Mary Lee Hu

Mary Lee Hu (born 1943 in Lakewood, Ohio) is an American artist, goldsmith, and college level educator known for using textile techniques to create intricate woven wire jewelry.

Career

Hu first became fascinated with metalwork during high school introductory courses. She later explored more work with metals during a summer camp.[1] She went on to attend Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, for two years and then went to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan to complete her undergraduate degree. During her undergraduate education Hu developed her skills and continued to work with small scale metalwork and jewelry. In 1966 while earning her graduate degree in Metalsmithing from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, Hu studied under renowned metalsmith L. Brent Kington. It was during this time that Hu started to work with fiber inspired techniques after taking a fiber arts course.[2] This led to the development of her signature style of wire wrapped jewelry. Since the late 1960s Hu has developed new techniques in coiling, wrapping, weaving, knitting, and twining wire. Her work consists mostly woven wire earrings, rings, bracelets, brooches, and neckpieces that emulate natural forms, movements and symmetry.[3]

After completing her MFA, Hu traveled to various places and took up different teaching positions until she joined the metal arts program in the University of Washington School of Art in 1980. She retired from the University as professor emeritus in 2006.[4]

Hu is a member and past-president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. In 1996 Hu was inducted into the American Craft Council College of Fellows.[5] Hu has received three National Endowment of the Arts Craftsman Fellowships. Her work is in major collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Renwick Gallery, the American Crafts Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Hu is the winner of the 2008 Irving and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.[6]

Education

Teaching

Awards and grants

Public collections

Exhibitions

1967
1969
1970–72
1974
1974–77
1975
1975–76
1976
1977
1978
1978–82
1979
1979–81
1980
1981
1981–85
1982
1983
1984
1984–85
1985
1985–87
1986–88
1987–90
1988
1989
1989–93
1991
1992
1993
1993–96
1994
1997
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004

References

  1. ↑ "Biography: Mary Lee Hu". Temple University. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  2. ↑ Shaykett, Jessica (April–May 2012). "Mary Lee Hu: Cutting Loose". American Craft. 72 (2). Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Catalani], [foreword by Stefano (2012). Knitted, knotted, twisted, & twined : the jewelry of Mary Lee Hu. Bellevue, WA: Bellevue Arts Museum. ISBN 978-0615561561.
  4. ↑ Huynh, Anh (April 24, 2012). "Entwined in Art". The Daily of the University of Washington. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "American Craft Council College of Fellows". American Craft Council. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  6. ↑ "Mary Lee Hu". Craft in America. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
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