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Education

2002 – 2004 TYLER SCHOOL OF ART, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA. MFA: Metals/Jewelry/ Computer-Aided-Design/Computer-Aided-Machining/Rapid Prototyping

1992 – 1996 BEAVER COLLEGE, ARCADIA UNIVERSITY, Glenside, PA. BFA: Metals/Jewelry

1995 STUDY ABROAD, GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART, Glasgow, Scotland. Metals/Jewelry (winter/spring)

Exhibitions

SOLO

2016 SOLO EXHIBITION- Latent Fibers, Centre Gallery, Tampa, FL. January 11-22.

2014 SOLO EXHIBITION- Latent Fibers, Beyond Arts Gallery, Harlingen, TX. November 25- December 20.

2013 SOLO EXHIBITION- Latent Fibers, South Texas College Visual Arts Gallery, Mc Allen, TX. March 18-April 12. (Catalogue)

2012 DISPLAY-Collars, Texas A&M University – Kingsville / ACT Department / Ben Bailey Art Gallery, Kingsville, TX, February 13-August 20.

2007 SOLO EXHIBITION- Binary, Florida Craftsman Gallery, St Petersburg, FL. August 24- September 28.

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2017 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITON- Exhibition in Motion, Collaborative piece with Erum Javed, Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, New Orleans, LA. May 27.

2016 CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF INSTALLATION-lead by sculptor Dr. Lorenzo Pace, Homecoming 2016 UTRGV Visual Arts building, Edinburg, Texas, November 22. Art Africa (coinciding with Art Basel Miami), As part of Afrotopia: African Diaspora and Politics of Representation, Miami Beach FL, December 1-4.

2016 COLLABORATIVE PIECE-Lorenzo Pace, Costume for performance, Tomorrowear, Hollywood, CA, October 19th. & Homecoming 2016 UTRGV Visual Arts building, Edinburg, Texas, November 22.

2013 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION & COLLABORATION- C. Stone, collaborative piece with Fulbright Scholar Mark Cloet, Phoebus “Rotterdam” Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands. August 15- September 15.

2011 COLLABORATIVE PIECE-with Leslie Elsasser, As part of The Blind One Smiled as He Watched The Falling Snow (Front Gallery), South Texas College Art Gallery, McAllen, TX. November 28- January 27.

2011 COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION-with Thomas Murray, Crop, Centre Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. July 11-22.

2010 COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION- San Serif, The Astrid and G. David Ellis Gallery, in conjunction with Studio @ 620, St. Petersburg, FL. May 7-22.

2009 COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE-Portraiture: in Three Movements, The Studio @620, St. Petersburg, FL, January 29,30,31.

MUSEUM

2016 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION-44th International Art Show, Juror Cande Aguilar, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville TX March 23-April 13.

2012 CONTRIBUTOR TO FULBRIGHT EXHIBITION- C. Stone 2012, collaborative piece with Fulbright Scholar Mark Cloet, International Museum of Art and Science, Mc Allen, TX. October 18, 2012- February 24, 2013.

2011 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION-Arte de la Frontera, In Association with the Texas Biennial, The Museum of Art and Science, Mc Allen, TX. April 28- September 4.

2010 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION- Extreme Exhibition in Motion, Houston Museum of Fine Art, SNAG Conference, Houston, TX. March 11.

2007 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION- 1967 Summer of Love Revisited, International Museum of Art and Science, Mc Allen, TX, October 26 – November 11.

SELECTED GROUP

2017 INVITATIONAL EXPOSITION- Magics @sourcing (spring), Fashion Works displayed as examples of 3D printed fashion, Las Vegas, NV. February 20-27.

2017 JURIED FASHION EXHIBITION- Tech in Fashion, Brooklyn Fashion Week, Brooklyn, NY. March 29th.

2017 JURIED FASHION EXHIBITION- Brooklyn Fashion Week, Brooklyn, NY. April 1.

2016 INVITATIONAL FASHION EXHIBITION- Sumptuary, Tomorrowear, Hollywood, CA. October 19th.

2016 INVITATIONAL EXPOSITION – Magics @sourcing (fall), Fashion Works displayed as examples of 3D printed fashion, Las Vegas NV. August 14-18.

2016 INTERNATIONAL JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION- RAPID 2016 Contemporary Art Gallery, Rapid Convention, Orlando, FL, May 17-19.

2015 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION-In the Realm of Innocents, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, Whitewater, WI. October 19-November 14.

2015 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION-Nueve 9, Galleria 409, Brownsville, TX. October 7-October 30th.

2014 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION- Extraordinary Life, Women’s Group Show, Beyond Arts Gallery, Harlingen, TX. April 3-May 31.

2013 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION- Seven Point Two, Galleria 409, Brownsville, TX. October 3-31.

2012 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION-Open Season for Art, Serena Pandos Gallery, Mc Allen, TX, August 25-September 13.

2012 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION-Au Naturale, Skaggs House, Weslaco, TX. May 3-15.

2012 GROUP EXHIBITION-Considered Spaces, Clark Gallery (Festiba), Edinburg, TX, March.

2012 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION-Au Naturale, STC Art Gallery, Mc Allen, TX. February 2- March 9.

2012 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION- Womens Work 2, Galleria 409, Brownsville, TX. January 12- March 10.

2011 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION- Eclectic Chaos IIa, Valley Settlement House, West Orange, NJ. November 11-13.

2010 GROUP EXHIBITION- The Healing Spirit, Michael Murphy Gallery, Tampa, FL. October 7.

2010 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION- The Plastics Show, Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA. October 1-31.

2010 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION- Wearable Art 6 (Fashion Show), Dunedin Arts Center, Dunedin, FL. August 14.

2010 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION- Textural Patois, Using Texture as a Visual Language, Allen Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI. February 18- March 7.

2010-11 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION-2008 Visual Arts Fellowship, Traveling Exhibition, FL. Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison State College October 22 – December 4.  The exhibition was a part of the Division’s Capital Complex Exhibition program in Tallahassee at the Gallery for Innovation & the Arts in the R.A. Gray Building from June – October.

2009 INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION- First Annual Women’s Exhibition, Gallery 218, Harlingen, TX. December 22.

2009 JURIED DUAL EXHIBITION-Worlds Apart: Contemporary Adornment and Sacred Ornament, South Texas College Art Gallery, Mc Allen, TX, July 16-August 14.

2009 GROUP EXHIBITION- Master of Fine Arts Alumni Exhibition, Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, May 20-30.

2009 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION- Neoteric Matter 2: New Studio Jewelry, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, May 1- June 27.

2008 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION- Neoteric Matter: New Studio Jewelry, Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ, August 2- September 15.

2008 GROUP EXHIBITION-Buzz Willi-B, 2A 2 Buzz Artist Space, Brooklyn, NY, May 9-June 9.

2008 JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION- Necklust and the Chocolater, Florida Craftsman Gallery, St. Petersburg, Fl, March 7- May 10.

Selected Honors/Awards/Grants

2017 PI of Internal Seed Research Program Grant (UTRGV, ISRP) “University of Texas Rio Grande Valley FabLab Fostering Research,” $20,000 in conjunction with Co-PI Computer Science Faculty.

2016 Honorable Mention in Sculpture, 44th International Art Show, Juror Cande Aguilar, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville TX March 23-April 13.

2015 Awarded Faculty Development Grant: Anderson Ranch: Code and Digital Fabrication, Snowmass CO, August 2-8. (2,500)

2013 Awarded Faculty Development Grant: Penland School of Crafts: Movement, Mechanisms, and Microcontrollers, Penland School of Craft, Penland NC, July 20 – August 7. (2,000)

2012 HEAF Grant Monies Awarded for the Purchase of a cross over art/computer science computer lab and a 3D wax printer. (100,000)

2011 Awarded Faculty Development Grant: Sculptural Hat Making: Five Day Advanced Workshop in Felt and Straw Blocking Wayne Wichtern Millinery, Redwood CA, July 20- 26. (2,500)

2009 Co-Awarded HEAF Grant Monies for Digital Studio Upgrade. (30,000)

2009 HEAF Grant Monies Awarded for the Purchase of a Rapid Prototype Machine for Jewelry Studio. (42,000)

2008 Florida Artist Grant, January 1-December 31. (2,500)

Commissions

C. Carranza, Custom Infinity Engagement and Wedding Band Suite, Blue Topaz set in 14KW, 2016.

University of Texas Pan American Official Ring Committee, Touchstone for the Official Ring Ceremony, Gold Leafed and Antiqued, 3D Modeled ABS Plastic, 2012.

Curated Professional

2008 Slices, International Museum of Art and Science, Mc Allen, TX, May 15 – June 29.

2008 Slices, The Clark Gallery, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX, April 18 – May 9.

2007 Preshow, Homebound an Artist Collective, Shuffleboard Club, St. Petersburg, FL, March 23.

2006 Co-Curated- “Interstices”, *Only Craft Artist*, Para Gallery, Tampa, FL.

Selected Bibliography

PRINT MEDIA

Moyer Nancy, “Surface Treatment: Violence Unaware” The Monitor 8 April 2013.

Ed. Matthews, Thomas L., International Museum of Art and Science, Arte De La Frontera in Association with the Texas Biennial, Catalogue, 2011.

Kolomyski, Rob. “Arte De la Frontera at the International Museum of Art and Science” collaboration with Thomas Murray Crop, Voices of Art Magazine Political Art Month, Volume 18.1 July 2011.

Moyer, Nancy. “Border Beauty” Valley Life (The Monitor) 30 May 2011.

Dunedin Fine Art Wearable Art Fashion Show, Boss Magazine (Fashion and Art Community Source), Paparazzi, Tampa, FL. Volume 2, Number 3, 2010.

PARO Wines, “2009 Pinot Noir Wine Bottle” designed by Ted Weiswasser, Image of Ball Bracelet, Santa Rosa, CA. August 2010.

Bennet, Lennie. “A Fashion Fantasy” St. Petersburg Times, 12 August 2010: 28w.

Sungren, Evangelina, “SNAG’s Exhibition in Motion a Runway Sensation” SNAG News, April 2010.

Ed. Le Van, Martha. “500 Plastic Jewelry Designs” New York, NY: Lark Books, Sterling Publishing, 2009.

Moyer, Nancy. “STC Jewelry Exhibit Connects Disparate Worlds” The Monitor 7 July 2009 13:28:33.

Holeywell, Ryan, “Not just Jewelry,” Around Town (The Monitor) 18 July 2009: 4D.

Freeman, David. “Slices.” Voices of Art Magazine, V.15. 2-2008: 26-27.

Snyder, Jeffery B. Art Jewelry Today 2. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2008.

Press Staff. “LBI Foundation hosts exhibit of jewelry in modern media.” The Press of Atlantic City, 5 September 2008.

Moyer, Nancy. “Slice of Art.” Festiva (The Monitor.) 25 April 2008: 22F-23F.

Bennett, Lennie. “Collar Your World.” St. Petersburg Times, 17 March 2008: 1E, 4E.

Voeller, Megan. “10 HIGH ART, The Year’s Top Ten Visual Art Events.” Creative Loafing 26 December 2008: 21.

Unknown. “Compound Art.” Bay Life (Tampa Tribune.) 30 August 2007: 1.

Voeller, Megan. “Unnatural Beauty: High-tech Jewelry at Florida Craftsmen.” Creative Loafing 22 August 2007.

Unknown. “Rocket Science at the Jeweler’s Bench.” Jewelry Arts and Lapidary Journal June 2006.

RADIO/TELEVISION

Doria, Michael, Works Featured, “Magics Fall Convention speaking with Blue Dragon 3D printing” Morning Fox 5 News, Las Vegas, NV, August 15, 2016.
Bravo, Joseph, TV Interview, “Defining Art” Season I, episode 10, KMBHTV, aired multiple times in March-April, 2013.

Selected Experience

2015-2018 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART/DESIGN, University of Texas-

Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX. Study Abroad Faculty

2014-2015 ASSISTANT-ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART/DESIGN, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX. Tenure ’14, Study Abroad Faculty, Director MFA ’10-12

2007 – 2008 VISITING LECTURER OF ART, University of Texas Pan American,

Edinburg, TX.

2007 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, The Art Institute of Tampa, Tampa, FL.

2007 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, University of South Florida, ST. Petersburg, FL.

2006 VISITING LECTURER, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Selected Lectures

2017 UTRGV Festiba (Comics Day) Session 2: State of the Art: Animation, Video Game Design, and Interdisciplinary Opportunities at UTRGV, Edinburg TX. Feb. 28th.

2013 Lecture “Chinese Minority Costume and Metalsmithing of the Miao People”, International Museum of Art and Science, in conjunction “within the Emperor’s Garden: The 10,000 springs pavilion. The exhibition was organized by the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute and the Smithsonian International Gallery Mc Allen TX. May 12.

2013 Artist Performance and lecture for Prof Thomas Matthews Design 2 class, Salt Carpet, Latent Fibers, South Texas College, Visual Arts Gallery, Mc Allen TX March 21.

2013 Artist Lecture, Latent Fibers, Rainbow Room, South Texas College, Mc Allen TX. March 21.

2011 Lecture “Chinese Minority Costume and Metalsmithing of the Miao People”, University of Texas Pan American; International Days, “Confronting Global Challenges. November 14.

2010 Artist Presentation and Metals Panel Discussion at the Jewelry and Metals Department, Fine Arts College of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, September 13.

2010 Artist Presentation and Metals Panel Discussion for the Metals area at the China Academy of Art, Public Art and Architecture Campus, Hangzhou, China, September 20.

2009 Artist Lecture, Worlds Apart, STC Gallery, McAllen, TX, July 16.

2008 Curatorial Lecture and Technology Demonstration, Slices, International Museum of Art and Science, Mc Allen, TX, June 12.

2008 Curatorial Lecture and Technology Demonstration, Slices University of Texas Pan American Clark Gallery, Edinburg, TX, April 18.

2007 Artist talk and lecture, Florida Craftsman Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida, August 24.

2006 Demonstrations and Lectures on Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing representing University of Washington at the national ABANA conference for blacksmiths, Seattle, WA, July 5-8.