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

Application deadline: November 6, 2009
Notification via email and CaFÉ: December 8, 2009
Accepted entries due: January 1 , 2010
Exhibition dates: January 30 - March 20, 2010
Opening reception: January 30, 2010
Artwork returned to artist: April 5, 2010

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:

MagEarrings

Stanley Lechtzin & Daniella Kerner
MagEarrings

Student category:

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

2005 Participants:

NVK
Orifice Series: Untitled Ring
Seed
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

Hybrides
Nest Brooch
Spring Greens
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

Clip-On Formality
Sudden Hair Loss
Sudden Hair Loss
Jennifer Pollock
Clip-On Formality, 2003
Sterling, nickel, plastic
Mark Rooker
Sudden Hair Loss, 2003
Sterling, niobium, aluminum