Gene Pijanowski - Mixed Media

Professor Emeritus of Art and Design and Former Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Education:
Tokyo University of Art (post graduate)

M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan

M.A., Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

B.F.A., Wayne State University
United State Marine Corps

Teaching
Areas: Metalwork, jewelry design, 2-D and 3D design

Has Taught At:
Honolulu Academy of Art

School of Art and Design, The University of Michigan

Department of Creative Arts, Purdue University

Department of Art, San Diego State University

International Workshops & lectures
(selected) Conference of Jewelers and Metalsmiths, Perth Australia
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands Akademie der Beldinden Kunste, Munich, Germany
Royal College of Art, London, England
World Craft Conference, Kyoto, Japan
World Craft conference, Vienna, Austria

Honors (selected)

American Craft Council Fellow, NYC
Fulbright Fellow, Vienna Institute of Applied Arts National Endowment for the Arts, D.C.
Japan-United Stated Friendship grant

Major Collections (selected)
Honolulu Academy of Art
The Art Gallery of Western Art, Smithsonian Institution, D.C.
Detroit Institute of Art, MI
Museum of Art and Design, NYC
Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths Hall, London, England

Exhibitions 238 International, National and Regional plus film and video

Publications co-authored with Hiroko Sato-Pijanowski 15 articles in American German, Japanese and Korean publications and have work featured and included in hundreds of books and magazines.