Marjorie Schick

Marjorie Schick

Born:

Training / Education:

• University of Wisconsin, Madison (Art Education), B.S. 1963
  
• Indiana University, Bloomington (Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing), M.F.A. 1966

Work Experience:

• University of Kansas, 1966-1967
  
• Pittsburg State University, 1967-present (University Professor of Art)

Exhibitions (Solo & Group Shows):

• 2009
• 'JEWELRY AT LARGE, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri,
  
• PALMBEACH3 repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA
• 2008
• ARTITUDE, International Art Exhibition, Kunstbanken, Hamar, Norway,
  
• CONTENT IN CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY DESIGN AND METALSMITHING, Landmark Gallery of the School of Art,Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas,
  
• THE RING SHOW: THEN AND NOW, 1977-1979 and 2007, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee and traveling
  
• NECKLUST AND THE CHOCOLATIER, Florida Craftsmen's Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida, invited
  
• SCULPTURE TRANSFORMED: THE WORK OF MARJORIE SCHICK, (traveling retrospective) curated by Tacey A. Rosolowski, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, and the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
  
• SOFA New York repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA
  
• SOFA Chicago repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA
  
• Int.Art + Design Fair NY, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA
• 2007
• SCULPTURE TRANSFORMED: THE WORK OF MARJORIE SCHICK, (traveling retrospective) curated by Tacey A. Rosolowski, organized by International Arts and Artists, San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
  
• ORNAMENT AS ART: AVANT-GARDE JEWLERY FROM THE HELEN WILLLIAMS DRUTT COLLECTION, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and traveling
  
• SOFA New York repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA
  
• SOFA Chicago repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA
  
• Int.Art + Design Fair NY, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA
  
• JEWELRY BY ARTISTS: THE DAPHNE FARAGO COLLECTION, the Lee Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  
• 2006
• RADIANT, 30 YEARS RA, Galerie RA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
  
• LUCCA PREZIOSA, NO BODY DECORATION, RESEARCH JEWELLERY AS REDEFINITION OF THE
• HUMAN BODY, Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy, invited
  
• CHATELAINES, curated by Helen Williams Drutt English, the Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland and traveling in Europe and the U.S.,
  
• THE EDGES OF GRACE: PROVOCATIVE, UNCOMMON CRAFT, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts,
  
• BASKET (R)evolution, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts,
• 2005
• SCHMUCK 2005, 57th Internationalen Handwerksmesse, Munich,
  Germany, juried
  
• 100 BROOCHES, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco and traveling,
  
• MAGNIFICENT EXTRAVAGANCE: ARTISTS AND OPULENCE, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin,
  
• CRAFTS, ETC.: AMERICAN MASTER JEWELERS AND METALSMITHS, Buddy Holly Center Fine Arts Gallery, Lubbock, Texas,
• 2004
• A VIEW FROM AMERICA: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY (1974-2003), organized by Helen Drutt English, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
  
• TREASURES FROM THE VAULT: JEWELRY FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
  
• HOUDT van SIERADEN, Gallery Lous Martin, Delft, the Netherlands, invited
• 2003
• JEWELS AND GEMS, Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  
• CHESS: CHESSMEN BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, Vennel Gallery, Irvine, Scotland, Victoria and Albert, London, and traveling in the U.S.
  
• JEWELRY BEYOND JEWELRY, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey, invited
  
• 2002
• ZERO KARATS: THE DONNA SCHNEIER GIFT TO THE AMERICAN CRAFT MUSEUM, New York
  
• A MODERN BESTIARY: ARTISTS VIEW THE ANIMAL KINDGOM, Wustum Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
  
• STEEL CITY: CONTEMPORARY AMERICA IN METAL, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado
  
• SOLO EXHIBITION, schicke C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, Kansas
• 2001
• BODY WORKS: STRUCTURE, COLOR, SPACE, Solo Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Museum of Decorative Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas
  
• MASKERADE, Galerie RA, Amsterdam and traveling in Europe and to Australia
  
• THE RING SHOW, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts and traveling in US and to Wales
  
• ONCE UPON A TIME: ARTISTS EXAMINE FAIRY TALES, MYTHS, AND LEGENDS, Wustum Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
• 2000
• ZIERAT: INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY INVITATIONAL, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas, and traveling in US, Germany, and the Netherlands
  
• EXHIBITION OF WORK BY AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL FELLOWS, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  
• COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS/TROPHIES: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY, Helen Drutt: Philadelphia
• 1999
• CONTAINMENT, Morris University Center Art Gallery, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
  
• BOOK ART, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Masachusetts
  
• THE TEAPOT REDEFINED II, Mobilia Gallery
  
• 1998
• MARJORIE SCHICK: A SENSE OF PLACE, Solo Exhibition, Gallery RA, Amsterdam Holland
  
• TIME, COLOR PLACE, Solo Exhibition, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  
• JEWELLERY MOVES, Royal Museum, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
  
• BROOCHING IT DIPLOMATICALLY: A TRIBUTE TO MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, the American Craft Museum, and traveling in Europe and the US,
• 1997
• CELEBRATING AMERICAN CRAFT: AMERICAN CRAFT 1975-1995, the Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen Denmark
  
• 1996
• 'NEW TIMES, NEW THINKING: JEWELLERY IN EUROPE AND AMERICA, Crafts Council, London, UK
  
• SUBJECTS '96, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju, Finland,
  
• A MOVEABLE FEAST: HELEN WILLIAMS DRUTT COLLECTION 1964-1994, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Museum voor
  Moderne Kunst, Ostend, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Holland
• 1994
• KPMG PEAT MARWICK COLLECTION OF AMERICAN CRAFT: A GIFT TO THE RENWICK, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
• 1993
• AHEAD OF FASHION: HATS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  
• AKERSVIKA ADDENDA EXHIBITION, Norges Bank, Hamar, Norway

 

Awards / Grants:

• 2005 University Professor, (honorary recognition) Pittsburg State University
  
• 2004 Interviewed for the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, Smithsonian Institution, as part of the Nanette L.
• 2004 Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, papers requested for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
  
• 2004 Kansas Artist Fellowship Award, Crafts
  
• 2002 Kansas Governor's Arts Award
  
• 2000 Fellow of the American Craft Council
  
• 2000 University Professor, (honorary recognition) Pittsburg State University
  
• 1997 Outstanding Faculty Award, Pittsburg State University
  
• 1990 Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University
  
• 1985 Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Crafts

Collections (Private & Museum):

Private Collections

• Ms. Lee, Singapore
  
• Paul Derrez and Willem Hoogsted, Amsterdam
  
• schicke and Louis Koch Collection, Switzerland
  
• Gloria and Sonny Kamm, USA

Musuem Collections

• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young
  
• Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, New York
  
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
  
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
  
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  
• National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
  
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
  
• Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
  
• Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
  
• Royal Museum, the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
  
• The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
  
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Publications:

• 2008
• '500 Pendants and Lockets: Contemporary Interpretations of Classic Adornments, Marthe Le Van, introduction by Mike Holmes and Elizabeth Shypertt, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 106, 341.
  "Sculpture for the Body," Tacey A. Rosolowski, Craft Arts International, issue #72, front cover, 39- 45.
• 2007
• Sculpture to Wear: the Jewelry of Marjorie Schick, Tacey A. Rosolowski and others, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany.
  
• Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
• Cindi Strauss, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany, 35, 273, 424-5.
  
• 500 Earrings: New Directions in Contemporary Jewelry, Marthe Le Van, introduction by Alan Revere, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 78, 293.
• 2006
• 500 Necklaces: Contemporary Interpretations of a Timeless Form, Marthe Le Van, introduction by Marjorie Schick, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 411.
  
• 2005
• 500 Brooches: Inspiring Adornments for the Body, Marthe Le Van, introduction by Marjorie Simon, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 115, 248.
  
• New Directions in Jewellery, Essays by Jivan Astfalck, Caroline Broadhead, Paul Derrez, edited by Catherine Grant, Black Dog Publishing, Ltd, London, 13.
  
• 500 Braceletes: An Inspiring Collection of Extraordinary Designs, Marthe Le Van, introduction by Charon Kransen, Lark Books, Ashville, North Carolina, 240, 326.
• 2004
• "Marjorie Schick: Objects of Self-Consciousness," Tacey A. Rosolowski, Metalsmith (Winter), front cover, 24-33.
  
• 1000 Rings: Inspiring Adornments for the Hand, Marthe Le Van, introduction by Robert W. Ebendorf, Lark Books, Asheville, North Carolina, 181.
• 2002
• "Marjorie Schick," Tacey A. Rosolowski, American Craft, 62:5 (October/November), front cover, 66-69.
• 2000
• "Women Metalsmiths," Jeannine Falino, in Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference, Pat Kirkham, ed., Yale University Press, New Haven, 238.
  
• Jewels and Jewellery, Clare Phillips, Victoria and Albert Publications, London, 138.
  
• 1999
• "Marjorie Schick: Engaging Memory," Glen R. Brown, Ornament, (Spring), 30-33.
• 1996
• Jewelry in Europe and America: New Times, New Thinking, Ralph Turner, Thames and Hudson, London, 38.
• 1995
• Jewelry of Our Time: Art, Ornament and Obsession, Helen Drutt English and Peter Dormer, Rizolli, New York, 319.
  
• 1994
• One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today, Susan Grant Lewin, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 61.
• 1993
• The Best in Contemporary Jewellery, David Watkins, B.T. Batsford, London, 146-7, 218.
• 1992
• Design Visions, Robert Bell, ed., Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 92-93.
• 1991
• International Crafts, Martina Margetts, Thames and Hudson, London, 92.

Artist Statement:

My work has been about exploring the boundaries of jewelry and sculpture since my first year in graduate school, though I did not quite understand it as that. Then, as I left school to begin my professional career, I found my direction in the work of sculptor David Smith: what would it be like to put your head or an arm through one of his works? That was 1966. I have been trying to achieve that fusion, to be both jeweler and sculptor (and something of a painter as well) ever since. I am as excited about this adventure today as I was more than forty years ago.