Metalsmith BenchTalk with Donald Friedlich

Thursday, August 12th at 3PM Pacific and 6 PM Eastern, my guest is world class lecturer and artist, Donald Friedlich. For more information: see: http://web.me.com/friedlich/www.dfriedlich.com/Welcome.html/ Friedlich received his BFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design in 1982 and was honored three years later as the school’s outstanding recent graduate. Friedlich’s jewelry is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the Newark Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design. Friedlich served a term as President of the Society of North American Goldsmiths and also as Chair of the Metalsmith magazine Editorial Advisory Board. Friedlich has lectured at conferences and universities all over the US and abroad. In 2003 he was the first jeweler to be an Artist in Residence at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass. In 2004 Friedlich was a featured speaker at an international jewelry conference in Melbourne, Australia and an Artist in Residence in both the Glass and Goldsmithing Departments of Canberra School of Art at Australian National University. In July 2008 he was the keynote speaker at the PMC Conference at Purdue University in Indiana. In 2009 he spoke at the annual Glass Art Society conference in Corning, New York and was an Artist in Residence at the glass school in Kramsach, Austria. Friedlich’s jewelry has recently been in major international exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Toledo Museum of Art. His work is currently on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London as part of their permanent collection. Please join us for what promises to be a very special program.