Myra Mimlitch-Gray

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1986, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Philadelphia College of Art in 1984. A Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Mimlitsch-Gray received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998. She is the recipient of the 2016 American Craft Council Award and has been inducted into its College of Fellows. Other awards include Individual Artist Fellowships in Crafts/Sculpture from the New York Foundation for the Arts(2014, 1997, 2005); the United States Artists Glasgow Fellowship in Craft and Traditional Arts (2012), and Artist Fellowships from the Tiffany Foundation (1995), the National Endowment for the Arts (1994), and a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation (2016).

In 2014 the Metal Museum in Memphis Tennessee named Mimlitsch-Gray "Master Metalsmith" and presented her first museum retrospective, Staging Form. A solo show, In/Animate: Recent Work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray is curated by Akiko Busch and on exhibit through December 2016 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. Her work has been featured at venues such as Sienna Patti Contemporary, Wexler Gallery, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and is currently on view at the Museum of Arts and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Mimlitsch-Gray's publications include: In/Animate: Recent Work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray (SUNY Press, NY 2016); Staging Form (Metal Museum, 2014); Makers: A History of American Studio Craft (UNC Press, Chapel Hill, 2010); Craft in America- Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects (Random House, 2007); 100 Treasures (Cranbrook Art Museum, 2004); Skilled Work- American Craft in the Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998); Women Designers, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference (Yale University Press, 2000); and One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today (Abrams, 1995). A feature article, “Of Hammers, History and Household: The Metalwork of Myra Mimlitsch-Gray”, by David McFadden, was published in Metalsmith, Spring 2005.

Public Collections:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

Enamel Art Foundation. Los Angeles, California

Greater Lafayette Museum of Art. Lafayette, Indiana

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan Wisconsin

Kohler Co., Kohler, Wisconsin

Metal Museum, Memphis Tennessee

Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, New York

Mint Museum of Craft and Design. Charlotte, North Carolina

Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, Massachusetts

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Museum of Arts and Design. New York, New York

National Museums of Scotland

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

Racine Art Museum. Racine, Wisconsin

Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. SUNY-New Paltz, New York

University of Akron, Mary Myers School of Art, Ohio

Victoria and Albert Museum. London, England

Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, Connecticut