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DESIGNER AND JEWELER
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LING - YEN JONES
Post Office Box 352
Point Arena, California, 95468
707-884-9153

SPECIAL INTERESTS
Since graduating from Humboldt State University my focus is to pursue a career in arts administration, metalsmithing, and developing my jewelry business, Ling-yen Designs. To facilitate these goals, I am continuing my education, and curating more metal and jewelry shows. I am a founding member of a metalsmith group called Out of Hand, in Humboldt County, California. Presently, I am co-coordinator at the Mendocino Art Center for the Jewelry department, and an active member of the jewelry and metal arts community.

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
California
Teresabelle Gallery, 766 Main Street, Cambria (www.teresabelle.com)
Japanese American National Museum 369 E. First St. Los Angeles (www.janm.org)
Del Mano Gallery, 11981 San Vicente Blvd, West LA

Mendocino County
Red Stella, 39108 Ocean Drive, Gualala
Mendocino Jewelry Studio 45050 Albion Street, Mendocino

Monterey Peninsula
The Clothing Store, 510 Lighthouse Ave Suite #4, Pacific Grove
Loes Hinse Timeless Clothing, between Ocean and 7th, Carmel
The Phoenix in Nepenthe, Big Sur

San Francisco
Gallery of Jewels, 2115 Fillmore Gallery of Jewels, 4089 24th Street
Gallery of Jewels, 2101 Union street

Colorado
Main Paige, 542 Main Street, Grand Junction 970-241-6655

Georgia
Raiford Gallery, Inc. 1169 Canton Street, Roswell

Hawaii
Hawaiian Representative Merita Whatley: 808-345-6868
The Grove Gallery, Hilo
The Gallery of Great Things, Waimea

New Mexico
The Jett Spencer Gallery 110 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Arts major, with Metalsmithing/Jewelry and
Photography emphases, and Dance minor.

Humboldt State University (HSU), Arcata, CA, May 20,1994. Overall GPA 3.62, Cum Laude.

Monterey Peninsula College Independent Study with Theresa Lovering-Brown
1997

Monterey Peninsula College Narrative Jewelry with Angela Gleason 2000

Monterey Peninsula College Photo etching with Carol Webb 2002

EXHIBITIONS CURATED
Creative Spirit In the Foyer of the Gualala Art Center, June 9- July 4, 2005

Inwood Credit Union CityArt Committee Member show for June 1-15, 2005

Beaux Esprits Show at CityArt from July 1-July 31, 2005. Juried by Karen Shapiro, Jerry Milazzo and Miriam Owen

Beaux-Esprits 2003 at Point Arena City Art, July 2003. Juried and exhibited.

MBMAG Essential Element III- Glass-At the Monterey Bay Glass School 9-02

Specific Gravity
- at the Monterey Peninsula College March 13-April 5,2001

Bridging the Millennium & The Essential Element I, February 18 to March 24, 2000 at The Pacific Grove Art Center

Solo Jewelry Exhibition Windows of Opportunity, December 1998/ January
1999 at the Pacific Grove Art Center

Metals: Fin de Siecle, October 1998 the Sebastopol Center for the Arts,
Sebastopol, CA

Out of Hand 1-5 Annual shows 1994 - 1998, at the Ink People Gallery, Eureka, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITONS
"Fresh Start" at the Gualala Arts Center, Gualala January 1-29, 2004

"Collage & Mobiles" at the Point Arena CityArt Gallery
Feb 3-29, 2004

"Point Arena CityArt to Exhibit At Gualala Arts Center"
Feb 21-March 22, 2004

MBMAG Presents Cup, at The Chris Winfield Gallery in Carmel, CA, April 2003

Insectarium-OBJX- mix media show June 2, 2001

Specific Gravity- The Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild March 2001

Small Packages- Lisa Coscino Gallery-mix media show December 1,2000

Seaside City Hall- Group show with MBMAG and MPC educational and
metalsmith/jewelry show May 1999

Faces of Eve, curated by Julie Moranda, February 1999 at the Ink People
Gallery Eureka, CA

Seaside 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, November 1998 at Seaside City Hall, Seaside, CA

Monterey Museum of Art 1998 Juried Exhibition, September 1998, Monterey
Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

Monterey Peninsula College, Printmaking and Metal Arts, October, 1998

AWARDS
2004 Gualala Arts Art in the Redwoods- First Prize for Jewelry
2004 Beverly Hills Affaire in the Gardens- Honorable Mention in Jewelry

CONFERENCES ATTENDED
1994 Society of North American Goldsmiths, SNAG Portland, OR
1995 Society of North American Goldsmiths, SNAG New Orleans, LA
1998 Society of North American Goldsmiths, SNAG Seattle, WA
1999 Yuma Symposium, Yuma Arizona
2000 Yuma Symposium, Yuma Arizona
2001 Yuma Symposium, Yuma Arizona

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Cityart, Board Member- Point Arena CITYART is a non-profit community art gallery dedicated to the promotion of the arts in the Point Arena, CA area.

Society of North American Goldsmiths, Member

Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild, Exhibition Committee member

Out of Hand - Humboldt Metal Arts Guild, Founding Member

PUBLICATIONS
Monterey County Dining & Entertainment -"Cup" Runneth Over Lisa Watson Crawford April 2003

Niche- 24kt Tips by Loretta Radeschi, Spring 2003

Art Business News, Hand Crafted Art Speaks to New American Ideas December 2002

Monterey Herald-Life & Times-December 4, 2001

Niche- 2001 Niche Award Finalist-entitled Unmentionable-necklace

Metalsmith-Fin De Siecle, Jewelry and Metal by Susan Wood-Onstad Winter
2000

Metalsmith- Dimensions of the Mind, jewelry and Metal by Susan Wood-Onstad Winter 1998

Ornament- in the News section, winter 1998

Times-Standard- Newspaper interview, August 1997

Arts and Entertainment- Dimensions of the Mind, by Susan Neel December 1996