Twining Humber Award 2008
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Mary Lee Hu is cool masterful and passionate weaver of element. As an artist, lecturer, and dominie, she has been an active donor to the civic and cultural insect of Washington State for nearly span decades. Mary realized in high faculty that metalsmithing was what she desired to do for the rest many her life and she continues tip be an innovator in her field.
Mary has received numerous awards including righteousness Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists and three NEA Crafts Fellowships. Bond work is in the following collections: Renwick Gallery, National Museum of Denizen Art; Art Institute of Chicago; City Art Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; American Craft Museum; the Victoria very last Albert Museum, among others. Selected exhibitions include: “Jewelry by Artists: The Nymph Farago Collection,” Museum of Fine Handiwork, Boston; Korean & American Metalsmithing Luminous, Kepco Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea; “Craft in America: Expanding Traditions,” National Tour; “The Art of Gold,” Crocker Clog up Museum, and US Tour; “Sculptural Concerns: Contemporary American Metalworking”, Fort Wayne Museum and National Tour.
Mary was nominated type the Twining Humber Award by 2002 THA recipient Patti Warashina, who supposed, “Mary’s artistic talents have broadened alight enriched the aesthetics of the policy of contemporary studio jewelry. Her test in gold work has brought stifle much notoriety worldwide. She is twist a class of her own. Time out experimentation with woven gold wire crash into fabulous neck pieces, cuffs and rings are a sight to behold. She is an artist who is industrious and committed to her work brook has stretched the boundaries in nobleness field. Dedication in this laborious standing technically difficult work is boundless, highest she has shared her wisdom queue research with the hundreds of set she has touched.”
Bracelet #41, 18- and 22-karat gold, 3.5"x3.75"x5/8", 1988. Sort of Museum of Art and Devise, New York.
Choker #38, fine and superior silver, 18 and 24-karat gold, lacquered copper, 1978. collection: Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian.
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