UPCOMING EVENTS____EXHIBITS & SHOWS____PUBLICATIONS


UPCOMING EVENTS AND NEWS

AMERICAN CRAFT magazine, feature article
October/November issue, 2011

 

TERRA NOVA: Polymer Art at the Crosswords
Racine Art Museum
October 21, 2011 - Feb 5, 2012
441 Main St.
Racine, WI
info at: www.ramart.org

POLYMER: THE JOURNEY TO NEW TERRAIN, Symposium Speaker
Wingspread Campus, Johnson Foundation
October 21- 23, 2011
Racine, WI
info at: www.ramart.org

LOOT! 2011!: MAD about Jewels
Museum of Art and Design
October 11 - 14, 2011
2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY
info at:  www.madmuseum.org

SOFA:CHICAGO
Nov, 2011
Navy Pier
Chicago, IL
Info: www.sofaexpo.com

ARTFUL ADORNMENT: Jewelry from the MFA Boston
by Yvonne Markowitz
MFA Publications, 2011

 

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

 

Cover of  MASTERS: Polymer Clay, Major Works by Leading Artists, by Rachel Carren

 

Cover of COLOR INSPIRATIONS by Lindly Haunani and Maggie Maggio

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

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EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS

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2011___TERRA NOVA: Polymer At the Crossroads, Racine WI
_______LOOT! 2011!: MAD about Jewels, Museum of Art and Design, NY
_______GlassWeekend, Wheaton Glass Center, Millville, NJ
2010___SOFA:Chicago, Chicago, IL
_______Make Me Something Beautiful, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
_______Craftsforms 2010, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
_______Heirlooms of the Future, Mobilia, Cambridge, MA
_______Materials: Hard & Soft, Jo Lauria, juror, GDAC, Denton, TX
_______Niche Award finalist: Sculpture to Wear
_______Niche Award finalist: Polymer
_______SOFA:New York, New York, NY
_______ACC Baltimore Fine Craft Show, Baltimore, MD
_______CraftBoston, Boston, MD
2009___SOFA:Chicago, Chicago, IL
_______Craftsforms 2009, Bruce W. Pepich, juror, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
_______SOFA:New York, New York, NY
_______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
_______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
_______Moves in Polymer Clay, curator, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT_______
_______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
   Speigelgasse 8, Vienna, Austria
_ 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

_ Carren Rachel. Masters: Polymer Clay, Major Works by Leading Artists, 2011 (cover)
_ Markowitz, Yvonne. ARTFUL ADORNMENT: Jewelry from the MFA Boston, 2011
_ Snyder, Jeffrey B. Art Jewelry Today 3, 2011
   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

2011___Feature in AMERICAN CRAFT magazine, October/November 2011
_______AMERICAN STYLE magazine, fall 2011
_______Jewelry Craft magazine, summer, 2011
2010___Featured artist in GET CREATIVE magazine, February 2010
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