TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1970-	Professor, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
1969-	Jeweler and Metalsmith, maintaining my own studio, producing work for exhibition and
	commision
1976-	Distinguished Member, Society of North American Goldsmiths (Juried)
1972-1986	Lecturer in Art, teaching jewelry, Rosary College, River Forest, IL

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1969	MFA in Art Metal - University of Wisconsin, Madison
1965	B.S. in Art Education - Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

American Craft Museum - New York City Amoco Corporation - Chicago, Illinois Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute of Technology - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Minnesota Museum of Art - St. Paul, Minnesota Detroit Institute of Art - Detroit, Michigan Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts - Racine, Wisconsin Kalamazoo Art Center - Kalamazoo, Michigan Evanston Chamber of Commerce - Evanston, Illinois Oak Park/River Forest Public School System - Illinois Battle Creek Gas Company - Battle Creek, Michigan Pacific Design Center, Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Hollywood, California

AWARDS

Albert de Salle Memorial Purchase Award Detroit Institute of Art - Detroit, Michigan Best of Show Boston Mills Art Festival - Peninsula, Ohio Aurora Art League - Aurora, Illinois Naperville Art League - Naperville, Illinois Merit Award The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution - Washington, D.C. Phoenix Art Museum - Phoenix, Arizona Dallas Contemporary Gallery of Fine Arts - Dallas, Texas Fort Wayne Art Museum - Ft. Wayne, Indiana John Michael Kohler Art Center - Sheboygan, Wisconsin Oakbrook Midwest Invitational - Oakbrook, Illinois Fountain Square Art Festival - Evanston, Illinois Naperville Art League - Naperville, Illinois Winter Park Art Festival - Winter Park, Florida Award of Distinction Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts - State College, Pennsylvania Award of Excellence Schlitz Audubon Center - Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1st Prize Aurora Art League - Aurora, Illinois Burpee Art Museum - Rockford, Illinois Cardinal Stritch College - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Cooperstown Art Association - Cooperstown, New York Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, New York Crosby Gardens Festival of the Arts - Toledo, Ohio Grand Rapids Art Museum - Grand Rapids, Michigan Madison Art Center - Madison, Wisconsin Naperville Art League - Naperville, Illinois Professional Art Exhibition, Illinois State Fair - Springfield 2nd Prize Professional Art Exhibition, Illinois State Fair - Springfield Art Festival Castle Farms - Charlevoix, Michigan Fiber/Metal Arts - St. Paul, Minnesota Honorable Mention Detroit Institute of Art - Detroit, Michigan Grand Rapids Art Museum - Grand Rapids, Michigan 2nd Crossing Gallery, Valley City State College - Valley City, North Dakota Las Vegas Art League - Las Vegas, Nevada Rockford Art Association - Rockford, Illinois Fiber/Metal Arts - St. Paul, Minnesota

WORKS IN PRINT

1996 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Award Winners Calendar, State College, Pennsylvania, CPFA, 1996, color photo featured the week of May 19th. Mitchell, Bob, 1996 Metal Arts Source Book II (On CD-ROM), Tampa, Florida, October, 1996, bio and two color images of my work appear, along with descriptive text. 1995 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Award Winners Calendar, State College, Pennsylvania, CPFA, 1995, color photo featured the week of February 5th. Mitchell, Bob, 1995 Metal Arts Source Book (On CD-ROM), Tampa, Florida, November, 1995, bio and four color images of my work appear, along with descriptive text. The Year of American Craft Desk Diary 1993, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, color photo of plate featured the week of April 5th. Evans, Chuck, Jewelry, Contemporary Design and Technique, Worchester, Massachusetts, Davis Publications, Inc., February, 1983. Authored and illustrated two sections, "Electroforming and Electroplating," pp. 100-110 and "Coloring Titanium," pp. 110-112. Other photos of my work appear on pages 10, 133, 144, and color section (not numbered). Barrett and Schuller, Illinois Artisans and Craftsmen, Illinois, Insearch Press, Inc., May, 1983, pp. 112-113. Untracht, Oppi, Jewelry Concepts and Technology, New York, Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1982, Color Plate #22-2, color photo on outside back cover and spine, and black and white photos on pp. 508, 679, and 697. Bovin, Murray, Jewelry Making, (enlarged and revised), New York, Bovin Press, December, 1979, p. 150. Bovin, Murray, Centrifugal or Lost Wax Casting, (enlarged and revised), New York, Bovin Press, December, 1978, pp. 36 and 126. Bevlin, Marjorie Elliot, Design Through Discovery, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977, p. 174 - Fig. 268. Morton, Philip, Contemporary Jewelry, (Second Edition), New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976, color plate #12 - p. 153 and outside back cover, page 68 - Fig. 144, and page 239 - Fig. 469. Getty, Nilda C. Fernandez, Contemporary Arts of the Americas: 1975, Chicago, Henry Regenry Co., 1975, page 29. Howlett, Carolyn S., Art in Craftmaking, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974, p. 15. Nordness, Lee, Objects: USA, (The Johnson Wax Collection), New York, Viking Press, 1970, pp. 193 and 231.

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Works in numerous private collections including that of: His Holiness, Pope John Paul II The Honorable James Thompson, Governor of Illinois Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C. Barbara Rockefeller, Board of Trustees, American Crafts Council Karen Johnson Boyd, Board of Trustees, American Crafts Council William Wesley Peters, Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico Manuel Camacho Solis, Mayor of Mexico City, Mexico Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel Shimon Peres, Vice-Premier of Israel Chiam Hertzog, President of Israel Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem, Israel Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister of Japan Wojciech Jaruzelska, President of Poland Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, Prime Minister of Spain The Upjohn Family, Kalamazoo, Michigan Ilana Rovner, Federal Appeals Court Judge, Chicago John Countryman, Circuit Judge, 16th Judicial Circuit, Illinois

SPECIAL DISTINCTIONS

In 1998, I was awarded the prestigious Presidential Research Professorship at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, a four year award, in recognition of my research and creative contributions on a national scale, to the field of metalwork and jewelry. Two pieces of mine were purchased for The Johnson Wax Collection, "Objects: USA," which toured the United States for three years, and Europe (Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland) for two years. Several of my metal topped wood boxes were purchased by the State of Illinois and presented by the Governor of Illinois to dignitaries throughout Japan, China, and South Korea as official gifts from the people of Illinois. Several of my etched and electroformed metal plates were purchased by the Amoco Corporation for presentation to officials in China, including the Premier and the Vice-Premier of China. A collaborative piece of mine and my wife's was one of only 54 pieces selected from work by crafts people throughout the United States, and North and South America, by the National Steering Committee of the Year of American Craft, for inclusion in The Year of American Craft Desk Diary 1993. The piece is featured on a page for the week of April 5, 1993.

EXHIBITIONS

My work has been exhibited in over 380 international, national, and regional exhibitions. Among them are the following: Selected Exhibitions: Asia, Canada, Europe American Institute, Taiwan Cultural Branch, Taipei, TAIWAN Art Gallery of Ontario, CANADA City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, ENGLAND College of Art, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne, GERMANY Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, SWITZERLAND Liijevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, SWEDEN L'Uomo et L'Arte, Milan, ITALY Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, FRANCE Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, SPAIN Museum für Kunst and Gewerbe, Hamburg, GERMANY Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BELGIUM The Banker's Club, Taipei, TAIWAN Selected Exhibitions: United States Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Art Gallery of the Campbell House, Geneva, Illinois Art Independent Gallery, Lake Geneva,Wisconsin Artwurks Gallery, South Bend, Indiana Battle Creek Civic Fine Arts Center, Battle Creek, Michigan Boerner Botanical Gardens, Hales Corners, Wisconsin Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois Byron Gallery, St. Charles, Illinois Cain Gallery, Oak Park, Illinois and Saugatuck, Michigan California State University, Fullerton, California Carborundum Museum of Ceramics, Niagara Falls, New York Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri Chattanooga Art Association, Chattanooga, Tennessee Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio Contemporary Artisans, San Francisco, California Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, New York Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut Dallas Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas Detroit Gallery of Contemporary Crafts, Detroit, Michigan Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan Fine Arts Center, Minnesota State Fairgrounds, St. Paul, Minnesota Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Galesburg Fine Arts Center, Galesburg, Illinois Gallery Ten, Rockford, Illinois Grover Hermann Fine Arts Center, Marietta, Ohio Habatat/Shaw Gallery, Farmington Hills, Michigan Humboldt State University, Arcata, California Illinois Artisan Shop, State of Illinois Center, Chicago, Illinois Illinois Artisan Shop at Rend Lake, Whittington, Illinois Illinois State Fair Professional Art Exhibition, Springfield, Illinois Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Jackson Hole Art Center Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Illinois Kalleidoscope Gallery, Barrington, Illinois Las Vegas Art League, Las Vegas, Nevada Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois Lockport Gallery, Illinois State Museum, Lockport, Illinois Long Dream Gallery, Apalachicola, Florida Los Angeles Municipal Art Museum, Los Angeles, California Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, Illinois Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mindscape Gallery, Evanston, Illinois Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, Minnesota Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Morristown, New Jersey, Moyer Gallery, Green Bay, Wisconsin Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Nabisco Inc. World Headquarters, East Hanover, New Jersey NBD Bank Art Gallery, Evanston, Illinois Nebraska Art Association, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Norris Gallery, Delora A. Norris Cultural Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, Missouri Northern Illinois University Art Museum Gallery, DeKalb, Illinois Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, California Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio Peters Valley Craftsmen, Layton, New Jersey Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, Wisconsin Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Riverwalk Gallery, Naperville, Illinois Roach Gallery, Boulder, Colorado Rourke Gallery, The Plains Museum, Morehead, Minnesota St. Paul Art Center, St. Paul, Minnesota Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio Sangre de Christo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California Schering Plough Corporate Headquarters, Madison, New Jersey School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York Society for Midwest Metalsmiths, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, Missouri Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois Springfield Art Center, Springfield, Illinois State University of New York at Brockport, New York Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey Swen Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas The Fine Line, St. Charles, Illinois The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia The Naples Gallery, Naples, Florida The Octagon Art Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio The Tomlinson Craft Collection, Baltimore, Maryland University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona University of Houston at Clear Lake City, Texas University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Michigan University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota University of Washington, Seattle, Washington University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin, River Falls,Wisconsin Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah Valley City State College, Valley City, North Dakota Virginia M. McCune Art Center, Petosky, Michigan Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska Wadsworth Gallery, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts, West Bend, Wisconsin Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, Colorado Wichita Art Association, Wichita, Kansas Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania

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