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Lanelle Keyes

Jewelry professor

Education

  • M.F.A., metals, University of Washington
  • B.F.A., art/crafts, University of Georgia

Credentials

Teaching

  • Professor, jewelry, September 2013–present
    Professor, jewelry and objects, September 2011–August 2013
    Professor, metals and jewelry, July 2005–August 2011
    Chair, metals and jewelry, September 2000–June 2005
    Professor, metals and jewelry, January 2000–August 2000, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Jewelry/Metals Area Shop Monitor and Technician, September 1999–December 1999, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
  • Visiting Professor, jewelry, June 1999–August 1999
    Industrial Design Model Shop Technician, September 1998–June 1999
    Instructor, metals and jewelry, March 1998–June 1998
    Teaching Assistant, metals and jewelry, January 1998–March 1998, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Instructor for Introductory Book Arts, October 1995–April 1997, University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education, Athens, GA

Professional

  • Library Document Scanning Supervisor, October 1995–June 1997, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • SCAD Sabbatical Award, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2016
  • Jurors Prize, Materials Hard and Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas, 2003
  • First Place Award, Second Spiva Contemporary Crafts Biennial, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Mo., 1999
  • Special Projects Award, University of Washington, 1998
  • Gonzales Scholarship, University of Washington, 1998
  • Jane and David Davis Endowed Fellowship in Art, University of Washington, 1997
  • Recruitment Teaching Assistantship in Metals, University of Washington, 1997
  • University Librarian's Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Libraries, 1997
  • Community Choice Award, Shovel Show—Lyndon House Art Center, 1997
  • Honorable Mention, Kaleidoscope Arts Fair, LaGrange College, 1996
  • Betty Cabin Scholarship, University of Georgia, 1990

Organizations

  • American Craft Council, 1991–present
  • Art Jewelry Forum, 2000–present
  • Society of North American Goldsmiths, 1991–present

Publications and presentations

Presentations

  • "Jewelry: Wearable Art," SCAD Summer Seminars, Savannah, Ga., 2018.
  • "Workshop: Modernist Metal: Art to Wear," SCAD Educator Forum, Savannah, Ga., 2017.
  • "Jewelry: Wearable Art," SCAD Summer Seminars, Savannah, Ga., 2016.
  • Moderator, "Making Meaning in the Marketplace: Post Digital Craft," Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2015.
  • "Jewelry: Wearable Art," SCAD Summer Seminars, Savannah, Ga., 2015.
  • "Jewelry and Objects: Wearable Art," SCAD Summer Seminars, Savannah, Ga., 2014.
  • "Workshop: Precious, Altered, Personal, Engaging, Radical: Paper Jewelry RE-defined Workshop: Transforming the Ordinary: Found Object Jewelry," SCAD Art Educators' Forum Savannah, Ga., 2012.

Exhibitions

  • Round Three, Hall Street Gallery (group show), Savannah, Ga. , 2011
  • Nuit Blanche, Metal Arts Guild of Canada, Toronto, 2009
  • Materialistic, Whitney Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2008
  • Five Star, Hall Street Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2007
  • The Trunk Show, Jen Library, Savannah, Ga., 2005
  • Hammer and Hand: Contemporary Metal, Contemporary American Metal Center Art Gallery at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich., 2004
  • Making Our Mark: Work from the Savannah College of Art and Design–SOFA, Chicago, 2003
  • Materials Hard and Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas, 2003
  • Generating Connections: Emerging Jewelry Artists and Mentors, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, 2002
  • Detailed Simplicity, Bergen Hall Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2002
  • FLOOD, Aqua Space (group show), Savannah, Ga., 2001
  • Broome Street Gallery 2001 Exhibition, New York, 2001
  • Second Spiva Contemporary Crafts Biennial, Spiva Center for the Arts Joplin, Mo., 1999
  • 3-D, Lead Gallery, Seattle, 1998
  • Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 1999
  • Playful Intent, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, 1999
  • 21st Annual Vahki, Galeria Mesa, Mesa, Ariz., 1999
  • Talismans for the Coming Millennium, Emerson Gallery, St. Louis, 1999
  • Transformations, Western Washington Viking Union, Bellingham, Wash., 1998
  • Putting on the Dog, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Wash., 1998
  • Seattle Metals Guild Biannual Show 1998, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, 1998
  • Works in Progress, University of Washington, Seattle, 1998
  • Shovel Show, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, Ga., 1997
  • Small Works, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, 1997
  • Hilton Head Island's Five-Star Art Show, Self Family Arts Center, Hilton Head Island, S.C., 1997
  • Crafts National 30, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, Pa., 1996
  • 10th Anniversary Women in the Visual Arts, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1996
  • Spotlight '95, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla., 1995
  • 21st Annual Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, Ga., 1994
  • 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Art Center, Athens, Ga., 1991
  • Our Ladies of Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisc., 1991