CONTEMPORARY ART JEWELRY

Taboo Studio

1615½ W. Lewis Street

San Diego, CA 92103

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Teresa Faris

Teresa Faris - Artist Statement/Resume

Artist Statement

I see artwork as a tool that elevates everyday thought to an exploratory level. The objects that I make are intended to help the viewer to either recall a memory/feeling or begin a new dialogue.

My fascination with individualism/connectedness, impermanence and the human struggle of trying to measure and preserve time initiated vast research of antique time measurement devices, Victorian mourning jewelry, and obscure utilitarian and ritual objects. I call upon these images as well as personal memory in my work.

Working through the ideas of fragility, memory, and connectedness lead me to think about the link that we have to all living things and the complexities and absurdity of the ideas of superiority.

In reaction to this research I have begun and ongoing series titled: A Collaboration with a Bird. These pieces are constructed of metal and wood objects that have been carved by a bird.

Résumé

Education

1998 MFA -  University of Wisconsin-Madison Fine Art (Metals)
1995 BFA -  University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Fine Art (Metals)

Professional Experience

2009 2009 Assistant Professor/Area Head Jewelry/Metalsmithing, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Instruct 3-D design and all undergraduate levels of Metalsmithing)
2003-2009 Lecturer Jewelry/Metalsmithing, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Instruct all undergraduate levels of Metalsmithing)
2002-2003 Lecturer Jewelry/Metalsmithing, San Diego State University (Instructed 3D-Design and all levels of Metalsmithing, including graduate seminar)
2001-2002 Associate Lecturer/Area Head Jewelry/Metalsmithing, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee (Instructed all levels of Metalsmithing)
2000-2001 Associate Lecturer Jewelry/Metalsmithing, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee (Instructed Introduction Metalsmithing)
1998-2001 Designer/Goldsmith TQ Diamonds, Madison, WI
(Designed and fabricated fine jewelry)

1998-1999,
2002-2004

Preparators Assistant Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI        (Assisted in the process of installing and de-installing exhibitions)
1996-1998 Studio Assistant University of Wisconsin-Madison
(Maintained studio equipment and inventory records) 

Artist Residency

1999 Arts/Industry A Residency Program for Visual Artists. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
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Honors

2009 Women in Leadership Award, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
2008 National Endowment for the Arts 2008 Grant Award: Access to Artistic Excellence - Visual Arts. Project Coordinator and co-curator of the Women of Metal Project.
  Art Jewelry Forum grant to support the Women of Metal Project. Coauthor.
  Rio Grande Bell Group award to support the Women of Metal Project. Coauthor.
  John Michael Kohler Art Center award to support the Women of Metal Project. Co-author.
  Academic Staff Excellence Award for Instructional Staff- nominee
  Academic Staff Professional Development Grant, University of Wisconsin- Whitewater
2006 Academic Staff Excellence Award for Instructional Staff- nominee
  Academic Staff Professional Development Grant, University of Wisconsin- Whitewater
2005 Second Place, 37th Annual Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood Exhibition
2004 Third Place, the Arsenal Metals & Enamel Exhibition 2004
2001 First Place, Penco Company Award. Wisconsin Artist Biennial
2000 Wisconsin Jewelers Association Design Competition
1998 Albert Murray Fine Art Education Fund Scholarship
1997 Women’s Jewelry Association, Inc. Scholarship

Continued Education and Workshops Attended

2003 Working with Narrative by Marilyn Da Silva, San Diego, CA
2002 Enameling by Maria Phillips, San Diego, CA
2002 Madison Area Technical College. Enameling (spring 2002), Welding (Summer 2002)
1999 Counter Sketching for Goldsmiths and Designers by Bill Howard. Madison, WI
1998 Pewtersmithing by Jack Route. Madison, WI
1996 Hydraulic Die Forming by Susan Kingsley. Madison, WI
1996 Korean Surface Techniques by Agnes Chwae. Madison, WI

Selected Group, Juried, and Solo Exhibitions (Solo exhibitions marked by *)

2009 Work in Metal, Artisan Gallery, Poili, WI
  Birdhaus, online exhibition. Crafthaus: contemporary art, design and fine craft connection.
  Wisconsin Artists Biennial, Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wi
  Bend, Mold, Cut, Join: Small Works in Metal. Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. Wilmington, DE
  Garbage Pin Project. April. Gallery MCO, Arte Contemporânea ,Porto, Portugal May. Gallery Articula, Lisbon, Portugal June. Silke& the Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium October, TOUCH Gallery, Los Angeles, CA December, Contemporaru Art Center Arts Santa Mònica - Barcelona - Spain
2008 Invitational, Artisan Gallery at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Anti War Medals, Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
  Artists & Editions, Silke & the Gallery, Antwerp Belgium
  *Elie Hirsch // Teresa F Faris - Lea, Dora, Olga, Adama & a collaboration with a bird, Silke & The Gallery, Antwerp Belgium
  Co-Laboratory, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  I Love You Love Me, Northern Kentucky University, Main Gallery, Highland heights, KY
  Touching Warms The Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
2007 One & Only, ARTspace, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler WI
  Holiday Bazaar, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Jewelry to Dazzle, Taboo Studio, San Diego, CA
  By Invitation Only, Artisan Gallery at Woman Made, Chicago IL
  Metalsmiths and Mentors: Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty at the University of Wisconsin. Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
  Parameters of Preciousness, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IL
  Scar Tissue, Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI
  Time for a Nice Cuppa: Wisconsin Teapots, West Bend Art Museum, West Bend, WI
  SMoCA Jewelry Trunk Show, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2005 Temporarily Contemporary, Long Branch Gallery, Mineral Point, WI
2005 Layered Intentions, Overture Center for the ARTS-Gallery lll, Madison, WI
  Resources: Steel, Rubber, Coal and Salt, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH
  37th Annual Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, Wood Exhibition, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA
2004 CraftForms 2004, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
  A Survey of Contemporary Jewelry, Mindscape Adornments Gallery, Evanston, IL
  Madison Area Open Art Studios, Art Beat Gallery, Madison, WI
  The Arsenal Metals & Enamel Exhibition 2004, The Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus OH
2003 Wisconsin Artists Biennial, Wisconsin Union Galleries, Madison, WI
2002 Faculty Exhibition, San Diego State University. University Art Gallery. San Diego, CA
  Disclose, Porter Butts Gallery, Wisconsin Union. Madison, WI
  Ring, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee, WI
  24th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ (catalogue)
2001/2002 Wisconsin Artist Biennial Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI
traveling to Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI (catalogue)
2001 traces,residue,sustain Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2000 Materials Hard and Soft Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
1999 Time Will Tell, Target Gallery, Alexandria,VA
  2nd Spiva Contemporary Crafts Biennial ‘99 Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
  Toe Five Toe Pedestrian, a Gallery of Fine Art, Jacksonville, FL
  Wisconsin Metalworks Artspace, a Gallery of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI
  Talisman for the Coming Millennium St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO
1998 Metalsmithing in the New Millennium Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME
  1998 National Juried Open Exhibition the Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY
  Metals ‘98 Young and Constantin Gallery, Wilmington,VT
  * What Remains Seventh Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin
  New Generation Shaw Guido Gallery, Pontiac, MI
  Selections from Surrealism & Neonarrative  Public Corporation for the Arts, Long Beach, CA
  Refined a North American Metalsmithing Competition, SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
1997 Surrealism & Neonarrative Long Beach Arts, Long Beach,CA
  Que Salon,Salon Seventh Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin
  6411 Class of 1925 Gallery, University of Wisconsin
  Contemporary Metalsmiths 1997 Young and Constantin Gallery, Wilmington, VT 
  69th Student Juried Competition Porter-Butts Gallery, University of Wisconsin
  Artful Women Madison, WI
  Syncretism Wisconsin Center, Madison, WI
  The Art of Craft Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
  2nd Year Graduate Student Show Seventh Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin
  Faculty/Alumni Exhibition Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
1996 The Three Dimensional Design Show Seventh Floor Gallery, University of Wisconsin
  Bags and Baggage: New Forms/New Function Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Gatlinburg,TN (catalogue)
1995 * Continuous Changes are Here to Stay Priebe Gallery, UW-Oshkosh   

Workshops and Conferences Attended

2009 National Women Studies Association 2009 Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA
  SNAG (Society of North American Goldsmiths) Annual Conference. “Revolution”. Philadelphia, PA
  CAA (College Art Association). Los Angeles, CA
2008 Precious Metal Clay, level one certification. PMC Connection, Chicago, IL
  SNAG (Society of North American Goldsmiths) Annual Conference. "Crosscurrents: Diverse Solutions in a Global Environment" Savannah, GA
2007 SNAG Annual Conference. “Directions Unknown: Looking Forward, Learning from History” Memphis, TN
2006 SNAG Annual Conference. "Mind & Matter: From Thought to Object" Chicago, IL
2003 Yuma Symposium, Yuma Arizona
  Working with Narrative by Marilyn Da Silva, San Diego, CA
2002 Enameling by Maria Phillips, San Diego, CA
1999 Counter Sketching for Goldsmiths and Designers by Bill Howard. Madison, WI
1998 Pewtersmithing by Jack Route. Madison, WI
1996 Hydraulic Die Forming by Susan Kingsley. Madison, WI
  Korean Surface Techniques by Agnes Chwae. Madison, WI

Public Presentations

2009 Betrayal and Redress, National Women Studies Association Annual Conference
  Women of Metal: Innovation, Connection and Education, CAA Conference, Los Angeles, CA
  Guest Artist, San Diego State University
2006 Metalsmiths and Mentors. Chazen Museum or Art, Madison WI
2002 San Diego State University
1999 Arts/Industry. University of Wisconsin
1996 Gustav Stickley, Arts and Crafts Furniture. University of Wisconsin

Collections

Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
E. Funkhouser, New York, NY
Amway Inc., Ada, MI (pendant design for E. Funkhouser Cosmetics)
Sara Liberman Collection, Paradise Valley, AZ
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Kohler Company, Sheboygan, WI
Elaine Scheer, Madison, WI

Selected Publications

500 Plastic Jewelry Designs. Lark Books/Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. 2009
Garbage Pin. Project ‘worth VS waste’. Klimt02 Publishers. 2009
Clowes, Jody. Metalsmiths and Mentors. Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2006
Making Metal Beads. Lark Books/Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. 2006
500 Necklaces. Lark Books/Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. 2006
500 Bracelets. Lark Books/Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. 2005
Cozzolino, Bob. ISTHMUS. Four Madisonians Make the Ordinary Extraordinary. February 22, 2002
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Artist Exhibit Returns to Old Days of Competition. December 4, 2001
Casco Bay Weekly, exhibition review with photograph Long Beach, CA September 24. 1998

Professional Affiliations

2008 College Art Association
2007-present Society for Midwest Metalsmiths
2004-Present Woman Made, Chicago, IL
1995-Present Society of North American Goldsmiths
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Show#

Title

Dates

2009-4

CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS

11/20/2009 – 1/1/2010

2006-4

Jewelry to Dazzle

11/17/2006 – 1/2/2007

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