j.e. paterak

EDUCATION

Cranbrook Academy of Art  MFA - Bloomfield Hills, MI

Massachusetts College of Art BFA with honors - Boston, MA

SELECTED  EXHIBITIONS

2024 Floating Worlds, Intersections of Art, Science and Poetry about the past artists in residence at Bowdoin College’s Scientific Station on Kent Island, New Brunswick CA.      Zero Station Gallery Sept - Nov 2024

2024. Shaw Gallery- Maine Jewelers NorthEast Harbor, ME (also in the 2000’s I exhibited here)

2022-24 Turtle Gallery, exhibiting artist, Deer Isle ME

2023-24 Corey Daniels Gallery, exhibiting artist, Wells ME

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

2024 Artist in Residence at Kent Island, Bowdoin Science Station in New Brunswick, Canada

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

Maine College of Art 2023-24 Adjunct/Sabbatical replacement

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