EDUCATION
College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, B.A. (Art)
Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont, M.F.A. (Visual Arts)
Photography classes with Ron James, workshops with Holly Roberts, 2017, Kerik Kouklis and BrianTaylor 2018
HONORS AND AWARDS
Grand Prize, Ornament Magazine Awards, 1982
Fellowship, 1995 WESTAF / NEA Regional Fellowship in Visual Arts (Crafts)
COLLECTIONS
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Rosemont, Illinois
SELECTED, GROUP, INVITATIONAL AND SOLO* EXHIBITIONS
Good as Gold: Alternative Materials in American Jewelry, Renwick Gallery,
Washington, D.C. 1981 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service l982-1986
Hothouse, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin l988
Amphoria, Galerie Jocelyne Gobeil, Montreal, Canada 1990
Progressive Metals, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California 1990
Arsenals: Aggression in Jewelry, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany 1991
Deutsches Klingenmuseum, Solingen, Germany 1991
Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland 1992
Currents: 10 Monterey Bay Artists, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California 1993
Jewels and Gems: Collecting California Jewelry, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California 1994
Signals: Late Twentieth-Century American Jewelry, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 1996
Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Montréal, Montreal, Canada 1998
Parsons School of Design, New York , New York 1998
SCHMUCK 98 and SCHMUCK 99
Sonderschau der 50. Internationalen Handwerksmesse, München, Munich, Germany 1998, 1999
*Graduate Exhibition, Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont 1998
*Jewelry, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan 1998
The End is Near Artists Look at the Twentieth Century, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts,
Racine, Wisconsin 1999
Supermarket 1999 Extravaganza, Slop™ Brand Art World Headquarters, Kansas City, Missouri 1999
Tiaras Will be Worn, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California 2000
Women, Art and Ideas 360, Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio 2001
*Postmodern Alchemy, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California 2000
eMotion Pictures: Orthopedics in Art, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C. 2001 —2002
Metal Under Glass
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
The National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, Tennessee 2002
Unwearable Art: Clothing in New Media, The Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, California 2002
Valuables: Jewelry in the New Millennium, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, California 2003
Tenth Triennial Exhibition, Corporal Identity: Body Language
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany 2003
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York 2004
*Necessitous Accessories and Other Works, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California 2003
Beyond the Mines: The Art of Gold, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California 2003
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little rock, Arkansas (2004)
Mint Museum of Art and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina(2004)
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska(2005)
Wearable Parables, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California 2004
Sensuous Matter, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine 2004
Aquatic Influences, Pratt Museum, Homer, Alaska 2005
Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts 2006
Parameters of Preciousness, Gahlberg Gallery, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 2006
*Solo Exhibition, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, California 2006
Uncommon Metal: A look at Contemporary Jewelry and Metalwork,
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, California 2006
Well Dressed: An Exhibition Exploring the Cultural, Historical, Spiritual and Economic Implications of Attire
Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York 2007
THE ENAMEL SHOW: Celebrating 500 Enameled Objects by Lark Books,Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco,
California 2009
METAL ARTS INSTRUCTOR
Jewelry and Metal Arts II, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California 1992 to 1998
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, Oregon, l987
CraftSummer, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 1988, 1995
Washington Guild of Goldsmiths, Washington, D.C. 1988
Ecole de Joaillerie it de Metaux d’Art de Montreal 1989
San Francisco State University, 1989
Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, San Francisco, California 1990
Penland School, Penland, North Carolina 1990
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1990
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine l990, 1996, 2000, 2007
Metal Arts Guild, Toronto, Canada, 1995
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas 1990
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee 1993, 1994, 1996,1997, 1998,1999, 2008
Alaska Metal Arts Guild 2002
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida 2015
LECTURES AND PANELS
Lecture, A Feminist Perspective, Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan l987
Lecture, The Politics of Materials, 21st Annual Conference of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Seattle, WA 1993
Lecture, “Women and the Craft Arts,” Women, Craft and Art History Conference,
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. 1993
Panel: Interweaving Contemporary Art and Material Culture Studies
Chacmool Conference, Art for Archaeology’s Sake, Calgary, Canada 2000
8th Annual Women’s Multicultural Conference, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey 2003
Panel co-moderator, The Price of Gold, Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference,
Cleveland, Ohio 2006
Lecture, Ethical Metalsmiths (with Christina Miller), Carry the Can Conference, London, England 2006
Lecture, Ethical Metalsmiths, Making Futures 2009- The Crafts in the Context of Emerging Global
Sustainability Agendas, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, England 2009
VISITING ARTIST
State University of New York, New Paltz, New York 1991
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA 1994
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan l994, 1996
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 1995
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 2000
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 2003
JUROR
San Francisco Metal Arts Guild, Fort Mason Fair 1991
Metalsmith (Magazine) Exhibition in Print, 1994
Ohio Arts Council Fellowship Panel, 2001
CHAIR
Editorial Advisory Committee, Metalsmith (magazine) 1992-1994
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Technic: A Collection of Techniques for Metalsmiths, “Hydraulic Die Forming” Tim McCreight, ed
Brynmorgan Press, 1992
Metalsmith, “A Feminist Perspective,” Fall l987
Metalsmith, “Jewelry: It’s Not a Pretty Picture,” Summer 1991
Hydraulic Die Forming for Jewelers and Metalsmiths, Carmel, California, 20-Ton Press 1993
Metalsmith, “The Price of Gold,” Summer 2004
Metalsmith, "Owning Up: What it Means to Possess," Summer 2007
Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint, “A Feminist Perspective,” Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas, Ed.
The North Carolina University Press, Chapel Hill 2009
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Pinzer, Los Angeles Times, A Sense of Time and Place, December l4, l980
C. Simons, Smithsonian, Modern Jewelry Shows its Stuff, December l981 (photo)
D. Hale, The Fresno Bee, An Arts Center Sampler, September 9, l984
C. Temin, The Boston Globe, Crafts, July 25, l985
V. Dalkey, The Sacramento Bee,
Making Statements, Women Artists Create Images that Boldly Speak Their Minds, October 15, l989
K. Trapp, The Museum of California, Jewels and Gems: Collecting California Jewelry, Summer 1994
T. Turner, Metalsmith, Issues & Intent: Contemporary American Metalwork, Summer 1996
N. Jacquard, Lemel, Journal of the Jewelers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, February 1997
G. Mannisto, American Craft, Signals: The Body as the Ultimate Medium of Worldly Exchange, May 1997
T. Mc Creight, Hand Books Press, Jewelry: Fundamentals of Metalsmithing Madison, Wisconsin, 1997
M. Eich, Schmuck, Aus dem unheimlichen Reich des Lebendigen, December/January 1999
J. Dawson, The Washington Post, Museum of the Muses, May 17. 2001
P. Peet, Metalsmith, Postmodern Alchemy, Metalsmith, Spring 2001
G. Brown, Metalsmith, Metal Under Glass, Fall 2002
Cultural Critique, September 12, 2002
A. Dubois, American Craft, Metal Under Glass, August/September 2002
S. Fishkoff, The Weekly, The Curves that Bind, February 20-26, 2003
500 Necklaces: Contemporary Interpretations of a Timeless Form,
Lark Books, A Division of Sterling Publishing, Inc., New York 2006
500 Enameled Objects, A Celebration of Color on Metal
Lark Books, A Division of Sterling Publishing, Inc., New York 2009
METALSMITH 1998 Exhibition in Print (photo)
METALSMITH 1999 Exhibition in Print (photo)
METALSMITH 2007 Exhibition in Print (photo)
Ornament, (Magazine) California Jewelry, Vol. 8, No. 2, l984 (photo)
Ornament, (Magazine) Scents and Non-Scents, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1985 (photo)