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Publications for Bruce Metcalf

2014

“Hot Glue and Staples,” American Craft June/July 2014

“Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective,” Metalsmith, Vol. 34 No. 3, 2014

2013

“ A Very Short History of Studio Craft,” in Paul J. Stankard, Spark the Creative Flame: Making the Journey from Craft to Art, McDonald & Woodward, 2013

“Sloppy and Ugly,” Metalsmith, Vol. 33 No. 3, 2013

2012

“Lisbeth den Besten” book review, Art Jewelry Forum Website, <https://artjewelryforum.org/jewellery-compendium-contemporary-jewellery>

“Robert Longyear Hip-Hop Hybrid”

Metalsmith Volume 32 Number 3, 2012

2011

“On Jewelry: a Compendium of Contemporary jewelry”

Art Jewelry Forum Website

http://www.artjewelryforum.org/jewellery-compendium-contemporary-jewellery

“Accommodating Modernism: Midcentury Silversmithing and Enameling,” Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, Abrams and Museum of Arts and Design, 2011

2010

“Remains: Cathy McClure,” Metalsmith, Volume 30, Number 3, 2010

“Medium Resistance: Revolutionary Tendencies in Print and Craft,” American Craft Magazine blog, April 8, 2010. http://americancraftmag.org/blog-post.php?id=10226

“Critical Discourse 3: State of the Craft,” 2008 Conference report: State of the Craft, The Furniture Society, 2009

“Web Exclusive Review: Stanley Lechtzin,” American Craft Magazine blog, May. 29, 2009. http://americancraftmag.org/blog-post.php?id=7982

“Craft’s New Borderland: A grass roots movement of handcraft is taking hold,” Metalsmith, Volume 30, Number 1, 2010

Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, co-written with Janet Koplos. University of North Carolina Press. 2010

2009

“"The Art Glass Conundrum," Strattman Critical Dialogue Series Lecture, The Glass Art Society 2009, Corning, New York, The Glass Art Society, Seattle, 2010

CAD/RP Jewelry: Beyond the Whiz-bang Factor,” Metalsmith, Volume 29, Number 5.

“Seduction and Subversion,” The Compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellery 2008 , Darling Publications, Cologne, 2009

“Critical Discourse 3: State of the Craft” (transcript of panel discussion), 2008 Conference Report: State of the Craft, The Furniture Society, Asheville, NC, 2009

“Fear and Flowers,” catalogue essay for Sondra Sherman Anthophobia: Fear of Flowers, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts, 2009

2008

“Five Chapters in a Life of the Imagination,” The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto California, 2008

“Alt-Craft in Theory and Practice,” Metalsmith, Volume 28, Number 1, 2008

2007

“Replacing the Myth of Modernism” reprinted in NeoCraft: Modernity and the Crafts, Alfoldy, Sandra, editor, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, 2007

“News Flash: The future is a giant meteorite, and the craft world has already been hit,” Furniture Studio 5: The Meaning of Craft, The Furniture Society, 2007

“Critical Writing on Craft: Who Benefits?” The Craft Council of Ireland Stoppress, July/August 2007

“Ambiguous Intimacy: The Jewelry of Melanie Bilenker,” essay for exhibition catalogue Ambiguous Intimacy: The Jewelry of Melanie Bilenker, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts, 2007

2006

“Craft World,” American Craft, December 2006/January 2007, Volume 66, Number 6

“Forum: Jewelers on Jewelry”, Metalsmith, 2006, Volume 26, Number 5

“Douglas J. Bucci,” Metalsmith Fall 2006, Volume 26, Number 3

2005

“Still Second Class?” Metalsmith, Fall 2005, Volume 25, Number 3

2004

“Is There a Jewelry Avant-Garde?”, Metalsmith, Summer 2004, Volume 24 Number 3

“American Studio Furniture 1940-1990”, American Craft, February/March 2004, Volume 64, Number 1

2003

“Interview: Susan Cummins”, Metalsmith, Summer 2003, Volume 23 Number 3

“Jack Larimore”, American Craft, October/November 2003, Volume 63 Number 5

“Zero Karat”, Metalsmith , Winter 2003, Volume 23, Number 1

2002

Catalog essay for “The Art of Gold”, Mid-America Arts Alliance, 2002

“Contemporary Craft: A Brief Overview”, Exploring Contemporary Craft: History, Theory & Critical Writing, Coach House Books with The Craft Studio at Harbourfornt Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2002

“Embodied Sympathy”, Metalsmith, Summer 2002, Volume 22, number 3.

2001

Catalogue essay for “Transformation 3: Contemporary Works in Jewelry and Small Metals”, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

“Jewels of Mind and Mentality: Dutch Jewelry Design 1950-2000”, Metalsmith, Summer 2001, Volume 21, number 3.

2000

“Manfred Bischoff”, Metalsmith, Fall 2000, Volume 20, Number 4

“Metalsmith Twentieth Anniversary”, Metalsmith, Fall 2000, Volume 20, Number 4

“The Hand: At the Heart of Craft”, American Craft, August/September 2000, Volume 60, Number 4

“The Restless Recycler: Robert Ebendorf”, Nouvel Objet V, Design House Publishers, Seoul, Korea, 2000

“The Problem of the Fountain”, Metalsmith, Summer 2000, Volume 20, Number 3

“Recent Sightings: Meditation on a Rooftop”, Metalsmith, Winter 2000, Volume 20, Number 1

1999

“Handwork Endures Because Craftspeople Love It”, catalogue essay for Transcending Traditions: Ohio Artists in Clay and Fiber, Ohio Arts Council, 1999

“Recent Sightings: Playing the Spiritual Card”, Metalsmith Fall 1999, Volume 19, Number 5

“Recent Sightings”, Metalsmith Spring 1999, Volume 19, Number 2

with Susan Cummins and Mija Reidel, “Why have the Art Jewelry Forum?”, Art Jewelry Forum Newsletter, Spring 1999, Number 5

1998

“A Really Good Goldsmith”, catalog essay for “Pat Flynn: Master Metalsmith”, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee

“Recent Sightings: New Domestic Sliver at the R.C.A.”, Metalsmith, Summer 1998, Volume 18, Number 3

With Mija Reidel and Susan Cummins: “A Primer on Gallery Etiquette for Collectors”, Art Jewelry Forum Newsletter, Summer 1998, Number 3

“Recent Sightings”, Metalsmith , Spring 1998, Volume 18, Number 2

“Ken Cory: Small Monuments to a Big Imagination”, American Craft, June/July 1998, Volume 58, Number 3

1997

“A Practitioner’s View”, The Furniture Society, Volume 1, Number 2, December 1997

“Recent Sightings: A Clarification”, Metalsmith, Summer 1997, Volume 17, Number 3

“Notes on the Physical”, essay in Curator’s Focus: Turning in Context, exhibition catalogue, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA, 1997

Co-edited with Donald Freidlich: Metalsmith 1997 Exhibition-in-Print “Studio Multiples”, Volume 17, Number 3.

“Craft and Art, Culture and Biology”, The Culture of Craft, edited by Peter Dormer, Manchester University Press, Manchester, England, 1997

“Recent Sightings: Love's Labors Lost”, Metalsmith, Spring 1997, Volume 17, Number 2

“Recent Sightings: A New Golden Age”, Metalsmith, Winter 1997, Volume 17, Number 1

“Sandra Sherman” , Metalsmith, Winter 1997, Volume 17, Number 1

“Focus: Howard Werner” , American Craft, February/March 1997, Volume 57, Number 1

1996

“Recent Sightings: The Curse of Perfection”, Metalsmith, Fall 1996, Volume 16, Number 5

“Helen Shirk: Contemporary Jewelry 1970-1995"“, Metalsmith, Summer 1996, Vol. 16, No. 3

“Recent Sightings: Heart and Art”, Metalsmith, Spring 1996, Vol. 16, No. 2

“A Labor of Love”: excerpt on catalog cover , The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

“Recent Sightings: The Wearability Issue”, Metalsmith, Winter 1996, Vol. 16, No. 1

“Focus: Roy Superior”, American Craft, February/March 1996, Vol. 56, No. 1

1995

“Recent Sightings: Jewelry Connoisseurship”, Metalsmith, Fall 1995, Volume 15, Number 4

“Observations: Thrift Store Art: David Clifford”, Metalsmith, Fall 1995, Volume 15, Number 4

“Design - Jewelry - Betty Cooke”, Metalsmith, Fall 1995, Volume 15, Number 4

“Recent Sightings: Statements and Questions”, Metalsmith, Summer 1995, Volume 15, Number 3

“Two Sides of the Same Coin”, The Crafts Report, April 1995

“Unified Theory ?”, The Studio Potter, December 1994, Volume 23, Number 1

“Recent Sightings: The Big Middle”, Metalsmith, Winter 1995, Volume 15, Number 1

1994

“Recent Sightings”, Metalsmith, Fall 1994, Volume 14, No. 4

“Recent Sightings: Jeweler’s Jewelers”, Metalsmith, Summer 1994, Volume 14, No. 3

“Towards an Aesthetic of Craft”, The Studio Potter, June 1994, Vol.22, No. 2

“Sea and Sky of Wistful Longing”, essay for Lizzy Yoo, Art Vivant: Contemporary Korean Artists, Sigongsa Co, Ltd., Seoul, Korea, 1994

“Letters”, Metalsmith, Spring 1994, Volume 14, Number 2

“Recent Sightings: Concept”, Metalsmith, Winter 1994, Volume 14, Number 1

1993

“Recent Sightings: If you can’t say anything nice...”, Metalsmith, Fall 1993, Volume 13, Number 4. Reprinted as “Point of View: We Need to Learn How to Disagree with One Another”, The Crafts Report, April, 1994

“Letters: Bruce Metcalf Replies”, American Craft, August/September 1993

“On the Nature of Jewelry”, Metalsmith, Winter 1993, Volume 13, Number 1

“Replacing the Myth of Modernism”, American Craft, February/March 1993

“Peter Chang”, Metalsmith, Summer 1993, Volume 13, Number 3

“Recent Sightings: Crafts, Money and Fear”, Metalsmith, Summer 1993, Volume13, Number 3

“Recent Sightings: Express Yourself”, Metalsmith, Winter 1993, Volume 13, Number 1

1992

“New Art Forms Art Jewelry Symposium”, introduction by Judith Mitchell, Metalsmith, Summer 1992, Volume 12, No. 3

“Recent Sightings: Seduce Me”, Metalsmith, Winter 1992, Volume 12, No. 1

“Recent Sightings: Neo Primitive”, Metalsmith, Spring 1992, Volume 12, No. 2

“Recent Sightings: Standards”, Metalsmith, Fall 1992, Volume 12, No. 4

1991

"Karen Page: Art, Craft, and Imaginary Utopia", essay for exhibition catalogue, Western Carolina University, February 1991

"Recent Sightings: A Question of Competence", Metalsmith, Winter 1991, Volume 11, No. 1

1990

"A Pachang Macha in Apkujong-dong," Monthly Crafts (Korea), September 1990.

"Recent Sightings: Here's a puzzle for you", Metalsmith, Spring 1990, Vol. 10, No. 2

1989

“Recent Sightings: Teachers don’t instruct...”, Metalsmith, Fall 1989, Volume 9, No. 4

"Mark Soppeland," Dialogue An Art Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4, July/August 1989.

"On Abandoning Ignorance," Metalsmith, Spring 1989, Vol. 10, No. 2

"On the Nature of Jewelry," Jewelry Australia Now, Craft Australia Series Publication, 1989

"Recent Sightings: Artlike," Metalsmith, Winter 1989, Vol. 9, No. 1 . Reprinted in Lemel

(Jewelers & Metalsmiths Group of Australia Newsletter), June, 1989.

"Recent Sightings," Metalsmith, Fall 1989, Vol. 9, No. 4

1988

"Recent Sightings - Proposing a Burden for Jewelry," Metalsmith Summer 1988, Vol. 8 No. 3

1987

"Answers from the Field," Women Artists News, Vol. 12, No. 4 & 5, Fall/Winter 1987

"Recent Sightings: Pluralism in Metals," Metalsmith, Winter 1987, Vol. 7, No. 1

"Recent Sightings," Metalsmith, Spring 1987, Vol. 7, No. 2

"Recent Sightings," Metalsmith, Summer 1987, Vol. 7, No. 3

"The Meaning of Making," exhibition catalog introduction, "Craft as Content,"University of Akron, October 1987.

1986

"Eva Kwong", American Ceramics, Vol. 5, No. 3 1986

"Korean Artists and the Weight of Western Culture," Design (Korea), October 1986

"Outside the Mainstream," catalogue introduction to "Form Beyond Function" exhibition, Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois 1986

"Projects of Exploration/Student Work. Project: Housewares," Metalsmith, Summer 1986, Vol. 6, No. 3

"Twentieth Century Jewelry" (book review), American Craft, April/May 1986

"Two Clay Artists: Energy and Quietness," Dialogue, May/June 1986

1985

"A Search for the Meaning of Life," translated by Seung-He Kim, Design (Korea), October 1985

"Learning and Earning," Metalsmith, Summer 1985, Vol. 5, No. 3 . Reprinted in The Crafts Report, November, 1985

"Ohio Metals Invitational," Dialogue, May/June 1985

"Recent American Metalwork," translated by Lizzy Yoo, Design (Korea), October 1985

1983

"Art or Craft? Five Metalsmiths," Dialogue: The Ohio Arts Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, Nov/Dec, 1983

"Craftsmen and Aesthetic Compromise," Craft Connection, Vol. IX, No. 2, 2nd Quarter, 1983. Reprinted in The Crafts Report, Vol. 9, No. 95 (Oct. 1983), and Vol. 9, No. 96 (Nov. 1983)

"Techniques for the Head," Metalsmith, Winter 1983, Vol. 3, No. 1 . Japanese translation by Hiroko Pijanowski reprinted in Four Seasons of Jewelry (Japan), #64, December 1985

1982

"Amy Davison," Metalsmith, Spring 1982, Vol. 2, No. 2

"Amy Davison Solo Exhibition," Artxpress, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1982

1981

"Kurt Matzdorf--Master Metalsmith," Metalsmith, Fall 1981, Vol 1, No. 4. Reprinted in Korean Design, 1982

"Jill Slosberg; Jewelry," Metalsmith, Fall 1981, Vol. 1, No. 4

"Thinking About Craft," World Crafts Council Quarterly Newsletter, December, 1981

1980

"Crafts: Second-Class Citizens?", Metalsmith, Fall, 1980, Vol. 1, No. 1. Reprinted in The Crafts Report, Vol. 7, No. 68, April 1981 and Vol. 7, No. 69, May 1981; Glass Studio, No. 23, Spring 1982; and Craft Connection, Vol. III, No. 4, 4th Quarter, 1982

"Autobiography," Goldsmith's Journal 28, Vol. 6, No. 1, February 1980

"Painting Techniques for Metalsmiths," Goldsmith's Journal 30, Vol. 6, No. 3, Summer 1980

1977

"Some Safety Procedures for Metalsmiths," Goldsmith's Journal 11, No. 2, April 1977