Exhibition in Print
Metalsmith's special annual issue brings exhibitions to
your doorstep. Some years are juried, and other years are
curated, every year a winning issue.
Metalsmith’s 2008 Exhibition
in Print on “Equilibrium”
Guest Curators: Kate Bonansinga and Rachelle Thiewes
This curated Exhibition in Print on “Equilibrium”
will present art that engages the body as site and alters
sensorial experience by impacting one or more of the five
senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell) and, by
extension, the perceptions and actions of the viewer, the
wearer, or both.
Areas to be explored include:
- Prosthetic devices that both empower the wearer by extending
the body’s range of impact, while also inhibiting
one’s sense of touch, because one never actually feels
the grasped objects
- Designs that literally or symbolically protect the body, such
as contemporary armor; make the wearer more autonomous and
self-reliant; or inhibit the wearer’s sight, touch and/or
hearing
- Edible or fragrant jewelry
- Jewelry or objects for the future, when environments are
predicted to be more sterile and less sensorial
- Jewelry or objects that require balance, or throw the body
off balance
Works selected by the curators will appear in Metalsmith’s 2008 Exhibition
in Print (published in August). In addition, chosen
objects will be shown in an exhibition at the Stanlee and
Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of
Texas at El Paso in Spring 2009.
Deadline for the call for submissions was
November 1, 2007.
For more information contact:
Rachelle Thiewes
5160 Cielo Del Rio
El Paso, TX 79932
Past Issues
Curated 2007: Ellen Lupton, "Framing the Art of Jewelry"
Juried 2006: Dr. Elizabeth Goring, Jo Lauria, Myra Mimlitsch
Gray, Jurors
Curated 2005: “Flatware: Function + Fantasy,” Boris
Bally and Rosanne Raab, Curators. It featured the work of 42
artists, all created around the theme of table settings. This
work was exhibited at SOFA Chicago October, 2005.
Juried 2004: Sharon Church, Susan Cummins, and Ursula Ilse
Neuman, Jurors
Curated 2003: "Contemporary Enamel," Gretchen Goss and Maria
Phillips, Curators
Juried 2002: Biba Schutz, Helen Shirk, and Joe Wood, Jurors
Curated 2001: "Contemporary Holloware," John Cogswell and Lisa
Gralnick, Curators
Juried 2000: Tom Herman, Ramona Solberg, and Rachelle Thiewes,
Jurors
Curated 1999: "Metalsmith Sculpture," Christine Clark and Jane
Kyle, Curators
Juried 1998: Lane Coulter and Barbara Jordan, Jurors
Curated 1997: "Studio Multiples," Donald Friedlich and Bruce
Metcalf, Curators
Juried 1996: Gaza Bowen, Pat Flynn, and Janet Koplos,
Jurors
Curated 1995: Dan Jocz, Curator
Juried 1994: Inaugural issue, Donald Friedlich, Martha
Glowacki, Susan Kingsley, Bruce Metcalf, and Kate Wagle, Jurors
