2006 MFA, Metal Design , East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Sharon Massey 839 Heberton Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, 252.714.7574, [email protected]

Education

2006 MFA, Metal Design, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 1999 BFA Magna Cum Laude, Sculpture with concentration in Jewelry/Metals, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC Work Experience

2009-present Society for Contemporary Craft, Store Manager, Pittsburgh, PA

2008-2009 Purdue University, Visiting Instructor, West Lafayette, IN

2006-2008 Interlochen Arts Academy, Instructor, Interlochen, MI

Selected Exhibitions

2009 Lucca Preziosa Young Le Arti Orafe, Lucca, Italy and Barcelona, Spain; SOFA NY represented by Charon Kransen Arts; Decorative Resurgence Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; Feeling Groovy, Textures in RAM’s Collections Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; American Enamels The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA; The New Steel v2 The Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; SOFA West Santa Fe, NM, represented by Charon Kransen Arts; Jewelry In Motion: Revolution Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Enamel Experience, International Badge Exhibition Kent State, Kent, OH, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Stimulus Sienna gallery, Lenox, MA

2008 Japan Jewelry Design Association Biennale Exhibition The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo; The Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami City; Sendia Mediatheque Gallery, Sendai City; International Design Center, Nagoya City; Mitsubishi Artium, Fukuoka City; Refined: Abundance; Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX; Palm Beach 3 West Palm Beach, FL; represented by Charon Kransen Arts; Sharon Massey and Renee Robbins Macomb College Art Gallery, Clinton Township, MI; Fine Arts Center Alumni Exhibition; Sheffield Wood Gallery, Greenville, SC; Materials: Hard & Soft; Center for the Visual Arts Meadow Gallery, Denton, TX

2007 SOFA Chicago represented by Charon Kransen Arts; International Art + Design Fair New York, NY, represented by Charon Kransen Arts; Metalsmiths Linking: A Cross Cultural Exchange Hiko Mizuno Jewelry College, Tokyo, Japan; Material Alchemy gallery M.I.M., Baltimore, MD; The New Steel Delta Axis (Powerhouse), Memphis, TN; Contemporary Enameling Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh, NC; The Earring Show; Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA; Handcrafted 9th Annual Juried Art Exhibition The Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC; Fusion: 11th Biennial International Juried Exhibition; Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH

2006 RAM’s Tales: Women Jewelers from the Permanent Collection Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI;

1 The Necklace Show Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA; On Fire! Contemporary Enameling gallery M.I.M., Baltimore, MD; Parameters of Preciousness William E. Gahlberg Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL; Vitreousity: Visions in Enameling Gallery 21, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA; The Art of Enameling Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA; Golden Opportunity Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL; Adornment, Ornament, Sentiment MFA Thesis Exhibition Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; The Arsenal Metals and Enamels Exhibition 2006 The Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH; Crafts National 2006 Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; 8th International Juried Enamel Exhibition Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA; American Craft Council Spotlight 2006 Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY; The Art of Enameling NC State Gallery of Art and Design, Raleigh, NC; Handcrafted: A Juried Exhibition of Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Metal, Wood The Arts Center at the Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount, NC

2005 CRAFT USA ’05 National Craft Triennial Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT; Made in America Bevier Gallery, Rochester, NY; .925 + Ingenuity = Art Jewelry The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA; On the Verge: SNAG Student Exhibition and Learning Curves Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland, OH; Multiple Palettes/Varied Vision: 30 Artists Explore Color White Lotus Gallery, Eugene, OR; Metamorphosis Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Gatlinburg, TN; An Affiliation of Past and Present City Art Gallery, Greenville, NC; Metal Design Graduate Student Exhibition Pullen Arts Center, Raleigh, NC; 200 Rings Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA; Obsidian Gallery, Tuscan, AZ; Gallery M, Cleveland, OH; Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME; Facere Gallery, Seattle, WA 2004 Fine Contemporary Crafts Artspace, Raleigh, NC; The Rebel Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC; Hammer & Hand: Contemporary American Metal Center Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; The Down East Sculpture Exhibition Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC; Playing with Fire: Glass on Metal San Diego, CA; Rings Cannon Gallery of the Gallery of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC; The Quickening Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Greenville, NC; American Craft Council Spotlight 2004 Southeast Region, West Virginia; Hand Crafted: A Juried Exhibition of Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Metal, Wood Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC; Materials: Hard & Soft Center for the Visual Arts Meadow Gallery, Denton, TX

2003 Craft Forms 2003 National Juried Exhibition of Fine Contemporary Crafts Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery, Wayne, PA; Java Underground, Juried Vessel Show Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC; American Craft Council Spotlight 2003 Southeast Region; Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC

Permanent Collections

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, North Carolina

Publications

2009 500 Enameled Objects, Lark Books

2 2008 Art Jewelry Today, 2nd edition, Schiffer Publishing 2008 500 Pendants and Lockets, Lark Books 2007 500 Earrings, Lark Books, photograph, pg. 19 2007 Ornament Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 4, photograph, pg. 34 2006 500 Necklaces, Lark Books, photograph, pg. 316 2004 1000 Rings, Lark Books, photograph, pg. 370 2004 The Art of Enameling, by Linda Darty, Lark Books illustrations, pgs. 39, 109, 116; photograph, pg. 135; project, pgs. 140-142