Visiting Artist: Fall 2009
Visiting Artist Lecture: Anders Ruhwald
Thursday, October 8th @ 12:00pm in the Bowe Street Bldg, Room 535
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media
Anders Ruhwald (born 1974, Denmark) lives and works in London and Detroit. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005. Solo exhibitions include “The state of things” at The Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen, “You in Between” at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in the UK as well as various gallery shows in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Stockholm, London, Copenhagen and Brussels. His work is represented in the collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum, The National Museum of Decorative Art (Norway), The National Museum (Sweden), The Swedish Arts Council, The Museum of Art and Design (Denmark) and several other public and private collections around the world. He was awarded the Sotheby’s Prize in the United Kingdom in 2007 and the Annie and Otto Detlefs Price in Denmark in 2005. Anders Ruhwald's website: www.ruhwald.net
Visiting Artist Lecture: Fred Fenster
Thursday, October 22nd @ 11:00am in the Fine Arts Building, Room 238
Fred Fenster was born in the Bronx N.Y in 1934. He received his B.S. in Ed. from C.C.N.Y in 1956 and taught in the New York City public school system for one and a half years. He received an M.F.A. in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art on 1960. In 1962 he was hired as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison to teach design, jewelry and craft classes in the Art department.
He Has Taught jewelry and metalsmithing classes as well as giving workshops in pewetersmithing and jewelry techniques at such school as Penland, Haystack, Peter's Valley, and Arrowmont.
His work is in numerous private and public collections such as Milwaulkee Art Museum, the Renwick Museum of the Smithsonian, the Detroit Art Institute, Yale University, art Museum, the Skirball Museum of Judaica in Cincinatti, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul Korea, among others.
He was elected o Fellow of the American Crafts Council in 1995.
He received the third Hans Christensen Memorial Silversmithing award in 2002.
Fred Fenster continues a full time teaching commitment at the University of Wisconsin as well as jewelry making.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Helen Lee
Tuesday, November 3rd @ 12:30pm in the Bowe Street Bldg, Room 535
Helen Lee is an artist, designer, educator, and glassblower based in Oakland, California. She holds an MFA in Glass from RISD and a BSAD in Architecture from MIT. She has taught in the Sculpture Department at California College of Art, and at the MIT Glass Lab. She is currently an Affiliate Artist at Headlands and the Glassblower-in-Residence at Palo Alto High School. She also works as a freelance graphic designer, most recently for Celery Design Collaborative in Berkeley, CA. Helen Lee's website: http://pink-noise.org/index.html