Arline Fisch

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Arline Fisch is an American artist and educator who works with metal as her medium.

1 Life
2 Education
3 Teaching
4 Professional
5 Selected Exhibitions
6 Sources

[edit] Life

Arline Fisch(1931-) was born in New York, New York. She learned to sew and weave from her mother and picked up a passion for the color red from her father while growing up in New York. She studied at Skidmore College, receiving her B.S. in Art in 1952. She received her M.A. in Art in 1954 from the University of Illinois. After teaching for two years at Wheaton College, she traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark on a Fulbright Grant to study silversmithing. She has received three additional Fulbright grants, one to conduct further research in Denmark and two to lecture in Austria and Uruguay. She has taught at Wheaton College, Skidmore College and San Diego State University, where she retired in 2000. She has exhibited extensively all over the world in group shows and solo exhibitions.

Arline Fisch is best known for the way she handles metal in her pieces. Her book, Textile Techniques in Metal for Jewelers, Textile Artists and Sculptors, is a demonstration of the techniques she developed while trying to combine the textures of weaving with a metal material. She works with thin wire to create forms that have been manipulated in similar ways to knitted or braided fabric. She has cited jewelry of ancient cultures as being a continued reference and inspiration for her work.

[edit] Education

1952 B.S. in Art, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

1954 M.A. in Art, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

1956 – 57 Kunsthaandvaerkerskolen (School of Arts and Crafts), Copenhagen, Denmark

[edit] Teaching

1961 – 2000 San Diego State University, Professor of Art

1957 – 1961 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, Instructor in Art

1954 – 1956 Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, Instructor of Art

Honors and Awards

2002 Doctor of Humane Letters, Skidmore College

2001 Gold Medal, American Craft Council

2000 Honorary Membership, Society of North American Goldsmiths

Distinguished Craft Educator Award, James Renwick Alliance

1996 Outstanding Professor, San Diego State University

1994 Award, “Lifetime Achievement in the Crafts", Nat. Mus. of Women in the Arts, Wash. D.C.

1990 Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, SDSU

1989 Fulbright Grant, Lecturer, Montevideo, Uruguay

CSU Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

1986 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

1985 Declared a "Living Treasure of California" by Resolution of California State Assembly

1982 Fulbright Grant, Lecturer, Vienna, Austria

1981 NEA Services to the Field Project Grant

1979 NEA Craftsman's Workshop Grant (Project Director)

1977 NEA Craftsman's Apprentice Grant

1975 National Endowment for the Arts Craftsman's Fellowship

1966 Fulbright Research Grant to Denmark (plus three-month extension)

1956 Fulbright Grant for study in Denmark

[edit] Professional

Trustee, American Craft Council, (1994-00)

Board of Trustees, Haystack Mt, School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine (73-82,91-2000)

President, Society of North American Goldsmiths (1982-85)

Fellow of the American Crafts Council, Class of 1979

Vice President for North America, World Crafts Council (1976-81)

Craftsman-Trustee, American Crafts Council (1972-75)

Founding Member, Society of North American Goldsmiths(1969)

[edit] Selected Exhibitions

1955 "American Jewelry and Related Objects", Huntington, West Virginia plus touring section

1957 U.S. Education Foundation in Denmark, SOLO EXHIBITION

1958 "Young Americans", Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC

1962 Pasadena Museum of Art - SOLO EXHIBITION

1963 "California Crafts III", Oakland AWARD "Jewelry International", Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York

1964 USIA Traveling Exhibition to Latin America

1965 "California Design Nine", Pasadena Art Museum, California "Art of Personal Adornment", Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York

1967 Kunstindustrimuseet Copenhagen, Denmark - SOLO EXHIBITION

1968 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York City - SOLO EXHIBITION Museum West, San Francisco - SOLO EXHIBITION

1969 "The Egg and the Eye" - Los Angeles, California - SOLO EXHIBITION

1970 "Goldsmith 70", Minnesota Museum of Artand Museum of Cont. Crafts, NYC

1971 Goldsmiths Hall, London - SOLO EXHIBITION Lee Nordness Galleries, New York City - SOLO EXHIBITION "Form and Quality", International Handicraft Fair, Munich-GOLD MEDAL AWARD "Schmuck-Objekte", Museum Bellerive, Zurich

1972 "5000 Years of Gold Jewellery", Goldsmiths Hall, London

1973 The Slocumb Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee - SOLO EXHIBITION "Tendenzen - 73", Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim

1974 First World Crafts Exhibition, Ontario Science Center, Toronto "Kreativer Schmuck", 32 International Jewelers, Basel, Switzerland

1975 Florence Duhl Gallery, New York City - SOLO EXHIBITION "Contemporary Crafts of the Americas", tour sponsored by Smithsonian Institution

1976 "Theme: Jewellery", Special Exhibition of Swiss Industries Fair, Basel "Six Contemporary American Jewellers", Electrum Gallery, London

1977 Southwest Missouri State University - SOLO EXHIBITION "Schmuck 77 - Tendenzen", Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim

1978 "Craft Art and Religion", Vatican Museum, Rome "Modern American Jewelry", Tokyo, Japan "Sculpture to Wear", La Jolla Museum of Art, California

1979 "International Jewellery Art Exhibition", Tokyo, Japan

1980 Electrum Gallery, London, England - SOLO EXHIBITION "International Jewellery 1900 - 1980", Vienna, Austria

1981 FISCH AND HU, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon - DUO EXHIBITION "Der Goldene Faden, Texturen in Gold" Schwabisch Gmund – PRIZE

1982 Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna - SOLO EXHIBITION

1983 Electrum Gallery, London, SOLO EXHIBITION International Jewellery Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan. Catalog

1984 "Jewelry USA", American Craft Museum, NYC Contemporary Jewellery, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

1985 Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, SOLO EXHIBITION AMERICAN JEWELRY NOW, USIA touring exhibition "New Tradition: The Evolution of Jewellery 1966-85", British Craft Centre, London

1986 International Jewellery Exhibition, Tokyo, Catalog "Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical", American Craft Museum, NYC, Catalog "Perspectives: International Spirit in Jewellery", Basle, Switzerland, Catalog MacQuarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia SOLO EXHIBITION

1987 "Woven Gold", Concepts Gallery, Carmel, CA SOLO EXHIBITION "Woven Gold", Electum Gallery, London, SOLO EXHIBITION

1988 "Woven Gold", Galerie am Graben, Vienna, SOLO EXHIBITION

1989 Museum of Fine Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay. SOLO EXHIBITION "Smykker I Metal: 10 International Jewellers". Copenhagen, DK "Craft Today USA", USIA exhibition touring Europe. Catalog

1990 "Ornamenta 1" International Jewelry Exhibition, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim. Catalog. "Woven Gold Spirit Houses" Hand & Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ. SOLO EXHIBITION

1991 "Schmuckszene 91", Munich Handcraft Fair, Germany and Ireland

1992 "Design Vision" International Triennial, Art Gallery of Western Australia "American Crafts: The Nation's Collection", Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1993 "Lifetime Achievements", Nat. Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis (catalog) "Contemporary Jewellery", TRIO Exhibition, STUDIO COM Gallery, Kyoto

1994 Fanourakis Gallery, Athens, Greece. SOLO EXHIBITION "School of Fisch", Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark, Catalog

1995 "School of Fisch", DesignYard, Dublin, Ireland "In Our Hands", 3rd International Competition, Nagoya, Japan

1996 "Textile Techniques, New Work", Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA SOLO EXHIBITION "American Revelations", Shipley Gallery, Gateshead, UK, Catalog "New Times, New Thinking: Jewellery in Europe and America", Crafts Council, London

1997 "Celebrating American Craft, 1975-95" Danish Mus. of Decorative Art, Copenhagen "Portrait of Masters in the Crafts", Int'l Handwork Fair, Munich, Germany. Catalog. "Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of 20th C. Decorative Arts", Canada. Catalog "Textile Techniques in Metal", Electrum Gallery, London. SOLO EXHIBITION

1998 "American Metalanguage", Barbican Center, London SOLO EXHIBITION "Jewellery Moves", National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh

1999 "Fish by Fisch", Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA SOLO EXHIBITION

2000 "Elegant Fantasy: Jewelry by Arline Fisch", SDHistorical Society,SOLO RETROSPECTIVE "Aluminum by Design:Jewelry to Jets". Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh "Alles Schmuck",, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich "Women Designers in the USA: 1900-2000" Bard Center for Studies in the Dec Arts, NYC

2001 "Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch":, Oakland Museum, CA SOLO "Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch":, Textile Museum, Washington DC SOLO "BRAID", Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, DK

2002 "Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch":, American Craft Mus.,NY, SOLO "Small Works". Longhouse Reserve and MDS Gallery,Tokyo, Curated by Jack Lenor Larsen

2003 "The Art of Arline Fisch", Tang Museum, Skidmore Coll., Saratoga, NY SOLO RETROSPECTIVE "The Art of California Gold",Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA "The Art of Gold" , traveling exhibition organized by SNAG "Boston University's Program in Artisanry", Fuller Museum of Art. Brockton, MA "Planting, Potting and Pruning, Artists and the Cultivated Landscape", Racine Art Museum, WI "Flechten", Handwerks Pflege in Bayern, Munich, Germany "International Showcase", Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK

2004 "Die Danner Rotunde",Schmuck in der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany "California Design 2004", San Francisco "Master and Student", National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

2005 "Transformations, The Language of Craft", National Gallery of Australia "Scents of Purpose, Artists Interpret the Spice Box", Cont. Jewish Museum, San Francisco