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🎟️ Included with museum admissionEach piece of jewelry tells a story, and Robert Ebendorf’s eclectic works and exhibition is a physical representation of the friendships it took to build it.
Artist Ebendorf will describe his development from a midcentury-modernist metalsmith to an artist who creates collages and wearable art using found objects.
Collectors Porter and Price will share about how they built a collection of hundreds of works by Ebendorf and other contemporary jewelry artists. They will also be bringing pieces that you can handle and touch!
About the artist:
Robert Ebendorf was born and raised in Kansas and earned Bachelor of Fine Arts (1961) and Master of Fine Arts (1963) degrees from the University of Kansas. He received further training in metalsmithing in Norway through a Fulbright Fellowship (1963–64) and a Tiffany Foundation Grant (1966–67). Ebendorf was a professor of metalsmithing at Stetson University (DeLand, Florida, 1964–67), the University of Georgia-Athens (1967–71), the State University of New York at New Paltz (1971–89), and finally East Carolina University (1997–2016). He has also taught hundreds of jewelry and found-object assemblage workshops across the United States and abroad. Ebendorf has received numerous awards, including induction into the National Metalsmiths Hall of Fame (2004), a Master of the Medium award from the James Renwick Alliance (2005), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of North American Goldsmiths (2014).
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mint Museum Randolph, Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Rd, Charlotte, NC 28207, United States,Charlotte, North Carolina
