MFA, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1986
BFA, Philadelphia College of Art, 1984
Professor
Department: Art Department
Office: FAB 332
Phone: (845) 257-3836
E-mail: mimlitsm@newpaltz.edu
Web Site: www.mimlitschgray.com
Teaching Interests
Mimlitsch-Gray actively lectures and teaches in the US and abroad. An expert silversmith, she offers metalsmithing workshops at universities and summer programs such as the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Penland. She has given lectures, seminars and critiques at schools internationally, including Konstfack University in Stockholm, the National Academy of Norway (KHiO) in Oslo, the Royal College of Art in London, and Alchimia School in Florence, Italy.
Research/Creative Activity
Mimlitsch-Gray's research explores metalsmithing as subject and object, engaging the field's history, methods and outcomes. She creates tableware that is both present and representational, embodying the specifics of the discipline while portraying its variant roles and circumstances. Recent sculpture investigates facture, explores gesture and embodies utilitarian notions. Her technical experimentation with high-fired porcelain enamel on formed steel provokes new conversations with traditional enamelware.
Solo exhibitions include In/Animate: Recent Work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (2016), and Staging Form, as part of the Master Metalsmith series at the Metal Museum in Memphis Tennessee (2014). Her work is currently on view in the exhibition, Gone Astray: Jewelry and Utensils on the Fringe of Reason, at the Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Germany. The exhibition travels to CODA Museum in Appeldoorn, Netherlands in May, 2024.
Awards, Honors & Recognition
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray is the recipient of the 2016 American Craft Council Award and has been inducted into its College of Fellows. Awards include the United States Artists Fellowship in Craft and Traditional Arts (2012), and Individual Artist Fellowships from the Tiffany Foundation (1995), the National Endowment for the Arts (1994), and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2021, 2014, 2005, 1997.) She is the subject of an interview that is part of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. She is the recipient of two Chancellor's Awards - for Excellence in Scholarship, and for Excellence in Teaching at the State University of New York.
Publications
Mimlitsch-Gray's work is included in publications such as: Arts/Industry: Collaboration and Revelation (John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2014); Makers: A History of American Studio Craft (UNC Press, Chapel Hill, 2010); Craft in America- Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects (Random House, NY, 2007); 100 Treasures (Cranbrook Art Museum, 2004); Skilled Work- American Craft in the Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998); Women Designers, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference (Yale University Press, 2000); and One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today (Abrams, 1995).
Her work is in the following Public Collections: the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the National Museums of Scotland, the Racine Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Royal College of Art, the Renwick Gallery-National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.
