VELVET DA VINCI
| home | about | shows | artists | search | contact | links | subscribe |
|---|
VELVET DA VINCI | ||||||||
| ||||||||
Cynthia ToopsVELVET DA VINCI SHOWS100 Brooches -- Brooches by U.S. and international artists based on the book, 500 Brooches 200 RINGS -- Rings from 200 International Artists New West Coast Design: Jewelry + Metalwork The Pendant Show -- Celebrating 500 Pendants and Lockets by Lark Books The Plastic Show -- Celebrating 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs by Lark Books West Meets West -- New Jewlery and Metalwork from Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, U.K. COUNTRY OF RESIDENCEUSA EDUCATIONBA Summa Cum Laude, Biology, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, 1979 The Factory of Visual Arts, Seattle WA, 1980 to 1981 BFA Printmaking, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1983 Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle WA, 1989 to 1990 SELECTED EXHIBITIONSTouching Warms the Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR 2008 Telling Stories: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2008 The Pendant Show, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2008 Signs of Life, Facere, Seattle, 2008 West Meets West, Bluecoat Display Centre Two, Liverpool, UK 2008 New West Coast Design: Jewelry and Metalwork, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 2008 Gallery Artists Review, Pacini Lubel, Seattle, WA, 2007 Exquisite Objects, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2006 Progress & Possibilities 2006, NPCG Exhibition, 2006 100 Brooches, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA; Bellagio Gallery, Ashville, NC; East Carolina University School of Art and Design, Greenville, NC; Pacini Lubel, Seattle, WA, 2005 200 Rings, Velvet Da Vinci, San Francisco, CA; Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ; Gallery M, Cleveland, OH; Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor ME; Facere, Seattle, WA, 2006 Convergence/Divergence: Split Rock Design Artists at The Goldstein, Goldstein Museum of Design, St. Paul, MN, 2004 Blue, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2004 Building Traditions: Gifts in Honor of the Northwest Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2003 Faculty Show, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN, 2003 Cynthia Toops, Dan Adams, Chuck Domitrovich: Off The Cuff, Mobilia, Cambridge, MA, 2002 Seeing Spots: New Work in Polymer Clay, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, 2002 Jewelry From Painting, Mobilia, Cambridge, MA, 2002 The Ring, Mobilia, Cambridge, MA, 2001 Illuminating A Medium: A Retrospective On Polymer Clay, National Polymer Clay Guild Conference, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA, 2001 The Ring, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI; Fox Fine Arts Center, University of Texas, El Paso; Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, 2001 through 2004 The Beaded Universe: Strands of Culture, American Craft Museum, New York, NY 2000 Attitude and Action: North American Figurative Jewelry, Atrium Gallery, University of Central England, Birmingham, England, 2000; Design Yard, Dublin, Ireland 2000 Triptych, Facere, Seattle, WA, 2000 The Teapot Redefined, SOFA, Chicago, IL, 1999 In Praise of Plastic, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH 1999 Icons of the 20th Century, Nancy Sachs, St. Louis, MO, 1999 Dan Adams/Cynthia Toops: New Work, Mobilia, Cambridge, MA, 1999 Joyce Scott and Friends, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 1998 Jewelry Without Jewels: Alternative Materials in Contemporary Jewelry, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY, 1998 The Ubiquitous Bead II, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1996 Tokyo Polymer Clay Art, Kamiji Kakimoto Paper Store, Tokyo, Japan 1996 National Jewelry Art Competition, Facere, Seattle, WA, 1994 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS500 Pendants & Lockets by Lark Books, 2008 Polymer Clay Beads by Grant Diffendaffer, 2008 PMC Decade by Tim McCreight, 2006 Art Jewelry,"A Rarefied Medium," September 2006 Beadwork,"Polymer Unlimited", June/July 2006 Teapots: Makers & Collectors by Dona Meilach, 2005 500 Brooches by Lark Books, 2004 1000 Rings by Lark Books, 2004 Artisan Northwest,"The Tin Forest", Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2004 400 Polymer Clay Objects by Lark Books, 2004 Art Jewelry Today by Dona Meilach, 2003 American Style, "Rounded to Perfection", Summer 2000 AJM, "Beads and Beyond", April 2000 Beadwork in America 2000 Catalogue, Haydon Gallery, University of Nebraska, 2000 Foundations in Polymer Clay Design, by Barbara McGuire, 1999 Ocean Realm, "Inspired by the Sea", Autumn 1999 Lapidary Journal, "A Blend of Influences", October 1999 American Style, "Cutting Edge Polymer Clay", No.17, 1999 Glass, Portfolio: "Beads Across America", No.73 Winter 1998 Lapidary Journal, "Echos of the Past, Visions of the Future", October 1998 JCK, "Jewelry Without Jewels", September 1998 Bead And Button, "What Are They Doing Now", No.28, 1998 Ornament, "Dan Adams and Cynthia Toops: A Marriage of Media", Winter 1997 Polymer Clay by Pierette Ashcroft and Lindly Haunani, 1997 Bead And Button, "One-of-a-Kind Polymer Clay", No.16, 1996 Creating With Polymer Clay by Leslie Dierks and Steven Ford, 1996 Ornament, "Museum News - Bellevue Art Museum", Spring 1996 Collectible Beads by Robert Liu, 1995 Ornament, The Collectors Sourcebook, Special Issue, 1995 The Bead Directory by Linda Benmour, 1995 Bead And Button, "People Beads", No.6, 1994 Ornament, "Master Class: Photographing Your Work", Summer 1994 Washington Beadmakers Exhibition Catalogue, 1994 Color Trends by Michelle Wipplinger, 1992 GRANTS AND AWARDS2007 Artist Trust fellowship award Top |
 |
