January 30 - March 20, 2010
Application deadline: November 6, 2009
Entry fee: $35

REFINED is a biennial exhibition of jewelry and metalwork hosted by the School of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) since 1998. The exhibition is held in a 1332 square-foot gallery of the beautifully renovated The Art Center @ The Old Opera House, located at 329 E. Main Street in downtown Nacogdoches, Texas. Past jurors for the event have included L. Brent Kington, Munya Avigail Upin and James Snyder, Jennifer Sholtis and Dr. David A. Lewis, chair, SFA School of Art, and Charon Kransen. The juror for Refined: Back to Basics is Lisa Gralnick.

REFINED VI: Back to Basics calls to artists to use metalworking and jewelry techniques to both glorify craftsmanship and provide relevant content in their work. As contemporary artists, we are obligated to nod to the traditions of our past while leaving a definable mark for future generations to decipher. Please join us in celebrating the many themes and working practices of metalworking artis ts from across the world.

JUROR
Lisa Gralnick is an artist and professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gralnick's work is in the collections of the American Craft Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, among others. She received her MFA from SUNY New Paltz.

AWARDS
At least $1,500 will be awarded at the juror's discretion.

ELIGIBILITY
This exhibition is open to any artists whose jewelry responds to the theme: Back to Basics. All work must be original and completed within the last two years. Submitted works are open to a full range of processes and materials.

All applications for REFINED will be accepted through www.callforentry.org (CaFÉ).

CALENDAR

2007 Award Winners:

1st Prize, $1000
Sharon Massey, Interlochen, Michigan, United States

2nd Prize, $650
Simon Cottrell, Preston, Victoria, Australia

3rd Prize, $350
Ursula Guttmann, Linz, Australia

2005 Award Winners:

Professional category, Best in Show:

Stanley Lechtzin & Daniella Kerner
MagEarrings

Student category:

1st	2nd	3rd
T. J. Lechtenber Folded Bracelet	Eun Mi Kim Sorting	Gary Schott Warning: Soft Material

2005 Participants:

Jessica Calderwood NVK, 2003 Enamel on copper cast glycerin	Yuyen Chang Orifice Series: Untitled Ring, 2004 Sterling, fine silver	Nicole Jaquard Seed, 2002 SLS Nylon
Nicole Jaquard Hybrides, 2004 SLS Nylon, fine silver, wood, rubber, steel	Sergey Jivetin Nest Brooch, 2003 Silver, watchhands	James Obermeier Spring Greens, 2004 Sterling, patina
Jennifer Pollock Clip-On Formality, 2003 Sterling, nickel, plastic	Mark Rooker Sudden Hair Loss, 2003 Sterling, niobium, aluminum