JON HAVENER [email protected]

EDUCATION

1975 MFA, Metalsmithing, Cranbrook Academy of Art

1973 BFA, Silversmithing, Cleveland Institute of Art

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009-present Full Professor of Visual Arts School of the Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1990-2009 Full Professor of Design/Metalsmithing School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1982-1990 Associate Professor of Design/Metalsmithing School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1977-1982 Assistant Professor of Design/Metalsmithing School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1976-1977 Instructor of Basic Design, Jewelry, Silversmithing Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, GRANTS, and EXHIBITIONS

2013 George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award, University of Kansas International Travel Fund, School of The Arts, University of Kansas (Toronto, Canada)

2010 International Travel Fund, School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas (London, UK)

2009 International Travel Fund, School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas (Seoul, Korea)

2008 Sabbatical Leave, University of Kansas, for Artist Residency at Lahti University

2008 Kunsthandwerk im Museum, Ostholstein-Museum, Eutin, Germany

2008 Metals in Sister Cities: The Lawrence-Eutin Connection, Lawrence Arts Center, KS

2005 International Travel Fund, School of Fine Arts, The University of Kansas (Finland)

2001 City Art Collection From the Last 100 years Loviisa Town Museum, Commandant’s House, Loviisa, Finland

2000 Fellowship for Artist Residency, Arts Council of Finland, Loviisa, Finland

2000 Kunsthandwerk im Museum. Ostholstein-Museum, Eutin, Germany

1984 Sabbatical Leave, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Museum research in Great Britain, Germany, and Greece

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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2009 Prelude Series, #2. Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS

2007 Concurrence. City of Overland Park, KS

2006 Improvisation. Emprise Bank, Kansas Artist Collection, Wichita, KS

2005 Sail Days. Copper. City of Loviisa, Finland

2005 Korean Cranes Rising: Korean War Memorial. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2000 Cascade. Willard Hall Plaza, Pittsburg State University, KS

2000 Passage. Mayor’s Office, City of Loviisa, Finland

2000 Rotating. Ostholstein-Museum, Eutin, Germany

1999 Hosta. Trammel Crow Company, St. Louis, MO

1999 Continuum. Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS

1999 Occurrence. Prairie Park Nature Center, City of Lawrence, KS

1998 Whirlpool. Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS

1992 Ascension. Boatmen’s Bank, Clayton, MO

1990 Electric Cadet. Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL

1990 Improvisation. Percent for the Arts, City of Lawrence, KS

1989 Rotation. Town Center Plaza, City of Manhattan, KS

1987 Kamakara. Seitzman Building, St. Louis, MO

1987 Enigma. Percent for the Arts, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NB

1987 Broken Dance. Percent for the Arts, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NB

1985 Untitled wall relief. United States Comptroller of Currency, Omaha, NB

1985 Untitled Pedestal sculpture, United States Comptroller of Currency, Kansas City, MO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL

2000 Artist Residency, City of Loviisa, Finland

1999 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO Center for Art Business, Colorado Springs, CO

1995 Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL

1993 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1992 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1989 Kurdian Gallery, Wichita Art Museum, KS

1988 Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 1986 Gallery Karl Oskar, Westwood, KS

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MAJOR COMMISSIONS

2017 Fenceline. School of Business Board Room, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

2013 Sculptural Award. Created for Lights Out! Sustainability Leadership Competition University of Kansas/Energy Solutions Professionals

2008 Chancellor’s Collar. University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO Seize The Day Award. Wisconsin Entrepreneur’s Organization, Milwaukee, WI

2001 Sconces. Private residence, Winchester, KS

2000 Arboreal Homage. Door relief for private residence, Winchester, KS

1998 Taunton Distinguished Research Award. University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO

1997 Distinguished Alumni Award. College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1996 Verdant Columns. Free State Brewery, Lawrence, KS

1993 Bowl of Hygeia. Wyeth-Ayerst Labs, Philadelphia, PA

1992 Germination. Sculptural wall triptych. Teller’s Restaurant, Lawrence, KS Entrance Sconces. Teller’s Restaurant, Lawrence, KS

1989 Untitled. Trakas Group Law Office, St. Louis, MO

1988 Rotating. Private residence, Wichita, KS

1987 Waterway. Private residence, Lawrence, KS

1985 Chalice and Paten. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Kansas City, MO

1983 Ciborium. Grace Episcopal Church, Ottawa, KS

1982 Chalice. Father John Singler, St. Mary’s Seminary, Cleveland, OH

1980 Outstanding Engineering Service Award. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1977 Northeastern Ohio Interior Design Organization Award. Cleveland, OH Chalice and Paten. St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Cleveland Heights, OH Chalice and Paten. St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Chesterland, OH

1976 Northeastern Ohio Interior Design Organization Award. Cleveland, OH

1975 International Ten-Ton Yachting Award. St. Clair Shores Yacht Club, MI

1973 Corporate Award. Northeast Ohio Illuminating Company, Cleveland, OH

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AWARDS

2013 Monetary award, City of Lawrence Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. Lawrence, KS (full year)

2009 Juror’s Award, Topeka Competition 29 Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS

2007 Juror’s prize, Wichita National All Media Craft Exhibition Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS

2006 Finalist award, Fire Station #4, City of Lawrence, KS (unrealized)

2005 Finalist award, Prairie Totems. City of Hays, KS (unrealized)

2003 Juror’s monetary award, Topeka Competition 25 Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS

2001 Finalist award, Roundabout sculpture. City of Hutchinson, KS

2000 Finalist award, sculpture, Northern Iowa University, Cedar Falls, IA

2000 Finalist award, Conference Center, City of Blue Springs, MO

2000 Phoenix Award: Visual Arts. City of Lawrence, KS

1998 Kansas Artist Fellowship Award in sculpture, Kansas Arts Commission

1992 Finalist award, wall sculpture, Security Benefit Life Insurance, Topeka, KS

1989 Monetary award, Dimensions ’89. Lenexa, KS

1989 Juror’s monetary award, 48th Annual Juried Exhibition. Sioux City Art Center, IA

1988 Honorable mention, monetary award, Kansas Seven. Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS

1987 Fellowship winner in sculpture, Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts

1985 Juror’s prize, monetary award, Wichita National All Media Craft Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS

1984 Monetary award, Kansas Four. Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS

1983 Juror’s award Mid-Six States Exhibition. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1982 Monetary award, Metalsmithing: The Michigan Influence Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

1977 Monetary award, Kansas Designer Craftsman Exhibition. Lawrence, KS

1974 Juror’s mention. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show. Cleveland, OH

1973 Monetary award Sterling Today. New York City, NY

1973 Agnes Gund Traveling Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-INVITATIONAL 2011 Process & Practice, Crossing Boundaries: Collaborations between Metalsmiths and Printmakers. Fine Arts Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

2008 Kansas Masters. Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS

2007 Art of Metal. Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, IL

2007 Midwest Metals Artists

2005 Educators/Educated: Jewelry and Metals in Ohio (traveling) -Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; -Riffe Gallery, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH; -Butler Institute of America, Youngstown, OH

2004 Crossroads Contemporary Invitational Grand Opening Exhibition Crossroads Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2003 Teaching the Object. The Arts Incubator, Kansas City, MO

2003 Metals: Colorado Connection Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, Denver Airport

2001 25 Metalsmiths. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Drawn Together. Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

1997 Water Visions. New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, CA (also 1996, 1995)

1997 Selected Metals Artists Caroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

1996 Group exhibition. Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1995 25-Year Faculty Invitational. Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN

1995 Group exhibition. Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1994 Contemporary Metalsmithing: Behind/Beyond the Bench Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

1994 Ohio Metals: A Legacy (traveling, catalog) -McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH; -Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Oh; and -Columbus Crafts Museum, Columbus, OH

1993 Ohio Metals: A Legacy, Ohio Designer Craftsmen (catalog; traveled to Riffe Gallery, Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH and Miami University, Oxford, OH

1986 Four Sculptors: Ferguson, Gormally, Havener, Kendrick (traveled to Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE)

1985 Group exhibition. Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985 Three-person exhibition. Gallery Karl Oskar, Kansas City, MO

1984 National Jewelry/Sculpture Invitational. Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, AZ

1982 Directions. University of Wisconsin, Stout, Menomonee, WI

1981 Four-person exhibition. Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS

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SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. City of Overland Park, KS

2015 Wichita National All-Media Craft Exhibition. Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS (also 2013, 2009, 2007, 2003, 1993, 1985)

2014 Material Mastery. Kansas Artists Craftsmen Association, Fort Hays State University, Fort Hays, Kansas

2012 Materials Mastery. Kansas Artists Craftsmen Association, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS

2011 Material Mastery. Kansas Artists Craftsmen Association, Eppink Gallery, Emporia, KS

2011 Topeka Competition 30. Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, KS (also 2009, 2007, 2003)

2010 Material Mastery. Kansas Artists Craftsmen Association, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS

2009 Kansas Artist Craftsmen Juried Exhibition Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS (Juror, Bruce Hartman)

Retro-Futurism: Exploring Objects Interpreting both the Past and Future. HCC Gallery, Houston, TX. In conjunction with 2010 Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference

1998 Raised from Tradition: Hollowware Past and Present Society of North American Goldsmith’s Conference, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle WA

1997 Kansas Artist Craftsmen Exhibition. Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS

1997 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. Mulvane Museum of Art, Topeka, KS (also 1996)

1996 10th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Competition. City of Lawrence, KS

1989 15th Annual Prairie Art Exhibition. Sterling College Art Department, Sterling, KS

1988 Centennial Sculpture Exhibition. Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NB

1987 Lawrence Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Lawrence, KS (full year, catalog)

1986 The Kansas Collection. National Women’s Art Museum. Washington, DC

1986 Form Beyond Function. National Ornamental Iron Museum, Memphis, TN

1986 Metalsmiths Making Sculpture. Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL. (Two year traveling)

1983 Cleveland Museum of Art May Show. Cleveland, OH (also 1982, 1976, 1973)

1982 Last National Sculpture Exhibition. University of Georgia, Athens, GA

1981 Gold ’81 Exhibition. Gold International Corporation, New York, NY

1980 The Armband. Pforzheim Schmuck Museum, Pforzheim, Germany

1979 Nine Contemporary Silversmiths St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

1978 Saegner Jewelry and Small Sculpture Exhibition. Hattiesburg, MS

1977 Southeastern Crafts Invitational Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

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SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS, cont.

1975 Sterling Today. Lever House Exhibition, New York, NY (also 1974, 1973)

1974 Goldsmith’s ’74 (traveled to Minneapolis Museum of Fine Arts, MN; Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC; Krannert Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; And Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

1973 Beaux Arts. Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-GROUP

2011 Crossing the Spectrum. BNIM Architects, Kansas City, MO

2005 University of Kansas Faculty, Shook Hardy Bacon Law Firm, Overland Park, KS

1998 Bronze Age. Group exhibition, New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1991 Four Sculptors Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference. Novus Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1990 Artists Group Exhibition. Locus Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1988 The Kansas Collection. Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS

1986 Four Sculptors (invitational). University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Betty Helen Longhi & Cynthia Eid. Shell Forming Techniques for Jewelers and Metalsmiths. Brynmorgen Press, 2013

Glen R. Brown. “Energy in the Abstract.” Ornament, 2010, 33(5): 36-9

Glen R. Brown. “Metals in Sister Cities: The Lawrence-Eutin Connection,” Metalsmith, 2009, 29(2): 56

Elizabeth B Lieberman. “Commissions.” Metalsmith 2002, 22(2): 52

______. American Craft, Art Reproduction 59(6). (Dec 99/Jan 200):

Patrick Rowley. Artists: A Kansas Collection. Wichita: Artists Registry, 1989

______. Kansas Department of Commerce, “The Best of Kansas Arts and Crafts”

______. “Waterway” (Art Reproduction). Metalsmith, 1989, 8(4)

Downtown Lawrence Outdoor Sculpture, May 1987-Mar 1988:3-4

G.L.M. Matthews. “Jon Havener: Carl Oskar Gallery,” Metalsmith, fall 1986, 6(4): 50

______. “Metalsmiths Making Sculpture” in Form Beyond Function: Recent Sculpture by North American Metalsmiths. Mt. Vernon, IL: Mitchell Museum, 1986: 6-7

Ann E. Erbacher. “Rick Dingus, Jon Havener, Fred Parker” Metalsmith, summer 1985, 5(3): 53

Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art for May 1983, vol. LXX (5): 217

Chuck Evans. Jewelry: Contemporary Design and Technique (Worcester: Davis, 1983): 117, 125

Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art for May 1982, vol. LXIX (5): 155

Robert L. Cardinale and Lita S. Bratt. Copper 2: The Second Copper, Brass and Bronze Exhibition (Arizona: University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1980): 92. Published in conjunction with the exhibition “Copper 2.”

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NEWSPAPER ARTICLES & PUBLISHED IMAGES

Front-page banner image & credit, “Occurrence by SNAG Member Jon Havener, Copper, Bronze, Patina.” Society of North American Goldsmiths, 7/2/2013-present

Bill Blankenship. "State's best artists on First Friday Artwalk." Topeka Capital-Journal, 9/2/2011

University of Kansas. “Alumni Calendar.” (Korean Cranes Rising), 1/1/2006

Auli Silmäri. “Jon Havener Lahjoitti Kupariveiskoksen.” Loviisan Sanomat, 8/30/2005

Ostra Nyland Swedish News. “Sail Days,” 8/30/2005

Diane Carroll. “University to dedicate Korean War Memorial today.” Kansas City Star, 4/16/2005

______. “Memorial to Korean War ready for dedication.” Hutchinson News, 4/4/2005

Terry Rombeck. “Finishing touches put on Korean War statue.” Lawrence Journal-World, 3/23/2005

Mary Clarkin. “Curved wind artwork to add twist to roundabout.” Hutchinson News, 3/21/2001

Bill Blankenship. “3-Plus Dimensional.” Topeka Capital Journal, 10/5/1999

J.L. Watson. “Leaving their mark,” Lawrence Journal-World, 8/13/1998

Mark Fagan. “City approves $30,000 for Art at Nature Center.” Lawrence Journal-World, 3/18/1998

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES & PUBLISHED IMAGES, continued

Mark Fagan. “City to add new project to art collection.” Lawrence Journal-World, 3/15/1998

Jan Biles. “Nature Center’s artist rooted in the prairie.” Lawrence Journal-World, 2/16/1998

Andrew E. Nachison. “Artists vie for spot in outdoor gallery. Lawrence Journal-World, 5/5/1996

Jacqueline Hall. “Metalsmiths leave artistic legacy.” The Columbus Dispatch, 12/12/93

Robert W. Duffy. “Jon Havener: Sculptures.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4/2/1992

Patricia Rice. “Timeout Eclectic Shopper…Gifts for the Garden.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 6/2/1991

_____. “Kansas Art: Sculpture by Jon Havener.” Kurdian Gallery, Wichita Art Museum, KS, Ju/Au 1989

Susan Rife. “Durability and Decay.” Wichita Eagle-Beacon, 7/23/1989

Carolyn McMaster. “Artist mixes metals, water.” Lawrence Journal-World, 6/4/1989

Dana Neal. “Rotation gracing mall entrance-Manhattan’s first public sculpture.” Manhattan Mercury, 5/23/1989

Dana Spoor. “Sculptures carve a spot downtown.” Lawrence Journal-World, 5/3/1987

______. “Sculpture Lecture-Jon Havener.” Stillwater News Press (OK), 3/20/1987

E.F. Porter. “A whiff of the Midwest in regional craft winners. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1/15/1985