James Malenda
Jim Malenda's art work consists of precious and non precious metal and enamel sculpture and body adornment. Recently eight of his works were placed in the permanent collections of five national museums which include: The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Yale University Art Gallery; Museum of Fine Art, Houston, The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, and The Arkansas Museum of Fine Art, Little Rock. For more detailed information on Jim Malenda's professional activity resume below.
James Malenda
Address: 71 East Lake Rd. Brackney PA 18812 Cell: (610) 737-0787
Email: jamesmalenda@gmail.com website: malendamonumetal.com
EDUCATION
S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, Gold & Silversmithing, MFA 1975
Kent State University, Design & Crafts, BFA 1971
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Fine Metals, Certaldo Italy, ECU 2016
Professor Emeritus, Fine Metals, Kutztown University, PA 19530 2015
Professor, Fine Metals, Kutztown University, PA 19530 1987-2015
Associate Professor, Metal Arts, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 1976-87
SELECTED EXHIBITION
2018- ITALY INTENSIVE, ECU Gallery, Greenville NC
2017- ALCHEMY, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis,TN
2015-LITTLE DREAMS IN GLASS AND METAL Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (touring)
2014- RELEVANT INFLUENCE, R.I.T., Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
2013- TOP 10 AT 10, Charles A. Wurstum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
2012- KEAD EXHIBITION, Insa Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2011- WORLD DESIGN INTERNATIONAL Songshan Creative Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2010- RE-MAKE-RE-MODEL, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN
2009- 7th ENAMEL FESTIVAL EXHIBITION, Giraefe, Morez, France
2008- WEDDING RITUALS, Tong In Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2007- RING SHOW; THEN AND NOW, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN
2006- ONE-MAN EXHIBITION, Galerie Schmuck und Objekt, Ute Wolff-Brinckmann, Erfurt, Germany
2005- METAMORPHOSIS, Sandra Blain Gallery, Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2004- NANCY YAW GALLERY, Birmingham, MI
2003- KOREAN ENAMELING ART ASSOCIATION EXHIBITION, Insa Art Center, Seoul South, Korea
2002- GEORGE E. OHR ART CHALLENGE, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS
2001- COLOR AND LIGHT, National Handcraft Museum, New Delhi, India
2000 - AMERICAN ENAMELS. Random Modern Gallery, Tacoma, WA
1999- SOFA, NYC, CHICAGO, Nancy Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997- BEGUILING AND BRILLIANT BROOCHES, Studio Fusion, London, England
SELECTED WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES
Workshop-Enamelist Society Montserrat College, Beverly MA 2015
Workshop- R.I.T. Rochester Institute if Technology, 2014
Workshop- Enamel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2012
Workshop- Enamel, J. C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC 2009
Workshop- Enamel, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 2008, 2014
Workshop- Fabrication/ Enamel, Penland School of Arts & Crafts, Penland, NC 1975- 2005,
Workshop- Enamel, Azuay University, Cuenca, Ecuador, 2004
Lecture- “American Enamel”, Buckinghamshire Chiltens University, High Wycombe, England, 2003
Workshop- Enamel, Art Zone, Bellevue CC, Seattle, WA, 2002
Workshop- Enamel, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 2001
Workshop- Enamel, Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths, 2000
Lecture- “American Enamel”, China Central Art and Craft College, Bejing; Xi’an Academy of F.A. 1999
Workshop- Enamel, International Enamel Symposium, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 1998
Workshop- Cloisonne’, Enamel Soc., Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN 1997
Workshop- Fabrication for 3-D Enamel Forms, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA 1995
Lecture- “Retrospective & American Enamel”, Queens Road College, Bristol, England, 1994
Workshop- Fabrication for 3-D Enamel Forms, National Enamelist Guild, Washington, DC, 1993
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Thompson Enamel Award
House of Humor and Satire, Sculpture Award, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Artists’ Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Art and Design, NYC
Enamel Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Nordenfjeldske Kunstrindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway