Amy Reeves

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    EDUCATION
2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Metal Design - University of Washington
SELECTED OTHER TRAINING

2010  Linda Darty:  Painterly Approaches to Enameling, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2009  Phil Baldwin: Alloying Non-ferrous Metals, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2008  Charles Lewton-Brain: Fold-forming, North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA
2006  Think a Universe Master Class with Iris Bodemer

1992
  Found Object Jewelry Workshop with Ron Ho - Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011
SMG Bienniel
2010
Group Show:  Washington State Enamellists, Art House Gallery, Olympia, WA
Transforming Gesture, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
Access Denied,
Mineral, Tacoma, WA
Anita London Display, Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2009
Nuit Blanche, Metal Arts Guild of Canada, Toronto, ON
SMG Biennial
Francis Anderson Center, Edmonds , WA
Small Works
Pratt Gallery Tashiro Kaplan Building, Seattle WA
Instructors of the Year
Pratt Gallery Tashiro Kaplan Building, Seattle WA
Flux
Gallery Madera, Tacoma, WA
Metal-urge The Robert Daniels Gallery, Tacoma, WA
POP! Pratt Gallery Tashiro Kaplan Building, Seattle WA
Slings and Eros Willow Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
2008
A Fine Line Pratt Gallery Tashiro Kaplan Building
Metal as Influence Edmonds Community College
Night Of the Stud: Contemporary Cuff Links Heidi Lowe Gallery

2007
No. 16 Snohomish Arts Council Gallery
Grand Opening
Pratt Gallery Tashiro Kaplan Building
RAGS
Wearable Art Gallery YWCA benefit
2006
Seattle Metals Guild Biennial Exhibition Sea-Tac International Airport
Contain It! Snohomish Arts Council Gallery
Concourse A Sea-Tac International Airport
2005
Group Show Souvenir Seattle, Washington
In Our Own Image Ancient Grounds Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Resources: Steel, Rubber, Coal and Salt - Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio
PRATT Instructor Juried Exhibition Rainier Club, 820 4th Ave., Seattle, WA
2004
Grand Salon Opening Sculpture to Wear, Santa Monica, California
2003
On the Edge - Student Exhibition, Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington
Jewelry of Hepheastium - Art/Not Terminal Gallery, Seattle, Washington
BFA Exhibition - Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Making it in Metal - Student Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
School of Art Open - Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Unbuckled - Damsel Collective Seattle, Washington
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ASSOCIATIONS

2009-Present      Sole Proprietor, Tacoma Metal Arts Center

2006-2010         Jewelry Making Instructor, North Seattle Community College

2004-Present      Jewelry Making Instructor, Pratt Fine Art Center

2004-Present      Sole Proprietor, Amy Reeves Metalsmith Jewelry Design Business

2007-2008         Instructors Advisory Committee, Pratt Fine Art Center

2003-2006         Full Time Professional Bench Jeweler

2003-Present      Seattle Metals Guild  and Society of North American Goldsmiths Member


IN PRINT

2010

AMOCAT: Art at Work isn’t just banner by Rosemary Ponnekanti, Tacoma News Tribune       

ART JEWELRY MAGAZINE - January 2010 Issue 32 “Learn Electroforming”, pages 52-58

Happy New Year, Happy New Arts by Rosemay Ponnekanti, Tacoma News Tribune        December 30, 2009

New in Town by Rosemay Ponnekanti, Tacoma News Tribune December 21, 2009

Tacoma Metal Arts Center Offers New Opportunities  by Dawn Quinn, Tacoma Weekly, December 2, 2009

Artful Giving: On the Search for Hand-crafted Gifts by Katie Tynan, Seattle Woman Magazine November/December 2009

Heavy Metal Summer  by Allen Cox, City Arts Magazine June 2009

Go Arts! Critics Picks by Tacoma News Tribune August 14 2009

What the Flux?  by Michael Swan, Weekly Volcano June 29, 2009

Go Arts! by Tacoma News Tribune February 24 2009


2006
ART JEWELRY MAGAZINE - November 2006 Volume 3 Issue 1, Cover Article pages42-48, Photo Gallery
ART JEWELRY MAGAZINE - May 2006 Volume 2 Issue 4 page, 56, Photo Gallery
ART JEWELRY MAGAZINE - March 2006 Volume 2 Issue 3 pages 4, 52, 92 Photo Gallery
METALSMITH MAGAZINE - Spring 2006 Volume 26 number 1 page 53


2005
500 BRACELETS - AN INSPIRING COLLECTION OF EXTRAORDINARY DESIGNS Publisher: Marthe Le Van, 2005 Lark Books; Juror: Charon Kransen page 378