Events / News

2021 – 2022

Georgia Sea Grant

I am thrilled to announce that I have received an Artist Grant from the Georgia Sea Grant’s Artists, Writers and Scholars Program, in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

I will create five jewelry and metal objects to be exhibited within the next year. 

Recently, I went to visit Skidaway Island, near Savannah, to do research at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant.  I had the privilege of meeting with several knowledgeable and generous scientists who guided me through the Phytoplankton Monitoring Center, the Oyster Research Center, the University of Georgia Aquarium, and the Institute of Oceanography.

https://gacoast.uga.edu/

https://gacoast.uga.edu/research/funding/aws-program/


Athens Metal Arts Guild Exhibition

Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, South Carolina — December 9 – January 22, 2022 — Opening Reception: Thurs, December 9 from 6-8pm

Barbara Mann led workshop: December 16, 2021Chasing and repousse on copper, holiday ornaments

https://aikencenterforthearts.org/main-gallery/


5th Biennial Wings & Water Exhibit          January 20 – March 11, 2022

The River Arts Center, Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin

https://www.riverartsinc.org/wings5/


27th Annual Southworks National Juried Exhibition — January 14 – February 25, 2022

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, Georgia


2020

Red Clay Survey 2020,” Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, August 9-October 4, 2020, Jurors, Peter Baldaia and David Reyes.

Third Southeast Regional Exhibition (Virtual Tour), February 21 – April 18,  LaGrange Art Museum, 112 Lafayette Parkway, LaGrange, GA 30240,  Juror, Curlee Raven Holton, Professor Emeritus, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

Seed to Plant Wall Vase

“26th Southworks National Juried Art Exhibition,” Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, School Street, Watkinsville, GA, 30677, Juror, Chris Clamp, April 17-May 29, 2020.

MAGG, Metal Arts Guild of Georgia, Atlanta; Fast Cast Lost Wax Casting Workshop with Barbara Mann; March 14 and 15, 2020. Canceled, to be rescheduled.

SouthWorks National Juried Art Exhibition (Virtual Tour), Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA, April 17 – May 29, 2020.  (OCAF closed until further notice.)

OLLI, Osher Life Long Learning Institute, Jewelry and Metalwork with Carol McKay and Barbara Mann, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, presentation April 4, 2020. Canceled, to be rescheduled.

Owens 50th  Benchmark Medallion — designed by Barbara Mann, College of Environment and Design, University of Georgia, Athens Georgia.  Fifty Benchmark Medallions to be presented April 4, 2020.  Canceled; to be rescheduled for March 6, 2021. Cast by Berntsen Company.

 


2019

Flowers — copper and powder-coated copper

The Birth Center – Wake Forest Baptist Health Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC 27157


“Handcrafted 2019,” Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences, Rocky Mount, NC, January 16-April 21, 2019.

Best of 2019 Exhibition, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio — May 2 to July 28

1665 West Fifth Avenue, Columbus, OH 43212   

Best of 2019 Exhibition, Springfield Museum of Art — September 20 to December 15

107 Cliff Park Road, Springfield, OH 45504


2018

Best of 2018 Exhibition, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio —  May 6 to June 24

1665 West Fifth Avenue,  Columbus, OH 43212

                                                                        Proliferation Pendant                                                            Sea Shells Ring                                                                          Sunlight in the Trees Pendant                                                                                         

Athens Area Habitat for Humanity, “Ultimate Birdhouse Exhibition & Auction” — April 4, 2018

State Botanical Garden of Georgia,  2450 South Milledge Avenue, Athens, GA 30605 

A Beginning Birdhouse — an egg — is shown in three stages of development
The Present (with a bird beak breaking through the eggshell
The Past (with an egg cracked open and the fledgling gone)
The Future (a whole egg with a bird ready to emerge)
All three eggs are protected within the nest.
Sterling silver and 24 Karat gold       2.5” x 2.5″ x .5”


2017

Huntsville Museum of Art — “Red Clay Survey: 2017 Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art” — July 9 — September 24, 2017  

Huntsville Museum of Art, 300 Church Street SW, Huntsville AL,  35801

Lyndon House Arts Center — “42nd Juried Art Exhibition” — March 23 – May 6, 2017 

Lyndon House Arts Center,  293 Hoyt Street, Athens, GA 30601

Athens Academy — Bertelsmann Gallery — “Athens Metal Arts Guild Members’ Exhibition” — February 27 – April 21

1281 Spartan Lane, Watkinsville, GA 30677 

Greenville Center for Creative Arts — “Wearable Art” — April 7 – May 24

Cuttlefish Casting Workshop — Greenville Center for Creative Arts — April 29

Greenville Center for Creative Arts, 25 Draper Street, Greenville, SC 29611

Cuttlefish Casting Workshop — Georgia Goldsmiths Guild — May 20 & 21

Keum Boo (attached gold) and Roller Printing Workshop — Georgia Goldsmiths Guild, August 26-27, 2017  

Keum Boo Workshop Handout — click here to download a PDF

Georgia Goldsmiths Guild Studio, 5353 Buford Highway,  Doraville, GA 30340


2016

Oconee County Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, Georgia — “Barbara Mann — Solo Exhibition.” October 7 – November 11, 2016

34 School Street, Watkinsville, GA  30677gallery-panorama-doorway

 

Hotel Indigo Art Gallery — “Tiny Universe” — September 23 – December 29, 2016

500 College Avenue Athens, GA 30601hotelindigo-gallery

 

Aurum Studios Ltd — Jewelers — September 22 – October 31, 2016

125 East Clayton Street, Athens, GA 30601

Lyndon House Arts Center — “41st Juried Art Exhibition” — March 24 – May 7, 2016
293 Hoyt Street, Athens, GA 30601

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Barbara Mann’s “Dante’s Divine Comedy — Climb to Utopia” was awarded the “Nancy Lukaseiwicz Award for Excellence in Fine Crafts” by Juror Jock Reynolds, Director Yale University Art Gallery 


Abernathy Arts Center – “2016 Georgia Artist Juried Exhibition” — May 6 – June 17, 2016
254 Johnson Ferry Road, NW, Sandy Springs GA, 30328

Evolution Panspermia 1 0ver 2Evolution/Panspermia


“Artist Spotlight: Barbara Mann,” by Holly Roberts, Red and Black/Ampersand Magazine,  

Oconee County Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, Georgia — “Barbara Mann — Solo Exhibition.” October 8 – November 12, 2016.
34 School Street, Watkinsville, Georgia  30677

Arts on Douglas Gallery — “All That Glitters” — February 6 – March 12, 2016

Arts on Douglas Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Arts on Douglas Gallery — New Smyrna Beach, Florida

All That Glitters a national jewelry invitational exhibition and sale, running through March 12, 2016.  The collection of wearable designs were created by ten accomplished jewelry artists from seven states.  Barbara’s 16 pieces in the collection can be seen among all the exhibition objects on pages 2   3   4   5   6  &  8.

3 rings & Oyster NecklaceOyster Necklace with Pink Pearls              Pearl Ring Italian                               Cypress Seed Ring                    Coral and Pearl Ring3 bracelets & Protective Garlic NecklaceFlowing Water & Shell Bracelet     Protective Garlic Necklace             Flowing Water Bracelet                      Peachpit Bracelet


Imperial Centre for the Arts & Sciences — “Handcrafted 2106” – February through May 2016
270 Gay Street,  Rocky Mount, North Carolina  27804

Imperial GALLERY

Maria V. Howard Arts Centre at the Imperial Centre for the Arts & Sciences

A Walk In The Georgia Woods _& Slice of Life _ Rocky MountA Walk In The Georgia Woods                                                    A Slice of Life Pendant


2015

Barbara Mann: Transformation & Evolution
Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama, July 17 through December 31, 2015

“Athens Metal Arts Guild Exhibit”
Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, South Carolina, November 5 – December 1, 2015
     

 

Richards Shrader, Gary and Sydney Noffke, Carol McKay, Diane Perry, Courtney Pendergrast Poole Rob Jackson, Jim Norton, Barbara Allen, Tom Keran and Mary Soppko, Sylvia Dawe Barbara Mann, Kate Furman, Beth Cyr, Richards Shrader, Ellen Cown, Dietrich Hoecht, Leslie Grove

Richard Shrader, Gary and Sydney Noffke, Carol McKay, Diane Perry, Courtney Pendergrast Poole
Rob Jackson, Jim Norton, Barbara Allen, Tom Keran and Mary Soppko, Sylvia Dawe
Barbara Mann, Kate Furman, Beth Cyr, Richard Shrader, Ellen Cown, Dietrich Hoecht, Leslie Grove

Peachpit Bracelet_Ebb and Flow_Oyster Shell_Phenikistascope

Peachpit Bracelet, Ebb and Flow Bracelet (cuttlefish-cast)
Oyster Shell Pendant, Phenakistoscope

Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Holiday Market, December 4, 5 & 6, 2015
34 School Street 
Watkinsville GA 30677


News

Recent Reviews

“The Jewelry and Metalwork of Barbara Mann,” Ornament Magazine, feature article by Ashley Callahan, Vol. 39, No. 5, 2017.

 

 

 

 

Cast: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity’s Most Tranformational Process, Jen Townsend and Renee Zettle-Sterling, 2017.

“Barbara Mann at Wiregrass Museum, Dothan, Alabama.”
World Sculpture News, pages 58-59.

“Barbara Mann: Form and Response” at Malone Gallery, Troy University, Troy, Alabama.”
MetalSmith Magazine, August 2011, pages 4 & 52.

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