Creative Metalsmiths - Susan Chin Resume

Self-employed jeweler maintaining a business for the design and production of series and one of a kind jewelry.
Assistant to Paige Davis Metalworks, Bakersville, North Carolina.
Assistant to the Director, Vern Stanford, of Penland School.

Juried Shows

1985
1986

Craft Concepts '85, Margate, New Jersey.
Contemporary Metals U.S.A., Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California

Professional Membersip

1984 - present
1984 - present
1987 - 1990

American Craft Council
Society of North American Goldsmiths
San Francisco Metal Arts Guild

Craft Shows & Awards

Since 1985

1992
1995
1985
1989
1995

1996
1998

Shows include American Craft Enterprise shows, Baltimore and San Francisco, Philadelphia
Museum Craft Show
Smithsonian Craft Show
"Best of Show in Crafts," "Springfest," Charlotte, North Carolina
"Best of Show," "Festival at the Lake," Oakland, California
"Second Place-Jewelry," "Sausalito Art Festival," Sausalito, California
Juror for Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, California.
"Asian Roots, Western Soil: Visual Poetry in Metal," first presented by Dawn Nakanishi at the Society of
North American Goldsmiths conference, Seattle. One of 20 featured artists in the lecture and subsequent
exhibition

Exhibitions/Invitationals

1986
1987
1987
1987
1988

1988

1988

1989

1989 - 1990

1990

1990
1991
1991
1991

1991
1992
1993

1993
1994

1994
1994

1994

1995

1995
1995
1996

1996
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1998

1998

1999

2001

2001

2001

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2002

2003

2003
2003

"10 by 10," Swan Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Art Jewelry 87," Langman Gallery, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
"The Art of Bead Designing," Gallery Eight, La Jolla, California.
Greenville County Museum, Greenville, South Carolina.
"Just for Fun - Wit and Whimsey in Craft Media," The Craftsman's Gallery, Scarsdale, New York.
"Presenting 15 Jewelers," Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
"9 x 10, New X Familiar - Jewelers," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley , California.
Views, Gallery of Fine Crafts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, group show.
"Holiday Time 1989," Gallery Eight, La Jolla, California. (1989)
"Just for Fun - Wit and Whimsey in Craft Media," The Craftsman's Gallery, Scarsdale, New York. (1990)
Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California, part of "Chair as Art 2" show.
"Art Jewelry 90," Langman Gallery, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
"Unique Adornments," Gallery Eight, La Jolla, California.
Featured Artist, Banaker Gallery, Walnut Creek, California.
"Bracelet Show," Gallery Wear, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"Small Treasures," Joanne Rapp Gallery, The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Creative Metalsmiths, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, featured artist.
"California Metal: An Invitational Survey of Contemporary Metalsmithing," Saint Mary's College of California,
Moraga, California.
Featured Artist, De Novo, Palo Alto, California.
"In Celebration of Wedding" (rings, group show), Joanne Rapp Gallery/The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale,
Arizona.
Featured Artist, Banaker Gallery, San Francisco, California.
"Exhibition of New Work: Yoshiro Okeda, Grant Miller, Susan Chin," Running Ridge Gallery,
Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Treasures," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Artspace, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
"Triptych: Explorations of the Brooch," Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri.
Featured Artist, Banaker Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Featured Artist, Creative Metalsmiths, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
"The Oxidation/Burial Project," via Thomas Mann, The Artful Eye and the Robert Pepi Vineyard, Calistoga,
California.
"Winter Light," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, California.
"Rocks, Stones, Pearls," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, California.
Featured Artist/March, "Celebrating 25 Years of American Craft," American House Gallery, Piermont-on-
Hudson, New York.
"The Genuinely Jubilant Jeweltide Jumble of Gleaming and Glistening Geologic Gems and Gilded Gorgeous
Jewelry," Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, California.
"Annual Valentine's Show," (group show of 6 invited jewelers), De Novo, Palo Alto, California.
"Alida to Zack: 28 Years of Penland's Core Program," Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina.
"Asian Roots, Western Soil: Visual Poetry in Metal," Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California
"Valentine's Day Group Show," James Snidle Fine Arts & Appraisals, Chico, California.
Featured Artist, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California.
"Annual Valentine's Show," (group show), De Novo, Palo Alto, California.
"Annual Valentine's Show," (group show), De Novo, Palo Alto, California.
Featured Artist, Diamond-Tanita Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
"Asian Roots, Western Soil: Visual Poetry in Metal," National Japanese American Historical Society,
San Francisco, California.

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