JON BROOKS - RESUMÉ Born Manchester, New Hampshire 1944
Education
1967 MFA, College of Fine Arts
Wood/Furniture Design & Sculpture
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
1966 BFA
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Selected Collections
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Renwick Gallery, Washington,
DC
American Craft Museum, New York, New York
Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Sculpture Park, Lewiston, New York
John Robbins Foundation, Westtown School, Westtown, Pennsylvania
St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Concord, New Hampshire
Whipple Free Library, New Boston, New Hampshire
New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire
New Boston Central School, New Boston, New Hampshire
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003, 1998 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1994 Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Massachusetts
1993 Buckingham, Brown and Nichols, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1992 Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts
St. Anselm's College, Manchester, New Hampshire
1991 Lamont Gallery, Exeter, New Hampshire
Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1990 The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan
1988 Image Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
1988 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1984 Craft Council of Tasmania, Australia
1983 The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1981 Workbench Gallery, New York, New York
1979 Richard Kagan Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Selected Exhibitions
2003 "American Studio Furniture"
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
"The Figure as Object"
Southern Highland Craft Guild, Ashville, NC
2002 "The Chair" Worcester Center for Crafts
Worcester, MA
NH Furniture Masters–Montshire Museum
Norwich, VT
2001 Rennick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, "American Craft Odyssey",
Washington, DC
Gallery NAGA, "Le Bain", Boston, Massachusetts
2000 "Studio Furniture", Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
"Chairs" Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
"The Art of Craft", Hood Museum, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire
1999 SoOoFoAo Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, New York
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Boston Architectural Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1998 National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Renwick Gallery,
Washington, DC
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
1997 Pritam and Eames, East Hampton, New York
"Celebrating American Craft" Museum Kunstindustrie, Copenhagen, Denmark
SUNY College, Brockport, New York
1996 "Chairmania" Museum at the Fashion Institute, New York, New York
Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan
"New Hampshire Furniture Masters", Concord, New Hampshire
1995 Limn Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Chairmania" Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, Illinois
Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, California
"Masterworks" Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
"New Traditions" Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
1994 "Conservation By Design", Rhode Island School of Design Museum
of Art, Providence Rhode Island
1993 San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California
1992 "Craft Today USA" European Tour, major museums in Spain, Greece,
Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, USSR, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, France
Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution, Detroit, Michigan
1991 "Dogs, Mystical, Magical, Inspiration", Pueblo Museum, Tucson,
Arizona
"Masterpieces of the 20th Century" Currier Gallery of Art, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire
"The Chair" Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, California
"Furniture Now" Artworks Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1989 "Craft Today", Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, Louvre, Paris, France
1989 "Language of Assembly", Hoffman Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1988 Wita Gardner Gallery, San Diego, California
1987 "The New Spirit: Wood Turned & Carved"
Hand & Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1986 — 88 "Poetry of the Physica", Inaugural Exhibition of the
American Craft Museum,
New York, New York
1986 "Furniture You Can Dance To", Art & Architectural Design,
Baltimore, Maryland
Selected Awards
1999 — 1996 — 1990 Fellowship/Grant, New Hampshire State Council
on the Arts
1995 — 1985 Ballantine Best in Show Award, League of New Hampshire Crafts
2000 — 1994 Best in Show, Living with Crafts, Sunapee Fair, Sunapee, New
Hampshire
1985 Massachusetts Arts Council Purchase Award
Selected Publications Time Magazine
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Boston Globe
American Craft Magazine
Bloomberg Magazine
Fine Woodworking
Interiors Magazine
Art and Antiques
Furniture Society Design Book
American Style
House and Garden
Lectures & Residencies
1999, 1997 Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
1995, 1992 Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, Massachusetts
1994 NH Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire
1993, 1986, 1974 University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
1990, 1983 University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1990 Woodworker’s Guild, Wellington, New Zealand
L'Etacq College, Christchurch, New Zealand
Contemporary Design Center, Auckland, New Zealand
1990, 1974 Alfred University, Alfred, New York
1989 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1988 — 86 State Juror, League of New Hampshire Craftsmen
1986 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1984 Craft Council of New Zealand: Christchurch, New Plymouth, Auckland
Craft Council of Australia: Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart
1981 Program in Artisanry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
1980 Johnson Atelier Institute of Sculpture, Princeton, New Jersey
1975 — 78 Artpark, Lewiston, New York
Teaching Experience
2000 Haystack
1996, 1990, 1986, 1982, 1978 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North California
1999, 1995, 1994, 1993 Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
1991, 1985, 1984
1990, 1984, 1983 University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1987 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
1979, 1977 Peter's Valley, Layton, New Jersey
1978 — 1976 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
1970 — 1978 St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire
