Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Liquid Lines: Exploring the Language of Contemporary Metal
March 7–July 18
Houston, TX
Cindi Strauss, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design, curates the exhibition, which features decorative arts and sculpture, including selections from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection of contemporary jewelry. Part of the SNAG 2010 conference Exhibition Crawl on March 11
www.mfah.org
AJF is traveling to London for COLLECT in May, expect blog updates and a full report on our adventures!
15th Annual Northwest Jewelry and Metals Symposium
Oct. 16,2010
Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Washington
Hosted by the Seattle Metals Guild on Saturday, Oct. 16, from 9 am-6 pm.
For more information contact Nancy Megan Corwin at 206-781-2646, nmegan@mindspring.com, or visit online.
http://www.seattlemetalsguild.org
Association for Contemporary Jewellery holds its 2010 conference “Crossings” July 19-21
West Dean College in Chichester, UK.
The conference explores crossing points, intersections and collaborations that feed and stimulate exchange, debate and the development of new ideas and directions within contemporary jewelry practice. Presentations and workshops include Wendy Ramshaw and David Watkins, Robert Ebendorf, Cynthia Eid, Susan Cross, and Stephen Bottomley.
www.acj.org.uk
The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf
May. 28 — Aug. 22
Little Rock, Arkansas
http://www.arkarts.com
Bellevue Arts Museum
Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard
March 18-August 1, 2010
Bellevue, Washington
The exhibitionexplores 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.
www.bellevuearts.org
The Design Museum
Finnish Jewelry
through October 1,2010
Finland
www.designmuseum.fi
Fuller Craft Museum
Unfolding Stories- work by Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto
through August 8,2010
Brockton, MA,
www.fullercraft.org
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
In Residence 2009
through July 25,2010
Houston, TX
www.crafthouston.com
The Metal Museum
Iron: Twenty Ten
May 28–August 29,2010
www.metalmuseum.org
Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri
The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo
June 5-September 26, 2010
Columbia, MO
www.akelo.it
Museum of Arts and Design
Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from The Nadler Collection
through August 8,2010
New York, NY
www.madmuseum.org
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Call + Response
June 18 - October 31, 2010
Portland, Oregon
A multi-layered exhibition featuring diverse works by eight art and eight art history faculty members from colleges and universities in Oregon.To provide context to the works, each artist was paired with an art historian with compatible interests; diverse art historical focuses include medieval architecture, Asian art and contemporary theory. In one case, Reed College’s Rob Slifkin, a historian specializing in modernism, was matched with Studio Gorm (John and Wonhee Arndt), University of Oregon’s product design team that creates deceptively simple objects for modern living environments. In collaboration with the Museum’s curator, Namita Gupta Wiggers, all of the pairs were asked to meet individually to discuss the works to be exhibited. Historians were then tasked to create original scholarship about their respective artist.
www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org
Ohio Craft Museum
Dichotomies in Objects, Contemporary South Aftican Studio Jewelry from the Stellenbosch Area
Sep. 12 — Oct. 31
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.ohiocraft.org
Racine Art Museum
Eccentric Insects
A collaborative effort among glass sculptor Wesley Fleming, metal artist Andrea V. Uravitch, mosaic sculptor artists Betsy Youngquist and Scott Long and jewelry artists Roberta and David Williamson.
Jun. 13 — Oct. 17,2010
Racine, Wisconsin
http://www.ramart.org
San Diego Natural History Museum
All That Glitters: The Splendor and Science of Gems and Minerals
through April 2012
San Diego, CA
www.sdnhm.org
Shelburne Museum
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature by Design
June 20 — October 25, 2010
Shelburne, Vermont
www.shelburnemuseum.org
Tacoma Art Museum
Speaking Parts: Conversations between Works in the Collection
Oct. 4 — Nov. 30,2010
Tacoma, Washington
http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org
Victoria and Albert Museum
David Watkins - Artist in Jewellery, a Retrospective View (1972-2010)
through September 26,2010
London, England
www.vam.ac.uk
Velvet da Vinci
Dichotomies in Objects, Contemporary South Aftican Studio Jewelry from the Stellenbosch Area
Jul. 1 — Jul. 3,2010
San Francisco, California
http://www.velvetdavinci.com
Yale Center for British Art
Structured Elegance: Bookbindings and Jewelry by Romilly Saumarez Smith
Jun. 24 - Sep. 19,2010
New Haven, Connecticut
http://www.yale.edu/ycba
World Crafts Council
Lingam - 121 symbols of fertility
May 8-Aug22, 2010
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Mons, Belgium