from local artists in a variety of Mediums.

"Members Gallery Show"
Entry Fee is $10 per piece. Commission is 15%

Bustin' Out for Cancer at Crossroads Art Center
Bustin' Out for Cancer is a charity event sponsored by The Crossroads Art Center to be held at the March 2010 Indoor Artwalk and Open House. Part of the proceeds from the event will benefit The Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation (VBCF) and several other nonprofit groups involved in Breast Cancer Awareness.

http://www.crossroadsartcenter.com/gallery.html#gallery1


http://www.crossroadsartcenter.com/

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San Diego

San Diego Natural History Museum

All That Glitters: The Science and Splendor of Gems and Minerals
Through April 2012

Examines the unique geological forces that produced diamonds millions of years ago. Features an exquisite selection of mineral specimens, jewelry, and works of art.

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San Diego Museum of Art
 

Modern Mexican Art at SDMA and from Private Collections

As the first phase of a complete reinstallation of SDMA’s American galleries, Modern Mexican Art at SDMA and from Private Collections presents a selection of Mexican paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture that range in date from the late 19th to the early 21st century. This presentation includes examples of Realism as well as pieces influenced by the avant-garde movements of Cubism and Surrealism. To highlight the depth of SDMA’s collection, and to convey the Museum’s commitment to preserving these fragile works on paper, there will be two rotations: the first focusing on the early 20th century, and the second on the period roughly from the 1950s to the present day. Taken together, this selection of objects illuminates a critical period in both the art historical narrative of the country and the envisioning of modern Mexican identities.

http://www.sdmart.org
 

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San Diego Visual Arts Network

http://www.SDVAN.net

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Mingei International Museum
 

http://www.mingei.org/
 

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Marston House

This classic 1905 Arts and Crafts style museum home was built for noted civic leader and merchant, George W. Marston and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by renowned local architects William Hebbard and Irving Gill, it sits on five acres of landscaped English and California influenced gardens.

http://www.balboapark.org 

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San Diego Art Institute (SDAI): Museum of the Living Artist

A new exhibition of works by San Diego artists opens every four to six weeks in this 10,000-square-foot gallery, dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts through outreach, education, and exhibition. Solo artist exhibitions are also featured. The David Fleet Young Artists Gallery showcases youth art from San Diego schools. The gallery store offers jewelry and gift items made by local artists. 

.http://www.sandiego-art.org/

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Points of Departure
Helen Shirk and Alumni of SDSU

Jackson Gallery

San Diego State University
School of Art, Design and Art History

5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA  92182-4805

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San Francisco

Cartier and America

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, California

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The Art of Design:
Selections from the Permanent Collections

ongoing

A recently installed exhibition of 100 objects from the museum's 4000 works of architecture, graphic, and industrial design, includes work by Verner Panton, Gaetano Pesce, Frank Gehry, and other important 20th Century artists.

Architecture + Design Highlights

The regional and international scope of SFMOMA's architecture and design collection encompasses architectural models and drawings, and numerous design objects, ranging from appliances and furniture to textiles and posters. The department emphasizes experimental work in a broad range of design practices and in a variety of media including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and digital work.

All Highlights

SFMOMA’s collection comprises more than 25,000 works of modern and contemporary art, mirroring artistic developments occurring regionally, nationally, and internationally, in photography, painting and sculpture, architecture and design, and media arts.

SFMOMA's modern and contemporary art holdings include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some of the 20th and 21st centuries' most celebrated artists. The selection currently on view features works by Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Charles Sheeler, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, among other artists.

Matisse and Beyond - The Painting and Sculpture Collection

Ongoing

SFMOMA's modern and contemporary art holdings include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some of the 20th and 21st centuries' most celebrated artists. The selection currently on view features works by Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Charles Sheeler, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol, among other artists.

415-357-4000
http://www.sfmoma.org/

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San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design


San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, San Francisco, California

Location:
550 Sutter Street (between Powell and Mason)
San Francisco, CA 94102

Fred Ball, Pioneer in Glass and Metal

In 2004, the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design opened its doors as an unconventional start-up museum with an eye on exhibiting, interpreting and communicating contemporary work in craft and design. Our goal is simple: to encourage the appreciation and the understanding of craft and design, as well as to acknowledge their strong connections to each other. Pushing traditional boundaries between these disciplines allows us to experiment at the edge of what is possible in offering innovative exhibitions, installations, and related educational programming for the local community, visitors to the area and museum members, including children, teens and seniors.


The glamour and prestige of Silver of the Stars unites ten world-renowned Scottish celebrities from film, fashion, theatre and music with ten of Scotland’s finest contemporary silversmiths. Each artist has designed and created innovative and modern drinking vessels chosen by their partnered celebrity in either silver or gold based on the theme "A Drink with a Close Friend."
 

The Millennium Collection for Bute House is an eclectic collection of contemporary silver representing some of the finest metalwork in Scotland in the 21st century. Originally commissioned to celebrate the founding of the Scottish Parliament, this collection is now the official state silver used at the Edinburgh residence of the First Minister of Scotland. Artists include: Gordon Burnett, Sarah Cave, John Creed, Maureen Edgar, Marion Kane, William Kirk, Michael Lloyd, Helen Marriot, Grant McCaig, Roger Millar, Linda Robertson, Graham Stewart, and Nicola Williams.
 

http://www.sfmcd.org


http://www.callforentry.org/

For questions, please contact Tonia Macneil at 415-252-2551 or tonia.macneil@sfgov.org or Jennifer Lovvorn at 415-252-4637 or jennifer.lovvorn@sfgov.org

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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

http://www.famsf.org/ 

The Legion of Honor Museum

The Legion of Honor, San Francisco's most beautiful museum, displays an impressive collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

Rodin's Thinker
Perhaps Rodin's best known monumental work, the Thinker dominates the Legion's outdoor Court of Honor, and is one of the earliest acquisitions of the more than seventy Rodin sculptures that Mrs. Spreckels purchased and later donated to the museum.

Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique is the first comparative study of the work of the three greatest jewelry and decorative arts designers at the turn of the 20th century: Peter Carl Fabergé, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and René Lalique. Their rivalry found its stage at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris—the only exposition where all three showed simultaneously and where the work of each was prominently displayed. Some of their most elaborate designs for the Paris World's Fair are reunited for the first time in a gallery recreating the ambiance of this opulent international exposition. Looking critically at the development, design, and marketing of each firm, this exhibition explores how these designers responded to the demand for luxury goods in the years leading up to World War I.

http://www.famsf.org/legion/exhibitions/index.asp

http://www.famsf.org/legion/exhibitions/index.asp 

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

http://www.famsf.org/

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San Rafael


Marin Civic Center
http://www.marinshow.com

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Watsonville

Sculpture Is: 2010 -- Exhibit brings art into the garden


 

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Santa Monica

Santa Monica Museum of Art

http://www.smmoa.org/

West Coast Sculpture

http://www.smmoa.org/

Frank Lloyd Gallery
Santa Monica, California


http://www.franklloyd.com/

 
Featuring work by Larry Bell, Robert Hudson, Robert Graham, John Mason, Ken Price and Peter Voulkos.

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Ukiah

The Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah, California, is an art, history and anthropology museum focusing on the lifeworks of artist Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865-1937) and her ethnologist husband, Dr. John W. Hudson (1857-1936). Changing interdisciplinary exhibitions and public programs feature Western American art, California Indian cultures, histories of California's diverse North Coast region, and the work of contemporary regional artists.

http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/index.html

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Watsonville

Sierra Azul Nursery & Garden
Art and the garden blend seemlessly at the Sculpture Is: 2010 exhibit at Sierra Azul Nursery & Garden.

And with good reason.

"Gardens are really meant to have, and in some ways really don't seem complete to me, without that human element of art," said nursery owner and show curator Jeff Rosendale. "Gardens themselves are a human creation, so the sculptures just add another layer of interest, another dynamic."

Rosendale chose the pieces with help from his daughter Erika and longtime Cabrillo College art instructor Jamie Abbott, who also has a piece in the exhibit.

The pieces range in size from glass-blown flowers the size of a hand to metal sculptor Aaron Van De Kerckhove's 18-foot-tall "Lookout Tower" and Kirk McNeill's 15-by-20 foot "Mooring Buoy No. 30," made of steel and stone.

The exhibit, a joint project of the Pajaro Valley Arts Council and Sierra Azul that can be seen daily through Oct. 31, is now in its fifth year. The 2010 installment features 50 pieces that were the work of about 100 artists. Included in the show are collaborative totems from a third-grade class and pagodas made from recycled machinery in addition to the permanent pieces that already dot Sierra Azul's two-acre grounds.

Rosendale said entries this year came from farther afield than past shows. Participants hail from as far south as San Luis Obispo and north to San Francisco.

"There's really nothing else like this in this area,"

Sculpture Is: 2010
What: Sculpture and garden show featuring 100 artists and 50 sculptures spread over two-acre South County garden and nursery.
Where: Sierra Azul Nursery & Gardens, 2660 E. Lake Ave., Watsonville
When: Garden open 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. Exhibit runs through Oct. 31.
Details:
www.pvarts.org,

www.sierraazul.com, 763-0939

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Colorado

Denver

Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Arts

http://www.mscd.edu/news/cva/

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Boulder


http://www.artandsoulboulder.com

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Connecticut

Branford, Guilford and Madison

http://www.shorelineartstrail.com

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New Haven

Structured Elegance: Bookbindings and Jewelry by Romilly Saumarez Smith

Yale Center for British Art

Jun. 24 — Sep. 19 2010

The first exhibition to show both facets of the artist's distinctive work and explore the relationship between them.

 
Pendant, 2006, semi-oxidized silver with a natural pink Japanese pearl. Photo/David Wood.

 

http://www.yale.edu/ycba

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American Paintings, Sculpture,
and Decorative Arts

Ongoing, third floor

The Yale University Art Gallery’s collection of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts has a long history, spanning nearly two and a half centuries. A comprehensive selection of highlights is on view, ranging from one of the earliest American paintings, the 1670 portrait of John Davenport, the first minister to the New Haven Colony, through mid-twentieth-century masterpieces by artists such as Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton. Outstanding examples of furniture, turned wood, glass, pewter and other metals, ceramics, and textiles are also on display.

http://artgallery.yale.edu/

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Delaware

Wilmington

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

http://www.thedcca.org


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Florida

Longbeach

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Ormond Beach

http://www.ormondartmuseum.org/

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West Palm Beach

Norton Museum of Art

http://www.norton.org/home.htm

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Miami Beach

Wolfsonian-Florida International University: collection contains artifacts primarily of North American and European origin, dating from 1885–1945. It comprises a variety of media: furniture; industrial-design objects; glass, ceramics, and metalwork; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and metals. The nations most comprehensively represented are the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Russia/Soviet Union. The objects are interpreted to explore key FEATURED OBJECTS from Art and Design in the Modern Age: 

Art and Design in the Modern Age:
Selections from the Wolfsonian Collection
  ongoing

http://wolfsonian.fiu.edu/

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Sarasota

Splendid Treasures of the Turkmen Tribes from Central Asia

April 24–January 20, 2011 • Sarasota, Florida

The Central Asian landscape can be bleak and harsh, but the lives of the Turkomen tribes who inhabit the region are enriched by their skill at creating sophisticated and elaborate jewelry. Splendid Treasures of Turkomen Tribes, an exhibition of recent gifts to the Museum, features objects created in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, focusing on the important milestones and rhythms of daily life of these semi-nomadic people. With social and economic needs to move with the seasons, wealth had to be portable, and so jewelry came to play an important role. These objects provide a unique window into the extraordinary decorative and spiritual elements of these tribes and their pastoral lifestyles. The jewelry, fashioned by Turkomen artists, was created from precious metals such as silver and gold and featured intricate forms and patterns ornamented with semi-precious stones. Reflecting tribal identity and their beliefs regarding time and space and heaven and earth, the geometric shapes and elaborate curved forms capture the cosmos, express desires for safety and continuity, and echo the relationship of the tribal people to their unique physical and cultural environment.

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art:

http://www.ringling.org/NewsReleasesBlogEntries.aspx?id=7762&blogid=2092

European travel kindled a passion for art and collecting in John and Mable Ringling.  In the 1920s, John Ringling became a regular at the New York and London auctions. He purchased important works by Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Hals, and Velazquez. Ringling also acquired important decorative arts and a collection of Cypriot, Greek and Roman antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

In 1925, Ringling commissioned the New York architect John Phillips to design a building befitting of his impressive art collection, a museum that would take its inspiration from the Renaissance and Baroque palaces and museums of Italy.  Construction began in 1928, and in October 1931, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art was officially dedicated and opened to the public. 

Today, the Museum of Art displays European, American, and Asian works of art in its permanent collection galleries.  The collection of Old Master paintings, highlighted by the Baroque period of the 17th century, is among the finest in the country. 

The Museum’s collection continues to grow.  In 2002, the Koger Collection of Chinese ceramics, which spans over four millennia of Chinese ceramics, was donated to the Museum.  In 2006, Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt, made a combined pledge of her collection of Chinese jades, stone sculptures, and bronzes, along with generous funding to support the future Asian Galleries to be named in her honor.  With the opening of the Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing in 2007, an additional 30,000 square feet of exhibition space was added to the Museum.  The Ringling Museum also collects modern and contemporary art, and presents temporary exhibitions from its own collections and traveling collections in the Searing Wing.


http://www.ringling.org/

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Winter Park

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum

Decorative Arts and Sculpture:

In addition to works by Tiffany, the collection includes leaded-glass windows by William Morris, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, John LaFarge and Arthur Nash. The Museum's jewelry and silver collections feature pieces by Emile Gallé, Rene Lalique and Carl Faberge. Gallé and Louis Majorelle are represented In the furniture collection, along with Tiffany and Gustav Stickley.
 

SECRETS OF TIFFANY GLASSMAKING
Ongoing:
Tiffany and his studio staff of chemists, designers, and glass technicians possessed extraordinary ability in controlling and exploiting the properties of molten sand for the sake of art. This teaching exhibit on the glass techniques employed at Tiffany Studios will explain everything from the basic ingredients used in making glass to the design processes used to create the famed leaded-glass windows and lamps. The exhibit will show some of the various tools used in glassmaking as well as window fragments, glass fragments, preliminary drawings and a model for a window.

http://www.morsemuseum.org/

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Georgia

Savannah

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Athens

Juried Exhibitions

The Ring Show: Putting the Band Back Together

Curated Exhibitions

Curated by Donald Friedlich
Pinnacle Gallery, SCAD

Many American studio artists are utilizing manufacturing methods and technology such as laser cutting, photo-chemical machining and electroforming to create both one of a kind and production objects that blur the line between the worlds of craft and design. The work showcased in this exhibition will explore the dichotomy of objects created using collaborative processes between the hand and the machine.

http://www.uga.edu/gamuseum/index.html

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Atlanta

Fay Gold Gallery

http://www.faygoldgallery.com/

The American Craft Council Show in Atlanta<

The most distinctive fine craft show in America returns to Atlanta for the 20th year. Over two hundred of the nation's premier, jury-selected artists will present high-quality, handmade objects including jewelry, clothing, furniture, toys, home accessories, furniture as well as sculptural and functional works of glass, ceramics, metal, wood, paper, and decorative fiber. It's a wonderful opportunity to meet the artists, and to purchase one-of-a-kind craft to fit all price points.

http://www.craftcouncil.org/atlanta/

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Hawaii

Honolulu

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, is the only museum in the state of Hawai‘i devoted exclusively to contemporary art. TCM provides an accessible forum for provocative, dynamic forms of visual art, offering interaction with art and artists in a unique Island environment.

The Contemporary Museum has a growing collection of works in all media spanning 1940 to the present.  Among artists represented are Vito Acconci, Josef Albers, Robert Arneson, Jennifer Bartlett, Deborah Butterfield, Enrique Chagoya, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, William Kentridge, Sol Lewitt, Robert Motherwell, Vik Muniz, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Price, Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, Frank Stella, Masami Teraoka, Mark Tobey, Richard Tuttle, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman, and Peter Voulkos.

http://www.tcmhi.org/

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Idaho

Boise

Boise Art Museum

Boise, Idaho
http://www.boiseartmuseum.org/

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Illinois

Arcola

Amish Interpretive Center

http://www.amishcenter.com/

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Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art

Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
June 26 - October 17, 2010

Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy pairs the work of Alexander Calder with the work of seven contemporary artists whose practices are bound to Calder's legacy as modern sculptor. While a well-known, even beloved figure, Calder has not previously been considered an important point of reference for contemporary artists. This is the first exhibition to explore Calder's significance for an emerging generation of sculptors, reconsidering his influence and his innovation through a presentation of his own work alongside the work of contemporary artists.

The seven contemporary artists in this exhibition: Martin Boyce, Nathan Carter, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Aaron Curry, Kristi Lippire, Jason Meadows, and Jason Middlebrook, have taken important cues from Calder including a return to hand-on production, the creative reuse of materials, and explorations of form, balance, color, and movement. Combining rigorous concept with a renewed emphasis on formalism, the work of these artists prioritizes the visual and visceral qualities of sculpture. Both directly and indirectly influenced by Calder, all of the artists are looking towards modernist forms and ideas, challenging and recontextualizing what is for many a familiar art history.

The MCA's in-depth holdings of Calder form the core of the presentation of his work, complemented by mobiles, standing mobiles, and stabiles drawn from Chicago area and national public and private collections. Calder's work is mounted along with sculptures by the contemporary artists. Middlebrook is also undertaking a site-specific commission for the exhibition, creating a mobile which is planned to hang in the MCA's atrium.

Organized by MCA Curator Lynne Warren, this exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue co-published by the MCA and Thames & Hudson and will tour nationally.

 312/280-2660
http://www.mcachicago.org/

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Chicago Cultural Center

http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/supporting_narrative/attractions/dca_tourism/Chicago_Cultural_Center.html

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Dekalb

Northern Illinois University Art Museum:


http://www.vpa.niu.edu/museum/

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Carbondale

Southern Illinois University Museum

http://www.museum.siu.edu/exhibits.php

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Indiana

Bloomington 

Indiana University Art Museum
http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu/

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Indianapolis

University of Indianapolis Features Contemporary Jewelry Art Exhibit

April 5 to 30, 2010

 

Neo-Rococo Rocks and Shells at UIndy, Indianapolis, Indiana Jim Cotter Art at UIndy, Indianapolis, IndianaJewelry exhibit at UIndy, Indianapolis, Indiana

The University of Indianapolis has one more Indianapolis art show in store before the end of their school year and the end of their art season. Neo-Rococo: Rocks and Shells, a contemporary jewelry exhibit, brings six jewelry designers to University of Indianapolis’ Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. These designers have brought their work from around the United States to this Indianapolis university for the delight of the Indianapolis art community. This Indianapolis event is FREE an open for all Indianapolis people.

The common thread through each designers work is a focus on the use of rocks, gemstones and shells in thought provoking ways in jewelry design. Of course, jewelry for many people is all about the bling. Big rocks, polished diamonds, rubies, sapphire and other precious stones are an important part of any artists jewelry design. What sets these artists apart is their reinterpretation of jewelry standards.

Rococo is a style of 18th century French art and interior design characterized by ornateness and elegance. The French world “rococo” is a combination of rocaille (stone) and coquilles (shells). These objects were commonly used as motifs in much art and design work done during the Rococo era. Neo is simply a prefix for new, making the work of these six artists and new interpretation of this old Rococo style. Each artist brings to their work an understanding of beautiful busyness, creating stunning works of jewelry that utlize many of the same design motifs as the French did more than two centuries ago. However, the artists exhibiting in Neo-Rococo: Rocks and Shells also have a point of view reflective of our materialistic times, making the pieces in this exhibit both historical and timely.

Artists Helen Blythe-Hart will be on hand Monday, April 5 (the exhibits opening date) to share her innovated metal artistry technique. As the inventor of the acclaimed heat zone soldering method, Blythe-Hart will demonstrate her process from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm in Room 111 of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. With more than thirty years of experience behind her, Helen Blythe-Hart brings a unique perspective on jewelry to this exhibit. She has taught students of all ages for nearly two decades, in addition to creating her own work. Her art is collected internationally, and she is part of permanent exhibits at the Deutsche Goldschmeidehaus, an acclaimed metalsmithing museum in Germany, and at Orphan Pharmaceuticals in Paris, France.

Join Blythe-Hart in the Neo-Rococo: Rocks and Shells exhibit is Jim Cotter of Vail, Colorado. Cotter’s work has been admired by many in his very own gallery, the J. Cotter Gallery. His pieces pull inspiration from all aspects of life and nature, and are stunning pieces of jewelry. Also showing, Randy J. Long, a professor of Art and Head of Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His jewelry pieces are a statement of beauty, harmony and subtle presence, with much inspiration garnered from his hobby of gardening.

In addition, Jennifer Howard Kicinski a talented jewelry maker, whose pieces seem to verge on alien. With a strong base out of Seattle, Washington, Kicinski has been creating and selling work of jewelry art for decades. Plus, Molly Garber and Tracy Lee Black, of San Diego, California, share their work.

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Neo-Rococo: Rocks and Shells
April 5 to 30

Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center
University of Indianapolis
1400 East Hanna Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46227
317.788.3253
Website

http://indianapolis-indiana.funcityfinder.com/2010/04/05/university-of-indianapolis-features-contemporary-jewelry-art-exhibit/

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Indiana State Museum

http://www.indianamuseum.org/

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Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne Museum of Art

http://www.fwmoa.org/exhibits/upcoming.htm

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School of Creative Arts, University of Saint Francis

American Modernist Jewelry, 1940 - 1970


http://www.sf.edu/art/schedule_weatherhead.shtml

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Kentucky

Louisville

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Kansas

Manhattan

www.k-state.edu/bma

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Olathe

Cradle Fracture

Steel: Cradle Fracture is based on elements of fractal geometry found in nature using concentric triangles and implies a place of strength, protection and sanctuary.  

 http://www.olatheks.org/GIS/SculptureMap 

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Louisiana

New Orleans

Ogden Museum

New Orleans ArtWorks

New Orleans GlassWorks & Printmaking Studio

Nene Humphrey: Selections from the Andrews–Humphrey Collection/Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and prints by acclaimed artist Nene Humphrey. She is the wife of the late Benny Andrews, whose work, along with his father, George Andrews, are also part of the Andrews-Humphrey

Collection.

Biba Schutz and Marc Maiorana - Convergerent Lines: The Art of Adornment

Biba Schutz's art jewelry is composed of free-flowing linear metal forms, each one is a small wearable dynamic sculpture. Marc Maiorana's sculptural metal objects traverse the boundaries between form and function, infusing everyday objects with the poetry of art. This will be in the Center for Southern Craft and Design.

Ersy: "Hommage to the Society of Ste. Anne"

This sculpture was inspired by the artist's experience with the Society's annual parade, a costumed walking Mardi Gras krewe. The handcrafted sculpture is made of cast bronze and sits atop of a tall mahogany table with a sandblasted Plexiglas surface.

http://www.ogdenmuseum.org/index.html

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Maine

Northeast Harbor

WINTER HARBOR:
The volunteer leadership of Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS), guided by founder and local (Steuben, Maine) artist Jesse Salisbury, is honored to announce the receipt of a $40,000 matching grant from the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation of New York. The grant, over two years, will enable SISS to continue to offer the Symposia by extending the support needed for two on-going part-time positions. The positions will provide a steady supplement to the work of volunteers and the fund raising that is required from each community invited to participate.

The full operating expenses for each of the Symposia total over $225,000, a sum that must be raised bi-annually from communities, grants, and donors. This large total need to offer a Symposium is independent of the funding which will be provided through this matching gift for the two part-time positions.

SISS has, since 2007, received area and national recognition for successfully involving Downeast Maine communities in the creation and support of public art that builds community identity and positively affects the intrinsic value of the arts, the contributions of Maine natural resources, and the economic and social benefits that follow.  Through its efforts, placement of large granite sculptures, accomplished by internationally recognized artists, are now sited in local communities (to date thirteen Downeast communities enjoy the beauty and benefits of these major significant works of public art and six more will be added in 2011).

The next iteration of the Symposium will now occur, as planned, in the summer of 2011. The 2011 Symposium will be the third in the series of five symposia over the decade.  In the letter of receipt of the grant it was noted by chairperson of SISS, Cathy Lewis  (Sorrento, Maine) that the Foundation’s grant will enable SISS to put into place a structure and two positions that are now essential to making possible the continuation of the Symposia, and to gaining the local support needed for sustaining them. To this end, SISS is pleased to announce that the required match for this Foundation grant for the two positions has already been achieved through the generosity of local community members who became aware last month of the opportunity for a match. In thanking the Foundation, Jesse Salisbury wrote: “Everyone in our communities can take pride in the sculptures, the local involvement and commitment of Downeast citizens, but also the overwhelming positive response and area ownership that has emerged for a project that exhibits the finest qualities of Maine through public art.  We express our gratitude to Ms. Julie Kidd, President of the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, for her confidence and her generous gift.”

The SISS web page can be found at www.schoodicsculpture.org.  Support for the next (Summer, 2011) Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium( a 501c3 non-profit project) is  needed and is greatly appreciated. Gifts can be sent to SISS PO Box 122, Steuben, Maine, 04680. Thank you.

CONTACT:  Gerry Williams
207-667-5268, email: germarl@roadrunner.com

http://meartsed.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/schoodic-sculpture-symposium-receives-funding/

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Maryland

Baltimore

Baltimore Museum of Art - BMA

Sculptural Gardens
Masterworks of modern and contemporary sculpture dramatically emerge in the BMA’s Sculpture Gardens, a verdant landscape of art and horticulture that welcomes visitors throughout the year. Nestled on nearly three acres in the heart of the city, the two terraced gardens are home to 34 sculptures ranging from Auguste Rodin’s striding Balzac (1892) to Alexander Calder’s soaring red 100 Yard Dash (1969), and provide a 100-year survey of sculpture from the figural to the abstract.

www.artbma.org

http://www.craftcouncil.org/baltimore/

The Walters Art Museum

 

November 15, 2008 - November 08, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

Discover the ancient secrets of the Walters' mummy, as revealed through the techniques of virtual autopsy. This focus show will feature approximately 20 ancient Egyptian objects depicting images of mummified people, animals, and deities. A section of the installation will focus on the "Mummimania" of the 17th-20th centuries.

 

http://thewalters.org/exhibitions/current.aspx


October 14, 2009 - October 14, 2012
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM


 

All of the major civilizations of Mesoamerica are featured in this installation, including the Olmec, Maya and Teotihuacan. The exhibition focuses on small sculpture from these cultures' enigmatic figures and animals that probably served a ritual function.

http://thewalters.org/exhibitions/current.aspx

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore Maryland is internationally renowned for its collection of art. The collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Deco jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces.

Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe
February 13, 2011–May 8, 2011

An exhibition of approximately 70 reliquaries, the containers used by medieval Christians for the bodily remains of saints. These sacred objects were covered in gold and silver and embellished with gems.

Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry

From an ancient Roman snake bracelet to a ceremonial Chinese headdress to a Tiffany & Co. glittering necklace, "Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry" highlighted more than 200 pieces from the Walters Art Museum.  The exhibition featured some of the Walters’ greatest masterpieces as well as many hidden treasures on view for the first time.

The Walters is one of the few museums worldwide that can provide examples, both in depth and range, of stunning jewelry from 3000 B.C. through the early 20th century. Assembled primarily by one of the museum’s founders, Henry Walters, during the first three decades of the last century, this renowned collection contains superb examples of expert craftsmanship. “We are so lucky to have this rich, varied and aesthetically beautiful jewelry collection at the Walters,” said museum Director Gary Vikan. “Henry Walters’ eye for great pieces and his immense generosity has made this one of the world’s finest collections of jewelry.”

This exhibition was organized by the Walters Art Museum. The exhibition includes many spectacular pieces from the renowned collection of Benjamin Zucker (New York), which are on loan to the Walters. Bedazzled is presented by The Women’s Committee of the Walters Art Museum with lead support from Betty Cooke, Bill Steinmetz, and The Store Ltd.; Richard S. and Rosalee C. Davison; The Eliasberg Family Foundation; and The Tiffany & Co. Foundation. Additional support is provided by Bob and Jackie Smelkinson. Exhibition Highlights Gold bracelet from the first century B.C. encrusted with precious stones and multi-colored enamel inlay discovered in a tomb in the Greek colony of Olbia (present-day Ukraine) Tiffany & Co. iris corsage ornament decorated with 139 sapphires, diamonds and other gems, which was a grand prize winner at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle Nineteenth-century imperial, ceremonial Chinese headdress with designs of phoenixes, butterflies and peaches and crafted of gilded silver, kingfisher feathers, silk thread, pearls, rubies and glass beads Plique-à-jour enamel and sapphire pansy brooch created by renowned Art Nouveau designer René Lalique and purchased by Henry Walters at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition Finger rings that held a variety of roles throughout history, including emblems of love and marriage, death and mourning, power and faith About the Exhibition Bedazzled will open with works from the ancient world, such as two pendants in the form of rams’ heads demonstrating the remarkable development in multicolored glass production by the fifth century B.C. Egyptian treasures will be presented, including a bright blue faience amulet featuring the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet as well as an intricate necklace strung with beads and amulets of gold, faience, carnelian and glass.

One of the most admired objects in the collection is a bracelet from Olbia at the northern coast of the Black Sea in the first century B.C., which is decorated with gold granulation and set with colorful gemstones backed with foil. Other gold masterpieces from the early centuries B.C. will include a delicate pair of Etruscan spirals from the 7th century, a gold and garnet Greek diadem, and a gold, horse-shaped pendant crafted by Greek artisans. Also perennial favorites are two sixth-century A.D. Visigothic garment clasps in the form of eagles. These colorful birds are executed in bronze overlaid with gold and set with garnets, mother-of-pearl, crystals and amethysts. Another rich section of the Walters jewelry collection is from the Renaissance. During this time, there was a revival in the production of sumptuous jewelry, utilizing the talents of the greatest artists of the period and sustained by princely patrons’ wealth. Examples include pendants incorporating enameled figural elements mounted with pearls and gemstones and exquisitely detailed gold dress ornaments illustrating the height of 16th-century fashion.

info@thewalters.org

http://thewalters.org/default.aspx

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Massachusetts

Cambridge

HARVARD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — ONGOING EXHIBIT: Romancing the Stone: The Many Facets of Tourmaline exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA. Exhibit displays Harvard's extensive collection of tourmalines dating back to 1892. Highlights the versatile nature of this mineral family and showcases exquisite examples of tourmaline, both in rough and in fine jewelry. Extended indefinitely due to popular demand. For more information, contact the museum at 617-495-3045, fax 617-496-8206, e-mail hmnh@oeb.harvard.edu or visit http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/

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Boston

Society of Arts and CraftsPocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry
April - May 2010

Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts

http://www.societyofcrafts.org

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection:

The MFA celebrates the recent gift of more than forty works by Ed Rossbach in "Ed Rossbach Fiber Art from the Daphne Farago Collection." One of the pioneers in the field of American fiber arts, Ed Rossbach created works in almost every known textile technique during his five-decade-long career. His exuberant approach to making art, free from expectations and rules, came from studying historic textile techniques while a young professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Experimenting with labor-intensive techniques such as Andean discontinuous warp weaving, Native American coiled basketry, European lace, and Indonesian ikat, Rossbach reinterpreted these methods in his own unique two-dimensional and three-dimensional works. This exhibition features about thirty-five Rossbach works from the recent gift of Daphne Farago, displayed alongside examples from the MFA's historic textile collection to illustrate the diverse sources of inspiration for his innovative fiber work.

http://www.mfa.org

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Brockton

Fuller Craft Museum

Mariko Kusumoto: Unfolding Stories
May 22 — August 8, 2010

Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto is known for her extraordinary and intricate metal sculptures of music boxes, clocks and other constructions, with multiple doors, compartments, drawers and moving parts.  Fuller Craft Museum will be the setting for her meticulously hand-crafted pieces using a variety of metalsmithing techniques – etching, enameling and casting.  With each box sculpture, she presents a magical world of astounding detail and artistry.

The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Craft
May 29, 2010 — February 6, 2011

Curated by Fo Wilson, The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Craft steps beyond the boundaries that currently exist among technology, art, and craft.  The artists in this exhibition use new technologies in tandem with traditional craft materials – clay, glass, wood, metal and fiber – to forge new artistic directions.

Digital video and audio, computerized design, and other technologies are viewed as new materials to be exploited, manipulated and co-opted to enrich artistic expression. The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Craft examines this phenomenon and its impact on the world of contemporary craft.

http://www.fullercraft.org/

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Lenox

http://www.siennagallery.com/

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Watertown

Armenian Library and Museum of America

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Michigan

Ferndale

Paul Kotula Projects

http://www.paulkotula.com/

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Minnesota

Minneapolis

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Modernism 20: Past/Present/Future

Tuesday, October 13, 2009—Saturday, July 17, 2010
Wells Fargo Center and MIA Modernist Design Galleries
Free Exhibitio

Ancient Art:

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is fortunate to have a small but focused collection of ancient art, comprising works from several civilizations in the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea, from about 20,000 B.C. to the fifth century A.D. These civilizations were united by trade networks that fostered cultural exchanges.

The collection from the ancient Near East countries of Luristan, Sumeria, and Persia include finely crafted domestic objects, glass, and bronzes. The art of dynastic Egypt, unwaveringly directed towards the attainment of the afterlife, is represented by an intact mummy, the false door to a tomb, amulets, and religious burial objects.

The foundations of Western culture are found in "classical" art, the integration of Greek and Roman artistic principles that evolved continuously from the eighth century B.C. to the fifth century A.D. This aesthetic is exemplified by the marble sculpture, Doryphoros, one of the finest existing Roman copies of the original Greek sculpture made in 440 B.C. The Ancient Art Galleries include portrait busts, painted Attic vases, pavement mosaics, and exquisite small objects, presenting an overview of ancient art, the result of numerous bequests and purchases from the 1930s to the present day. The collection is constantly enriched by new acquisitions made possible through the generosity of Ruth and Bruce Dayton and other donors.

Norwest Modernism Collection:

An important recent gift is the Norwest Modernism Collection, comprising nearly 500 works in all media documenting salient components of six modernist movements, from Arts and Crafts (1880) through Art Deco (1950). Since its donation in 1998, the collection has supplied works in a series of exhibitions at the museum, at the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Minneapolis, and on the award-winning Modernism Web site.

Exhibitions of contemporary studio ceramics, glass, and wood are now staples. This initiative is thanks to generous donors such as Robyn and John Horn, who recently gave a substantial collection of turned wood, and Mrs. Eunice Butler, who has supported the acquisition of works by contemporary American ceramists. Sculpture from the Middle Ages to 1900 includes world-class works by Hiram Powers, Auguste Rodin, and a recent attribution to Gianlorenzo Bernini. Judaica and arms and armor also fall under the purview of the department, with recent gifts of religious metalwork from Harold and Mickey Smith and a sixteenth-century Italian half suit of armor acquired in 2001 with a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Wayne H. MacFarlane

The department houses the MIA's collection of sculpture created after 1900, which includes masterworks by Constantin Brancusi, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, and Henry Moore. Recent acquisitions in this area include Raymond Duchamp-Villon's "Head of Baudelaire" of 1911, and Alberto Giacometti's "Diego" of 1962.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is fortunate to have a small but focused collection of ancient art, comprising works from several civilizations in the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea, from about 20,000 B.C. to the fifth century A.D. These civilizations were united by trade networks that fostered cultural exchanges.

Our Oceanic collection contains world-class pieces, such as the Maori Poutokomanawa (Post Figure) created in the 1840s, the three fabulous Malagan figures, an early Papuan Gope Board, and the Bis Pole, a centerpiece of the gallery.

Beyond the Maker’s Mark: Paul de Lamerie Silver in the Cahn Collection

Mary Agnes and Al McQuinn Silver Gallery 350
Free Exhibition

"Beyond the Maker’s Mark" celebrates the extraordinary work of London’s leading eighteenth-century silversmith, Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751). Through the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cahn—which includes some of the most important pieces of de Lamerie silver in private hands—the exhibition explores several aspects of de Lamerie’s career, revealing the evolution of his style and the complex organization of his enterprise.

The exhibition, organized by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, features nearly one hundred individual examples of Rococo English silver by de Lamerie and his contemporaries, such as the superb Maynard Dish (1736) and the extraordinary Tureen in the Shape of a Green Turtle (1750). This venue will include several Paul de Lamerie pieces from the MIA collection, including the magnificent Wine Cistern (1719-20).

A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

http://www.artsmia.org/

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Missouri

Sedalia

Collection:
The core of the Museum is the permanent collection comprised of abstract paintings, drawings, prints, works in clay and sculpture created since the mid-20th century. The permanent collection also includes those significant precursors that are a vital link to refining the scope of the collection and to enhancing the Museum's educational importance. The Museum permanent collection was built through gifts and selected purchases. The study collection is compromised of those examples valued as instructional resources. The director/curator is responsible for routine maintenance of the collection. Conservation or restoration of collection works is contracted to and performed by conservation specialists.

http://www.daummuseum.org/

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St. Louis

Weavers’ Guild of St. Louis Annual Sale
Nov. 6 — Nov. 7
Brentwood Community Center, St. Louis, Missouri

Daily demonstrations of weaving, spinning and fiber art in addition to the sale of handwoven clothing and accessories, hand-dyed silk scarves and garments, unique handmade jewelry, interior furnishings like woven rugs, placemats, baskets and wall-pieces of the home.

For more information, contact Karen Kelley Schultz at kksmaddogdesigns@jcn.net.

St. Louis Art Museum

One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380
Telephone 314.721.0072

The exhibition Louis Comfort Tiffany was inspired by the Saint Louis Art Museum’s efforts to build a collection of objects representing the creative output of one of America’s leading designers. It features 30 extraordinary examples of glass, pottery, lighting, bronzes, silver, and jewelry from the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum and several private St. Louis collectors.

The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums with collections that include works of art of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes, and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, with particular strength in 20th-century German art.

The Museum's collection of Modern art, which covers more than 150 years of European painting and sculpture, is one of the largest and most distinguished components of its holdings. Among the highlights from the 19th century are paintings by Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edouard Manet, and Paul Cézanne as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh.

The Museum's 20th century galleries feature a world-renowned collection of German Expressionist paintings assembled by the late St. Louis collector Morton D. May. Artists included in this group include Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and Max Beckmann. Also in the Modern collection are signature works by Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Henry Moore, as well as notable paintings by Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and Amadeo Modigliani.

One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380
Telephone 314.721.0072
http://www.slam.org/

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Craft Alliance


Setting the Mood: The Artful Table [Delmar Loop]
May 21-July 11, 2010
Bruce Hoffman, juror
Juried exhibition of functional and non-functional works created for the dinner table in all craft media, fiber, metals, clay, wood and glass. ENTRY DEADLINE MARCH 1. For all submissions
Download prospectus and entry form

http://www.craftalliance.org/

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Nebraska

Lincoln

Lux Center for the Arts

http://www.luxcenter.org

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Omaha

 
Hot Shops Art Center
Textiles, Glass, Clay, Wood and Metal: The Interface

Oct. 1 — Oct. 30 2010

http://www.hotshopsartcenter.com
 

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Nevada

Reno

Nevada Museum of Art - Hawkin's Contemporary Gallery

Bryan Christiansen: Trophy Hunter
Bryan Christiansen, La-Z- Boy, 2008. Leather upholstery from discarded furniture. Courtesy of the artist.

February 20, 2010 - May 09, 2010

Bryan Christiansen's life-sized contemporary sculptures challenge conventional notions about rural life, home, the rituals of the hunting tradition, and the innocence of childhood. Using discarded household furniture that he finds in neglected urban areas, Christiansen crafts assemblages that stand in for the trophies, antler mounts, and pelts so often prized by hunters.

Raised in a small log cabin in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Christiansen experienced all the requisite activities of a rural childhood: absorbing nature, communing with wildlife, and learning to hunt. But at the same time, he also grappled with the complicated and tumultuous happenings of his family’s domestic life. When Christiansen arrived as a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, he turned to art as a way of wrestling with the conflicting realities of his past.

Christiansen’s sculptures recall the work of 1950s assemblage artists Bruce Conner and Ed Kienholz, who used gritty discarded objects to probe such issues as the passage of time, death, and decay. Unlike the work of these artists, however, Christiansen’s reconstructions are exquisitely crafted, featuring exposed hand-stitchery and floral fabrics that have more to do with making sense of life than they do with dwelling on death. As trophies, they represent Christiansen’s own triumph of the present over the past and his strength to confront some of life’s most challenging contradictions.

http://www.nevadaart.org/
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New Hampshire

Hanover

Dartmouth College
Hood Museum of Art

Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art

The African Art Galleries
African gallery showcases works from important art-producing cultures, including the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Asante of Ghana. Among the highlights are a towering Epa masquerade headdress by the renowned Yoruba sculptor Bamboye and a rare Tsogo door from Gabon. A stunning array of jewelry features ivory adornments from the Congo, silver pendants from Niger, beadwork from South Africa and an exceptional suite of gold jewelry from Zanzibar. The gallery also includes select examples from its important collection of African textiles, which has gained national recognition for its fine quality and breadth of representation.

 http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/current.html

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New Jersey

Closter

Belskie Museum of Art and Science

The goal of the Belskie Museum of Art and Science is first and foremost, the preservation and display of the work of Abram Belskie and to promote his reputation as a major sculptor, medal artist and medical illustrator of the twentieth century.

http://www.belskiemuseum.com/

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Demarest

Art School at Old Church Center Gallery

The Mikhail Zakin & Café Galleries

  • Galleries

Gallery Hours: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, M-F
Call 201.767.7160 for evening and Saturday hours

The Art School at Old Church houses two professionally-run art galleries. The Mikhail Zakin Gallery presents 8-10 exhibitions annually. The gallery focuses on exhibiting contemporary work in a variety of disciplines from emerging and established regional artists. The Café Gallery showcases work from students and faculty of the Art School at Old Church. Exhibitions rotate throughout the year.

The galleries are free and open to the public. Both galleries are wheelchair accessible.

http://www.occcartschool.org/

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Closter

Belskie Museum of Art and Science

The goal of the Belskie Museum of Art and Science is first and foremost, the preservation and display of the work of Abram Belskie and to promote his reputation as a major sculptor, medallic artist and medical illustrator of the twentieth century.

http://www.belskiemuseum.com/

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Demarest

Art School at Old Church Center Gallery: 

http://www.occcartschool.org/

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Hamilton

Grounds For Sculpture

Grounds For Sculpture is a 35-acre public sculpture park dedicated to promoting an understanding of and appreciation for contemporary sculpture for all people.

Two group shows are on display indoors: Enclosures features four artists who work in different materials (steel, wood, and stone) to build stylistically similar large sculptural forms through the use of multiple components; and Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards presents work by college and university-level student artists from the annual award competition organized by the International Sculpture Center.

The curatorial focus of Grounds For Sculpture is to present the work of both established and emerging sculptors. Emerging sculptors are defined as artists at the beginning of their careers as well as artists whose work has contributed to the field of contemporary sculpture significantly without accompanying recognition. The outdoor exhibition grows by approximately 15 sculptures annually. New additions outdoors are selected to augment indoor exhibitions, to add new artists to the sculpture park, and to work in conjunction with the landscaped environment.

Most of the sculptures on exhibit outdoors are displayed courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc., a charitable foundation that collects works of art by American and international artists.  The Foundation supports Grounds For Sculpture by lending works for exhibit in the park.  Sculptures in a variety of styles and media, including bronze, steel, stone, wood, concrete and mixed media are represented.

Each season, Grounds For Sculpture presents new additions to the outdoor permanent collection as well as a group or one-person exhibition indoors.

In the Fall/Winter Season (October 2009 - April 2010), New Additions Outdoors is presented by Herb Ferris, Sydney Hamburger, Allan Houser, Joseph Howard, Seward Johnson, Royden Mills, Robert Roesch & Suzanne Reese-Horvitz, and James Surls.

In Dialogue with Steel, and exhibition of Albert Paley's work, one might find it hard to believe that he began his artistic career as a jeweler.  Paley was one of the major goldsmiths of the studio art movement in America.  Today, he is best known for his monumental sculpture.  Yet looking closely at these elaborate, impressive, and often site-specific installations, one sees the continuum of Paley's creativity; challenging metal of all types is his foundation.  The fluidity of molten metal is evident in the ribbons and decorative patterns so prevalent and identifiable in his designs.  Yet the hardness of steel is also apparent in the starkness of many of his larger abstract works, softened simply by the prominence of bright color and its ability to evoke strong emotions. 

In Reflections on Tradition, Jacobo de la Serna's micaceous pots are exquisite dichotomies.  While some expand the boundaries of this delicate clay in execution and concept, they remain fragile and delicate.  His masterful technical ability enhances traditional style and contemporary innovative designs.  The work is sensitive and sensual, refined and magical and it reveals the insightful artistry of the man himself.

Grounds For Sculpture is also pleased to present the 2010 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards, which represents the ninth consecutive year of an ongoing partnership with the International Sculpture Center.  In order to support, encourage, and recognize the work of young sculptors, the International Sculpture Center presents this award competition each year to its member colleges and universities.  This year 11 Winners and 10 Honorable Mentions were selected from 441 nominees.  The distinguished jury included three jurors: David McFadden, Curator of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Willie Cole, a New Jersey sculptor; and Jeanne Jaffe, Professor and Chair of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

The Winter Season Exhibition 2010 (January 24 - April 18, 2010) features the annual Focus on Sculpture 2010 - a juried exhibition of amateur photographers on display in the Education Gallery.  This year's distinguished juror, Andrea Baldeck, is a black and white fine-art photographer.  Also exhibiting in the Domestic Arts Building is glass artist Flo Perkins, well known for her representations of every day objects in glass.  Her originality, sensibility, and imagination have led to her to become a well respected artist and innovator in teh field of hot glass.

http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/

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Newark

Newark Musuem

Glass Beads of Ghana  

Make Me Something Beautiful
2010 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts

June 16, 2010 through August 9, 2010

For its 2010 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts exhibition the Newark Museum has chosen the theme: MAKE ME SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL.  The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the decorative arts collection at the Newark Museum, established to promote beauty in industrial design and handcraft for the benefit of the people of New Jersey.  In 1910 the Museum organized an exhibition entitled Modern American Pottery, and from that exhibition came the works that were the foundation of the collection— examples of American art pottery that were the forerunners of today's studio ceramics.  The Newark Museum's founding director, John Cotton Dana (1856–1929), saw the Museum's exhibitions as a means to promote both handcraft and good design, thus improving the lives of its visitors by making art accessible.  Ever since that first exhibition, the Museum has collected contemporary handmade objects in wood, metal, fiber, ceramics and glass that represent the concept of beauty in all media.

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts Crafts Movement

September 15, 2010 through January 2011
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement offers the first comprehensive examination of the life and work of the recognized patriarch of the American Arts and Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley.  The exhibition and accompanying catalogue explores Stickley as a business leader and design proselytizer, whose body of work included furnishings, architectural and interior designs, and related imagery that became synonymous with the movement, which was at its height between approximately 1880 and 1910.  This exhibition includes more than 100 works produced by Stickley’s designers and workshops: furniture, metalwork and lamps, textiles, and numerous publications and letters, drawings, and related designs.  Also featured in the exhibition is a re-creation of Stickley’s seminal model dining room from his 1903 Syracuse Arts and Crafts exhibition.

   
http://www.newarkmuseum.org/

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New Mexico

Albuquerque

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Santa Fe

Northern New Mexico Art Catalog Gallery

A Fine Art and Jewelry Exhibit - Opening July 2nd

Galleries

 
The Northern New Mexico Art Catalogue Gallery Presents:

A Fine Art and Jewelry Exhibit - Opening Friday, July 2nd, 2010 featuring the fine art of Stephanie Huerta, and Armando Adrian Lopez and the jewelry of Randy Allen.

The NNMAC Gallery is proud to have their work on exhibit for this special show, as well as throughout the year.


NNMAC Gallery
142 Lincoln (at the corner of Marcy)
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
505-989-1536
505-503-3779

Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda

June 4, 2010–January 2, 2011 • Santa Fe, New Mexico

Organizer name and contact info:
Museum of International Folk Art, 505-476-1200,

Event hours:
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Cost:
$9/$6

Web page (URL):
http://www.moifa.org

Other information:
I
n the mountain town of Taxco in Mexico’s state of Guerrero, large-scale mining can be dated to the sixteenth century, and silver is a way of life. In the years following the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), jewelry and other silver objects were crafted there with an entirely innovative approach, informed by modernism and the creation of a new Mexican national identity. Antonio Pineda was a member of the Taxco School and is recognized as a world-class designer. Nearly two hundred examples of Pineda’s acclaimed silver work will be displayed in Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda, a traveling exhibition opening at the Museum of International Folk Art June 4, 2010 through January 2, 2011. Exhibition images may be found at http://media.museumofnewmexico.org/.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
 

710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail
Mailing Address: PO Box 2087, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505/476-1250 | http://miaclab.org/miac.info@miaclab.org

http://www.indianartsandculture.org/

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Las Cruces

Museum of International Folk Art

Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
Through January 2, 2011

Features nearly 200 examples of Pineda's acclaimed silver work, which also incorporates cultured pearls, large amethyst drops, and onyx.


Permanent Exhibitions & Tours
In addition to changing exhibitions, there are two permanent exhibitions: Family and Faith in the Hispanic Heritage Wing; and Multiple Visions: A Common Bond in the Girard Wing.

Family and Faith/Familia y Fe is an award-winning exhibition of northern New Mexico Hispanic material culture and art spanning four centuries including Santos, furniture, tinwork, straw applique textiles and jewelry.

Multiple Visions: A Common Bond is a richly varied exhibition of folk art and miniatures from more than one hundred countries designed by the collector, Alexander Girard.

Walk-In Docent led tours are offered at 10:15 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; Thursday through Sundays, tours are at 10:15 a.m. and 1:00 and 3 p.m. There is no charge for educational groups attending the Museum with their instructor and chaperones. To arrange a field trip or group Docent-led tour, call Cynthia Martinez at 476-1140.

http://www.moifa.org/

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New York

Hudson
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East Hampton

http://www.longhouse.org

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum

Body Parts

November 19, 2009–October 2, 2011

Special Exhibitions Hall, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor

Body Parts features thirty-five representations of individual body parts from the Brooklyn Museum’s ancient Egyptian collection, many of which are displayed for the first time. This exhibition uses fragments of sculptures and objects created as distinct elements to illuminate the very realistic depiction of individual body parts in canonical Egyptian sculpture. Ancient Egyptian artists carefully portrayed each part of the human body, respecting the significance of every detail. When viewed individually, these sculptures and fragments reveal ancient notions of the body, as well as details of workmanship, frequently unnoticed in more complete sculptures.

From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
See MODERN SILVER magazine feature:
From the Village to Vogue, The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith


http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/

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New York City

Jewish Museum

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, Discovery Times Square Exposition, New York, Apr. 23, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011.

 
French Institute/Alliance Francaise
http://www.fiaf.org/

The American Craft Council:
See Calendar for upcoming Jewelry and Sculpture shows.

http://www.craftcouncil.org

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900 to the Present


http://www.metmuseum.org/

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Museum of Modern Art - MOMA

Metal Highlights

MAD is fortunate to possess a rich assemblage of works in metal by an international roster of artists. Technically diverse, the collection represents a variety of approaches to form, whether it is a hand-raised teapot by Danish-trained artist John Prip, electroformed decanters by Chunghi Choo, or a constructed cabinet by Jim Rose. Sculptural metalwork, far removed from its functional origins and using woven or coiled methods, is found in the works of Jenny Edlund and Jin-Sook So. For other artists like Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, sculpture has become a means of commentary and humor, as seen in her traditionally-raised and perpetually-melting teapot. Jewelry has been a fast-growing aspect of the permanent collection as well. The Museum’s collection of early modernist jewelry by Margaret de Patta and Betty Cooke are perennial favorites, while the brilliant woven examples by Mary Lee Hu never fail to amaze.

Jewelry Highlights

The Museum of Arts and Design's jewelry collection began soon after the Museum was founded in 1956, documenting the development of studio jewelry from its origins in the post-World War II era to the present day. Drawing from a collection of nearly 500 jewelry pieces, these selected highlights demonstrate the development and diversity of the art of jewelry, ranging from the pioneering work of early American Studio Jewelers, such as Sam Kramer and Arthur Smith, to the groundbreaking and nontraditional methods of contemporary artists like Rebecca Strzelec.

http://www.moma.org/

http://www.amnh.org/

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Museum of Arts & Design:

 
Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection
 
With more than 200 of Secretary Albright’s pins on view, jewelry as a diplomatic, political and social tool is explored.
New York, New York
Sep. 30 — Jan. 31, 2011

Silver Legacy: Jewelry from the Nadler Collection
Through August 8, 2010

Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from the Nadler Collection, The Museum of Arts & Design, NY
 

Ornamental, yes, but dramatic pieces from Northern Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia are also reflections of social rank among the regions' peoples. Features work by skilled craftsmen from cultures in Egypt, Tunisia, the Middle East, Greece, Turkey, Russia, India, Southeast Asia, China, and North America.

Collectors Daniel and Serga Nadler have assembled a unique collection of silver jewelry from around the world, including massive neck ornaments, anklets, bracelets, complex earrings, and a wide variety of brooches and fibulae. Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from the Nadler Collection, on view from February 16 to August 8, 2010, showcases selections from the Nadler Collection. The exhibition will present approximately 150 works, from North Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and the hill tribes of Southeast Asia. This marks the inaugural exhibition of the Nadler Collection, which was generously donated as a promised gift to the Museum of Arts and Design. The jewelry is beautifully crafted, and sadly is in diminishing supply; over the years, many works have been melted down for their silver.

"We started collecting silver jewelry as a lark, and over the years this has grown into a passion," states Daniel Nadler. "For centuries the jewelry a woman wore was a display of her family's wealth and status. It also represented concrete value, since it could be pawned or sold in lean times. In many cultures, if a woman was rejected by her husband, her apparel including jewelry provided her alimony or compensation. To Serga and me, the attraction of these pieces, created by anonymous craftsmen, is the artistic merit of their works."

The Nadler acquired their silver jewelry collection over the course of 30 years on expeditions to such countries as Egypt, Morocco, Greece, India, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, China, Mexico, and the Western United States. The collection, which was pledged as a promised gift to MAD, features more than 800 superbly designed and crafted body ornaments of silver.

http://www.madmuseum.org/
http://collections.madmuseum.org/

 

Think Again: New Latin American Jewelry
Oct. 12 — Jan. 8, 2011
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
http://www.madmuseum.org

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George Gustav Heye Center, New York

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National Museum of the American Indian

http://www.nmai.si.edu/

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Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum

Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005

Rococo: The Continuing Curve is organized by Sarah Coffin, head of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department; Gail Davidson, head of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department; Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design; and guest curator Penelope Hunter-Stiebel. This is the first museum survey of rococo and its ongoing resurgence, tracing the design movement’s birth, rebirth and transformation across centuries and continents. The exhibition will explore these regional and chronological modifications, and study the social, political and economic influences affecting the migration and assimilation of rococo style.

http://cooperhewitt.org

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North Carolina

Charlotte

Mint Museum of Craft + Design - JonesGallery

ORNAMENT AS ART: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection

Exhibition on view at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design

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Mint Museum of Art

http://www.themintmuseums.org/

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Cullowhee

Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum


http://www.carolinaarts.com/806westerncu.html

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Raleigh

Artspace
 
http://www.artspacenc.org/

North Carolina State University Gallery of Art & Design

http://gad.ncsu.edu/

The Gregg Museum of Arts and Science

Metalwork in the Permanent Collection of the Gregg Museum

As sculpture, jewelry, and functional objects, metal is the newest area of interest in the University’s collection. Recently the Gregg has presented work by prominent jeweler and designer Mary Ann Scherr and her daughter Sydney, while its exhibition Samuel Yellin: A Legacy in Iron presented the lifework of America’s most significant metalworker. In 2003, the Gregg hosted a lifelong retrospective exhibition by renowned North Carolina artist and East Carolina University professor Robert Ebendorf. In 2004, the Gregg again featured metalwork with the exhibitions Rings and Elizabeth Brim: Steel Magnolia.Through both gift and purchase, the Gregg seeks to acquire more prime examples of historic silver, brass, bronze and iron objects, as well as contemporary metal sculpture and jewelry in order to fulfill the Metals Collection’s goals.

http://gad.ncsu.edu/

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Ohio

Cleveland

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Jewelry of John Paul Miller


June 16, 2010–January 2, 2011 East Wing, Gallery 224

At once an artist, teacher, and craftsman, John Paul Miller personifies a lifetime of creative expression. The Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates this living legend and master goldsmith in an exhibition installation of more than 50 of his incredible works, including sketchbooks and drawings, spanning nearly 60 years of his illustrious career. His two greatest passions—music and art—seemingly converge in work that moves from poetic forms to intensely intricate compositions. His earliest creations are lyrically simple, biomorphic forms characteristic of the modern era. Miller’s fascination with technique and process emerged in his groundbreaking rediscovery in the early 1950s of granulation, an ancient, yet forgotten, way of fusing tiny gold beads to a gold surface without solder. The fleeting creatures of earth, sea, and sky—snails, squids, crabs, moths, and flies—became his muse, inspiring a complicated palette of seductive enamels and textured forms. Historical reference and modern abstraction also infuse his designs, bringing together that which he saw and that which he imagined to form a body of work full of curiosity and self-expression. Opens June 15, 2010, in the Betty and Max Ratner Gallery on the second floor of the east wing.

Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this exhibition with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

http://clevelandart.org/

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Cincinnati

http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org

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Columbus

Ohio Craft Museum

Dichotomies in Objects, Contemporary South Aftican Studio Jewelry from the Stellenbosch Area
Sep. 12 — Oct. 31, 2011

http://www.ohiocraft.org

 

OHIO DESIGNER CRAFTSMEN

Founded in 1963, Ohio Designer Craftsmen is a not-for-profit organization with over 2100 members. Our membership includes craft artists, educators, students, and others who appreciate fine craft. Our mission is to promote the fine crafts aesthetic by establishing a standard of excellence, encouraging creative growth, providing professional support to craft artists, and building public awareness, appreciation and collection of fine craft. In support of this mission, Ohio Designer Craftsmen offers a wide range of exhibitions, publications, programs and artist services.

Exhibitions are presented at the Ohio Craft Museum, founded by Ohio Designer Craftsmen in 1993. Located in Columbus, it is the only museum in the Midwest exclusively devoted to exhibiting and collecting fine craft. Five or six exhibitions of contemporary craft by artists from Ohio and across the United States are presented each year. Public programs include artist lectures, hands-on workshops for children and adults, and a summer craft day camp for children ages 6 - 12.

Ohio Designer Craftsmen also provides assistance to ODC's member artists.
Membership benefits include:

• Publications
• Technical and professional workshops
• Marketing assistance & referral service
• Opportunities to apply to ODC craft fairs and members' exhibition at the Ohio Craft Museum.

• Workshop and fair scholarships and work/study opportunities

Jesse Dornan
Hamilton, OH

At Bay

Fabricated pendant; antler, copper, found tin, wild grass

$300

 

Andrew Kuebeck
Bloomington, IN

Lumberjack Brooch

Cast, fabricated, cold cast; copper, sterling silver, enamel, photo on enamel, amber

 

Mike Yager
Bowling Green, OH
 

Organic Brooch

Shell forming, patination, soldering; copper, sterling silver, resin, plastic
$200

http://www.ohiocraft.org/exhibition_emerging.html

 

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Toledo

The Toledo Museum of Art

A collection of more than 30,000 works of art ranks among the finest in the United States. In our more than 35 galleries, Sculpture Garden, and new Glass Pavilion, discover important, popular, and outstanding works of art, including paintings and sculptures by Bearden, Cézanne, Calder, Close, Cole, Degas, van Gogh, El Greco, Holbein, Kiefer, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Turner; masterworks from antiquity and Asia; decorative arts; and highlights from our renowned glass collection.

http://www.toledomuseum.org/

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma City

http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org

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Oregon

Eugene

http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org

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Portland

Museum of Contemporary Craft

The Museum’s collection also includes works in glass, metal, fiber and wood. With an emphasis on modest works – many created at the beginning of artists’ careers – the collection reflects the Museum’s role in the Northwest’s rich craft heritage.

The Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft is the premier showcase for fine craft in the Pacific Northwest. Located in The Pearl, Portland’s central cultural district, The Gallery represents artists working in ceramics, glass, wood, metal, fiber and mixed media. Here you’ll find the perfect handmade gift or an exquisite piece to add to your collection. Members enjoy a 10% savings on all purchases.

The Gallery represents over 100 regional and nationally noted artisans. Offerings include jewelry and accessories, bowls and vessels, sculptural works and functional wares. Talk with one of our staff to learn about the artists and their creations, ask about gift registry and national and international shipping.

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 Northwest Davis Street
Portland, Oregon 97209

Tel. | 503.223.2654
Fax | 503.223.0190
info@MuseumofContemporaryCraft.org

http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org

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Pennsylvania


Allentown

Allentown Art Museum

In 1973 the Allentown Art Museum purchased a room from a Prairie style house built by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Wright's designs are closely related to the Arts and Crafts Movement from the early 20th Century, which emphasized traditional materials and simple designs. This tour offers decorative arts that compliment


http://www.allentownartmuseum.org

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Doylestown

James A. Michener Art Museum

http://www.michenermuseum.org/exhibits/

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Erie

Erie Art Museum
Cappy Counard


http://www.erieartmuseum.org

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art

 
Recent museum acquisitions of 20th- and 21st-century hollowware, sculpture, and jewelry celebrate Philadelphia’s rich heritage in the field of metalwork.

Crane Arts Ice Box Project Space
http://www.lovearmorproject.com/

Shirley Klinghoffer and Sarah Hewitt travel the high road, transforming the warrior Humvee into a sculptural symbol of peaceful tranquility.

http://www.philartalliance.org/exhibits.htm

Museum Celebrates Philadelphia's Extensive Metalworking History with Exhibition of Sculpture and Jewelry

Philadelphia has a rich history of metalwork, and owes much of its early development to the industrial welders who helped shape the city during its settlement. The city has continued to rely on the skills of metalsmiths, who have gradually incorporated ornate design into functional works over the centuries. In conjunction with 800 metalsmiths arriving in Philadelphia for the 40th-annual conference of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) May 20 to 23, the Museum celebrates the city’s longstanding metalworking heritage with Wrought & Crafted: Jewelry and Metalwork 1900 to the Present, organized by Elisabeth Agro, the Nancy M. McNeil Associate Curator of American Modern and Contemporary Crafts and Decorative Arts. The exhibition opens May 9 and runs through January 2010 in the North Auditorium Gallery.

Showcasing more than 50 works, Wrought & Crafted highlights the Museum’s extensive holdings of 20th- and 21st-century hollow-ware, sculpture and jewelry, documenting the development of metalwork over the past two centuries.

http://www.philamuseum.org

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Pittsburgh

Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh Adorned: Classic to Contemporary
Through October 17, 2010

Features more than 80 exquisite pieces from private local collections and the Carnegie.

www.carnegiemuseums.org/

Carnegie Mellon University Regina Gouger Miller Gallery

http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/

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Society for Contemporary Craft Satellite Gallery: One Mellon Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

My Walden: New Works by Atticus Adams
Jun. 25 — Sep. 26


 
Large, fluid forms sculpted from industrial metal mesh float and undulate in space, casting dramatic shadows as ethereal as the pieces themselves.

http://www.contemporarycraft.org

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Reading

GoggleWorks

Steven Siegel: Wonderful Life

Cohen Gallery
http://www.goggleworks.org

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Willow Grove

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Rhode Island

Providence

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of ArtSubject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century

ongoing

The new Paula and Leonard Granoff Galleries in the 1926 Radeke Building display masterworks of painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, drawings, photographs, costume, textiles and industrial design from 1900 to 2000, all drawn from the Museum's permanent collection. From the work of Henri Matisse and Frank Lloyd Wright to that of Andy Warhol, Lynda Benglis and Ettore Sottsass, the objects convey the last century's revolutionary changes in art and design, as well as the tremendous impact of technology.

www.risd.edu/museum

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South Carolina

Charleston

The Charleston Museum
Preciousness Preserved: Jewelry from the Charleston Museum's Collections from Antiquity to Today
Through September 6, 2010

A display of pieces that span the globe and date from 500 BC to the mid-20th century. The gemstone jewelry features amethyst, garnet, and diamond.

Greenville

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Tennessee

Memphis

National Ornamental Metal Museum
May. 29 — Aug. 29 2010
With an eye toward the future of this vital art form, unique perspectives
 
 

John Rais, Tonare, steel, patina and paint, photo/John Polak.

http://www.metalmuseum.org
 

 

National Ornamental Metal Museum

Tributaries: Jessica Calderwood

Tributaries: Susan Myers

Dichotomies of Place and Object: South African Studio Jewelry

Iron: Twenty Ten

May 28 - August 29, 2010

With an eye toward the future of a vital art form, Iron: Twenty Ten offers a survey of the finest contemporary blacksmithing in the United States. Employing both traditional and innovative approaches, the selected work demonstrates the tremendous breadth of ideas and depth of talent found in American blacksmithing today. The work, from an exciting mix of established and emerging artists, was selected by a jury of prominent blacksmiths and scholars, including Anna Fariello, Tom Joyce, Richard Quinnell and James Wallace. Taken as a whole, the exhibition offers both the casual viewer and the seasoned metalsmith a comprehensive picture of the state of contemporary American blacksmithing. (left, Lee Sauder's Odalisque, bloom iron with steel base, 2007)

Master Metalsmith 2010: Michael Jerry

September 3 - October 23, 2010

Exhibits change every ten to twelve weeks and range from jewelry and hollowware in precious metals to sculpture and architectural ironwork. Approximately two-thirds of the Museum’s exhibitions are organized in-house; the others are touring, rented exhibits or borrowed collections from other institutions and/or individuals.     

The Master Metalsmith series began in 1984 as a way for the Metal Museum to honor the most influential metal artists of the day.  In the years since its inception it has brought the work of more than twenty internationally acclaimed metalsmiths to Memphis for solo exhibitions.  The honor of being chosen as a Metal Museum Master Metalsmith is now highly esteemed in the field.

Sculpture Garden

A growing outdoor sculpture garden features work by internationally recognized metalsmiths from the Artist Blacksmith’s Associations of North America and Great Britain.  Other outdoor sculpture has either been donated by the makers or purchased with restricted gifts from individuals and corporations.
 

The Metal Museum is funded through the generosity of members and donors and through ArtsMemphis and the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Each year the Metal Museum honors a metalsmith who has had a significant influence in the field. This year the Metal Museum is pleased to host Gary Griffin. This exhibition will focus on work generated while Griffin was Resident Artist in the John Michael Kohler Art Center’s Art and Industry Program in early 2007. Titled “The Penumbra Series,” the body of work includes 18 ductile cast iron frames explore the moment where molten iron is arrested within a picture plane.

National Ornamental Metal Museum 374 Metal Museum Drive, Memphis, Tennessee  38106
Phone: 901-774-6380 or 1-877-881-2326

 Classes

The Metal Museum offers various education programs ranging from public demonstrations to middle and high school programs to blacksmithing and casting. Metalsmithing and foundry classes are taught on site. Classes start at beginner levels and go to advanced specialized sessions. After students take a basic class, they are eligible to use the Metal Museum's shop facilities (Membership at the $250 level required). The Metal Museum also offers acid/copper etching, silver bracelet fabrication and aluminum casting for children and participates in the Memphis City Schools Summer Arts Program.

http://www.metalmuseum.org/

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Nashville

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

George Rickey's Three Red Lines
Through December 2010

One of postwar America’s preeminent sculptors, George Rickey was a pioneer in the field of kinetic art. From the 1950s until his death in 2002, he employed his deep knowledge of physics and aerodynamics to produce works in which the lyrical interaction between industrial materials and the surrounding forces of nature creates an experience of profound beauty and philosophical resonance.

Rickey’s sculptures are composed of geometrical metal forms, which swivel on pendulums, ball bearings, and knife-sharp edges to follow pre-determined paths in response to the slightest movement of the wind. One of the centerpieces of the Hirshhorn Museum’s internationally renowned sculpture collection, Rickey’s Three Red Lines is 36 feet tall and features three pointed arms that gracefully move back and forth in an implied parabolic arc.

The Frist Center is pleased to display Three Red Lines on our front patio located on the Broadway side of the building.


Fletcher Benton's Truckin’ Jumbo Geo

Composed of geometric elements that have been welded together in abstract configurations, Fletcher Benton’s sculptures explore tensions between space and volume, balance and precariousness, and simplicity and complexity. Truckin’ Jumbo Geo is from a series that also evokes mechanized transportation, reflecting the artist’s fascination with bicycles, racecars, trucks, and locomotives.

In 2008 Benton received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in Hamilton, New Jersey. Previous recipients have included Louise Bourgeois, Anthony Caro, Christo and Jeanne Claude, George Rickey, Mark di Suvero, and other illustrious sculptors working since the mid-twentieth century.

Truckin’ Jumbo Geo is located on the back lawn of the Frist Center.


http://www.fristcenter.org/

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Smithville

Appalachian Center for Craft
Gallery One

About the Metals Program

We offer a comprehensive program laying the foundation for a career in contemporary metalsmithing. Our students pursue careers as jewelers, blacksmiths, studio artists and teachers.

The B.F.A. curriculum has a series of classes in jewelry, casting, hollowware, sculpture, blacksmithing, drawing, design and history, in addition to general academic studies. Projects range from jewelry to architectural ironwork.

Students are exposed to a broad range of techniques and historical metal work in these classes. The use of traditional hand tools, combined with modern machine tools, is taught with an emphasis on creativity. Students design and create solutions for functional and aesthetic problems using more advanced tooling and skills. During the final semesters, students refine their work by creating and exhibiting a body of work.

Studio Profile

  • Learn ancient techniques with contemporary interpretation
  • Enjoy a 6,000-square-foot studio including blacksmithing facility, main bench room, raising, buffing and chemical rooms

     
  • Develop professional skills from fine jewelry to large-scale sculpture
  • Work with a resident artist, visiting artists, and workshop lecturers
  • Have access to professional groups and studio/gallery visits
  • Receive individual attention
  • Experience excellent facilities and equipment

Appalachian Center for Craft
Gallery One

About the Metals Program

We offer a comprehensive program laying the foundation for a career in contemporary metalsmithing. Our students pursue careers as jewelers, blacksmiths, studio artists and teachers.

The B.F.A. curriculum has a series of classes in jewelry, casting, hollowware, sculpture, blacksmithing, drawing, design and history, in addition to general academic studies. Projects range from jewelry to architectural ironwork.

Students are exposed to a broad range of techniques and historical metal work in these classes. The use of traditional hand tools, combined with modern machine tools, is taught with an emphasis on creativity. Students design and create solutions for functional and aesthetic problems using more advanced tooling and skills. During the final semesters, students refine their work by creating and exhibiting a body of work.

Studio Profile

  • Learn ancient techniques with contemporary interpretation
  • Enjoy a 6,000-square-foot studio including blacksmithing facility, main bench room, raising, buffing and chemical rooms

     
  • Develop professional skills from fine jewelry to large-scale sculpture
  • Work with a resident artist, visiting artists, and workshop lecturers
  • Have access to professional groups and studio/gallery visits
  • Receive individual attention
  • Experience excellent facilities and equipment

http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/

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Texas

Austin

The Art of Jewelry

March 8–December 31, 2010 • Austin, Texas
Organizer name and contact info:
Art on 5th
512.481.1111
1501 W. 5th Street, Austin, Texas 78703

Event hours:
Monday – Saturday 10am-6pm

Web page (URL):

http://www.arton5th.com/events.php

Other information:
ART on 5th owner Joe Sigel and gallery director Jodi Brauner have been watching the Austin jewelry scene in Austin from an art gallery’s point of view and have never felt that Austin had a jewelry store that was reflective of the hip, not-trendy, funky, not-glamorous persona of the city. The Art of Jewelry is the answer to that void.

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Dallas

Preservation Dallas

http://www.preservationdallas.org/

Dallas Museum of Art 

We offer an array of sculpture, goblets, jewelry, scent bottles, paperweights, platters, wall art, and many other treasures, large and small. Featuring an ever-changing selection of outstanding and innovative work by over 300 contemporary glass artists.

http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/

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Denton

Greater Denton Arts Council

 http://www.dentonarts.com/

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El Paso

El Paso Museum of Art

Bedazzled : 5,000 Years of Jewelry
Mar 28–Jul 25, 2010

Organized by the Walters Art Museum, this exhibit provides examples of stunning jewelry from 5,000 BC through the early 20th century.

 

One Arts Festival Plaza (downtown)
El Paso, Texas 79901
 

From an ancient Roman snake bracelet to a ceremonial Chinese headdress to a Tiffany & Co. glittering necklace, Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry will highlight more than 200 pieces from the Walters Art Museum.

The allure of gold and gems and the desire to design objects of adornment have remained constant throughout history and across a spectrum of cultures. This selection of Walters’ holdings will not only present the evolution of techniques and materials but also demonstrate the importance of jewelry as an expression of creativity and often wealth and position. In addition, a special exhibition section will be devoted to rings, the only type of jewelry worn continuously through the ages.

The Walters is one of the few museums worldwide that can provide examples, both in depth and range, of stunning jewelry from 3000 B.C. through the early 20th century. Assembled primarily by one of the museum’s founders, Henry Walters, during the first three decades of the last century, this renowned collection contains superb examples of expert craftsmanship.

“We are so lucky to have this rich, varied and aesthetically beautiful jewelry collection at the Walters,” said museum Director Gary Vikan. “Henry Walters’ eye for great pieces and his immense generosity has made this one of the world’s finest collections of jewelry.”

Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry has been organized by the Walters Art Museum. The exhibition includes many spectacular pieces from the renowned collection of Benjamin Zucker (New York), which are on loan to the Walters. Bedazzled is presented by The Women’s Committee of the Walters Art Museum with lead support from Richard S. and Rosalee C. Davison and The Eliasberg Family Foundation.

Houston

Houston Museum of Fine Arts

Liquid Lines: Exploring the Language of Contemporary Metal

On view Sunday, March 7 - Sunday, July 18, 2010 at the Caroline Wiess Law Building

Brooch

 

Artists have utilized metal in their creative endeavors for centuries. The material has an extraordinary ability to simultaneously convey fluidity and solidity, as well as stasis and motion. In recent decades, contemporary artists have investigated new ways to manipulate metal into expressive compositions, resulting in elegant and dynamic objects.

Liquid Lines surveys the innovative range of metal art in the MFAH collections. Furniture, jewelry, hollowware, and sculpture highlight the optical and flowing properties of metal achieved through techniques such as casting, constructing, forging, and hand-raising.

The exhibition includes work by international artists, craftsmen, and designers such as Ron Arad, Chunghi Choo, Georg Dobler, Arline Fisch, Gego, Joseph Havel, Bruce Metcalf, Albert Paley, Hiroshi Suzuki, Tone Vigeland, and Jonathan Wahl.

As a complement to Liquid Lines, which is located in the Alice Pratt Brown Gallery of the Law Building, a display of historic and contemporary mourning jewelry is on view in the gallery´s anteroom.

http://www.mfah.org
 

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
 

http://www.crafthouston.org/

Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler to the Tsars
Through July 25, 2010
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Texas
Features jewelry, clocks, picture frames, boxes, and eggs crafted by legendary goldsmith and jeweler Carl Fabergé.

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El Paso

University of Texas at El Paso


http://www.utep.edu/artsculture

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Oessa
 

Ellen Noël Art Museum

http://www.noelartmuseum.org/

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San Antonio

Amanda Stark: The Astral and Tellurian
Sep. 23 — Nov. 28
Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, Texas
http://www.swschool.org
Intricate, decorative sculptures of glass and metal, resembling objects in a science lab, stir the imagination with suggestions of functionality.

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Virginia

Richmond
 

Jewelry Fair at "Fine Arts & Flowers"
Oct. 13 — Oct. 17
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
http://www.vmfa.museum/council
The Council of the Museum of Fine Arts presents 16 premier East Coast jewelers in the newly expanded Richmond museum.

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Virginia Beach

Contemporary Art Center of Virginia

New Waves 2010

CALL TO ARTISTS: Create work for new Art School at Virginia Beach Middle

The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (CAC) is accepting proposals on behalf of Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) from artists for an outdoor public sculpture for Virginia Beach Middle School (VBMS). The school is located five blocks from the oceanfront on 25th Street and the school mascot is the Seahawk. Works must be original and respond to the VBMS mascot. The commissioned piece will be an integral and permanent part of the school's property and will be located within a traffic circle in the public right-of-way.

This call is open to Virginia artists 18 years of age and older.

2200 parks avenue | virginia beach, va | 757.425.0000
http://www.cacv.org/

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Vermont

Shelburne

Shelburne Museum

About Shelburne Museum: Located in Vermont's scenic Lake Champlain Valley, Shelburne Museum is one of the nation's finest, most diverse and unconventional museums of art, design and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds.

The museum’s collection includes works by the great Impressionists Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas as well as a prized collection of folk art including trade signs, weathervanes and quilts.

http://www.shelburnemuseum.org

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Washington, DC

Smithsonian
Craft2Wear Show

Entertainment & Arts - Fashion
 
Description:
SHOW & SALE OF JEWELRY & WEARABLE ART.

Save the Date:

Oct 23-24, 2010.

All artists, each previously juried into a Smithsonian Craft Show, will exhibit and sell their latest hand-crafted work in jewelry, scarves, accessories, hats, bags and women’s, men’s and children’s clothing.

ADVANCE CHANCE PARTY. Friday, October 22. First Choice Shopping - Wine & Hors d'oeuvres - Music, Modeling & More.

The Show is produced by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, which through its grant process supports education, outreach and research at the Smithsonian Institution. (read less)
SHOW & SALE OF JEWELRY & WEARABLE ART.

Save the Date:

Oct 23-24, 2010.

All artists, each previously juried into a Smithsonian Craft Show, will exhibit and sell their latest hand-crafted work in jewelry, scarves, accessories, hats, bags and women’s, men’s and children’s clothing.

ADVANCE CHANCE PARTY. Friday, October 22. First Choice

Smithsonian Craft2Wear Show is on FacebookSign up for Facebook to connect with Smithsonian Craft2Wear Show.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=81266385469&ref=ts

Smithsonian Renwick Gallery

New: The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946

March 5, 2010 - January 30, 2011

More than 120 arts-and-crafts objects made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II, along with photographs, are used to explore the internment experience. While incarcerated, the internees tried to gaman, a Japanese word that means to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience. Housed in tar-paper covered barracks furnished with nothing more than metal cots, the internees used scraps and found materials to create furniture, toys and games, musical instruments, pendants and pins, purses, and ornamental displays. These objects became essential both for simple creature comforts and emotional survival. Many are on loan from former internees or their families.

Two 20-minute documentaries: Voices Long Silent (2010) and Art of Gaman: The Story Behind the Objects (2010) run continuously in sequence

Related book: $35

Web: americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2010/gaman/

http://www.si.edu/visit/whatsnew/renwk.asp

Permanent Collection

The permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery, a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, features contemporary American crafts in glass, ceramics, metal, wood, and fiber. Highlights include:
 

• Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery (2009) by Karen LaMonte (b. 1967) (Octagon Room)
• Portal Gates (1974) by Albert Paley (b. 1944)
• Game Fish (1988) by Larry Fuente (b. 1947)
• Bureau of Bureaucracy by Kim Schmahmann (a cabinet sculpture described by the artist as a "contemporary cabinet of curiosities")
• Ghost Clock by Wendell Castle
• Bancketje (Banquet) by Beth Lipman
• The Renwick 30th Anniversary Plate by Irma Starr

http://www.si.edu/visit/whatsnew/renwk.asp

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History

Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond
Through September 1, 2010

On display for the first time in more than 50 years, the 31.06 ct Wittelsbach-Graff diamond will be presented with the National Gem Collection, where the renowned Hope diamond is on permanent view.

Smithsonian

National Building Museum

http://www.craft2wear.smithsonian.org

Washington Project for the Arts

http://wpadc.org

American University Museum


http://www.american.edu/cas/katzen/museum/

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Bead Museum

Programs Nashville

The majority of the programs affiliated with the museum will continue as activities of The Bead Society of Greater Washington.

Please visit some of our past exhibits 
http://bsgw.org/pastexhibits.html

http://www.beadmuseumdc.org/

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Corcoran Gallery

American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art

This installation of more than 30 bronze sculptures from the Corcoran’s world-renowned collection of American art highlights works dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries by such masters of the medium as Elie Nadelman, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Alexander Phimister Proctor (sculptor of Washington’s Buffalo Bridge)Works by women sculptors are a particular strength of the Corcoran’s collection, including those by Harriet. Whitney Frishmuth, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Anna Hyatt Huntington, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh. The exhibition also features popular favorites such as western bronzes by Frederic Remington, a Civil War group by John Rogers, and sculptures by artists better known for their paintings, such as Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent.

Sculpture from the Mouse House: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection at the Corcoran
on view now

Even before her marriage to one of the most astute art collectors of the 20th century, Olga Hirshhorn had long been accumulating objects on her own. While her first collections consisted of hats, hair combs, furniture, and jewelry, they pointed the way to her lifelong commitment to art. She is a passionate collector with an extraordinary breadth of interest in small scale objects at the forefront of artistic thought or steeped in traditional culture, from artists both renowned and little-known. From Cypriot, African, and pre-Columbian antiquities to sculpture, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary masters, Hirshhorn has amassed a treasure trove of primarily small and domestic-scale objects that demonstrates her searching, critical eye and sensitivity to a wide range of forms and styles.

In 1995 and again in 2004, Olga Hirshhorn donated significant groups of art from her collection to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Sculpture from the Mouse House: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection at the Corcoran displays a selection of three-dimensional works from these gifts that she had displayed in her Washington, D.C. home. Her tiny residence came to be called the “mouse house” by her friends, and the size of these works reflect the intimate nature of her home as well as the lasting friendships between herself and some of the artists whose work she collected.

Olga Hirshhorn’s collection was created mainly during the 1960s and 70s, a time when her late husband, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, the founding donor of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, was still avidly collecting. Through him and his legendary love of American and European modern art, she met artists and dealers and became an avid collector herself. Her collection substantiates her astute eye and keen passion for all the arts. Ranging from the geometric elegance of works by Henri Laurens, Ilya Bolotowsky and Kenneth Snelson to the pop sensibilities of John Chamberlain and Antonia Miralda, the Hirshhorn collection at the Corcoran offers a glimpse into the passion of collecting for the love of art.

Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 Seventeenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20006

http://www.corcoran.org/

Smithsonian - Renwick Gallery

The museum's Renwick Gallery is home to the nation's premier collection of American studio craft and contemporary decorative arts. The permanent collection features works in all of the craft media—glass, ceramic, wood, fiber, and metal—as well as mixed media objects. Jewelry and studio furniture make up a significant part of the collection. Highlights include works by Wendell Castle, Robert Ebendorf, and Albert Paley. Larry Fuente's Game Fish (right), an assemblage of game pieces in the form of a trophy fish, is a favorite among Renwick visitors.

Renwick Craft Invitational 2011

Special exhibition galleries, 1st floor, Renwick Gallery
March 25, 2011 – July 31, 2011

The Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 presents the work of ceramic artist Cliff Lee, furnituremaker Matthias Pliessnig, glass artist Judith Schaechter and silversmith Ubaldo Vitali. These four extraordinary artists create works of superior craftsmanship that address the classic craft notion of function without sacrificing a contemporary aesthetic

Cliff Lee (b. 1951), a neurosurgeon by training who works in Stevens, Pennsylvania, creates elegant porcelain vessels with the exactitude of a doctor, often using his knowledge of chemistry to recreate medieval Chinese glazes long thought lost to history. Matthias Pliessnig (b. 1978), a furniture maker in Philadelphia, uses boat-building techniques in new ways to create graceful forms with curved wood strips that may have up to 5,000 points of contact without the aid of hardware. Judith Schaechter (b. 1961), a glass artist based in Philadelphia, brings a wealth of knowledge about traditional stained-glass practice to her moody windows. Ubaldo Vitali (b. 1944), a fourth-generation silversmith and master conservator of historic silver in Maplewood, New Jersey., uses classical techniques he learned in Rome to create luminous works for popes, kings, and presidents.

The Renwick Craft Invitational is the fifth in a biennial exhibition series—established in 2000—that honors the creativity and talent of craft artists working today. The four artists to be included in the exhibition were chosen by Nicholas Bell, curator at the museum's Renwick Gallery; Ulysses Dietz, senior curator of decorative arts at the Newark Museum in New Jersey; and Andrew Wagner, editor-in-chief of ReadyMade magazine.

Book
A catalogue, with essays by Nicholas Bell, Ulysses Dietz, and Andrew Wagner, will accompany the exhibition.

Credit
The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation generously supports the Renwick Craft Invitational 2011.

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Washington State

Seattle

Transmutations: Material Reborn

Organizer name and contact info:
Facere Jewelry Art Gallery
T 206.624.6768; F 206.624.2852
FacereArt@aol.com


http://www.facerejewelryart.com/exhibit.php?id=34

Other information:
An exhibition celebrating 27 international jewelry artists who transform plastics (materials that include resin, latex, rubber, vinyl, and thermoplastics) into wearable art.

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle Art Museum Downtown
1300 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101-2003
206.654.3100

http://www.seattleartmuseum.org

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Bellevue

Bellevue Arts Museum

Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard

March 18 - August 1, 2010

The Gold Standard is Lisa Gralnick’s most recent body of work. A series in three parts, it explores the relationship between gold’s history and lore and its function as a commodity in today’s world. Thought-provoking, powerful and extremely well crafted, Gralnick’s jewelry and sculptural works question our relationship to the material world.

In Commodification and Sensible Economy, Gralnick casts used and personal objects in 18k gold and plaster, calculating the ratio of gold to plaster on the basis of the market value of the object and the value of gold at a set date. Section two, Phenomenology and Substantialism, was borne out of the artist’s need to buy gold at an affordable price to melt down and recover the gold. Gralnick “recorded” these objects before destroying them by casting them in plaster, leaving an eerie ghost of each object behind. In Transubstantiation and the Historicized Object, the artist employs the recycled gold from part two to create an ironic collection of objects with invented histories – genuine forgeries inspired by her fascination with the Victorian era and its obsession with the body, death, sexuality and the repression of women. With each section, the artist delves deeper into the unique aspects of value – both personal and societal – that make an object precious.    

Gralnick is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a position she has held for eight years. Previously she was head of the metals program at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, Racine Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Bellingham

Whatcom Museum of History and Art:

http://www.whatcommuseum.org/

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Tacoma

Tacoma Art Museum

Studio Art Jewelry

Tacoma Art Museum holds an important collection of studio art jewelry by Northwest artists. The collection includes key works by Mary Lee Hu, Ken Cory, Ron Ho, Ramona Solberg, Kiff Slemmons, and Nancy Worden.

Tacoma Art Museum
1701 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402
253.272.4258

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org

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Wisconsin

Fish Creek

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee Art Museum

The Milwaukee Art Museum's extensive collections of modern American and European art reflect the Museum's intense interest in European modernism during the first half of the 20th century. As early as 1914, just one year after the historic Armory Show in New York, the Milwaukee Art Society presented “The Modern Spirit,” an exhibition that included works by Duchamp and Léger. MAM's collection of Modern art includes important works such as Léger's Study for Three Portraits , Robert Henri's The Art Student (Miss Josephine Nivison) , George Bellows's The Sawdust Trail , and Ludwig Meidner's Portrait of a Young Man .

It was, however, the immense generosity and vision of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley that established the Milwaukee Art Museum as a leader in the United States of late 19th- and 20th-century European art. Begun in 1950, the Bradley collection represented the epitome of classic Modernism from 1906 Fauve paintings by Braque and Vlaminck to seminal Expressionist paintings by such masters as Kirchner and Kandinsky. Magnificent works by Picasso, Giacometti and O'Keeffe represent some of the highpoints of artistic achievement in the mid 20th-century.

Alberto Giacometti

Grounded in Cubism and Surrealism, Alberto Giacometti turned to a signature investigation of mass and space, with particular attention to the perception of the human figure in its environment. His intensely modeled, emaciated figures increasingly struggle to maintain their form against an aggressive, intimidating space.

After a period of working from memory, in the 1950s Giacometti resumed using a model, often, as here, his wife, Annette. Slender and elongated, the figure appears composed and her clearly articulated features are no longer anonymous.

By positioning the truncated seated figure on a beam rising from the base, the artist implied a chair but actually permitted the fragmented, massive bronze figure to hover in space, anchored but curiously light.

http://www.mam.org/

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Racine

The Racine Art Museum

The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, Sep. 2010–Jan. 2011.

We welcome you to experience one of the nation's most impressive contemporary craft museums. With a permanent collection of over 3,500 contemporary craft objects, RAM provides the opportunity to view many of these in one of the collection shows throughout each year.

With a concentration in ceramics, fibers, glass, metals and wood, RAM features one of the most significant collections of contemporary crafts in North America. The evolution of its collections began at the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts with 300 pieces created for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in the 1930s. more

Today, RAM holds more than 3,500 objects in its permanent collection, including works by Dale Chihuly, Joel Philip Myers, Wendell Castle, Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Lia Cook, Peter Voulkos, Albert Paley, Toshiko Takaezu, Arline Fisch and several hundred more.

RAM's metal collection focuses on American Studio Jewelry, rather than holloware and architectural metal work. They document the major movements of American studio jewelry ranging from a concern with semi-precious material, to more sculptural forms that challenge the relationship between art and the body and finally today's preoccupation with the narrative and the figure. Artists such as Arline Fisch, Richard Mafong, Earl Pardon, and Robert Ebendorf employed a variety of techniques when they created these pieces, ranging from a playful exploration of color to the use of natural and industrial objects as raw materials. 

Eccentric Insects

June 13 – October 17, 2010
This group show includes works in fiber, glass and metal, depicting insects and insect imagery. Glass artist Wesley Fleming created realistic and imagined insects, David and Roberta Williamson combined materials in narrative compositions, Betsy Youngquist and R. Scott Long collaborated on surreal figures made out of beads and ceramic, and Andrea V. Uravitch's fiber insects are larger-than-life-sized. Each artist's work is displayed in a small-scale exhibition case.  

 

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Betsy Youngquist and R. Scott Long

The Hine's Emerald Dragonfly Project (detail), 2010

Mixed Media Sculptural Mosaic

Collection of the Artist

Photography: Larry Sanders

ARTISTS IN EXHIBITION

Wesley Fleming, Andrea V. Uravitch, Betsy Youngquist and R. Scott Long, Roberta and David Williamson

Racine Art Museum
441 Main Street
Racine, Wisconsin
http://www.ramart.org/

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Sheboygan
 

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
 

http://www.jmkac.org/ 

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International

Belgium

Ghent

Design Museum

http://design.museum.gent.be/

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Canada

Montreal

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Inspiria: How Cirque du Soleil Inspired the House of Boucheron to Create a Collection of Luxury Jewellery
Through August 29, 2010

An exhibition of 20 pieces produced in a collaboration between the famed entertainment troupe and one of Paris’s most distinguished jewelry houses.

Article and photos by Andrea de Gosztonyi (jewelry photos courtesy of Boucheron, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)

There is a new temporary exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) in Montreal, Canada, Inspiria: How Cirque du Soleil Inspired the House of Boucheron to Create a Collection of Luxury Jewellery. Some are also calling it the Clown Jewels. Guy Laliberté, the founder and chief executive officer of the internationally renowned Cirque du Soleil, and the well established high fashion jewelery house Boucheron based on the Place Vendome in Paris, France have come together to present a collection of 20 necklaces that are presently on display at the museum. Each necklace was conceived to represent one of twenty Cirque du Soleil shows on tour such as Love (see Cirque du Soleil ‘Vegas show fun and Cirque du Solei The Beatles Love) and Corteo (see Italian themed Cirque show delightful). Rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds are only some of the stones used to create this stunning collection.

The museum devoted a separate gallery to the exhibit of these fine jewels. The display counters unfold like a magnificent ribbon winding down from the ceiling and flowing across the room. Encased in sunken boxes, each necklace is described with a text explaining how the jewelers were inspired by that particular show. Suspended above each necklace is a video clip of the show represented by the necklace. Brilliant craftsmanship, flowing shapes and movements are reflected in both works. Gouache drawings of each necklace are displayed on the walls. I found it fascinating to see the transformation from drawing to actual object. There is also a short video on the selection of jewels and the actual fabrication of the necklaces from sketch to finished product

Boucheron, founded in Paris in 1858 by Frédéric Boucheron, has been jeweler to courtesans and kings, maharajahs and czars. The company rose to prominence during the Art Déco period in Europe and its jewelers have been creators of luxurious jewelery ever since. Jean Christophe Bedos, president, House of Boucheron attended the exhibit opening. Cirque du Soleil is well known for spectacular shows with acrobatics, costumes and original music.

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China

Beijing

Geological Museum of China, Beijing
Mineral Treasures of the World
Through July 18, 2010

In conjunction with Collector's Edge Minerals Inc., this exhibit features more than 100 of the finest mineral specimens, plus information on current market trends in collecting.

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England

London

A Collector’s Menagerie: Animal Sculpture from the Ancient World, The Sladmore Gallery, 57 Jermyn Street, St James’s, London.

Ever since he first drew on the walls of his cave, man has had the desire to depict the creatures around him. The Sladmore Gallery is renowned for exhibiting animal sculpture from the last 200 years, and has now invited Rupert Wace Ancient Art to introduce collectors to a veritable menagerie from the ancient world, spanning a period of some 2,400 years. A Collector’s Menagerie: Animal Sculpture from the Ancient World will be on view from May 12th to May 28th, 2010. Around 70 important and appealing pieces will be offered for prices ranging from £1,000 to over £150,000.

Goldsmiths’ Hall

Silver Waves – Hiroshi Suzuki - a major show of silver vessels by the internationally acclaimed Japanese silversmith. 

Hiroshi graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1999 and has since taken the silversmithing world by storm! His rise to prominence has been as remarkable as his extraordinary hand-raised silver vessels. 

His work is considered unique due to the superlative skill of his craftsmanship and the monumental size of the majority of his pieces.  He commands high prices and his pieces are avidly collected -  he is now represented in 27 major public international collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. 


http://www.craftanddesigncouncil.org.uk

Overview

The Company has a unique private collection of antique silver, contemporary silver, jewellery and art medals dating from the 15th century to the 21st century. The Collections, which nearly all bear the London hallmark, number some 8,000 items. These items are used either for their original purpose, or to display in exhibitions, or to inspire contemporary patronage of living craftsmen.

http://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/

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Gilbert Collection

The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection

Now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection of gold, silver, mosaics, gold boxes and enamel portrait miniatures was given to the nation by Sir Arthur Gilbert (1913-2001) in 1996. The collection was on display at Somerset House, London from 2001 until 2008 when it was transferred to the V&A Museum, South Kensington, London. The move to South Kensington enables the collection to be appreciated by a wider audience and the spectacular masterpieces it contains will greatly enhance the V&A's existing displays.

The range of material and types of objects in the collection demonstrates the personal interests and passions of Rosalinde and Arthur. These were comprehensive yet selective, as can be seen in the array of artefacts so carefully and enthusiastically acquired over many years. A passion for opulence and the finest craftsmanship is evident throughout, unifying the whole collection. The collection also shows how one passion inspired and influenced the next. The collection of gold boxes, for example, included a number which were set with portraits in enamel. It was this that first encouraged the Gilberts' interest in, and particular affection for, enamel portrait miniatures.

Some pieces from this vast collection, including objects made by Paul de Lamerie, will be incorporated into displays elsewhere in the V&A, including the Whiteley Silver Galleries. Some of the silver will be returned on loan to the historic houses for which it was originally made, to Uppark, West Sussex; Belton House, Lincolnshire; Erddig, Wrexham; Shugborough, Staffordshire, and Dunham Massey, Cheshire. Hardstone (pietre dure) objects from the collection will also be on show to the public at the Cliffe Castle Museum in West Yorkshire. Further examples from the collection can also be seen at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton,.

Selections from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection are now on display to the public in Rooms 70-73 at the V&A. In a refurbished suite of galleries overlooking the garden, the display will celebrate the masterpieces of the collection, with a particular focus on the gold boxes.
For any questions or enquiries about the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection please email
gilbertcollection@vam.ac.uk

An 18th Century Enigma: Paul de Lamerie and the Maynard Master

Judaica from the Gilbert Collection

Until 30 September 2010

This small display features ornate Jewish ritual objects from Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert's collection. Arthur Gilbert's family, the Bernsteins, were successful Jewish immigrants, who had moved to London from Poland in the 1890s. Central to Jewish observance is the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The scroll on which the Torah is written is wound on rollers called 'Trees of Life' ('Atzei Hayyim'). It is customary to decorate the rollers with either a crown or a pair of rimmonim. The crown symbolises majesty and the law of Torah. The rimmonim evoke the bells worn on the high priest's robe as described in the Book of Exodus. 

http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/ 

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Victoria and Albert Museum

Ongoing:

"Afghanistan Hidden Treasures"

About the Exhibition:
Ancient Afghanistan-at the crossroads of major trade routes and the focus of invasions by great powers and nomadic migrations-was home to some of the most complex, rich, and original civilizations on the continent of Asia. This exhibition will celebrate the unique role of Afghanistan as a center for both the reception of diverse cultural elements and the creation of original styles of art that combine multiple stylistic materials-such as the Hellenized examples from the second-century B.C. city of Aï Khanum, the array of trade goods found in the first-century city of Begram, and the astonishing nomadic gold found in the hoard at Tillya Tepe, which also dates to the first century.

It will also commemorate the heroic rescue of the heritage of one of the world's great civilizations, whose precious treasures were thought to have been destroyed. Among the highlights of the exhibition will be gold vessels from the Tepe Fullol hoard; superb works and architectural elements from Aï Khanum; Indian-style sculptural masterpieces in ivory, plaster medallions, and Roman glass from Begram; and extraordinary turquoise-encrusted gold jewelry and ornaments from the tombs at Tillya Tepe.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

The exhibition is made possible in part by Raymond and Beverly Sackler and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The exhibition is organized by the National Geographic Society and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

It is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories

Jewellery

The William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery displays 3,500 jewels from the V&A's jewellery collection, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. The gallery centres principally on the story of European jewellery during the last 800 years. On show are jewels that reflect the splendour of courtly life, some of the finest designs from the great jewellery houses of the 20th century and jewels designed by important contemporary makers.

Historic highlights include jewelled pendants given by Queen Elizabeth I to her courtiers, and diamonds worn by Catherine the Great of Russia. The age of Napoleon is represented by the famous Beauharnais Emeralds, the gift of Napoleon to his adopted daughter, and by tiaras and ornaments worn by the Empress Josephine.

Displays include a superb group of jewellery by the famous, French art-nouveau designer, Réné Lalique, and Lady Mountbatten's 'tutti frutti' ruby, sapphire, emerald and diamond bandeau, which she bought from Cartier in 1928. The gallery will provide the first opportunity to see the jewels given by New York collector and dealer, Patricia V. Goldstein, which have significantly added to the V&A' s collection of jewels by Tiffany and Cartier.

On display are exquisite pieces made by some of the most prestigious designers of New York, Paris, London and St Petersburg. There are two diamond tiaras by Cartier, a rare plique-à-jour enamel and pearl bracelet by Boucheron and a gold Chaumet bangle with a core of rubies and diamonds. Among the objects by Fabergé is an enamelled snuff box with the diamond monogram of Tsar Nicholas II. The V&A's collection is outstandingly rich in 19th century jewellery. There are sprays of diamonds mounted on tremblers as well as revivalist jewellery in the archaeological and renaissance styles. New to the gallery will be the Judith H. Siegel gift of jewellery by Castellani and Giuliano which includes the Helen of Troy necklace designed by Sir Edward Poynter.

Over 140 living goldsmiths and jewellers are represented in the gallery. The contemporary work ranges from ring sets by Wendy Ramshaw to a carved pin in recycled acrylic by Peter Chang and a vivid papier-mâché neckpiece by Marjorie Schick. Another addition is a selection from the Royal College of Art Visiting Artists Collection.

The Victoria and Albert Museum has collected dress since its earliest days.

The collection covers fashionable dress from the 17th century to the present day, with the emphasis on progressive and influential designs from the major fashion centres of Europe. The V&A collections also include accessories such as jewellery, gloves and handbags.

Some designers in the Jewellery Collection
see website for more...

Wendy Ramshaw is a leading and internationally renowned artist jeweller, who never ceases to experiment with a diverse range of materials and new technologies. She first trained in illustration and textile design. Her early jewellery, made in the early 1960s with her husband David Watkins, used screen-printed acrylic and paper. In about 1970 she turned to working in silver and gold, rapidly establishing a distinctive minimalist style influenced by modernism and industrial design.

Nephrite jade was first introduced into the Mughal empire as a raw material from China in the reign of the emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605), but no artefacts are known to have been made at court until the reign of his son, Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Jade was used to fashion royal wine cups, dagger and sword hilts and jewellery, and was probably seen only at the highest levels of the court. By the second half of the 17th century its use was increasingly common, and the jade was often studded with jewels set in gold that was so highly refined its softness allowed it to be shaped round the gemstones to hold them in place. This thumbring came from the famous collection formed by Colonel Charles Seton Guthrie, who served in India from 1828 to 1857. He stayed in India for several years after his retirement, and was thus in a position to buy jades and other hardstones from the royal collections that were being broken up as British rule steadily encroached, leading to the 1857 Sepoy Revolt.

The Austrian jeweller Fritz Maierhofer is also a sculptor, furniture designer and graphic artist. In 1971 his work was shown at the Electrum Gallery, London, alongside that of German jewellery makers Claus Bury and Gerd Rothmann. All three broke with convention by combining a non-precious material, such as acrylic, with gold. Maierhofer then went on to experiment with an even wider range of materials, including tin and Corian.

C. R. Ashbee was a man of immense talents and energy and a defining figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. In 1888 he founded the Guild of Handicraft in the East End of London with the intention of reviving traditional craft skills and providing satisfying employment in a deprived area of the city. Trained originally as an architect, he is known also for his highly innovative furniture, metalwork, silver and jewellery designs.

This brooch was originally a pendant, attached with many others to a necklace also made by the Guild of Handicraft. Its ship motif was a favourite of Ashbee's, often appearing on Guild of Handicraft work. The ship was also popular amongst other Arts and Crafts designers in Britain, American and Scandinavia.

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Bodice fasteners

Lapland and Iceland are the most remote areas of north-west Europe. Their traditional jewellery retains many medieval characteristics lost elsewhere.

Before zip fasteners, women laced their bodices with a cord running through eyelets at either side of the front opening, in the same way that people still lace their shoes. Because of their prominent position on the front of the costume, the eyelets, along with their cords and tags, often became pieces of jewellery.

These eyelets, or bodice fasteners, consist of silver rings with Gothic letters and pendants on the front. They were worn by the nomadic Sami women of Lapland. The Sami women did not wear bodices, but their costume included a decorative yoke, or collar, which was covered with small pieces of silver jewellery. They wore these bodice fasteners as decorative appliqués on the yoke.

A New Acquisition for the V&A

The Sculpture collection is pleased to welcome a new addition to its collection of contemporary art medals - a silver version of Leda and the Hat Pin by Linda Crook, 2003. If you can, come and see the medal on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in Room 64, Level 2.

The Metalwork collection

The Metalwork collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum includes the newly displayed national collection of English silver, as well as ironwork, continental silver, arms and armour, enamels, brasswork, pewter and medieval metalwork of international importance. In this section you can learn about the process of returning the Hereford Screen to its former splendour and see the restored Silver galleries.

Glass

The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the National Collection of Glass. It includes more than 6000 pieces, from the Middle East, Europe and America, and illustrates the 4000-year history of glass, from the 2nd millennium BC to the present.

Metalwork

The Metalwork collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum includes the newly displayed national collection of English silver, as well as ironwork, continental silver, arms and armour, enamels, brasswork, pewter and medieval metalwork of international importance. In this section you can learn about the process of returning the Hereford Screen to its former splendour and see the restored Silver galleries.

Sculpture

The Sculpture collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most comprehensive holding of post-classical European sculpture in the world. Read some interesting stories behind the objects and explore the collection of beautifully illustrated books on sculpture. Rodin at the V&A

The 1914 Gift

In November 1914, the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin gave 18 of his sculptures to the V&A in honour of the French and British soldiers killed in the war. Most of the works were bronzes, but there was also one marble and one terracotta.

This group of works is unique in public collections, having been personally selected and given by Rodin himself. He described it as a collection he had been making all his life. For us it provides an accurate retrospective view of the major achievements of his sculptural output.

The Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Gallery

Gilbert Bayes (1872-1953), after whom the gallery is named, had a long and eventful career. He produced a wide range of sculpture, using many of the techniques and materials shown here. At one end of the gallery are modelled and cast works. At the other end of the gallery are carved objects.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/

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North Yorkshire

Ryedale Folk Museum
Located within Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton le Hole, North Yorkshire, The Gallery is a new public visual arts space for Rural North Yorkshire. We display contemporary arts and crafts in the heritage context of the Museum and celebrate the creativity of the local community.

http://thegalleryatryedalefolkmuseum.blogspot.com/2009/03/forthcoming-exhibition.html


Ryedale Folk Museum
Hutton le Hole
York
YO62 6UA

01751 417 367

www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk/


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France

Paris
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Iran

Tehran

Tehran to exhibit Negini jewelry -

Tehran's Niavaran Cultural and Historical Complex is to mount an exhibition of gemstone jewelry designed and made by veteran Iranian artist Mohammad Negini.

Gem and Art will kick off at Niavaran's Sahebqaranieh Palace on May 5, 2010, showcasing exquisite works crafted by the 57-year-old heuristic artist.

Mohammad Negini began working on gemstones in 1987 and is the only person who has been granted Iran's highest art certificate.

He has participated in numerous international festivals and topped Iran's first Precious Stones Festival in 1998.

His works were also displayed during an exhibition at Tehran's Sa'ad Abad Cultural Complex in 2008, which showcased pieces of jewelry and artworks, made of gemstones such as lapis lazuli, pearl and jasper.

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Italy

Padova

Via Santa Lucia
355139 Padova, Italy

For the first time in Italy, at the Oratorio di San Rocco, from December 18, 2008 to March 1, 2009, visitors will be able to admire the work of Dorothea Prühl and of six other artists who trained at the Halle School, where Prühl was first a teacher and then, from 1991, headed the Jewellery Section, after the great Renate Heinze. The artists include: Antjie Braürer, Kathleen Fink, Beate Klockmann, Rudolf Kocéa, Christiane Matthias, and Vera Siemund.

Per la prima volta in Italia viene presentai l’opera di Dorothea Prühl e altri sei artisti che si sono formati presso la Scuola Superiore di Halle, dove la Prühl è stata prima insegnante e poi, dal 1991 direttrice della sezione di oreficeria dopo la grande Renate Heintze. Questi gli artisti: Antjie Braürer, Kathleen Fink, Beate Klockmann, Rudolf Kocéa, Christiane Matthias, Vera Siemund.

infocultura@comune.padova.it

http://padovacultura.padovanet.it/

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Germany

Berlin

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Hanau

The Association for Goldsmiths' Art!

We are an internationally oriented, cultural institution functioning on a public service basis.
Our primary concern is the promotion and support of contemporary trends in jewelry as well as in metal hollow- and flatware design. Providing young gold- and silversmiths with a forum for the general public through competitions, exhibitions, and publications is one of our most important objectives.
We promote the awareness and acceptance of art jewelry as well as limited edition production or classic one-of-a-kind jewelry. In the meantime, contemporary jewelry and silverware have become coveted collectors' items. A special venue for exhibitions is offered by the Hanau museum, the German Goldsmiths' House, which has been under the direction of the Association for Goldsmiths' Art since April 1, 2006.

Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V. (Association for Goldsmith’s Art)
Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau
Altstädter Markt 6 D-63450

http://www.gfg-hanau.de/

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Holland

Amsterdam

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Japan

Tokoyo

The Tokyo National Museum

The Horyuji Treasures consist of over 300 valuable objects, mainly from the 7th - 8th century, which were donated to the Imperial Household by Horyuji Temple in 1878.

Sculpture and Metal Art  

http://www.tnm.go.jp/en/servlet/Con?pageId=X00&processId=01
www.tnm.go.jp/en/servlet/

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Russia

Moscow

Moscow Kremlin Museums
René Lalique and His Art
Through January 9, 2011
Assumption Belfry

A collection of jewelry and sketches by the renowned Art Nouveaux designer Rene Lalique (1860–1945)
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Spain

Malaga

Museum Picasso Milaga

PICASSO’S LATE SCULPTURE: WOMAN. THE COLLECTION IN CONTEXT

http://www2.museopicassomalaga.org

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Barcelona

Meseu' Picasso
Barcelona

Address: Montcada 15-23
08003 Barcelona
Tlf. (+34) 93 256 30 00
 Fax (+34) 93 315 01 02

museupicasso@bcn.cat

http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/museum/getting-here.html

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Bilbao

Guggenheim

The Guggenheim in Bilbao Exhibits 60 Metal Sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg

BILBAO.- Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao underscores the spirit of the artist’s excitement about Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece and its transformative presence in Bilbao. In response to the building’s scale, larger and more elaborate Gluts have been added to the exhibition, displaying not only their majesty and monumentality, but also the dynamic between the sculptural and painterly that defined this great American artist.

Almost two years after the death of Robert Rauschenberg, May 12, 2008, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao celebrates the memory of this great artist with the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts. Comprised of approximately forty works, this exhibition, on view February 12 through September 2, 2010, presents a little known body of Rauschenberg’s work in metal drawn from1 the holdings of the Rauschenberg Estate, with additional loans from institutions and private collections in the United States and abroad. Always one to recycle, Rauschenberg found new uses for what others tossed aside, reinvigorating detritus with a revealing second life. Faced with disparate objects littering his studio, he applied a direct approach to the Gluts (1986–89 and 1991–95), his final series of sculpture. For nearly a decade, Rauschenberg frequented the Gulf Iron and Metal Junkyard outside Fort Myers, Florida, near his home, gathering metal parts from traffic signs, exhaust pipes, radiator grills, metal awnings, and so on, which he incorporated into these poetic, humorous assemblages, where the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

As early as 1961, works by Rauschenberg were included in two exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1963, Lawrence Alloway, then curator of the Guggenheim Museum, organized the exhibition Six Painters and the Object, which included six works by Rauschenberg. In 1992 the Guggenheim Museum SoHo presented Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, curated by Walter Hopps for the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas. In 1997–99 the Guggenheim Museum, led by Thomas Krens, organized what is surely the most important retrospective of Rauschenberg’s career, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, in three venues in New York. The retrospective was curated by Hopps and by Susan Davidson (co-curator of this exhibition), and travelled to Houston, Cologne, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain. The catalogue for Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective has assumed the status of a canonical text. On that occasion, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao jointly acquired Rauschenberg’s monumental early work Barge (1962–63), the largest of his silkscreened paintings.

In 1964 Rauschenberg was awarded the Grand Prix for Painting at the 32nd Venice Biennale—an event that established his reputation internationally. It also brought into sharp focus the rivalry between New York and Paris for leadership in the visual arts. By winning the Grand Prix at the age of 38, Rauschenberg interrupted the post-war sequence of prizes awarded to elderly European masters of the pre war. Alan Solomon, the US Pavilion commissioner, brought to Venice iconic Combines, such as Factum I and II (both 1957), Bed (1958), Canyon (1959), Winter Pool (1959), and Third Time Painting (1961). In 1975 Rauschenberg returned to Venice for a month-long show in Cà Pesaro, the city’s modern art museum, including the Cardboards (1971), Early Egyptians (1973–74), Hoarfrosts (1974–75), and Jammers (1975–76). In 1996 he was invited to exhibit three bodies of work on the Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, including a collaboration with Darryl Pottorf (Quattro Mani, 1996). Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts, thirteen years on, is therefore the artist’s fourth show in this city, and the first posthumous homage.

Of the Gluts series, Susan Davidson, Senior Curator for Collections & Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum New York, relates that Rauschenberg’s artistic attention in the 1980s turned toward an exploration of the visual properties of metal. Whether assembling found metal objects or experimenting with his own photographic images screen-printed onto aluminum, stainless steel, bronze, brass, or copper, Rauschenberg sought to capture the reflective, textural, sculptural, and thematic possibilities of the material. Rauschenberg’s first body of work in this new material was the Gluts. The series was inspired by a visit to Houston on the occasion of Robert Rauschenberg, Work from Four Series: A Sesquicentennial Exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum. In the mid 1980s, the Texas economy was in the throes of a recession due to a glut (or surplus of supply) in the oil market. Rauschenberg took note of the economic devastation of the region as he collected gas-station signs and deteriorated automotive and industrial parts littering the landscape. Upon his return to his Captiva, Florida, studio, he transformed the scrap-metal detritus into wall reliefs and freestanding sculptures that recalled his earlier Combines. Asked to comment on the meaning of the Gluts, Rauschenberg offered: “It’s a time of glut. Greed is rampant. I’m just exposing it, trying to wake people up. I simply want to present people with their ruins […] I think of the Gluts as souvenirs without nostalgia. What they are really meant to do is give people an experience of looking at everything in terms of what its many possibilities might be.” Rauschenberg chose these objects not only for their everydayness but also for their formal properties. Individually and collectively, materials such as these are the very foundation of his artistic vocabulary. His empathy for such detritus was visceral. “Well, I have sympathy for abandoned objects, so I always try to rescue them as much as I can.”

The exhibition is curated by Susan Davidson and by David White, curator for Robert Rauschenberg.

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Netherlands

's-Hertogenbosch

Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch

http://www.sm-s.nl

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Sweden

Gothenberg

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Steneby


University of Stockholm

Steneby is the collective name for the stimulating educational and cultural activities found in the invigorating setting at Dals Långed in Sweden’s Dalsland Province. Today the Stenebyskolan Foundation and the School of Design and Crafts at University of Gothenburg offer a broad spectrum of one and two-year preparatory courses in the art´s field, as well as university education at both the bachelor and masters levels. 


www.steneby.se

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Ireland

Dublin

For further information please contact:
Irish Museum of Modern Art/Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann
Royal Hospital
Military Road
Kilmainham
Dublin 8
Ireland
Telephone : +353-1-612 9900
Fax : +353-1-612 9999

Email : mailto:info@imma.ie

http://www.modernart.ie/en/page_196966.htm

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Korea

Seoul

Rolling Ball Museum

Bruce Gray
The Rolling Ball Museum in Seoul, Korea has acquired two of Los Angeles metal sculptor Bruce Gray's kinetic rolling ball machine sculptures for their permanent collection.  The museum's website is at:

http://www.rollingball.co.kr/index.asp

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Middle East

http://www.icarealot.me

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Ukraine

North Yorkshire

Ryedale Folk Museum
Located within Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton le Hole, North Yorkshire, The Gallery is a new public visual arts space for Rural North Yorkshire. We display contemporary arts and crafts in the heritage context of the Museum and celebrate the creativity of the local community.

http://thegalleryatryedalefolkmuseum.blogspot.com/2009/03/forthcoming-exhibition.html


Ryedale Folk Museum
Hutton le Hole
York
YO62 6UA

01751 417 367
gallery@ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk
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.SNAG - Museums that Collect Jewelry and Metalwork

Anchorage Museum of History and Art www.anchoragemuseum.org
Baltimore Museum of Art www.artbma.org
Bellevue Art Museum www.bellevuearts.org
Carnegie Museum of Art www.cmoa.org
Chazen Museum of Art chazen.wisc.edu
Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum www.ndm.si.edu
Cranbrook Art Museum www.cranbrookart.edu/museum
Crocker Art Museum http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/
 
Danish Museum of Art & Design www.kunstindustrimuseet.dk
Design Museum London http://www.designmuseum.org/
 
Fuller Craft Museum http://www.fullercraft.org/
 
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft http://www.crafthouston.org/
 
Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum www.lalaounis-jewelrymuseum.gr
Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft www.kentuckyarts.org
Mingei International Museum www.mingei.org
Mint Museum of Craft & Design www.mintmuseum.org
Museum of Arts and Design www.madmuseum.org
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago www.mcachicago.org
Museum of Contemporary Craft www.contemporarycrafts.org
Museum of Craft and Folk Art www.mocfa.org
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston www.mfa.org
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston www.mfah.org
National Ornamental Metals Museum www.metalmuseum.org
Newark Museum www.newarkmuseum.org
Oakland Museum of California www.museumca.org
Oceanside Museum of Art www.oma-online.org
Odgen Museum of Southern Art www.ogdenmuseum.org
Ohio Craft Museum www.ohiocraft.org
Philadelphia Museum of Art www.philamuseum.org
Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org
Racine Art Museum www.ramart.org
Renwick Gallery/Smithsonian American Art Museum www.americanart.si.edu/renwick
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art www.newpaltz.edu/museum
San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design www.sfmcd.com
Seattle Art Museum www.seattleartmuseum.org
State Museum of Applied Arts and Design www.die-neue-sammlung.de
Tacoma Art Museum www.tacomaartmuseum.org
The Contemporary Museum www.tcmhi.org
Toledo Museum of Art www.toledomuseum.org
Victoria & Albert Museum www.vam.ac.uk
Walters Art Museum www.thewalters.org
World Jewellery Museum www.wjmuseum.com
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