State University Design

TOM MUIR

Distinguished Research Professor - School of Art Home Address:

Fine Art Center, Bowling Green State University 24324 Pemberville Road

Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Perrysburg, Ohio 43551

419-***-****, Office 419-***-****, home

e-mail: abqsrc@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION M.F.A., 1985. INDIANA UNIVERSITY, Bloomington, Indiana

B.F.A., 1982. GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Georgia

PROFESSIONAL 2005 Present DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF THE ARTS

EXPERIENCE Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

1998 - 2005 PROFESSOR, School of Art, Jewelry/Metals

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

1999 - 2004 3-D DIVISION CHAIR, School of Art, BGSU

1995 - 1998 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR- School of Art,

Jewelry/Metals, Bowling Green State University

1991 - 1995 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - School of Art,

Jewelry/Metals, Bowling Green State University

1985 - 1991 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - Jewelry/Metals

Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan

PROFESSIONAL Society of North American Goldsmiths

Distinguished Member (granted in 1989, category has since been eliminated)

MEMBERSHIPS

Board of Directors, 1994 - 1998

Nominations and Elections Committee, 1999 - 2001

Board of Trustees - Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, 1996 - 2001

Art in Public Places Committee, 1996 - 1999

Chair, Young Artists at Work Committee, 1997 -2001

Michigan Silversmiths Guild Past President

Artisan Member(Juried) - Society of American Silversmiths

Ohio Designer Craftsmen

American Craft Council

PERMANENT The White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington, DC

COLLECTIONS Art Institute of Chicago

Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art,

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Ball State University Art Museum

State of Georgia Permanent Art Collection

Bowling Green State University

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AWARDS, GRANTS 2011 Best of Show, 93RD ANNUAL TOLEDO AREA ARTISTS EXHIBITION

AND HONORS Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

First Place, 93RD ANNUAL TOLEDO AREA ARTISTS EXHIBITION

Toledo Area Sculpture Guild, Rose M. Reder Memorial Award,

93RD ANNUAL TOLEDO AREA ARTISTS EXHIBITION

Glanz Family Research Award for Interdisciplinary Faculty Innovation

at BGSU: Menu Extinction

2010 Best of Show, Metal Category,THE ART OF APPLIED DESIGN, DHM

Digital Gallery, Oklahoma State University.

2009 Lifetime Achievement Award, Ohio Designer Craftsmen

Finalist, Schoonhoven Silver Award 2009, Schoonhoven,

the Netherlands

2008 First-Place Award, TOLEDO AREA ARTISTS 85th ANNUAL

EXHIBITION, Toledo Museum of Art

2006 Excellence in Metals Award, THE BEST OF 2006,

Ohio Designer Craftsmen

2001 Michigan Silversmiths Guild Award (1st Place), JEWELRY AND

OBJECTS Michigan Silversmiths Guild Biennial Exhibition,

Ann Arbor Art Center

2000 3-D Grand Prize, QK 2000, Ohr-O Keefe Museum of Art,

Biloxi, Mississippi.

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship

1999 Challenge Award (Best of Show), Ohio Designer Craftsmen

BEST OF 1999 exhibition.

1997 Artist in Residence, Institute for the Study of Culture, Society and

Human Values, Bowling Green State University.

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship.

1995 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship

Olscamp Research Award, Bowling Green State University. Annual

university-wide award for outstanding scholarly or creative

accomplishments within the previous three year period.

1993 Honoree, the White House reception to honor the seventy participating

craft artists in the First Permanent Craft Collection at the request of the

President and Mrs. Clinton.

1992 Challenge Award (Best of Show), Ohio Designer Craftsmen BEST OF

1992 exhibition.

Designer Craftsmen Guild Award - Best of Show in Craft Media,

REGIONAL ARTISTS BIENNIAL, Fort Wayne Museum of Art,

Fort Wayne, Indiana.

1990 Grand Prize Winner - 3rd American Crafts Awards, Kraus Sikes, Inc.,

Tabletop Category

1988 Michigan Council for the Arts Creative Artists Grant

1987 Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts

Fellowship

1986 Best of Show - Wichita National All Media Crafts Exhibition

1985 First Runner-up - Society of North American Goldsmiths/

Johnson Matthey Platinum Competition

National Society of Arts and Letters - 1st Place Career Award in Art

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WORK PHOTOGRAPHED Books/Catalogs:

21st Century Jewelry, Lark Books, page 102.

OR REVIEWED IN

SELECTED Making Art: Form and Meaning, Terry Barrett, McGraw-Hill Higher

PUBLICATIONS Education. Photograph and discussion of work, page 154

Chasing and Repousse, Nancy M gan Corwin, Brynmorgen Press, 2009

Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, 11th Edition, Ocvirk, Stinson,

Wigg, Bone and Cayton, McGraw-Hill Higher Education

Art Jewelry Today II, Schiffer Publishing, pages 85 and 99.

Wrap, Stitch, Fold and Rivet, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, p. 33.

500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional and Innovative Desin, Lark Books,

p.159.

500 Pendants and Lockets, Lark Books, page 264

500 Metal Vessels, Lark Books, pages 201, 216, and 399.

500 Baskets, Lark Books, page 408

The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry, Joanna Gollberg, Lark Books, page 156

The Craft of Silversmithing, Alexandra P. Austin, Lark Books, page 136

Triennial 9 Form and Contents: Corporal Identity-Body Language,

bi-lingual German and English

The Metalsmiths Book of Boxes and Lockets, Tim McCreight, Author,

Hand Books Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1999

The White House Collection of American Crafts, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Designing for the Table, Michael Wolk, PBC International, Inc.,

five photographs of work, pages 163 and 164

Silbergestaltung, Klinkhardt and Biermann (Germany), photograph of

work in section titled, "Silver: An American Tradition," by Rosanne

Raab, page 67.

Design Visions: The Australian International Crafts Triennial, photograph

and discussion of work in section on American Jewelry and Metalwork

by Sarah Bodine and Michael Dunas, pages 85 and 92

Reviews or Feature Articles:

Ancora Imparo, online interdisciplinary journal of art, process and remnant,

"Brewing and the Brood: Design Steeped in the World s Workings"

http://ancoraimparo.org/?p=1400

Metalsmith, Summer 2004 The Forest and the Trees: Tom Muir, Cover

photograph, masthead and feature article, pp. 18 - 25

American Craft, February/March, 2001. Review of solo exhibition,

DEVISED NATURE at Ohio Wesleyan University, pp. 96 and 97

Metalsmith, Fall 1988, work featured on cover of magazine and four page

feature article, pages 24 27

Magazines/Posters/Newspapers:

Exhibition in Print 2010, Metalsmith, "Neo-Palatial: Objects of Virtue and

Vice, pp. 28 and 29. Guest Curator: Garth Clark

Metalsmith, Summer 2008, photograph and review of work in FIELD OF

VISION exhibition, p. 45

Jewelry Artist, March 2008, pp. 50 and 51. Beyond Flat Sheet of Clay,

photographs of work and explanation of soldering strategies used in Twin

Risers teapot.

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Metalsmith, Winter 2005, review of work in NATIONAL METAL ART

INVITATIONAL, p. 46

New York Times, Art Review, 'CORPORAL IDENTITY BODY

LANGUAGE' Celebrating the Flesh: Its Fullness, Its Frailties, Its

Forbidden Secrets. December 5, Grace Glueck. Mention of name

and work

Crart(Korea), March 2003, photographs of work in article on Bowling

Green State University, pp. 46 and 47

Exhibition in Print 2002, Metalsmith, p. 37, photographs of work and

statement

American Craft, February/March, 2000. Work featured in Acquisitions

section

Exhibition in Print 1998, Metalsmith. Photographs of works and statement

American Craft, April/May 1994, pp. 60, 61, interview and photograph of

work in "The Ubiquitous Tea Pot" article

Ohio Designer Craftsmen, "THE BEST OF 1992" publicity poster.

A Neglected History: 20th Century American Craft, American Craft

Museum publication, page 53, photograph and discussion of work.

American Craft, February/March 1990, pages 66 and 67, work featured in

Portfolio section.

SELECTED 2012 THE ART OF SEDUCTION: EXQUISITELY CRAFTED TEMPTATIONS,

EXHIBITIONS Rouse Gallery, Howard Community College, Columbia, Maryland

2011 SIGNS OF LIFE, Facere Gallery, Seattle. (Invitational)

TOLEDO AREA ARTISTS 92ND ANNUAL EXHIBITION,

Toledo Museum of Art.

2010 REALIZING THE NEO-PALATIAL, National Ornamental Metal Museum,

Memphis. 21 artists selected by guest curator Garth Clark

HOT TEA: 12TH BIENNIAL TEAPOT EXHIBITION, Craft Alliance Gallery, St.

Louis, Missouri. (Invitational)

TOLEDO AREA ARTISTS 92ND ANNUAL EXHIBITION,

Toledo Museum of Art.

2009 SCHOONHOVEN SILVER AWARD, Poetry in Silver, Silver Art Foundation,

Schoonhoven, the Netherlands.

IDEAS 08: ARTS AT THE DIGITAL EDGE, Ball State University Art Museum,

Muncie, Indiana.

THE INFINITE TEAPOT, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio. (Invitational)

THE BEST OF 2009, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, traveling show.

The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus; Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth;

Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield; Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster.

2008 CO-LABORATORY, La Galerie Bleue, Savannah College of Art and Design,

Savannah, Georgia.

PETAL PUSHERS, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, Massachusetts

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COMPOSTING GOOD AND EVIL: REDESIGN FOR SANCTIMONIOUS

SINNERS, Ethical Metalsmiths Exhibition, Savannah College of Art and

Ethical Metalsmiths Online gallery: www.EthicalMetalsmiths.org

2007 FIELD OF VISION: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY AND HOLLOWARE,

(International Invitational)

THE BEST OF 2007, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, traveling show. The Ohio Craft

Museum, Columbus; Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth; Wayne Center for

the Arts, Wooster.

2006 METALISMS, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Center for Visual Art,

Denver, Colorado (Invitational)

REINTERPRETING THE VESSEL, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago

2005 MASTERFUL METALSMITHS, Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, Lancaster,

Ohio (Invitational)

ART OF GOLD, traveling exhibit. 2003 2006. 2005 Venues: Perspective

Gallery, Blacksburg, Virginia; Midland Center for the Arts; Midland,

Michigan; Joe & Emily Lowe Art Gallery; Syracuse, New York

(Invitational)

THE 8TH EXHIBITION OF HANYANG METAL ART ASSOCIATION

WITH METAL ARTISTS FROM AMERICA AND CANADA, Insa Art

Plaza, Insa Dong, Seoul, Korea (Invitational)

2004 TOYAHASHI/TOLEDO ART EXCHANGE, Toyahashi City Museum,

Toyahashi, Japan. 12 Toledo area artists selected for sister city exchange

show (Invitational)

INTERNATIONAL METAL ARTISTS INVITATIONAL, Kepco Plaza

Gallery, Seoul, Korea (Invitational)

THE WHITE HOUSE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN CRAFTS, traveling

exhibition 1995 2004. 2004 Venue: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library,

Atlanta, Georgia (Invitational)

2003 TRIENNIAL 9 FORM AND CONTENTS: CORPORAL IDENTITY BODY

LANGUAGE, Museum f r Angewandte Kunst (mak Frankfurt), Frankfurt,

Germany, in conjunction with the Museum of Arts and Design (formerly

the American Craft Museum); US venue: Museum of Arts and Design (I)

2002 INNOVATIVE TOOLS FOR PERSONAL USE, SNAG/3M Competition,

Center for Visual Arts Denver, Colorado

INTROSPECTIONS: SHARED IDEALS OF OUR TIME, four Midwest

metal artists, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana (I)

2001 TRANSFORMATION: CONTEMPORARY WORKS IN SMALL METALS

AND JEWELRY, The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder s Prize exhibition,

Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Traveling

exhibition through 2003

2000 DEVISED NATURE(Solo Exhibition), Lynn Mayhew Gallery, Ohio

Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio

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