Texas Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing Symposium Fall 2013 Itinerary __________________________________________________________ At Texas Tech University Sponsored by: Ryla T. and John F. Lott Endowment for Excellence in the Visual Arts, Metals Club, Student Government Association, School of Art, and Landmark Arts Gallery Saturday, Saturday October 5 8:00-­‐9:00 a.m. – Registration in Escondido Theatre foyer on Texas Tech campus The Escondido Theatre is located in the basement of the Student Union Building (located on 15th and Akron). Weekend parking is available in the lot directly north of the Student Union Building. Maps will be forthcoming. We require all participants to register for the free symposium and events in order to support authentication for our funding agencies. 9:00-­‐10:00 a.m.– Symposium Begins in Escondido Theatre in the basement of the Student Union Building Artist lecture: Cappy Counard Cappy Counard earned her MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1999 and her BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1992. She makes jewelry and small containers that draw from her interest in architecture, the structural geometry found in nature and those unexpected moments of beauty that make us stop and pay attention. In addition to her studio work, Cappy is dedicated to her students in the Metals/Jewelry program at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where she has been a professor since 1999. She has exhibited, lectured and demonstrated extensively throughout the United States. Cappy’s work has been featured in many books including, Art Jewelry Today 3, 21st Century Jewelry: The Best of the 500 Series and The Metalsmith Book of Boxes and Lockets 10:00-­‐11:00 a.m. – Presentation: Sarah Perkins Sarah Perkins received her BA at San Diego State University and her MFA at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale and is a Professor at Missouri State University. She is currently serving as a Board Member of the Enamelist Society and is also a member of the Collections Committee at the Ornamental Metal Museum. She has shown her work in the USA, India, Canada, Europe and Asia. Her work can be seen in Metalsmith, Ornament, American Craft and in the books The Art of Fine Enameling, Contemporary Enameling, The Penland Book of Jewelry and The Art of Enameling, and she was the juror for the Lark Publications book 500 Enameled Objects. She has taught numerous workshops around the United States, including at Arrowmont, Penland, San Diego State University and California College of Art, as well as at Tainan Graduate Institute of Applied Arts in Taiwan and the University of the West of England in Bristol. Sarah has gallery affiliations with Mobilia in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 11:30-­‐1:30 p.m. – Lunch, TBA 1:30-­‐2:30 p.m. – Symposium resumes in Escondido Theatre Artist Lecture: Anya Kivarkis Anya Kivarkis is currently Associate Professor and Area Head of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She received a BFA in Jewelry & Metalsmithing fromthe University of Illinois in Champaign-­‐Urbana, and an MFA in Metal from the StateUniversity of New York in New Paltz in 2004. In 2007, she was the recipient of the SiennaGallery Emerging Artist Award, and presented the solo exhibition titled, ‘Blind Spot’. Recent exhibitions include the International Jewellery Exhibition presented at SNAG 2013 with Noel Guyomarch Gallery in Canada, The Decorative Impulse at the Villa Terrace Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, L’education Sentimentale at the Solidor Art Space in Cagnes sur Mer, France, Metalsmith Magazine’s Exhibition in Print, ‘Neo-­‐Palatial: Objects of Virtue and Vice’, and “COLLECT’ at Saatchi Gallery in London, where she was represented by Galerie Rob Koudijs. Upcoming exhibitions include In Dialogue with the Baroque at Handwerkskammer fur Munchen and Oberbayern, Galerie Handwerk in Munich, Germany, a solo collaborative exhibition with Mike Bray at Sienna Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts, and a solo exhibition at Galerie Rob Koudijs in 2014. She was a recipient of the 2008 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artists Fellowship, and the 2007 Rotasa Foundation grant to support the publication of ‘The Thinking Body’, an exhibition co-­‐curated with Kate Wagle. Her work is included in collections such as the Tacoma Art Museum, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, The Rotasa Foundation, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. She is represented by Sienna Gallery in Lenox, Massachusettes and Galerie Rob Koudijs in the Netherlands. 2:30-­‐3:30 p.m. – Artist Lecture: Robert Ebendorf Born September 30, 1938 in Topeka, Kansas, Bob received his BFA in 1960, his MFA in 1962. Following graduation, he received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the State School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Norway. He has taught at the University of Georgia (1967-­‐ 71) and State University of New York at New Paltz (1971-­‐88). In 1995, he was awarded the American CraftCouncil Fellowship for his achievement in the crafts and Commitment to the craft movement. Bob is co-­‐founder and past -­‐president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and represented in many worldwide collections including the Metropolitan Museum of New York, The Victoria and Albert Museum (England), the British Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Mint Museum of Craft Design in Charlotte, N.C., Le Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, National Museum of Wales, SchmuckMuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, Museum of Art and Design New York, New York and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Connecticut to name a few. He currently serves as the Belk Distinguished Professor in the Art at the East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He was awarded the North CarolinaGovernor’s Award for Fine Arts in 2010, the state’s highest honor. He also currently holds Guest Professorship status at the University of the West ofEngland in Bristol UK. The jewelry of Robert Ebendorf, A Retrospective of Forty Years, is now on display at the Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin. The Smithsonian institution invited him to participate in its Archives of American Art Oral History Program.
3:30-­‐4:30 p.m. – Presentation of work by 3 Texas Tech recent MFA graduates. Work also featured in the Flux5 Hallway Gallery at the 3D Art Annex 15 minutes: Rebecca A. Beals 15 minutes: Ryu-­‐Hee Kim 15 minutes: Jillian Cooper 4:30-­‐4:45 p.m. – Travel from Escondido Theatre to 3D Art Annex. Maps will be provided. 4:45-­‐5:45 p.m. – Reception for symposium and Flux5 opening and Tour of the 3-­‐D Annex including the Jewelry Metals, Clay and new Sculpture facilities. Emergency Phone Contacts: Rob Glover – 806-­‐470-­‐7485 Nancy Slagle – 806-­‐470-­‐7486