j.e. paterak
EDUCATION
Cranbrook Academy of Art MFA - Bloomfield Hills, MI
Massachusetts College of Art BFA with honors - Boston, MA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Compendium, (juror: Lauren Szumita) Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum at George Marshall Store Gallery, York ME
2022 University of New England Art Gallery Portland, ME Invitational Lives of the Jewelers July- October 2022
2022 Home & Shelter Exhibition with Barbara Sullivan Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2021 Flora, Gallery 263 (juror Mark Dion) Cambridge MA May- July 2021
2020 Fiore Art Residents an exhibition of 2019 residents work, Maine Farmland Trust Gallery Belfast, ME
2020 Haystack Resident Invitational representing the 2019 residents, Deer Isle, ME
2020 Pickwick Press at Portland Public Library alumni portfolio on display, Portland, ME
2020 Twenty Zero Station, Portland, ME
2019 Intimate Universe solo exhibition - funded in part with a grant fromMaine Arts Commission, Zero Station, Portland
**Between 2007-2017 I worked in the field of architecture and ran my business, at that time I did not compete or pursue exhibition opportunities.
2006 Critical Mass: Metalsmithing Under Gary Griffin Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2006 The Inspired Hand Invitational, University of Maine Musuem in Lewiston, ME
2004-6 RINGS exhibition curated by Bob Ebendord, travelling to Velvet DaVinci in SanFrancisco, CA • Shaw Gallery, Maine • Obsidian Gallery, AZ • Façere, WA • Gallery of Art and Design, Raleigh, NC
2003 Ringed Wrists YAW Gallery at SOFA Chicago, IL & SOFA NY
2003 New Work Invitational Clark Gallery, Concord, MA
2002 PRIMARY exhibited and curated for Zero Station, South Portland, ME
2001 New Faces New Work and 101 Rings with catalog, travelled to SOFA Chicago, Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2000 Precious Objects x 3 Mary Kanda, j.e. paterak & Claire Sanford at Carroll College, WI
1999 Botanical Jewelry Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
1999 Pieces that Serve-Contemporary Silver (catalogue), YAW Gallery Birmingham MI, traveling to SOFA Chicago, IL
1999 Icons of the 20th Century Nancy Sachs Gallery, St Louis, MO
1998 New Views Susan Cummings Gallery, Mill Valley CA
1998 New Faces University of Maine Msuem Orono, ME
1996-98 DeCordova Style Annual Fashion Exhibition DeCordova Musuem, Lincoln MA
1994 Biennial (catalogue), Fort Wayne Musuem of Art, Fort Wayne IN
1994 A Feast for the Eyes: The Art of Dining (catalogue), Invitational, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1987-1990 Exhibited annually at Islesford Artisans Gallery, Islesford ME
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA Infinite Knowledge, neckpiece with custom box, acquistion 2007
Chodokorf Collection Detroit, MI Out of Context neckpiece, purchase, 1994
Bank of Boston, Boston MA
PUBLICATIONS
Jewelry: books
500 Earrings Lark Books, Juried by Alan Revere, 2007
1000 Rings Lark books, Invited by Robert Ebendorf , 2004
Discovery; Fifty Years of Craft Experience At Haystack Mountain School of Craft Edited by Carl Little, 2004
The Metalsmith’s Book of Boxes and Lockets Brynmorgen Press by Tim McCreight, 1999
Jewelry; Fundamentals of Metalsmithing Brynmorgen Press by Tim McCreight, 1997
Jewelry: magazines and journals
Ornament featured article The Creative Endeavor by Carl Little, Summer 2002
Maine Sunday Telegram Featured article The Craft Question by Bob Keyes 4.27.2003
New England Craft Connoisseur A Trio of Jewelers Call the Shots, Winter 2003
Portfolio of Boston All that Glitters, Winter 2003
Metalsmith - Exhibition in Print Special Edition, 1996
American Craft Featured artist Gallery Section, Winter/Spring 2002
Ornament Crafts at the Castle Preview, 1999
American Craft Portfolio Artist, June/July 1998
HONORS & AWARDS
2021 Artist in Residence Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury NH
2020 Artist in Residence Monson Arts, Monson, ME
2020 Craft Apprentice Program Grant funded by Maine Craft and Maine Arts Commission
2019 Residency Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2019 Artist in Residence Fiore Art Center, Rolling Acres Farm Jefferson, ME an affiliate program managed through Maine Farmland Trust.
2019 Project Grant Maine Arts Commission, partial grant for new body of work and exhibition, Intimate Universe
2014 HewnOaks Residency Lovell, ME
2000 Good Idea Grant Maine Arts Commission
1998 Anderson Jurors Award, cash award and invitation to return, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver CO
1992-94 Robert P Daisley Merit Award Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1991 Mary Beason Bishop Award Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isles, ME
PUBLISHED WRITING
Discovery; Fifty Years of Craft Experience At Haystack Mountain School of Craft 2004, Book edited by Carl Little, essay and image
Metalsmith Review of J.Fred Woell at Élan Gallery, Rockland, ME 2005 Vol. 25 no 3
Metalsmith Studio Visit : Dan Jocz photos and text, 2004 Vol. 24 no 3
Metalsmith Review: From the Centre to the Edge, exhibition at Maine College of Art, ICA Gallery, Portland, ME, 2000 Vol. 20 no 5
TEACHING
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 2003, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2021
Massachusetts College of Art, invited lecturer for Botany class
Maine College of Art 1994-2001
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
2012-2018 Certificate, Sustainable Ecology, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay Harbor, ME
2014 Certificate, Historic Landscape Institute at Monticello, VA and University of Virginia
1988 Hungarian University of Fine Arts Independent post-grad studies, Budapest, Hungary
1985 Cooper Union College of Arts and Sciences Semester exchange, New York, NY