Iron: Twenty Ten

 Juried Exhibition of American Blacksmithing

Elizabeth Brim
Jason Reed Brown
Richard Carr
Paul Cheney
Page Davis
Mary Catherine Floyd
Joshua Goss
Seth Gould
Gary Griffin
Robert Griffith
Adam Hawk
Andrew Hayes
Jeff Holtby
Sean Kingston
Brent Kington
Caleb Kullman
Susan Madacsi
Marc Maiorana
John Medwedeff
Michael Migala
Daniel Miller
Joe Muench
Louise Pezzi
Bill Price
John Rais
Route
George Rousis
Eric Ryser
Lee Sauder
Chris Shea
John Shearin
Rick Smith
Doug Wilson
Tessa Wittman
Stephen Yusko
John Yust

May 29 - July 19, 2010

The exhibition is timed to coincide with the 2010 ABANA conference in Memphis. After the initial exhibition, the show will travel for up to two years to other venues, which are currently being secured.

National Ornamental Metal Museum

374 Metal Museum Drive

Memphis, TN  38106

USA

Anna Fariello

A professional curator and former James Renwick Fellow in American Craft, Anna Fariello is currently Research Professor and Director of the Craft Revival project at Western Carolina University.  She is co-author of the text, Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft and Art Editor for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia.  Exhibitions and lectures include: Francis Whitaker Journey, 1994, 1996; Samuel Yellin Metalworkers, 1998; Whitaker: National Heritage Fellow, 1999, 2000; Samuel Yellin at Reynolda House Museum, 2003; Hammer & Hand: Contemporary American Metal, 2004; and Metal/Southeast, 2004.  Author of over 50 articles, she has written for Metalsmith, American Craft, Style 1900, and Anvils Ring. 

Tom Joyce

Tom Joyce was apprenticed to a blacksmith at the age of 13 and subsequently dropped out of high school to become a full time craftsman. His works are included in public collections around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design, NY; the Smithsonian Institution Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC; the Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; and the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths, London, England.  Awards include the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the American Craft Council College of Fellows Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field, and the Artist Blacksmith’s Association of North America’s Honorary Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Art and Science of Blacksmithing. Since 1977 he has lived and worked in Santa Fe, NM.

Richard Quinnell,

During his career, Richard Quinnell has produced some of the most significant twentieth century ironwork in the U.K. and overseas, including the gates to Shakespeare's Globe in London, the coat of arms for the British Embassy in Rome and the gates to the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1989 Quinnell was awarded an M.B.E. for his part in the revival of what had been, for many decades, a dying craft in the United Kingdom. Richard and his late wife Jinny founded the British Artist Blacksmiths Association in 1978 and the Fire & Iron Gallery in 1982.  Quinnell also founded the Quinnell School of Blacksmithing in 1996. He is a Companion and Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths of the City of London, England.

James Wallace

For nearly thirty years, Jim Wallace served as the Executive Director of the National Ornamental Metal Museum. Under his leadership, the Museum has become one of the leading institutions supporting the art and craft of fine metalwork.  An accomplished blacksmith, Wallace earned a BA from Western State College, Gunnison, CO in 1971 and an MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL in 1977.  His work can be found in numerous collections and publications and has been exhibited throughout the United States.  He continues to teach in various arts and crafts programs around the country. Wallace has been awarded fellowships from the Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission and is a member of the American Craft Council College of Fellows.

Artists must pay for shipping selected pieces one-way to NOMM. All other transit and return of the artwork will be paid by NOMM.  No hand delivered work will be accepted.  Each piece must have proper crating.  Crating instructions will be provided. Artists in overseas countries may wish to consolidate work for group shipping.  NOMM will assist with advice regarding group shipping.

Artists are responsible for insuring the work during shipping to NOMM.  Insurance during the exhibition and during shipping between venues and back to the artists will be the responsibility of NOMM and the other venues.

Artwork in the exhibition may be made available for sale.  Unless specifically stated by the artist as “Not For Sale,” artwork may be purchased by the public at any time during the tour.  Sold pieces will remain in the exhibition until the end of the tour.  Final shipping will be arranged by NOMM.  There will be a 10% commission on any sales made during the exhibition.

Email: iron2010@metalmuseum.org

Phone: 901.774.6380