Sharon Massey
839 Heberton Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, 412.996.9059,
Education
2006MFA, Metal Design, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
1999 BFA Magna Cum Laude, Sculpture with concentration in Jewelry/Metals, Winthrop University, Rock
Hill, SC
Work Experience
2011-presentSlippery Rock University, Gallery Director, Slippery Rock, PA
2012-presentWaynesburg University, Adjunct Instructor, Waynesburg, PA
2011-presentCommunity College of Allegheny County, Instructor, Pittsburgh, PA
2009-2012Society for Contemporary Craft, Sales Gallery manager, Pittsburgh, PA
2008-2009Purdue University, Visiting Instructor, West Lafayette, IN
2006-2008Interlochen Arts Academy, Instructor, Interlochen, MI
2001-2003Central Piedmont Community College, Instructor,Charlotte, NC
Selected Exhibitions
2013Chain, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Caffeine and Saw Blades, Greenville, NC; All Fired Up: Enamel work from ECU Metal Design Alumni, Greenville, NC
2012Clasp, Craft Alliance, curated by Robert Longyear; The Year Was 2006, Studio 20/17, Sydney, Australia (international juried); THE ART OF SEDUCTION: Exquisitely Crafted Temptations, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD, curated by Gail M. Brown; Touchstone Faculty Exhibition, Fallingwater estate; The Art of Enameling, College of the Albemarle, Manteo, NC, curated by Kathryn Osgood; Small Metals in the Steel City, Society for Contemporary Craft satellite gallery at One Mellon Center, Pittsburgh, PA; World Championship Belt Buckle Competition, Bozeman, MT; Pomp and Swagger, Phoenix, AZ
2011Geography, SNAG Seattle and SOFA Chicago, curated by the Art Jewelry Forum; Urban Garden Party Silent Auction, Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Alumni Exhibition, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; Radical Alchemy, Portsmouth, VA; Point/Counterpoint, Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary; Faculty Exhibition, Martha Gault Art Gallery, Slippery Rock University; Gioelli per la Ricerca, Le Arti Orafe, Firenze, Italy
2010Inhorgenta Munich, Germany; Pittsburgh Metal Luke & Eloy Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; SOFA Chicago represented by Charon Kransen Arts; SOFA New York represented by Charon Kransen Arts; SOFA West represented by Charon Kransen Arts
2009Lucca Preziosa Young Le Arti Orafe, Lucca, Italy and Barcelona, Spain; SOFA NY represented by Charon Kransen Arts; Decorative Resurgence Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; Feeling Groovy, Textures in RAM’s Collections Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; American Enamels The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA; The New Steel v2 The Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; SOFA West Santa Fe, NM, represented by Charon Kransen Arts; Jewelry In Motion: Revolution Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Enamel Experience, International Badge Exhibition Kent State, Kent, OH, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Stimulus Sienna gallery, Lenox, MA
2008Japan Jewelry Design Association Biennale Exhibition The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo; The Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami City; Sendia Mediatheque Gallery, Sendai City; International Design Center, Nagoya City; Mitsubishi Artium, Fukuoka City; Refined: Abundance; Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX; Palm Beach 3 West Palm Beach, FL; represented by Charon Kransen Arts; Sharon Massey and Renee Robbins Macomb College Art Gallery, Clinton Township, MI; Fine Arts Center Alumni Exhibition; Sheffield Wood Gallery, Greenville, SC; Materials: Hard & Soft; Center for the Visual Arts Meadow Gallery, Denton, TX
2007SOFA Chicago represented by Charon Kransen Arts; International Art + Design Fair New York, NY, represented by Charon Kransen Arts; Metalsmiths Linking: A Cross Cultural Exchange Hiko Mizuno Jewelry College, Tokyo, Japan; Material Alchemy gallery M.I.M., Baltimore, MD;The New Steel Delta Axis (Powerhouse), Memphis, TN; Contemporary Enameling Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh, NC; The Earring Show; Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA; Handcrafted 9th Annual Juried Art Exhibition The Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC; Fusion: 11th Biennial International Juried Exhibition; Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
2006RAM’s Tales: Women Jewelers from the Permanent Collection Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; The Necklace Show Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA; On Fire! Contemporary Enameling gallery M.I.M., Baltimore, MD; Parameters of Preciousness William E. Gahlberg Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL; Vitreousity: Visions in Enameling Gallery 21, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA; The Art of Enameling Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA; Golden Opportunity Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL; Adornment, Ornament, Sentiment MFA Thesis Exhibition Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; The Arsenal Metals and Enamels Exhibition 2006 The Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH; Crafts National 2006 Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; 8th International Juried Enamel Exhibition Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA; American Craft Council Spotlight 2006 Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY; The Art of Enameling NC State Gallery of Art and Design, Raleigh, NC; Handcrafted: A Juried Exhibition of Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Metal, Wood The Arts Center at the Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount, NC
2005CRAFT USA ’05 National Craft Triennial Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT;
Made in America Bevier Gallery, Rochester, NY; .925 + Ingenuity = Art Jewelry The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA; On the Verge: SNAG Student Exhibition and Learning Curves Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland, OH; Multiple Palettes/Varied Vision: 30 Artists Explore Color White Lotus Gallery, Eugene, OR; Metamorphosis Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Gatlinburg, TN; An Affiliation of Past and Present City Art Gallery, Greenville, NC;
Metal Design Graduate Student Exhibition Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh, NC; 200 RingsVelvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA; Obsidian Gallery, Tuscan, AZ; Gallery M, Cleveland, OH; Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME; Facere Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004Fine Contemporary Crafts Artspace, Raleigh, NC; The RebelEmerge Gallery, Greenville, NC; Hammer & Hand: Contemporary American MetalCenter Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; The Down East Sculpture ExhibitionEmerge Gallery, Greenville, NC; Playing with Fire: Glass on MetalSan Diego, CA; RingsCannon Gallery of the Gallery of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC; The Quickening Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Greenville, NC; American Craft Council Spotlight 2004 Southeast Region, West Virginia; Hand Crafted: A Juried Exhibition of Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Metal, Wood Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC; Materials: Hard & Soft Center for the Visual Arts Meadow Gallery, Denton, TX
2003Craft Forms 2003 National Juried Exhibition of Fine Contemporary Crafts Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery, Wayne, PA; Java Underground, Juried Vessel Show Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC; American Craft Council Spotlight2003 Southeast Region; Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Permanent Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, North Carolina
Publications
2012Metalsmith magazine, Vol. 32, No. 1, pg. 54
2011Geography catalog, photograph pg. 52
2011Catalogo Dei Gioielli, October 2011, photograph, pg. 23
2011Art Jewelry Today 3rd Edition, Schiffer Publishing, photographs, pg. 165, 166
2011Pittsburgh 360 on WQED, airdate January 13, 2011
2010Craft Insight video,
2010Pittsburgh Fashion Magazine, September 2010, pg. 142
2009khVERK, Norwegian magazine, page 19
2009500 Enameled Objects, Lark Books, photograph, pgs.182, 376
2008SNAG News Technical Article, Imagery and Text in Enamel: Alternative Techniques
Volume 16, Number 4, August 2008, pgs. 16,17,18
2008Art Jewelry Today, 2nd edition, Schiffer Publishing, photograph, pgs. 33, 105, 112
2008500 Pendants and Lockets, Lark Books, photograph, pg. 34
2007500 Earrings, Lark Books, photograph, pg. 19
2007Ornament Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 4, photograph, pg. 34
2006500 Necklaces, Lark Books, photograph, pg. 316
20041000 Rings, Lark Books, photograph, pg. 370
2004The Art of Enameling, by Linda Darty, Lark Books
illustrations, pgs. 39, 109, 116; photograph, pg. 135; project, pgs. 140-142
Visiting Artist Lectures and Workshops
2012 Enameling lecture and workshop, Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA
2011PechaKucha, lecture, Assemble Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2011Cloisonné enameling, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2009Emerging Artist Lecture, sponsored by Art Jewelry Forum, SOFA Chicago
2009 Michigan Art Association Professional Development Workshop, Kalamazoo, MI
2009Artist lecture, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
2008Emerging Artist Lecture, sponsored by SNAG, SOFA Chicago
2008 Michigan Art Association Professional Development Workshop, Kalamazoo, MI
2008Artist lecture, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
2008Artist lecture, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
2008Enameling workshop and lecture, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2007Enameling workshop and lecture, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI
2007Artist lecture, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
2007Artist lecture, Crit-o-Rama, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2005Jewelry Fabrication 101 workshop, Touchstone Center for Crafts, Farmington, PA
2002Etching for Jewelry workshop, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Artist Residencies
2004, 2005Studio Resident, Metals, Touchstone Center for Crafts, Farmington, PA
Awards, Honors, Noteworthy Activity
2009Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist Award
2008First Place, Refined: Abundance
2008Juror’s Award, Materials: Hard & Soft
2005Gravely Scholarship, School of Art, East Carolina University
2004Award of Merit, The Down East Sculpture Exhibition
2004Honorable Mention, The Rebel Student Exhibition
Professional Service
2012-presntMember, Board of Directors, Society of North American Goldsmiths
2012Curator, Small Metals in the Steel City, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2012Curator, Charmed III-Third Times a Charm, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2012Juror, Art of the Found Object, State College, PA
2011-presentSteering Committee Member, Pittsburgh Emerging Arts Leaders
2011Juror, Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, PA
2010Juror, LEAP (Lydon Emerging Artist Program) Award
2010Juror, 2010 Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist Award
2008-2009Faculty Advisor, Purdue Art Jewelry and Metals Association
2007-2008Gallery Coordinator, Interlochen Arts Academy
2007-2008Artistic Task Force, Interlochen Arts Academy
2007Juror, East Lansing Art Festival, East Lansing, MI
2006-2008Visiting Artist Committee, Interlochen Arts Academy
2004-2008SNAG Silent Auction Co-Manager, Society of North American Goldsmiths
2004-2005President, Graduate Student Alliance, East Carolina University
Professional Organizations
Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG)
Art Jewelry Forum (AJF)
Pittsburgh Emerging Arts Leaders (PEAL)
Crafthaus
Alloy
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