» Jamie Bennett
» John Cogswell
» Myra Mimlitsch-Gray
» Arthur Hash
Jamie Bennett
Metal
Office: FAB 332
Phone: (845) 257-3836
E-mail: bennettj@newpaltz.edu
Jamie Bennett is a Professor of Art in the Metal Program at the State University at New Paltz. Prior to that he was a faculty member of the Program in Artisanry at Boston University. He received his BBA from the University of Georgia and his MFA from SUNY at New Paltz. Professor Bennett is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including three National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and a Massachusetts Council for the Arts Fellowship. He received a Windgate Foundation Grant and Rotassa Grant in 2005 in recognition of his work. He was an Artist in Residence at Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry in Tokyo in 2000 and at Istanbul Technical University in 2005.
Professor Bennett’s work is the subject of a monograph, Edge of the Sublime, The Enamels of Jamie Bennett, published by Hudson Bay Press, which accompanies a retrospective exhibition of his work traveling to six museums nationally through 2010. Professor Bennett has exhibited and lectured internationally with one person exhibitions at YO Gallery in Tokyo, Japan; Gallerie Gnoss in Gothenburg, Sweden; Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA; and Tiller and Ernst Gallery in Vienna, Austria. His work is included in major jewelry exhibitions among them the Houston Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2008. Bennett's work appears in numerous publications including Ornament as Art, Jewelry From the Helen Drutt Collection, Contemporary Jewelry, Mizuno Press, Dictionary of Jewelry, essay Toni Greenbaum, (Editions du Regard, Paris), Jewelry in Europe and America, Ralph Turner, (Thames & Hudson; London), The Best in Contemporary Jewelry, David Watkins (Roto Vision; London) and Jewelry of Our Time, English/Drutt (Rizzoli; New York).
Jamie Bennett’s work is in the permanent collection of over twenty museums around the world, among them are The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Yale Museum of Art,; Metropolitan Museum, NY, Kundstmuseum, Oslo, Norway; Sameul Dorsky Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’ The Museum of Western Australia; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; Musee de Art Decoratif, Paris; Museum of Art and Design, New York; and the National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.
********************
John Cogswell
Metal Tech
Office: FAB 223
Phone: (845) 257-2792
E-mail: cogswelj@newpaltz.edu
John Cogswell is a studio goldsmith, silversmith and educator, and currently teaches at SUNY New Paltz. He previously taught at Parsons School of Design, NYC, and was the Director of the Jewelry and Metalsmithing Department at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, the largest adult education program of its kind in the country. He has also taught at Pratt Institute and Hofstra University. In addition, he has conducted numerous workshops at such locations as Haystack; Penland; Peters Valley; Touchstone; Brookfield and many others. He has served as a technical consultant and contributing author for several contemporary jewelry texts. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and publications, and is included in many public and private collections, including the Jewish Museum in NYC and the Ackland Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC.
********************
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray
Metal
Office: FAB 332
Phone: (845) 257-3836
E-mail: mimlitsm@newpaltz.edu
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray is Professor of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1986, and her BFA from Philadelphia College of Art in 1984. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Individual Artist Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (1995), the National Endowment for the Arts (1994), and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1997, 2005). She received a scholarship for a Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1999, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 1992. In 1998 she was awarded a Chancellor's Medal for Excellence in Teaching at the State University of New York. She recently completed an Arts/Industry Residency at Kohler Company (2007), where she explored sculptural work in cast iron and brass.
Mimlitsch-Gray has lectured and exhibited her work widely in the US and abroad. Recent shows include the solo exhibition, “Force Times Distance”, at the Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts (2007); group shows, "The coffee was very slow in coming" and "Nest", at Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, Michigan; “120 Temptations: International Invitational Exhibition”, Cheongju, Korea; “100 Treasures”, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Her work will travel with "Craft in America" through 2009.
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray’s artwork is included in the following Public Collections: the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Racine Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Royal College of Art, the Renwick Gallery-National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.
********************
Arthur Hash
Metal
Office: FAB 332
E-mail: hasha@newpaltz.edu
Arthur Hash received his MFA in metalsmithing and jewelry design from Indiana University in 2005 and his BFA in Crafts/Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002. In 2007, Arthur was awarded his second Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond Virginia and named a Searchlight Artist by the American Craft Council. In May of 2006 Arthur completed his second solo exhibition entitled "Instance" at the Quirk Gallery in Richmond Virginia. Other exhibitions include: Signs of Life 08 at the Facere Gallery in Seattle, From Minimal To Bling: Contemporary Studio Jewelry at The Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, Virtual Tangible 2.0 at the Velvet DaVinci in San Francisco and NEXT ICONOCLASTS at the Oregon College for Art and Craft. Arthur's work is included in a number of private and public collections around the United States.
His work can been seen in such publications as Metalsmith magazine, American Craft Magazine, Domino Magazine and Niche Magazine. Arthur's work comes from a commitment to participate in the contemporary exploration of what jewelry is and can be, while retaining the sense of elegance and beauty found in the long tradition of body adornment. His recent work has incorporated industrial technologies such as waterjet cutting, 3D scanning, CNC routing and rapid prototyping to make one-off art jewelry pieces.
