DAVID BUTLER
MFA - University of Washington
BFA - Georgia State University
Professor, Pratt Institute of Technology, Brooklyn, NY. 2003 - 2019
Professor, Westchester Community College, White Plains, N.Y., 1994 - 2015
Instructor, Parsons School of Design, The New School for Social Research, NY 1994 - 2001
Instructor, 92nd St. Y, New York, New York, 1994 - 2019
Workshops Taught Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School, Touchstone Center For Crafts,
Peters Valley, Maryland Institute, Guilford Handcraft Center,
Worcester Center for Crafts
Exhibit Design and Mountmaking Brooklyn Museum, NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Folk Art Museum, New York Historical Society, African Museum,
Rubin Museum, Bard Center for Graduate Studies
Publications Minimal Rings 2003 Arch Gregory Full Spectrum Publishing
American Craft, April/May 1994, Vol.54/No. 2. Commissions
American Craft, December 1991/January 1992, Vol.51/No. 6. Portfolio
Metalsmith, Fall 1991, Vol. 11/No.4.
Selected Exhibitions New York Silver, Then and Now, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
June 2017-June 2018
Obsessed – Nine Jewelry Artists Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia July 2016
Journey Through Time: Artful Adornment and Sculptural Vessels Mobilia Gallery,
Cambridge, MA May 2015
Objects of Status, Power, and Adornment Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge Mass 2013 New Work - Westchester Community College March 2010
New Steel - A different look at new iron work National Ornamental Museum,
Memphis TN 2007 and 2009
Memories of New York - Jewelry exhibit at Aaron Faber Gallery May 2007
The Art of Gold - Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California February, 2005 The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
David Butler - New Lighting Jersey State College Jersey City NJ February 2002
Masters of Material - 2001 OXOXO Gallery Baltimore, Maryland
Turned Multiples - Craft Alliance-Center for the Visual Arts Saint Louis, MO 1999
Turn on the Lights - Contemporary Lighting Exhibit American Institute of Architecture Seattle, WA March 1998
American Contemporary Art Jewelry - Connell Gallery Atlanta, GA Nov. 1997
American Craft Council Spotlight - Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN Nov 1993
Metals Now - Downey Museum of Art Downey, CA Feb. 1990
The Fine Art of American Industrial Design - The National Arts Club, NY, NY 1988