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| Director, Jewelry & Metalsmithing |
Jonathan Wahl joined the 92nd Street Y in July 1999 as director of the jewelry and metalsmithing program in the Y's School of the Arts. He is responsible for developing and overseeing a curriculum that has more than 55 classes weekly and 15 visiting artists yearly, hiring and supervising 25 faculty members, maintaining four state-of-the-art jewelry and metalsmithing studios, and promoting the department locally and nationally as a jewelry resource center.
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Named one of the top-10 jewelers to watch by W Jewelry in 2006, Mr. Wahl is an accomplished artist who, from 1994 to 1995, served as artist-in-residence at Hochschule Der Kunst in Berlin, Germany. He has exhibited his work in the exhibitions Formed to Function (John Michael Kohler Arts Center), Defining Craft (American Craft Museum), Markers in Contemporary Metal (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art), Transfigurations: 9 Contemporary Metalsmiths (University of Akron and tour), and Contemporary Craft (New York State Museum). He has been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in recognition of "Outstanding Artwork," and the Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths Award for "Outstanding Achievement." Part of the permanent collection of the American Craft Museum, his work has been reviewed by Art in America (June, 2000), Metalsmith Magazine (1996, 1999, 2000 and 2002) and featured in Metalsmith Magazine's prestigious "Exhibition in Print" in 1994 and 1999. Mr. Wahl's jewelry pieces can be seen at Sienna Gallery, the Lenox, Massachusetts gallery specializing in contemporary American and European metalwork; De Vera in SOHO, NYC, and in the publication 1,000 Rings.
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| Before joining the Y, Mr. Wahl was, first, director of the jewelry and metalsmithing department at the YMCA's Craft Students League, and later assistant director of the League itself. Mr. Wahl holds a B.F.A. in jewelry and metalsmithing from Temple University's Tyler School of Art and an M.F.A. in metalsmithing and fine arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a member of the Society of North America Goldsmiths. A history fanatic and avid gardener, when he's not at the Y motivating his students he can be found in his studio in Brooklyn or in his garden. |
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