Jan Yager Visual Artist, Mixed-Media (American, b.1951-) (select listings) EDUCATION MFA, Rhode Island School of Design 1981 BFA, Western Michigan University 1974 AWARDS Pew Fellowship in the Arts Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation Award National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, USA Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant Pew Interdisciplinary Professional Development Grant Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts Fellowship Rhode Island State Arts Council Fellowship William Penn Foundation, Art Now Award Leeway Foundation WOO Grant EXHIBITIONS Craft in America, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, [tour USA] 2007-8 Jewelry by Artists, The Daphne Farago Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, 2007 Celebrating American Craft, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2007 NATURE/CULTURE, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, [tour USA] 2006-7 Life InSight: The Human Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY, 2006 Crafts, Etc, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX, 2005 Corporal Identity–Body Language, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, 2004 Jewels & Gems, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, 2004 Triennial 9: Corporal Identity–Body Language, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, GER, 2003 Tiaras, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, 2002 Jan Yager: City Flora/City Flotsam, [solo] Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, 2001 Signals: Late 20th Century Jewelry, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, MI, [tour USA, CAN] 1996 Craft Today: USA, Musee des’ Art Decoratif, Paris, FRA, [tour EU, M.E.] 1989 MEDIA Craft in America, PBS Documentary/DVD, www.PBS.org 2007 Lauria, Jo. Craft in America, Random House, www.CraftinAmerica.org 2007 Simon, Marjorie. 500 Brooches: Inspiring Adornments for the Body, Lark Books, 2005 Baum & Scherr. The Penland Book of Jewelry, Lark Books, 2005 Munn, Geoffrey. Tiaras: Past and Present, [back cover] V&A Publications, 2002 Wilson, Ian. Jan Yager, American Craft, Oct/Nov 2001 Rosolowski, Tacey. Intervening in Amnesia: Jan Yager's Mnemonic Adornment, Metalsmith, W 2001 Quickenden, Ken. Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Jewellery CD-ROM, BIAD, UK 2000 Brown, Glen. Jan Yager: Urban Stigmata, Ornament, Winter 1999 Blauer, Ettagale. Contemporary American Jewelry Design, VanNostrand Reinhold 1991 Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art 1990 Smith, Paul. Craft Today: USA, USIA 1989 COLLECTIONS Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK The National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. USA CONTACT JanYager@gmail.com www.JanYagerStudio.com