Metalsmith BenchTalk on BlogTalkRadio with Don Friedlich

My Guest this Thursday, July 21st at 3 p.m. PST on MetalSmith BenchTalk is jeweler and metalsmith Don Friedlich from Madison Wisconsin. 

 

Bio: Donald Friedlich served a term as President of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 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 Museum of Arts and Design, and the Newark Museum. 

 

His many awards include a National Endowment for the Arts New England Regional Fellowship and the 2001 Renwick Gallery Acquisition Award at the Smithsonian Craft Show. He served as Chair of the Metalsmith magazine Editorial Advisory Committee. 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 and an Artist in Residence in both the Glass and Goldsmithing Departments of Canberra School of Art at Australian National University. In 2007 he was an Artist in Residence at Tainan National University of Art in Taiwan and he was one of only two American jewelers chosen for the prestigious international exhibition Schmuck 2007 in Munich, Germany.

 

For more about Don's work, visit http://web.mac.com/friedlich/www.dfriedlich.com/Welcome.html