Educators/Educated: Jewelry & Metals in Ohio

November 18, 2004 – January 23, 2005

Gail M. Brown, Curator of Contemporary Craft

The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery will present an exhibition focusing on the rich legacy of metals programs at Ohio’s colleges and universities November 18, 2004 – January 23, 2005. Educators/Educated: Jewelry & Metals in Ohio is a vibrant introduction to work created between 1955 and 2004 by current and former faculty as well as selected alumni from six highly regarded, degree-granting jewelry and metals programs in the state.

Educators/Educated is a focused investigation of the Ohio metals community’s vital artists, seminal objects and processes. The exhibition includes a breadth of creative ideas and highly personal forms ranging from elegant to quirky and historic to contemporary. The strengths of Ohio metals and jewelry artists reaffirm the heritage and ongoing creative vitality of the craft. In addition, it illustrates the academic institutions’ emphasis on the individual’s development as an artist and as a craftsperson.

The six schools represented in Educators/Educated are: Bowling Green State University; Cleveland Institute of Art; Kent State University; Miami University, Ohio Wesleyan University; and University of Akron.

Following the Riffe Gallery exhibition, Educators/Educated travels to the Butler Institute of American Art - Trumbull Branch (February 19 - May 29, 2005) and the Cleveland Institute of Art (June 24 - July 25, 2005).

View the press release for this exhibition.

Tour some of the works that will be on display!

There are 8 images contained within this archive which are intended for personal/educational use only. These images are protected by a 2004 photographic copyright which belongs to the Ohio Arts Council. They, therefore, are not in the public domain.

PAMELA ARGENTIERI Hedge Teapot 2003 Pewter, sterling silver, wood, colored pencil 7 x 11 x 6 1/2”	JESSICA CALDERWOOD To Struggle For Mastery; As With Something Difficult 2004 Enamel on raised copper, screen printed vinyl 22 x 22 x 10”	DANIELLE CRISSMAN Spirit Within 2002 Copper 6 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 17”

MARILYN DASILVA Story Of My Life: Vol. III 2000 Copper, sterling silver, brass, wood, gesso, colored pencil 8 1/2 x 15 x 10”	SUSAN R. EWING Prague Star Series: Vessel 2004 Cooper, brass, patina, gold pigment 8 x 10 3/4 x 10 1/2”	JULIE FLANIGAN HILL Long Ovals Floating Bracelet 2003 Silver, nylon 1 2/5 x 7 x 1/5"

FELICIA SZORAD Bloom 2000 Sterling silver, copper, bronze, vitreous enamel 10 x 8 x 7”	HEATHER WHITE Study of Imperfection #1 2002 18k, azurite 1 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 2/3”	JOE WOOD Splatto-Silver Brooch 2002 Silver electroformed from CAD 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 1”

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