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Vol. 5, No. 2 - November 4, 2005
| Noted Metalsmith to Deliver Raab Lecture Nov. 10 Myra Mimlitsch-Gray will deliver the 10th annual Rosanne Brody Raab visiting artist lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at Skidmore. Free and open to the public, the event will be in Gannett Auditorium of Palamountain Hall. Mimlitsch-Gray is known for her renditions of everyday objects in precious metals. Created with painstaking perfection, these objects - cups, trays, containers - both acknowledge and defy contemporary consumer culture. Currently professor of art in the Metal Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Mimlitsch-Gray received a B.F.A. degree from Philadelphia College of Art in 1984 and an M.F.A. degree in 1986 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including artist fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 1998 Mimlitsch-Gray received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching at the State University of New York. Last year she was an invited artist to the International Master Class Programme at the Royal College of Art in London, England. In early 2004 Mimlitsch-Gray's work was featured in 100 Treasures of Cranbrook Art Museum, a centennial overview of the museum's collection. At that time, Gary Griffin, head of the Cranbrook Metalsmithing Department, noted Mimlitsch-Gray's "tradition of functional silversmithing" and added, "As a highly skilled technician and an intellectually alert artist, she challenges representations of social and cultural inheritances and domestic norms, as well as art historical convention." Mimlitsch-Gray's artwork is included in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cranbrook Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Arts and Design, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and the Renwick Gallery at the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution. Rosanne Brody Raab is a 1955 Skidmore graduate whose continuing interest in the arts has been reflected in her careers as writer, educator, and author. The Skidmore lecture series that bears her name showcases artists working in clay, metal, fiber, and wood.
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