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
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