| Currently a Santa Fe resident, Linda Threadgill received an MFA from Tyler School ofArt in Philadelphia in 1979. She is an Emeritus Professor of Art from theUniversity of Wisconsin - Whitewater where she headed the metalsmithing program for 25 years.
She was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2005, received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 1984. As the reciepient of eleven faculty research grants she developed a small scale etching machine for the artist's studio based on the chemical milling technology used in printed circuit boardproduction. She has shared this technology in over seventy workshops at Universities in the United States, Korea and England.
Ms. Threadgill has contributed administratively as a Craftsman Trustee for the American Craft Council in New York, as a member of the Board of Directors for the Society of North American Goldsmiths, Editorial Advisory for Metalsmith Magazine and American Craft Magazine and was selected to be an Artisan member of the Society of American Silversmiths.
Her work is represented in public collections of the American Design Museum in NYC, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, The Royal College of Art in London, Walker Hill Art Center in Seoul, South Korea, the Kamm Teapot Museum in Charlotte NC, the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN and others.
Her 30 year career has included participation in numerous one person and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and her work is represented in many publications. She is currently represented by Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge MA.
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