UPCOMING EVENTS____EXHIBITS & SHOWS____PUBLICATIONS


UPCOMING EVENTS AND NEWS

MAKE ME SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
NEWARK MUSEUM
June 16, - August 10, 2010
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ
Info: www.newarkmuseum.org

RUFFLES on the Runway during Fashion Week, Feb 2010, New York, NY

SOFA:NEW YORK
April 15-18, 2010
Park Avenue Armory at 66th St
New York, NY
Info: www.sofaexpo.com/NY/2010

 

CRAFTBOSTON
April 9-11, 2010
Seaport World Trade Center
Boston, MA
Info: www.craftboston.org

ACC BALTIMORE RETAIL FINE CRAFT SHOW
February 25-28, 2010
Baltimore convention Center
Baltimore, MD
Info: www.craftcouncil.org/baltimore

 

MATERIALS: HARD & SOFT, juror, Jo Lauria
GREATER DENTON ART CENTER
February 6-April1, 2010
400 East Hickory St.
Denton, TX
Info: www.dentonarts.com

 

HEIRLOOMS OF THE FUTURE
MOBILIA GALLERY
Dec 10, 2009- Jan 23, 2010
Cambridge, MA
Info: www.mobila-gallery.com

 

CRAFTFORMS 2009, Bruce W. Pepich, juror
WAYNE ART CENTER
Dec 4, 2009 - Jan 23, 2010
413 Maplewood Ave.
Wayne, PA
Info: www.wayneart.org

2010 NICHE AWARD Finalist: SCULPTURE TO WEAR
2010 NICHE AWARD Finalist: POLYMER

2009 NEW JERSEY ARTS ANNUAL: CRAFT, juried
NOYES MUSEUM OF ART
Dec 4, 2009 - Feb 28, 2010
733 Lily Lake Rd.
Oceanville, NJ
Info: www.noyesmuseum.org

 

Featured artist in GET CREATIVE magazine, February 2010

 

Cover of COLOR INSPIRATIONS
by Lindly Haunani and Maggie Maggio, Watson-Gutpill, 2009

Featured artist in ORNAMENT magazine, Vol. 32 No. 3, Spring 2009

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EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS

2009___SOFA:Chicago, Chicago, IL
_______Craftsforms 2009, Bruce W. Pepich, juror, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
_______New Jersey Arts Annual: Craft, juried, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
_______One of A Kind, juried, New York, NY
_______Sculpting Color, Invitational, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
_______Adornment Adored, Invitational, Baltimore, MD
_______Wheaton Arts Fine Craft, Invitational, Millville, NJ
_______ACC Baltimore Fine Craft Show, Baltimore, MD
_______CraftBoston, Boston, MD

2008___SOFA:Chicago, Chicago, IL
_______Philadelphia Museum of Art Fine Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
_______Craftforms 2008, Michael Monroe, juror, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
_______Materials: Hard & Soft, Marilyn da Silva, juror, The Meadows Gallery, Denton, TX
_______Transformations, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
_______ACC St. Paul Fine Craft Show, Baltimore, MD
_______ACC San Francisco Fine Craft Show, Baltimore, MD
_______CraftBoston, Boston, MD
_______Ithaca Fine Craft Show, Ithaca, NY
_______Wearable Craft, Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ
2007___American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL
_______ACC Baltimore Fine Craft Show, Baltimore, MD
_______Jewelry and Metal Arts Invitational, Guenzel Gallery, Fish Creek, WI
_______Crafts at the Castle, Boston, MA
_______Fine Furnishing & Fine Cart Show, Providence, RI
_______CraftBoston, Boston, MA
_______Artwear Unlimited, Highland Park, IL
2006___Philadelphia Museum of Art Fine Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
_______Crafts Park Ave, New York, NY
_______Paradise East, Marlborourgh, MA
_______Production Jewelry: Color & Mixed Media, Vale Gallery, Chicago, IL
_______ACC Baltimore Fine Craft Show, Baltimore, MD
2005___75th Anniversary Exhibition, Weill Art Gallery, Art Center at 92nd St. Y, New York, NY
_______Crafts at the Castle, Boston, MA
_______West Palm Beach Craft Show, Palm Beach, FL
_______Morristown CraftMarket, Morristown, NJ
_______Paradise East, Marlborourgh, MA
2004___Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC
_______Westchester Craft Show, White Plains, NY
_______West Palm Beach Craft Show, Palm Beach, FL
_______An Exploration of Polymer Clay, Kentucky Museum of Arts + Design, Louisville, KY
_______50<>50: The Craft Continuum, Brookfield Craft Center Gallery, Brookfield, CT
_______Crafts Park Ave, New York, NY
_______Morristown CraftMarket, Morristown, NJ
2003___Philadelphia Museum of Art Fine Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
_______Moves in Polymer Clay, curator, Brookfield Craft Center Gallery, Brookfield, CT
_______Faculty Exhibition, OCCC School of Art, Demarest, NJ
_______Atelier Designers, New York, NY
_______Crafts at the Castle, Boston, MA
_______Westchester Craft Show, White Plains, NY
_______Springtime in Paradise, Northhampton, MA
_______Crafts Park Ave, New York, NY
2002___The Freed Bead, Valerie Hector, juror, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
_______Seeing Spots, Stephen Ford, curator, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
_______Beauty and Function, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ
_______Seeing Spots, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
_______Philadelphia Museum of Art Fine Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
_______National Clay Jewelry Invitational, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
_______Clay and Colors, Park Avenue Gallery, RiverEdge, NJ
_______Magic with Metal, Lori Bacigalupi, curator, Firehouse Art Center, Norman, OK
_______Faculty Exhibition, OCCC School of Art, Demarest, NJ
_______Atelier Designers, New York, NY
_______Morristown CraftMarket, Morristown, NJ
_______Expo 2002, Guilford, CT
2001___National Clay Jewelry Invitational, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
_______Illuminating a Medium, curated, Bryn Mawr College Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
_______Old Traditions, New Directions, Faculty exhibit, MAFA Conference, Towson, MD
_______Craft Concepts 2001, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
_______Incredible Clay: Feats of Polymer, The Bead Museum, Glendale, AZ
_______Faculty Exhibition, OCCC School of Art, Demarest, NJ
2000___Polymer Clay Invitational, curated, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
_______Millennium Material, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
_______National Clay Jewelry Invitational, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
_______Wearable Wonders, Francisco Gallery, Layton, NJ
_______Small Works, Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ
_______Polymer Clay Invitational, Gallery Five, Tequesta, FL
_______POP: Panorama of Polymer, Business of Art Center, Manitou, CO
_______Faculty Exhibition, OCCC School of Art, Demarest, NJ
1999___In Praise of Plastic, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
_______Polymer Clay Update, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, OH
_______Eight by Ten in Polymer, Haworth, NJ
_______Patterns of Nature, Embellishments, Portland, OR, award winner
_______Faculty Exhibition, OCCC School of Art, Demarest, NJ
1998___Small Works, Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ
_______Small Wonders, Embellishments, Houston, TX
_______Eight by Ten in Polymer, Haworth, NJ
_______New Jersey Designer Craftsman Invitational, Core Pavilion, New Brunswick, NJ
_______Overview in Polymer, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
_______Artful Presence, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
_______Mitsukoshi Gallery Tokyo, Japan
_______Faculty Exhibition, OCCC School of Art, Demarest, NJ
1997___New Jersey Arts Annual, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
_______New Solutions, Fine Arts Gallery, Laramie College, Cheyenne, WY
_______New Jersey Art Educators as Artist, Westby Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
_______AENJ Collation, Markheim Art Center, Haddonfield, NJ
_______Polymorphs, Tory Hughes, curator, Centre Des Arts Visuels, Montreal, Canada
_______Masters’ Invitational Polymer Clay Exhibition, Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ
1996___Design Festa, Tokyo, Japan
_______Polymer Clay Art Exhibition, Kamiji Kakimoto, Tokyo, Japan
_______New Art Form, Main Street Gallery, Annapolis, MD
_______The Art of Polymer Clay, Ravensdale, Seattle, WA
_______Manchester Design Center Manchester, UK 1995
_______Personal Ornaments, Beadworks, Boston, MA
_______Center Craft, Center Gallery, Demarest, NJ
_______AENJ Network, Nabisco Gallery, East Hanover, NJ

Art jewelry & fine craft galleries and wearable art boutiques

_ Bellagio, Asheville, NC
_ Deva, Winston-Salem, NC
_ Dreamweaver, Edgartown, MA
_ The Eclectic Collector, Katonah, NY
_ Fleury Fine Jewelry, Houston, TX
_ Forma, Ann Arbor, MI
_ From The Ruins, Key West, FL
_ Gallery 5, Tequesta, FL
_ Gallery 8, La Jolla, CA
_ Heart of the Home, New Hope, PA
_ Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
_ Imagine Artwear, Alexandria, VA
_ Julie: Artisans' Gallery, New York, NY
_ Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
_ Linkages, Washington, DC
_ M.A. Doran, Tulsa, OK
_ Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
_ MIO, San Francisco, CA
_ Mobilia, Boston, MA
_ Morgan Ballou, Woodstock, VT
_ Nelson-Atkins Museum Store, Kansas City, Missouri
_ OXOXO Gallery Baltimore, MD
_ Pavo Real, Boston, MA & Chicago, IL
_ Perceptions, Concord, MA
_ ArtWorks, Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA
_ Portland Museum of Art Portland, ME
_ Racine Art Museum Store, Racine WI
_ Ragazzi's Flying Shuttle Seattle, WA
_ Red Sky Gallery, Charlotte, NC
_ Sansar, Bethesda, MD
_ Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia PA
_ Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
_ Spirit of the Earth, Sante Fe, MN
_ Symmetry Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
_ Tanjibar, Baltimore, MD
_ Topeo, New Hope PA
_ Vale Craft Gallery, Chicago,IL
_ Wardrobe, Austin, TX
_ Widney Moore Gallery, Portland, OR
_ WOW, Newton Highlands, MA
_ Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC

PUBLICATIONS

Books featuring Elise’s Work

_ Haunani, Lindly. Color Inspirations, 2009 (cover illustration)
_ Snyder, Jeffrey B. Art Jewelry Today 2, 2008 (cover illustration)
_ Kato, Donna. The Art of Polymer Clay: Creative Surface Effects, 2007
_ Diffendaffer, Grant. Polymer Clay Beads, 2007
_ Aimone, Katherine Duncan. The Art of Jewelry: Polymer Clay, 2006
_ Belcher, Judy. Polymer Clay: Creative Traditions, 2006
_ Polymer Clay Designs, Lark Books, 2004
_ Fago & Sargeant. Polymer Clay:Exploring New Techniques & New Materials, 2002
_ McGuire, Barbara. Foundations in Polymer Clay Design, 1999
_ Ashcroft, P & Haunani, L. Artists at Work: Polymer Clay Comes of Age, 1998
_ Masters’ Invitational Polymer Clay Exhibition: The Cutting Edge in Polymer Clay, 1997
_ Ford, Steven and Dierks, Leslie. Creating with Polymer Clay, 1996

Periodicals and Articles featuring Elise and her work appear in

2009___ORNAMENT magazine, Vol. 32 No. 3, “Elise Winters: The Essential Lightness of Being”
_______JEWELRY ARTIST magazine, September 2009, artist profile

_______American Style magazine, April, 2009, “More Than Meets the Eye”
2006___American Art Collector, Vol. 2, Book 3
_______Ornament magazine, Vol. 30, No. 1
_______Crafts Report, Feburary 2006, Cover, “Insight Gained”
_______Niche magazine, Spring, 2006, “The Fashion of Finer Things”
_______Art Jewelry magazine, September, 2006, “A Rarefied Medium”
2005___American Art Collector, Vol. 1, Book 3
_______Ornament magazine, Vol. 29, No 2, “Craft Venues”
2003___Niche magazine, Winter, 2003, “Niche Awards”
_______Niche magazine, Spring, 2003, “Niche Award Winners”
_______AJM Journal, June, 2003, “Winners’ Cirlce”
_______New York Times, July 21, 2002, Arts and Entertainment, “Beautiful Objects”
2001__..American Craft magazine, August, 2001, “Gallery”
_______Lapidary Journal, January, 2001, “Beauty in Layers”
_______Ornament magazine, Vol. 24 No. 3, Spring, 20012000
_______Bead & Button, October, issue 39, “Bead Dreams 2000”
_______Ornament magazine, Vol. 23 No. 3, Spring, 2000
1999___American Style magazine, Summer 1999, “Movers and Shapers”
_______Lapidary Journal, April, 1999, “Polymer Says”1997
_______Lapidary Journal, May, 1997, “Polymer Saturated”
_______Jewelry Craft, May, 1997, “Clay Innovators”

Articles written by Elise

2002___“Artist Statement”, Ornament magazine, Vol. 26, No 2
_______“Slices”, PolyMurmur, Vol. 6, No 1
2001___“Evolution of An Art Form”, Bead & Button, October, issue 39
2000___“Gallery of Painted Pins”, Bead & Button, Issue 40
1999___“An Artist’s” Tacky Tale of Woe”, part 2, PolyInformer, 1999
1998___“Chrysalis Pins”, Jewelry Crafts, March 1998
_______“The Crinkle Cut”, Jewelry Crafts, May 1998
_______An Artist’s” Tacky Tale of Woe”, part 1, PolyInformer, 1998
1997___“Polymer Clay Puff Beads”, Lapidary Journal, May, 1996
_______“Tumble Polishing”, Jewelry Crafts, May 1997
_______“Mystery Unraveled: The Case of the Buffed Bead”, PolyInformer, Vol. 7, No. 3
1996___“Tumble Polishing Polymer Clay Beads”, Lapidary Journal, April, 1996
_______“Ribbon Knot Earrings”, Lapidary Journal, May, 1996
_______“Grapevine or Party Line; Designing a Tube Bead Cutter”, PolyInformer, 1996
1995___“Sleepless in Seattle”, PolyInformer, 1995

Other Media

2006___Podcast Interview, Craftcast.com
2001___“Quite a Stretch, a Profile: Elise Winters”, pcpolyzine.com, April 2001
1995___1995 Polymer Clay Calendar, published by Stephen Ford