Mary Lee Hu
Education:
- 1967 MFA, Metalsmithing, Southern
Illinois University-Carbondale, Carbondale, IL.
- 1965 BFA, Metalsmithing, Cranbrook
Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Professional Employment:
- 1967- Studio metalsmith-jeweler
- 1977-80 Assistant Professor,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- 1980-2006, Associate then Professor
of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- 2006- Professor Emeritus, University
of Washington, Seattle, WA
Grants, Honors:
- 2008 Metalsmiths Hall of Fame
Award, St. Petersburg, FL
- 2008 2008 Twining Humber Award
for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Artist Trust, Washington
- 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award,
Seattle Metals Guild
- 2002 Donald E. Peterson Endowed
Fellowship for Excellence, College of Arts & Sciences, UW
- 2001 Flintridge Foundation Award
for Visual Artists
- 1999 Elected “Master of the Medium”
(metals), James C. Renwick Alliance of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian.
Selected Exhibitions:
- “SOFA”, NY & Chicago. Continuing
representation by Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge MA.
- 2007 “Jewelry By Artists: The
Daphne Farago Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
- 2007 “Craft in America: Expanding
Traditions”, touring nationally for three years.
- 2004 “Korean & American Metalsmithing
Exhibition”, Kepco Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
- 2003 “The Art of Gold”, Crocker
Art Museum, Sacramento, CA and touring the US.
- 2001 “Flet/Braid”, Nordjyllands
Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark & Tonder Museum, Tonder, Denmark.
Selected Publications :
- 2006 “Hu’s Who?” and “Train The
Brain, Design Challenges Ignite Your Creativity”, by Nanz Aalund,
Art Jewelry Magazine. Feature articles on my work and on a project
I gave to beginning Metals students, May. Bracelets #17, 64, Chokers
#38, 43, 78, & 83 Pictured.
- 2000 The virtual Gallery of Contemporary
Jewellery, by Kenneth Quickenden, CD-ROM, University of Central
England Birmingham Institute of Art & Design.
- 1997 “Weaving Metal”, Fiberarts
Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 1, article on my work by Robin Updike.
Chokers #70, 74, 78, Bracelets #43, 44, 45, 48, Earrings #154,
158, Ring #60 pictured.
- 1996 Jewelry From Antiquity of
the Present, by Clare Phillips, Thames & Hudson, NY.Work mentioned
and Ring #21 pictured.
- 1996 Textile Techniques in Metal,
by Arline Fisch, republished by Lark books, Ashville, NC.Work
discussed, Neckpieces #5, 6, 7, 14, Chokers #70, 80, Bracelets
#37, 43, 44, 45, and an illustration of my knitting technique
pictured.
- 1994 One Of A Kind, American
Art Jewelry Today, by Susan Grant Lewin, Abrams, NY. One of 54
Artists discussed. Neckpiece #9, Chokers #74, 75 pictured.
- 1991 Contemporary American Jewelry
Design, by Ettagale Blauer, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY. One of
38 jewelers discussed. Neckpiece #26, Chokers #67, 70, Bracelets
#40, 43, 44, 45 pictured.
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