Donald Friedlich
Jewelry in Glass and Gold
 
Donald Friedlich’s jewelry is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the Newark Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design. Friedlich served a term as President of the Society of North American Goldsmiths and also as Chair of the Metalsmith magazine Editorial Advisory Board. In 2003 he was the first jeweler to be an Artist in Residence at The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass. In 2004 Friedlich was a featured speaker at an international jewelry conference in Melbourne, Australia and an Artist in Residence in both the Glass and Goldsmithing Departments of Canberra School of Art at Australian National University. In 2007 he was visiting faculty at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan and was one of only two American jewelers chosen for the prestigious international exhibition Schmuck 2007 in Munich, Germany. In July 2008 he was the keynote speaker at the PMC Conference at Purdue University in Indiana. Friedlich’s jewelry has recently been in major international exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Toledo Museum of Art and is currently in an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and at the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany. He exhibited at the Smithsonian Craft Show April 9-13, 2008. Friedlich received his BFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from Rhode Island School of Design in 1982 and was honored three years later as the school’s outstanding recent graduate. His many awards include a National Endowment for the Arts New England Regional Fellowship and the 2001 Renwick Gallery Acquisition Award at the Smithsonian Craft Show. Email dfriedlich@aol.com mailto:dfriedlich@aol.comshapeimage_2_link_0
Magnification Series Brooch
Collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
                  
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