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CURRICULUM VITAE

Exhibitions/Craft Shows:

2016

DC Current: Top Talent from the Smithsonian Craft Show Messler Gallery, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport ME 


Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now, Boscobel House, Garrison NY


Made For You: New Directions in Contemporary Design Samuel Dorsky Museum SUNY New Paltz, NY


Furniture with Soul II Gallery NAGA Boston,MA

2012

Poplar Culture: The Celebration of Esherick’s Tree, Historic Yellow Springs, Chester Spring, PA

2009

Craft Forms 2009 Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA

2008

ARAC@AAM: Anderson Ranch at the Aspen Art Museum Aspen, CO


New Work by Faculty Messler Gallery Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Rockport, ME

2006

Inspired By China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA  Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY & Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale, FL


Home Is Where The Art Is Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY 

2004

The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience  Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC


Wood 4  Mass Gallery, School of Art & Design, SUNY Purchase


Studio Furniture:  Expression & Function  Emory & Henry College, Emory VA 

2002

Objects for Use: Handmade by Design American Crafts Museum, New York, NY


Made In New York: The Art of Wood Cooperstown Art Assoc.  Cooperstown, NY


New York State Crafts Biennial The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY

 

Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY Oswego

1999

Art/Furniture  gallerymateria, Scottsdale, AZ


SOFA NYC  (gallerymateria,  Scottsdale, AZ)  New York, NY


Contemporary New York State Crafts  New York State Museum, Albany NY

1997

Penland Instructors Show  Penland Gallery, Penland, NC


African-American Craft National  Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery,  Louisville, KY

1993

Tops and Bottoms   Sauder Museum, Archbold, OH, Ohio Crafts Museum, Columbus, OH, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH

Honors, Awards

2015

Guest Artist Australian National University School of Art, Canberra Aust. Renwick Alliance Artist of Distinction

2013

African American Art on the Cultural Trail: A New Public Art Competition, finalist, Arts Council of Indianapolis

2010

 Artist Presentation, California College of Art & Craft 2010

2009

Smithsonian Craft Show Silver Award

2005

Special Arts Award, African-American Fine Arts Society

Trustee Furniture Society

New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (crafts)

Niche Award, finalist

1994

Empire State Craft Alliance (grant)

1993

Merit Award, African-American Craft National

Publications:

  • Mind and Hand: Contempory Studio Furniture The Furniture Society, Shiffer 2012
  •  Poplar Culture: The Celebration of Esherick’s Tree,  Paul Eisenhauer Ed. Shiffer 2012
  • Furniture With Soul: Master Woodworkers and Their Craft David Savage, Kodansha International (English & Japanese editions) 2011
  • Makers: A History of American Studio Crafts J.Koplos & B Metcalf, University of North Carolina Press 2010
  • Chairs Lark Studio Series Lark Books 2010
  • 500 Cabinets: A Showcase of Design & Craftsmanship Lark Books 2010
  • Studio Furniture: Todays Leading Woodworkers  Tina Skinner Shiffler Books 2009
  • 500 Tables: Inspiring Interpretations of Function and Style Lark Books 2008
  • Carving It Up: a new breed of furniture makers whittle away at the competition The Robb Report Collection Sept. 2008
  • 500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional & Innovative Designs Lark Books 2008
  • Inspired by China – An interview with Michael Puryear by John Lavine “WOODWORK” April 2007
  • Inspired By China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions  Nancy Berliner & Edward Cooke, Peabody Essex Museum, 2006
  • The Penland Book of Woodworking  Thomas Stender ed.  Lark Books 2006
  • Furniture Studio; Furniture Makers Exploring Digital Technology  Furniture Society 2005
  • The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience  Jean McLaughlin ed. Lark Books 2004
  • Studio Furniture: Expression & Function Barbara-lyn Morris ed. Emory & Henry College 2004
  • Body Language: Translating the Furniture of Michael Puryear  by D. Wood “WOODWORK” Oct 2003
  • Objects For Use: Handmade by Design   Paul Smith ed. “AMERICAN CRAFTS” Gallery Dec ‘01/Jan ’02
  • Furniture Studio, The Heart of the Functional Arts  The Furniture Society 1999
  • Fine Woodworking Design Book Seven Taunton Press 1996
  • Live Curves: Three Works By Michael Puryear by Glenn Gordon "WOODWORK" August 1996

Teaching:

State University of New York at Purchase - 2001-2015

Haystack School of Crafts Deer Isle, ME - 2005

Peters Valley Craft Center   Layton, NJ - 2005

Craft Students League, New York, NY - 2004

Anderson Ranch Arts Center,  Snowmass, CO - 2003

Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts - 2003

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship  Rockport, ME - 1997,’99-2002, ‘07 ‘08

Parsons School of Design ( Furniture Design) - 1997-2000

Penland School of Crafts  Penland, NC (summer) - 1995,’96, ’97, 2002, 06 17

Collections

African-American Museum of History & Culture of the Smithsonian Institution

Newark Museum

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Agnes Gund

Nancy Drysdale

Rockefeller University 

African-American Design Archive Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, 

M&Co. (Tibor Kalman)

Jeffery Toobin/Amy Mc Intosh

Allen Ginsberg

Rickie Solinger

Theater/ TV:

“American Masters”  HG/TV (program 108) 1999

"Griot New York" Set construction on a collaboration between choreographer Garth 

Fagan, musician Wynton Marsalis, and artist Martin Puryear for the Brooklyn 

Academy of Music (1991) and seen on PBS's  Dance In America (1994)

Education/Training:

Self taught as a furniture maker

B.A.   Anthropology and Zoology, Howard University l973

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