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Awards & Honors
Temple University metals pro-
fessor Stanley Lechtzin, who
pioneered the use of electro-
forming and digital technologies
in his jewelry, which includes
PusHere O li ing Bracelet
©. co-
created with Daniella Kerner,
received a lifetime achievement
award from the Society of
North American Goldsmiths at
its 2009 conference in Philadel-
phia.
.. Leila Tai© , a Beirut-
born New Yorker who makes
nature-inspired jewelry, such as
Spanish Garden
Q and
Mantis f j.
using the 15th-century plique-a-
jour technique, won the Ameri-
can Jewelry Design Council’s
2009 NewTalent Award.
.. Ce-
ramics writer and curator Judith
Schwartz was honored by the
Clay Art Center in Port Ches-
ter, NY, at its benefit in Septem-
ber.
.. Ron Lang©, ceramics
chair at the Maryland Institute
College of Art, was the honoree
at The Clay Ball, a fall fund-rais-
er for Baltimore Clayworks.
..
Ceramist Cliff Lee, furniture
maker Matthias Pliessnig, glass
artist Judith Schaechter and
silversmith Ubaldo Vitali have
been selected for the next Ren-
wick Craft Invitational, set for
spring 2011 at the Smithsonian’s
Renwick Gallery in Washing-
ton, D C .
.. It’s been an eventful
year for husband-and-wife jew-
elers David and Roberta W il-
liamson. He assumed the Neal
Malicky Chair in the Humani-
ties at Baldwin-Wallace Col-
lege; she joined the Ohio De-
signer Craftsmen board.
Together they received an
award of excellence in the ODC
“Best of 2009” traveling show
and a $5,000 artist fellowship
from the state arts council.
They’re also in the latest install-
ment of
Craft in America
on
p b s .
..
Days o f Summer by the
Pond,
a wall sculpture by Chris-
tian Burchard, took the $5,000
top prize in the Society of Con-
temporary Craft’s biennial,
“Transformation 7: Contempo-
rary Works in Wood, the Eliza-
beth R. Raphael Founder’s
Prize” (at the SCO gallery in
Pittsburgh throughjan. 2).
Katie Hudnall and Matthias
Pliessnig earned honorable
mention, and Travis Townsend
a merit award.
Changes
With founder Bonnie Marx
moving on, the Marx-Saunders
Gallery in Chicago has become
the Ken Saunders Gallery,
keeping its focus on glass art.
The gallery recently showed
work by Illinois State Univer-
sity students who received
scholarship awards from the
Midwest Contemporary Glass
Art Group, including
Translat-
ing Interactions^
by William
Carson.
.. Elsewhere in the
Windy City, Dubhe Carreno
Gallery is now in the West
Loop arts district, offering
more sculpture, paintings and
works on paper along with its
specialty, ceramic art.
.. Citing
the tough economy as “too
much for even us seasoned vet-
erans to manage,” JoAnn Ed-
wards and her brother, Seb
Hamamjian, have closed their
Tercera Gallery in Palo Alto,
CA, after 31 years. On the up-
side, the San Francisco Mu-
seum of Craft + Design, which
they founded and also run, just
celebrated a fifth anniversary'
and will move to the city’s
SoM a (South o f Market) arts
distinct.
..Justopened in down-
town Ashland, OR: the Ashland
Art Center, a nonprofit multi-
media space for resident artists
and the community (Ashland
ArtisanGallery.com).
Taking Note
Richard Jolley will create a ma-
jor installation in glass and met-
al for the Great Hall of the Ed-
ward Larrabee Barnes-designed
Knoxville Museum of Art,
T N .
.. The Kentucky Museum
of A it and Craft helped com-
mission two local artists to cre-
ate works for the new Norton
Brownsboro Hospital in Louis-
ville: in the chapel, a pair of
stained-glass windows by Laura
Mentor entitled
O f the Earth-
Healing Plants and Trees o f
America,
and in the atrium,
Johnny Gordon’s
Arborvitae
(Tree o f Life),
an iH-foot-high
sculpture in copper and stained
glass.
.. New black diabase
benches by Swedish designers
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american craft
dec/jan io
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