Nancy Worden

Nancy Lee Worden (born November 29, 1954) is an American artist and metalsmith. Her jewelry art is known for weaving together personal narratives with current politics. She has received many awards and honors. Worden has exhibited internationally, and her work is represented in collections around the world.[1] [2][3] These include New York's Museum of Arts and Design [4] and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.[5][6][7]

Early life

Worden was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1954, and raised in Ellensburg, Washington. Her parents were both academics. The family lived near Worden’s grandparents, who lived on a small farm.[8] There Worden learned to use hand tools to express her creativity. While in high school, she studied art under Kay Crimp, and in her junior year took her first jewelry class. During her senior year she enrolled in undergraduate metalsmithing classes at Central Washington University.[9]

  • The Family Reunion by Nancy Worden

Education

Worden started making jewelry when she was in high school.[10] After high school, Worden enrolled in a degree program at Central Washington, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977.[1] There she studied with Ken Cory, who taught her jewelry fundamentals and encouraged her to develop her own personal artistic style.[11] In 1980 Worden enrolled in the University of Georgia to study jewelry and metalsmithing under Gary Nofke. He encouraged her to develop a unique creative voice that was expressed thorough technique and materials. Worden received her Master of Fine Arts later in 1980.[12]

Career

After graduate school, Worden worked in retail jewelry and art galleries. This provided her training in the business aspects of jewelry as an art.[13] During the 1980s, Worden organized shows for other artists, and refined her own style. In the 1990s, she developed a regional reputation.[14][15]

She began teaching herself to electroform in 1995.[10]

By the late 1990s, she won national notoriety for her distinctive style that merged personal and political themes.[14][16][17] In 2014 the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum acquired her necklace "The Family Reunion 2012."[18]

  • Seven Deadly Sins by Nancy Worden
  • Repairing the Nest by Nancy Worden

Exhibitions

From June through September, 2009, the Tacoma Art Museum presented a major retrospective of Worden’s work, titled Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden.[10] The exhibit featured 41 pieces from throughout Worden’s 30-year career. It was accompanied by a book of the same title. The show was then presented at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University from November 2009 to January 2010.[9]

Solo exhibitions

[10][19][20]

  • 2009 Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden, Tacoma Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA
  • 2008-2009 Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry, New York, Museum of Arts and Design
  • 2008 Fear Factor, Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
  • 2007 Ornament As Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry From the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts
  • 2007 Jewelry By Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts
  • 2005 Modern Artifacts, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 2001 Adult Education, Helen Drut Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2000 Homework, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 1998 Armed and Dangerous, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 1996 Pet Peeves, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
  • 1994 True Confessions, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 1993 Nancy Worden, Maxine's Artisan Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1984 Eight Brooches, Polly's Wearable Art, Seattle, WA

Collections

[10]

  • 2006 Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 2002 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, USA
  • 2000 Stedelijk Museum s'Hertogenbosch, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 1998 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
  • 1996 Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA

References
  1. "CWU | CWU Alumna's Artwork Featured in Museum Permanent Collections Throughout the World". www.cwu.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. "Nancy Worden at the Traver Gallery". www.travergallery.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  3. "Nancy Worden - Profile - Crafts & Traditional Arts - Hatchfund - Artist Fundraising & Advocacy". www.hatchfund.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. "Museum of Arts and Design Collection Database". collections.madmuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  5. "Terminology". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  6. "Lend Me Your Ears". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  7. "Runnin Yo Mama Ragged". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  8. Updike, Robin (Spring 2001). "Multigenerational Themes". Ornament. 24 (4): 51.
  9. LeBaron, Michelle and Platt, Susan Noyes, Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden. Tacoma Art Museum, 2009.
  10. "Artfullhome Atelier Nancy Worden".
  11. Kangas, Matthew (Spring 2006). "Nancy Worden: Excavations". Metalsmith. 26 (1): 26.
  12. "Arizona Designer Craftsman - 2008-Nancy Worden-"Cold Connections"". www.azdesignercraftsmen.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  13. Biskeborn, Susan (October–November 1998). "Nancy Worden: Getting Personal". American Craft. 58 (5): 55.
  14. "Jewelry artists are flourishing in Seattle". seattlepi.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  15. "Nancy Worden (Atelier Nancy Worden) Artist Profile | Artful Home". www.artfulhome.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  16. [Anon] (November 2013). "Doer's Profile". Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. 67 (6): 80.
  17. Kangas, Matthew (July–August 1996). "The Rematerialzation of the Art Object". Sculpture. 15 (6): 27.
  18. Goldsmiths, Society of North American. "Member Achievements – June 2014 - Society of North American Goldsmiths". www.snagmetalsmith.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  19. ArtFacts.net. "Nancy Worden". ArtFacts.net. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  20. "Nancy Worden (American, 1954)". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
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