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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 talentblazing trail of new
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

Anchorage Museum

Anchorage, Alaska

http://www.anchoragemuseum.org/

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Alabama

Huntsville
 
Huntsville Museum of Art

http://www.hsvmuseum.org

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Mobile

Mobile Museum of Art

All That Glitter and Noel Concept Collection

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Unknown Maker (American)
Over the Shoulder Necklace, 1940s,
glass and metal
Collection of Charles G. Schoenknecht.

December 11 - January 24, 2010

The use of glass in jewelry design has a long history. As the concurrent Museum of Arts and Design-curated exhibition GlassWear makes clear, glass continues to inspire contemporary makers to blur the boundary between functionality and art.

Ornamenting the body, jewelry draws attention to the wearer and showcases their individual sense of adventure and style. For most people, artist-designed glass jewelry has long been available in the form of rhinestone costume jewelry manufactured by others, in multiple copies.

All That Glitter: Modern Rhinestone Jewelry was selected by Paul W. Richelson, Chief Curator, from the large, private Midwestern collection of Charles G. Schoenknecht, the Atlanta collection of Martha Stamm Connell and another private Southern collection. The exhibition spotlights the importance of rhinestone jewelry, from the 1920s through the 1960s, when a familiar day dress or evening gown could be transformed with the addition of a sparkly pin, bracelet or necklace. During that time, American and European high-fashion designers embraced costume jewelry and even designed collections and helped popularize the rhinestone accessory.

Collected over a 30-year period, this exhibition includes many examples of American and European originality in design, such as glittery pieces created to add a happy, positive note to holiday celebrations. In the spirit of the season in which these pieces are exhibited, the Museum will also present the Noel Concept Collection of artwork created by local artists commissioned by the Art Patrons League and the Mobile Museum of Art in the 1980s and 1990s.

Claudia DeMonte: Real Beauty

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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.

http://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/

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Arizona

Glendale

Bead Museum

New Greek Ceramic Beads!!

The Bead Museum Store has just received 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

Appraisal Day
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Heard Museum Phoenix
Gather your American Indian treasures, antiquities and other collectibles. Get an expert opinion on your American Indian artwork as leading art traders offer information about materials, dates, artists and traditions. Appraisals are not for insurance purposes, but solely for educational information. Appraisal fees apply.

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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Tucson

Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona

SET IN STONE: 2000 Years of Gem and Mineral Trade in the Southwest

Now through February 2010

Over the last 54 years, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show has grown enormously along with its impact on the local economy, but the lure of the minerals beneath our soil has generated trade for much longer than that. Gems, minerals, copper, and even sea shells and other exotic goods have been carried across the Southwest along well-established and well-worn routes for more than 2000 years. Set in Stone brings this long history to light, featuring 800 objects and audio-visual displays. With Native jewelry and mining tools from across the span of time, and with mineral samples, photographs, and recordings, the viewer is transported on a journey of deep historical resonance along routes that trace how the quest for mineral wealth has shaped the identity of the Southwest. Designed to complement and coincide with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, Set in Stone gives context and perspective to our community’s annual gathering.


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.

Now through February 2010
SET IN STONE: 2000 Years of Gem and Mineral Trade in the Southwest

Over the last 54 years, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show has grown enormously along with its impact on the local economy, but the lure of the minerals beneath our soil has generated trade for much longer than that. Gems, minerals, copper, and even sea shells and other exotic goods have been carried across the Southwest along well-established and well-worn routes for more than 2000 years. Set in Stone brings this long history to light, featuring 800 objects and audio-visual displays. With Native jewelry and mining tools from across the span of time, and with mineral samples, photographs, and recordings, the viewer is transported on a journey of deep historical resonance along routes that trace how the quest for mineral wealth has shaped the identity of the Southwest. Designed to complement and coincide with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, Set in Stone gives context and perspective to our community’s annual gathering.

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

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

January 29 – March 14, 2010

One the longest running, juried contemporary art exhibitions outside New York City, the Delta is open to all artists living in or born in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee or Texas. Founded in 1956, the Delta was created to showcase contemporary works by artists of the Mississippi Delta region. Today, the Annual Delta Exhibition has grown to encompass works in all media and reflects the region’s strong traditions of craftsmanship and observation, combined with innovative use of materials and an experimental approach to subject matter.

Young Arkansas Artists 49th Annual Exhibition

April 9 – May 23, 2010

Organized by the Arkansas Arts Center with the cooperation of the Arkansas Department of Education, the Young Arkansas Artists exhibition showcases artworks of all media created by students in kindergarten through 12th grade in Arkansas schools. The Young Arkansas Artists 49th Annual Exhibition will be held at the Terry House Community Gallery.

http://www.arkarts.com/

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California

Anaheim

MUZE

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

May 14, 2008–April 30, 2010
An exhibit of breathtaking jewelry, gems and minerals that brings to life the Institute’s groundbreaking role in gemological education and research.
 

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.

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

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Fresno

Fresno Art Museum

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.

http://www.lbma.org/

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Los Angeles

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.

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.

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
January 10, 2010 to May 30, 2010
Experience the largest presentation of work by Chicago-based artist and former Alvin Ailey dancer, Nick Cave, featuring tens of his "soundsuits"—multi-layered mixed-media, wearable sculptures named for the sounds made when the sculptures are worn. As reminiscent of African and religious ceremonial costumes as they are of haute couture, Cave's work explores issues of ceremony, ritual, myth and identity through a layering of concepts, highly-skilled techniques and varied traditions, and using materials such as fabrics, beads, sequins, old bottle caps, rusted iron, sticks, twigs, leaves, and hair. Mad, humorous, elaborate, grotesque, glamorous and unexpected, the soundsuits are created from scavenged ordinary materials—detritus from both nature and culture—that Cave re-contextualizes into visionary works of art.

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.

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.

http://www.museumca.org/

The Enamelist Society

http://www.enamelistsociety.org/

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Palo Alto

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Richmond

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/

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San Diego

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

 San Diego Visual Arts Network

http://www.SDVAN.net


Mingei International Museum
SEA CREATURES OF ARLINE FISCH | Oct 22, 2009 | May 16, 2010

Collection Source: Collection of the Artist

 

In the Roger C. Cornell Rotunda Gallery and Barbara Joy Marriott Wilcox Grand Staircase

Among the most respected designer craftsmen in her field, San Diego artist Arline Fisch has had a long, distinguished career as a maker of jewelry and body adornment and is recognized as an innovator in adapting and applying fiber techniques to working in metal. Fisch is professor of art (emerita) at San Diego State University where she founded its program in jewelry and metalsmithing in 1961. She has often made large-scale jewelry and adornment that occupies large portions of the body, but this is her first major installation – life-sized re-creations of specific jellyfish species and other objects that suggest sea anemones and coral – more than one hundred, fifty objects, all crocheted from color-coated copper wire.

The sea creatures were created for a site-specific installation entitled Arline Fisch: Creatures from the Deep commissioned by the Racine Art Museum, where they were grouped in six adjacent window spaces. At Mingei International, they will float in the Cornell Rotunda Gallery. The exhibition continues through Sunday, May 16, 2010.

In conjuction with the exhibition, The Collectors' Gallery will feature jewelry and books by Arline Fisch.

JUNE SCHWARCZ ENAMEL VESSELS — FROM THE FORREST L. MERRILL COLLECTION | Oct 22, 2009 | Mar 21, 2010

Designer: Theodore Cohen
Collection Source: Collection of Forrest L. Merrill

SCHWARCZ #827 SCHWARCZ #827, June Schwarcz, Spun copper bowl with electroformed lines, red enamel interior, and opal, beige and white enamel exterior, U.S.A., 1981

SCHWARCZ #2358 SCHWARCZ #2358, June Schwarcz, Electroformed copper foil vessel, red enamel interior, iron plated exterior, U.S.A., 2008

In the Upper Rotunda Gallery

TRANSFORMED BY FIRE is a career-spanning exhibition of ninety objects by June Schwarcz, considered the nation’s premier enamellist. For fifty-three years she has been fashioning exquisite objects that are contemporary yet timeless. Along with enameling – the fusing of colored glass to metal – June Schwarcz’s work often employs electroplating – the process of coating a metal surface with more metal, using a chemical bath and a current. Her distinctive forms also arise from her frequent use of thin copper foil and mesh.

Organized and presented originally in 2008 by the Fresno Art Museum and curated by Jacquelin Pilar under the title JUNE SCHWARCZ – Expressionism’s Fire and the Resonant Form, Fresno Art Museum’s Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist for 2008, Selections from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection, this exhibition has been adapted for its Mingei International Museum presentation, which continues through March 21, 2010.

This exhibition will be complimented by FISCH OUT OF WATER —Sea Creatures of Arline Fisch in the Roger C. Cornell Rotunda Gallery and Barbara Joy Marriott Wilcox Grand Staircase

Photographer, M. Lee Fatherree  

1439 El Prado, San Diego CA 92101

http://www.mingei.org/
 

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 

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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San Francisco

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, California

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/
 

Jan. 15 — May. 16
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, San Francisco, California

Jewelry Designers/Jewelry Makers: Who’s Making It?
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design Speaker Series Event

Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6 – 8 PM
Larkspur Hotel Union Square, 524 Sutter Street (near SFMC+D) Free to members / $15 for non-members / $10 for students with valid ID

Come hear jewelry designers, makers, and educators share insights and ideas about jewelry design and production processes. What difference does it make, if any, whether a designer is also the maker, or if someone else makes it?

Does the designer’s education make a difference? How does industrial design fit into this mix? Participants include David Cole, Sandra Enterline, Mike and Maaike (Mike Simonian and Maaike Evers), and Julia Turner. Moderated by Marilyn da Silva, Professor and Chair of Jewelry/Metal Arts, California College of the Arts. Presentation followed by a visit to the exhibition Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Jewelry Production by Chi ha paura...?.


Location:

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

http://www.sfmcd.org

2009 Bay Area Artists Registry

San Francisco, California
http://www.callforentry.org/

The San Francisco Arts Commission invites artists to apply for the 2009 Bay Area Artists Registry which will be used to select artists for a range of new public art opportunities associated with the construction of new civic buildings, parks and playgrounds as well as transportation and streetscape improvement projects.

Artwork budgets range from $30,000 to $200,000.

Eligibility is open to professional, practicing artists residing in the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. Previous public art experience is not required and artists working in all media are encouraged to apply.

All application materials must be submitted online via CaFE. There is no application fee to apply or to use the CaFE online application system. To view the application, visit online, register a username and password, navigate to “Apply to Calls” and search for “2009 BAY AREA ARTISTS REGISTRY-San Francisco Arts Commission.” Assistance with using the CaFE system is available during regular business hours (Mountain Time) via email at cafe@westaf.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
 

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.

Cartier and America
December 19, 2009 — April 18, 2010

Cartier came to fame as the “King of Jewelers” during the Belle Époque for his beautifully made diamond and platinum jewelry created for the courts of Europe and Americans of the Gilded Age. With an extensive variety of jewelry forms—ranging from traditional white diamond suites to the highly colored exotic creations of the 1920s and 1930s—Cartier made its mark with the ingenuity of its designs and its exquisite craftsmanship. Cartier and America celebrates the imagination and creativity of Cartier in the 20th century. The jewelry and works of art include pieces from the private collection of Cartier.

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

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San Rafael

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Santa Monica

Santa Monica Museum of Art

http://www.smmoa.org/

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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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Colorado

Denver

Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Arts

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

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Boulder

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Connecticut

Branford, Guilford and Madison

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New Haven

Yale University Art Gallery

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, Wilmington, Delaware

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

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art:

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.
 

Tiffany Jewelery, Enamels, and Metalworks Gallery

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

Georgia Museum of Art

Juried Exhibitions

The Ring Show: Putting the Band Back Together
Fahm Hall, SCAD
Juried by Jamie Bennett, Jim Cotter and Ashley Callahan
Details to be announced.

Curated Exhibitions

Art/Industry
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.

The Ring Show: Then & Now
Curated by Robert Jackson and Mary Hallam Pearse

Fahm Hall, SCAD
The "1st National Ring Show" took place in 1977. Juried exhibitions were held for three consecutive years and toured to various universities and galleries around the country.  Perhaps due to the nature of the exhibition itself, the selected rings explored format, concept and material value. It opened many doors for the use of alternative materials. Format ventured from the traditional "wearable" ring and expanded the parameters with entries that explored the ring format from the symbolic to the ring kit. Today, these approaches, while perhaps more sophisticated, are very much a part of the contemporary dialog.

Wedding Rituals
Curated by Komelia Okim
Location TBA
Features jewelry, table wear and objects that are inspired by the ceremonies of engagement, the honeymoon, rehearsal dinners and matrimony.  The show will examine ritual and object use in a society in which western and eastern ceremonies have begun to merge.

Animals in Bronze: The Michael and Mary Erlanger Collection of Animalier Bronzes from the Georgia Museum of Art
Animalier bronzes, which depict both wild and domesticated animals, gained a wide audience in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France, England, and the United States. Animals in Bronze represents the full range of styles and many of the finest artists of this genre. Notable among the works in this exhibition are several by Antoine-Louis Barye and Rembrandt Bugatti's Brahma Bull. Barye was one of the earliest and most famous artists of the animalier school. His works often depict animals in violent conflict and were inspired by his mentor, the noted Romantic painter Antoine-Jean Gros. Bugatti's works, with their rejection of "unnecessary" detail, appear to have been hastily executed, heightening their impressionistic feel. Also in this collection are sculptures by Romantic painter Rose Bonheur and her brother Isidore-Jules Bonheur, as well as works by American artists Herbert Haseltine and Charles Marion Russell. This collection is a gift from Michael and May Erlanger to the Georgia Museum of Art. This exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by curator Eleanora Luciano.

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

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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 in Focus
July 28, 2007 - March 21, 2010
Alexander Calder, Polychrome and Horizontal Bluebird, 1954. Gift of Ruth Horwich. © 2008 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.


View Calder’s mobiles, stabiles, drawings, and paintings in this small exhibition presented annually at the MCA. These works, drawn primarily from the Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan and dating from 1927 to 1968, demonstrate the artist’s development throughout his 50-year career. Calder combined colorful shapes taken from nature, such as snowflakes, birds, and animals, with an interest in mechanics to create whimsical mobiles that move with air currents. His explorations of both geometric and organic shapes have distinguished him as an innovator of art that responds to its physical environment. Though Calder began his career as an artist focused on drawing and painting, he is best known for creating stabiles, mobiles, and large-scale sculptures of natural forms simplified into dynamic, often whimsical creatures.

This exhibition is organized by Pamela Alper Associate Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm.  

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

March 16 – 26, Gallery One
Matt Schultz, MFA (sculpture)

March 23 – April 25, Atrium Gallery
Patrick Williams, MFA (sculpture)

April 27-May 7, Gallery One
Stephanie Ellis, MFA (metals)

May 11-19, Gallery Two
Jason York, MFA (metal)

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

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

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.


Artist: Steve Elliott

Location: 100 E Santa Fe

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

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Louisiana

New Orleans

Ogden Museum

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

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Maine

Northeast Harbor

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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

The Walters Art Museum

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.

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 Crafts

Pocket 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.

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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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Lenox

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Michigan

Ferndale

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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

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

12th Biennial Teapot Exhibition: Hot Tea

January 15-February 28, 2010
Delmar Loop Gallery
6640 Delmar Blvd

An invitational exhibition of innovative teapots made of clay, metal, glass and fiber. The teapot shape has been investigated by artists for centuries, challenging both the functional and non-functional concept of the form. Over 50 artists have been invited to continue this exploration in Hot Tea, the 12th Biennial exhibit celebrating the teapot and its various artistic configurations.

Opening Concurrently in the Charak Gallery: High School Teapot Exhibition



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

Thursday, January 28, 6:30-9pm
LUXurious: A Jewelry Trunk Show
Free and open to the public

Purchase some of the finest jewelry for yourself or your special someone for Valentine's Day. Participating artists include: Lynn Bowes, Sara Bucy, Donna Burdic, Jen Carlson, Stephanie Collins, Mona Jenkins, Lonna Keller, Sydney Lynch, Natasha Overholtzer, April Stevenson, and Jette Vogt.

http://www.luxcenter.org

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Nevada

Reno

Nevada Museum of Art

Bryan Christiansen: Trophy Hunter

February 20, 2010 - May 09, 2010
Hawkin's Contemporary Gallery

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

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

September 26, 2009, through March 15, 2010

The third in a series of comprehensive exhibitions and catalogues showcasing the permanent collection, this exhibition surveys the breadth and depth of the permanent collection and highlights key works from the holdings, only a tiny fraction of which are on view in the museum's galleries at any one time. Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth focuses on post-1945 painting, sculpture, works on paper, new media, and photography, and includes works by Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Alice Neel, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, El Anatsui, Juan Munoz, Alison Saar, Amir Nour, Bob Haozous, Richard Serra, and Bill Viola, among others.

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

Jan. 31 - Feb. 28, 2010
ONCE AROUND the ARTS celebrating BlACK HISTORY MONTH

MUSEUM HOURS- SAT & SUN 1-5 PM
ADMISSION IS FREE

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

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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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

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Glass Beads of Ghana  

Through March 21, 2010
This exhibition is the first to look closely at this dynamic and continually evolving art form.

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

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

Native Couture
December 16, 2007 through February 21, 2010
Baubles and bangles of jewelry-1880 to the present-and fashions influenced by Native American (like the Zuni bracelet ca. 1960), Hispanic and Western frontier traditions

Santa Fe style represents a state of mind held by those who live in this town either as full-time or part-time residents. Santa Fe style influenced fashion and design worldwide. It is not just jewelry and clothing but a feeling inside, a sense of place and that total belief in the Navajo saying, “Walk in beauty.”

The spirit of Santa Fe style has inspired an exhibit with the same name at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Native Couture opens December 16, 2007 and runs through September 1, 2008. Drawing from the museum’s incomparable collections, this exhibition showcases both old and new jewelry – 1880 to the present. The exhibition will explore the history of Santa Fe style and what it incorporates.

The focus of Native Couture revolves around the Dicky Pfaelzer Jewelry Collection donated to the museum by her children in 2005. Dicky, a style-setter, was known throughout town for creating a statement with her beautiful jewelry and exquisite clothing and a fixture on the Santa Fe gallery scene for more than eighteen years. (She also drove a station wagon painted with lizards and other Southwest iconography)

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

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

May 14, 2008–March 14, 2010
4th Floor
This exhibition honors the gift of twenty-one pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by the Brooklyn-reared modernist jeweler Arthur Smith (1917–1982), primarily from Charles Russell, Smith’s companion and heir.


http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/

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New York City

 

Museum of Arts and Design

Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection

Sep. 30 — Jan. 31

With more than 200 of Secretary Albright’s pins on view, jewelry as a diplomatic, political and social tool is explored.


http://www.madmuseum.org

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

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

http://www.craftcouncil.org/

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Masterpieces of French Art Deco
Opened August 4, 2009
The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Modern Art, 1st floor
French Art Deco is one of the great strengths of the Metropolitan’s modern design collection. The Museum has been actively collecting in this area since the 1920s, when pieces were acquired directly from their designers in Paris. This presentation in The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery features many of the collection’s most important works, some of which have not been shown for generations.

The installation will include furniture by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Louis Süe and André Mare, Armand-Albert Rateau, and Pierre Legrain; works in glass by René Jules Lalique, Maurice Marinot, and Henri Navarre; ceramics by Émile Lenoble and Emile Decoeur; metalwork by Jean Puiforcat and Edgar Brandt; textiles by Paul Poiret; jewelry by Georges Fouquet; lacquer work by Jean Dunand; and the magnificent set of reverse-painted and gilded glass panels designed by Jean Dupas for the first-class salon of the ocean liner Normandie.


Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900 to the Present
June 23, 2009–June 23, 2011
LAW Wing, Design and Architecture Gallery

This installation of highlights from the Museum’s modern and contemporary design collection from 1900 to the present features forty-six objects, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s hand-crafted oak, tile, and glass washstand (1904); Marcel Breuer’s iconic modernist "Wassily" chair (1927); a 1985 Formica "Ivory" table by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass; and architect Zaha Hadid’s 2006 "Gyre" lounge chair, made of polyester resin and lacquer. Also presented are metalwork, ceramics, glass, jewelry, drawings, and posters.


Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
April 13, 2010–November 7, 2010
Wrightsman Exhibition Gallery, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1st floor

Following the acquisition in 2002 of two Viennese silver wine coolers from the Sachsen-Teschen Service, most of the set’s surviving parts were discovered in a French private collection. This superb ensemble was last displayed at the beginning of the twentieth-century. Wine coolers, tureens, cloches, sauceboats, candelabra, candlesticks, dozens of plates, porcelain-mounted cutlery, and other kinds of tableware totaling over 350 items, represent the splendor of princely dining during the ancien régime. It was made for Duke Albert Casimir of Sachsen-Teschen (1738-1822), and his consort, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1742-1798) by the Imperial court goldsmith Ignaz Josef Würth. The Sachsen-Teschen Silver Service, an embodiment of Viennese neo-classicism, will be shown in the context of contemporary silver from other countries.
Accompanied by a catalogue to be published by the MMA.


http://www.metmuseum.org/


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/
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George Gustav Heye Center, New York

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.

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North Carolina

Charlotte

Mint Museum of Craft + Design - Jones Gallery

Linda MacNeil is considered one of Americaís foremost jewelry artists, a reputation built through her emphasis on imagination and technical virtuosity in creating beautiful and comfortable designs. Whereas bold geometry characterizes her Neck Collars and Elements, Lucent Lines, and Mesh Necklaces, stylized organicism defines her newest series of Egyptian-inspired Floral Necklaces. A fusion of glass and gold, MacNeilís sculptural jewelry possesses and exudes strength. Featuring 50 works, this retrospective exhibition examines Linda MacNeilís artistic career.

Organized by: Mint Museum of Craft + Design

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/

 

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

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Cincinnati

Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry
October 24, 2009 – January 25, 2010
The organic beauty of jewelry from the Art Nouveau movement shines in this intimate exhibition. Selected from the finest American private collection, Imperishable Beauty features over one hundred works from France, Germany, Austria and the United States by major art nouveau designers and jewelers, including René Lalique, Henri Vever, Philippe Wolfers and Tiffany & Co. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org

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Columbus

Ohio Craft Museum

 http://www.ohiocraft.org/

ABOUT 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

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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

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Wrought & Crafted: Jewelry and Metalwork 1900 to the Present
May. 9 — Feb. 28, 10
 
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 Mellon University Regina Gouger Miller Gallery

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

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Reading

GoggleWorks

Steven Siegel: Wonderful Life

Cohen Gallery
January 11 - February 28, 2010

Opening Reception: January 22nd | 4:00 - 5:00pm

This exhibit – a collaborative effort between the GoggleWorks, Freyberger Gallery at Penn State Berks and Freedman Gallery at Albright College – is a collection of 52 sculptures by Steven Siegel, Red Hook, N.Y. More than six years in creation, the sculptures consider the progression of cellular and biomorphic growth and its cumulative changes over time if left with no forces to influence it. Siegel´s sculptures often utilize recyclable or natural materials and everyday objects.

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

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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

Greenville

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Tennessee

Memphis

National Ornamental Metal Museum

Tributaries: Jessica Calderwood

February 5, 2010 - March 28, 2010

Calderwood addresses the ideas of consumption and personal obsession with irony, humor, and color.  Using a combination of traditional metalsmithing processes such as raising and die forming as well as industrial processes such as laser-jet cutting, her work merges contemporary enameled imagery with traditional forms. 

Tributaries: Susan Myers

April 2, 2010 - May 23, 2010

Susan Myers' work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including the Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco and the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh.  She has taught at Penland School of Crafts and Syracuse University.

Dichotomies of Place and Object: South African Studio Jewelry

April 2 - May 23, 2010

Curated by Lauren Kalman with help from Carine Terreblanche
Dichotomies of Place in Objects is comprised of jewelry artists from Stellenbosch South Africa. The artists have been selected with the assistance of Carine Terreblanche a jeweler and educator from Stellenbosch. All selected are all affiliated with Stellenbosch University; the only school in South Africa teaching conceptual approaches to jewelry making, either as faculty, students, lecturers, or alumni. They have been selected to represent a diverse cross section that reflects both highly conceptual practices, to tongue-in-cheek kitsch, to more poetic material investigations of form. Jewelers in Stellenbosch are trained with a high technical proficiency but the samples also include artists working with contemporary media such as digital video.

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

February 22-March 29

Bachelor of Fine Arts Juried Exhibition
Various Media
Description: This juried student exhibition highlights the best of TTU art students. Work represented includes: clay, fibers, glass, metals, painting, and wood.
Gallery One

January 14-February 18

Brian Ferrell
Static
Wood & Metal
Description: Variety of pieces ranging from metal vessels, wall-mounted cabled pieces, and free-standing furniture. All works have a consistent aesthetic language.
Gallery Two

January 28-March 10

Nathan Dube
Boys Toys
Mixed Media / Metals
Description: This series of work examines the ideas of childhood and play. It explores the relationships to humor, aggression, masculinity, and how the adult male identity is constructed in contemporary culture.
North Windows Gallery
 

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

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

Center for the Visual Arts Meadows Gallery: “Materials Hard & Soft,” mixed media, Jan. 26-Mar. 20.

 http://www.dentonarts.com/

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Houston

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched
January 16 – May 16, 2010
 


Opening Reception
Friday, January 15, 5:30 – 8:00 PM

Gallery Talks
Saturday, January 16

11:00 AM  Dave Koenig, Blacksmith and Founder of Houston Area Blacksmiths’ Association (HABA)
12:00 PM  Kenneth Schwarz, Blacksmith and Master of Shop at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
1:00 PM   Gabriel Craig, Metalsmith, Writer, and Craft Activist; Current HCCC Artist-in-Residence

Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched celebrates the rich history of American blacksmithing by bridging historical and contemporary works and illustrating the wide variety of blacksmithing techniques and processes currently practiced in the U.S.  The exhibition is one of the most significant exhibitions of blacksmithed objects in decades.” – Gwynne Rukenbrod, Curator of Fine Craft at HCCC


Finely crafted ironwork is often overlooked in our daily lives. It graces the façade of everyday buildings in the form of door latches and window grills. It decorates the gate that encloses the neighbor’s yard, so the dog cannot get loose. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft celebrates this overlooked art form with Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched, an exhibition of historical and contemporary pieces of ironwork created in the tradition of blacksmithing.

In early colonial American settlements, blacksmiths were responsible for making everything from weapons to farm equipment to cookware. As the Industrial Age took hold, the skills of a blacksmith were in less demand. Very few blacksmiths continued to learn the trade until a renewed interest in the art of blacksmithing and metalwork emerged during the late 1970s. With this resurgence came an interest in breaking away from the historical mold and using the medium as a creative outlet to shape new work, including sculpture.

The exhibition educates audiences about the processes used to create historical and contemporary ironwork. Contemporary pieces are exhibited alongside important historic works, such as farm implements and tools, to allow visitors to visually identify how blacksmithing artists combine contemporary design sensibilities with historical traditions and techniques to create their pieces.


Iron
features more than 40 pieces by 38 artists from across the U.S., including Elizabeth Brim, Frederic Crist, Carl Jennings, John Medwedeff, Lee Ann Mitchell, Noellyn Pepos, Jon Shearin, Lee Tribe and James Wallace. Local and regional artists in the show include Dave Koenig, founder of the Houston Area Blacksmiths’ Association (HABA), members of the Austin Metal Authority, and Texas artists, such as Todd Campbell, Tim Bailey, and Lars Stanley.  Contemporary works on view include sculptural and conceptual works and interior furniture, including select pieces from the permanent collection of The National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. 

2010 Exhibitions:

Michael Peterson: Evolution/Revolution

March 27 – July 2

ClayHouston Exhibit
March 27 – May 23

2009 Artists-in-Residence Exhibit
May 29 – July 25

Paper Runway
June 5 – September 5

TAODA Exhibit
July 31 – September 26

CraftTexas 2010
September 25, 2010 – January 9, 2011

Jenine Bressner Glass Beads
October 2 – November 28

Leighelena Jewelry
December 4, 2010 – January 30, 2011

http://www.crafthouston.org/

Houston Museum of Fine Arts

Recent Accessions in Design

On view through February 21, 2010
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building

The MFAH presents important additions to the museum´s design collection, created by some of the most renowned designers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

View Exhibition Highlights

http://www.mfah.org

 

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El Paso

University of Texas at El Paso


Rubin Gallery

A sensory experience of eclectic art, featured in Metalsmith’s 2008 Exhibition in Print, catches the viewer by surprise with its exuberant eccentricity.

http://www.utep.edu/artsculture

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ODESSA

Ellen Noël Art Museum

http://www.noelartmuseum.org/

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Virginia

Richmond

Quirk Gallery
Exhibitions - Main Gallery

Quirk features exhibitions of innovative work by both established and emerging American and international artists. Our artists are chosen for uninhibited use of materials and forms, for juxtaposition of tradition and experimentation, and for refinement of vision and skill.

http://www.quirkgallery.com/
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Virginia Beach

Contemporary Art Center of Virginia

New Waves 2010

 February 5-March 28, 2010


New Waves 2010 is CAC's annual, multi-media, juried exhibition. As the leading contemporary art institution in Virginia, CAC provides an opportunity for Virginia artists to gain professional and public recognition through New Waves 2010. Many works in the exhibition are available for purchase--it's a great time to start collecting contemporary art and support Virginia artists at the same time!

Featuring Works by:

Angela Allen Aurora Lutty
John Henry Blatter Aaron McIntosh
Shane Butler Sarah Mizer
Warren Craghead III Sonya Paclob
Mary Elkins Nikki Painter
Ana Esteve Llorens Pamela Pecchio
Ryan Gothrup Tate Pray
Christi Harris Kristen Rego
Akiko Jackson Matthew Damian Ritchie
Paul Jeffreys Susan Tolbert
Andrew Kozlowski Keith Varadi


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.

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, May 17 through October 25.

http://www.shelburnemuseum.org

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Washington, DC

Smithsonian

National Building Museum

http://www.craft2wear.smithsonian.org

Washington Project for the Arts

American University Museum

John Dreyfuss

through April 11

Featuring six large-scale works by sculptor John L. Dreyfuss, this exhibition is an exploration into the evolution of form and the wonder of invention. Referencing bones and early tool shapes, each work examines the relationship between form, strength of materials and the harnessing of power. Beginning with sketches, wax, plaster and cast metal models, Dreyfuss has subtly refined each work over the past decade and, through an ongoing collaboration with aerospace engineers, has experimented with the fabrication process. Rendered for the first time at monumental scale in composite materials, these extraordinary works simultaneously draw on ancient and primal references, while being distinctly contemporary in their conception. This exhibition is generously supported by AT

The American University Museum hosts two permanent collections:

The Katzen Collection, provided through an extraordinary gift from Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen, contains more than 300 works of art including paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture. The collection, a joyous, eclectic mix of fine, pop, and folk art, contains many works from artists such as Marc Chagall, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, and Pablo Picasso.

The Watkins Collection,which contains more than 4400 works of art, including paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture focuses on twentieth century art, with a special emphasis on Washington area art produced since the 1940s. The Watkins Collection was created in 1945 as a memorial to C. Law Watkins, the former chair of the Department of Art at American University.

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

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Bead Museum

With great sadness the Bead Museum Washington DC closed its doors to the public on December 31, 2008. Though successful on many levels, the mounting costs of operating the Museum in the current fiscal climate dictated the decision to close. We thank the many volunteers who donated their precious time and energy, and the many other friends whose generous donations enabled us to exist in the heart of our nations capital for 12 years. 

Programs - 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.

The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 Special exhibition galleries, 1st floor, Renwick Gallery
March 5, 2010 – January 30, 2011


The Art of Gaman
showcases arts and crafts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II. Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, almost all ethnic Japanese—more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens by birth—were ordered to leave their homes and move to ten inland internment camps for the duration of the war. While in these bleak camps, the internees used scraps and found materials to make furniture and other objects to beautify their surroundings. Arts and crafts became essential for simple creature comforts and emotional survival. These objects—tools, teapots, furniture, toys and games, musical instruments, pendants and pins, purses and ornamental displays—are physical manifestations of the art of gaman, a Japanese word that means to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience.

The exhibition features more than 120 objects, the majority of which are on loan from former internees or their families. The display at the Renwick Gallery includes several objects that have not been seen publically, including works by Ruth Asawa, Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, Isamu Noguchi, Henry Sugimoto, and master woodworkers Gentaro and Shinzaburo Nishiura. It presents an opportunity to educate a new generation of Americans about the internment experience and will provide a historical context through archival photographs and artifacts. The exhibition is organized by San Francisco-based author and guest curator Delphine Hirasuna, and is based on her 2005 book The Art of Gaman, published by Ten Speed Press.

The exhibition is presented under the patronage of The Honorable Norman Y. Mineta. Mr. Mineta, a former Congressman and Regent of the Smithsonian, was interned at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

Credit
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 is presented at the Renwick Gallery, with the cooperation of the Japanese American Citizens League, San Francisco Chapter. The James Renwick Alliance, Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, Nion McEvoy, and Cary Frieze provided support for the exhibition.

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

Seattle Art Museum

Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act
Oct. 15 — Apr. 11

Beads travel vast distances, pulling different parts of the world together like miniature magnets. In this installation, you'll see how small glass "seed beads," manufactured in the Czech Republic and Venice, Italy, have circled the globe. They decorate a hat for a storyteller from Tibet, a flag for a ceremony in Haiti, garments for a bride in South Africa and for a horse in Japan.

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

Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett

November 3, 2009 - February 28, 2010

Edge of the Sublime presents a first-ever retrospective of works by Jamie Bennett, one of the most important enamelists working today. This exhibition explores the artist’s creative use and development of a variety of enameling and metalworking techniques to produce highly color-saturated imagery on signature brooches, necklaces and pendants. Included are more than 80 ornaments, in addition to paintings and a selection of wall reliefs, sketches and notebooks. Drawings and accompanying texts shed light on the artist’s practices, revealing both working processes and conceptual developments.

Over the past 30 years, Bennett’s painterly innovations have greatly expanded the field of fired enamel into a medium for contemporary expression. Enameling is an ancient method of decorating metal by sifting or painting enamel powder (finely ground glass) onto a metal surface and then heating the piece with a torch or in a kiln to melt and fuse the glass to the metal. Certain influences are clearly visible in Bennett’s work, including his fascination with words and symbols, and his mother’s work as a fashion designer/dressmaker.

About the Artist
Jamie Bennett divided his time growing up between a Pennsylvania suburb and New York City. After a brief period at New York University, he transferred to and graduated from the University of Georgia, Athens with an undergraduate degree in business in 1971. After receiving his BBA, Bennett followed his passion for the arts to the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, where he devoted himself to becoming a metalsmith. He completed his MFA in 1975, and went on to several teaching positions including a faculty position for the Program in Artisanry at Boston University. He is now a Professor of Art in the Metal Program at his alma mater, SUNY at New Paltz. His work is included in the collections of over 20 museums around the world, including: the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Musée de Arts décoratifs, Paris; Museum of Arts & Design, New York; and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Softcover and hardcover exhibition catalogues are available for purchase in the Museum Store.

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

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. 

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

http://www.ramart.org

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Sheboygan

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Eight Counties
Jan. 25 — Mar. 21
 
Showcasing works in all media by artists from east-central Wisconsin.

This spring, the Arts Center will host Eight Counties, an extensive juried exhibition celebrating the breadth of art created in east-central Wisconsin. Showcasing works in all media including photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, woodworking, metals, textiles, glass, and mixed media, this exhibition is the twelfth in a series of surveys devoted to highlighting the talents of our region’s exciting artists.

We invited submissions from all practicing artists—professional and by avocation—in the eight county area of Brown, Calumet, Fond du Lac, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Washington counties, and this year we were delighted by an unprecedented number of strong entries. We received submissions from over 520 artists offering more than 1,550 individual works of art!

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International

Belgium

Ghent

Design Museum

31 October 2009 > 7 February 2010 Siegfried De Buck
a career as a jewellery designer and silversmith

De buck PralinedoosSiegfried De Buck will turn sixty on 24 August 2009. To mark this occasion, Design museum Gent will present an overview of his work.
As a contemporary jewellery designer and silversmith, Siegfried De Buck plays an important role in the development of Belgian jewellery art. His career, in which craftsmanship and elegance are key, spans over 30 years and bears witness to a great personality. By virtue of his incessant drive for innovation, various style periods surface within his design. Led by his sense of materials, the designer joins precious and non-precious materials to form unique objects.


 

31 October 2009 > 7 February 2010 Disappeared from the GDR
Design from 50 years ago


koffiekan ABSIn 1959 Christa Petroff-Bohne (°1934) was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR to design a series of crockery for the GDR gastronomy. At the time Christa Petroff-Bohne was working at the East Berlin Academy of Arts. This academy had been set up at the beginning of the 1950s under the direction of the Dutch architect/designer Mart Stam.This commission, which was actually a pioneering work, was a challenge for Christa Petroff-Bohne. She did not know any foreign designs and she was rather unfamiliar with the term ‘Bauhaus’. Walter Ulbricht, the leader of the GDR, who had been trained as a traditional furniture maker, hated the Bauhaus designs. Bauhaus was taboo to him.

For many weeks Christa Petroff-Bohne studied the daily routine in the various forms of gastronomy in 1959. She wanted to learn more, for instance, about the requirements to be met by the new, stainless steel crockery.
That very same year the first designs were taken into production in the Auer Besteck- und Silberwarenwerke (ABS) in the town of Aue within the Erzgebirge district. The Wellner plant, a 19th-century producer of silver cutlery and crockery, had been converted into a ‘Volkseigener Betrieb’ (VEB). These designs, in a slightly modified version or not, were produced until the beginning of the 1990s.
A couple of new designs were added to the series in the 1960s. Designers such as Brigitte Mahn-Diedering and Dietmar Scheibe were involved.
ABS did not produce the series of stainless steel crockery for the average East German families but for gastronomy and export purposes. The wholesale business ‘SUCCES’ from Lanaken (B) imported the crockery to sell it in Belgium. In practice, the crockery was highly satisfactory and there was no need to change it. Christa Petroff-Bohne, who had in the meantime been appointed professor at the Weissensee Akademie, stopped designing metal crockery after 1959. She still made drawings of porcelain crockery and she also drew the shape of the electric hand mixer KOMET RG 5.
All gastronomy companies in the GDR (the well-known Inter Hotels, restaurants, ice-cream parlours, etc.) used this crockery for thirty years. After the ‘Wende’ (reunification of East and West Germany) these companies were privatized at the beginning of the 1990s, which implied that the old crockery was taken to the scrap dealer almost everywhere. Only the Schwarzer Bär Hotel in Jena held on to the collection and its guests still make use of it today, in 2009.

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

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England

London

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. 

At Goldsmiths’ Hall

Admission Free 

Monday February 8 to Saturday March 6, 2010

See Hiroshi  Suzuki  - Silver Waves

Craftsmanship & Design Awards Exhibition 2010

Tuesday 2 to Friday March 5, 2010
10.00am to 5.00pm (late night opening until 8.00pm on Wednesday March 3)


An exhibition of the best entries from the 2010 Goldsmiths’ Craftsmanship & Design Awards provides a revealing and fascinating insight into the highly skilled art and working techniques of today’s leading jewellers and silversmiths.

Admission Price: Free
Website: 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

11 May 2009 - May 2010

Room 66
Free admission

Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751) was the greatest silversmith working in England in the 18th century. A Huguenot (French Protestant), he came to London with his parents, fleeing persecution in France. His success lay in his own exceptional creativity in producing stunning objects, but also in his ability as a businessman, retailing some astonishingly spectacular silver using the most effective and innovative suppliers in the trade.

The silver shown here is associated with de Lamerie's most brilliant craftsman, whose identity is still a mystery, who worked from 1737 to 1745. He is known as the Maynard Master, named after the dish made for Grey, 5th Baron Maynard now in the Cahn family collection. Other masterpieces marked by de Lamerie are from the collection of Sir Arthur Gilbert and this display celebrates the opening of the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries at the V&A in 2009.

For more information about the V&A's collection of silver by Paul de Lamerie, visit the Paul de Lamerie pages on the website. From there you can also download and print a trail to bring with you to the V&A, to help you find the highlights of the de Lamerie permanent collection across the galleries.

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:

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
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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

This gallery is devoted to the making of Sculpture. It charts the creative process from the first idea through all the intermediate stages to the finished object. The pieces have been selected to illustrate the rich diversity of materials and wide variety of techniques that sculptors have used. They are mainly small in scale and range from early medieval ivories to modern bronzes.

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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Germany

Berlin

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  

Modern Sculpture  
Corridor
April 7, 2009 - April 4, 2010

Including:
Mr. Tobari Kogan, By Ogiwara Morie, dated 1909
Eva, By Auguste Rodin, 19th century

Metalwork  
Room 5
March 24, 2009 - April 11, 2010

Exhibit includes:
Dragon-head Pitcher, Asuka period, 7th century (National Treasure)
Mirror with design of Sea and Islands, Tang dynasty or Nara period, 8th century (National Treasure)

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

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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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Netherlands

's-Hertogenbosch

Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch

http://www.sm-s.nl

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Sweden

Gothenberg

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

Irish Museum of Modern Art

14 May 2009 - 4 April 2010

Between Metaphor and Object

Between Metaphor and Object features a range of works from the IMMA Collection, primarily sculptures and installation works from the 1990s. It provides perspectives on the diversity of practice that is represented in the IMMA Collection from this period, explores its particularities, and considers them in the context of international trends of the decade. The title of the exhibition references perceived polarities in art since the 1960s and also proposes the idea of the continuous flux visited upon artworks in the mind of the viewer between symbolism and objecthood. Notably the exhibition incorporates a number of pieces from the Weltkunst Collection, which is on loan to IMMA since 1994. This significant collection of British sculpture and drawings of the 1980s and ‘90s will return to the Weltkunst Foundation in 2010 and the exhibition acknowledges the generous loan of these works.

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
 
 
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

March 15, 2010
Online Exhibition, ,
 
Deadline for submitting photographs and registration forms is March 15, 2010 for "I Care A Lot" online exhibition which will take place May 15, 2010. The project's aim is to raise the discussion about current issues in the Middle East through an international art exhibition in which jewelry is the chosen media. The work should have an unexpected creative concept. The jewelry pieces can express a belief, a wish, it can be a trigger to start a discussion, raising questions, showing your opinions, a teaser, a protest or what ever you find relevant to the topic. There will be a color printed catalogue, limited edition, anticipated to be published June 15, 2010. The project will be presented to galleries and museums for a future exhibition. The exhibition is juried and open to professionals and students working in any visual medium.
 
http://www.icarealot.me

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Ukraine

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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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