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Curriculum Vitae
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Barbara Smith McLaughlin - Jewelry Artist
PO Box 793
Stratham, NH 03885-0793
603-686-6802
Artistic Work Experience
1999 – Present: Owner / Goldsmith / Jewelry Artist –
I combine rocks and metal into wearable sculptures for the body.
Jewelry Artist Barbara McLaughlin describes her work as "a planned juxtaposition of rocks and metals, textures and patinas." Studio space is split
between the seacoast of New Hampshire and the west coast of Florida. She shares the available space with her husband, a lapidary artist. Together they create "rebelliously chic jewelry."
McLaughlin creates her jewelry one piece at a time using traditional metalsmithing techniques, including fusing, etching, soldering, stamping, reticulation of metals, roller printing or embossing, forming and lapidary of focal gemstones.
The work is fabricated from a combination of 18K gold, silver (including fine, sterling and reticulated), bronze and various gemstones. Applied patinas whether to the bronze or silver are used to compliment the stones,
while generating the last visual contrast.
Barbara McLaughlin is a self-taught metalsmith with a thirst for knowledge. Armed with her MBA, books became her friend.
Experimentation in the studio was substituted for hands on training, allowing her to explore techniques freely.
Accomplishments / Education
Co-Chair Fair Committee – League of NH Craftsmen Fair 2007-2008
Fair Committee Member – League of NH Craftsmen Fair 2003- 2010
League of New Hampshire Craftsmen - State Juried -November 2002
Advanced Stone Setting - Blaine Lewis, July 2002
Wax Carving - Kate Wolf, May 2002
Jewelry Marketing - Marlene Richey, May 2002
Easy Etching - Alan Perry, May 2002
Combining Gold & Silver - Pauline Warg, April 2002
Casting, Delft Clay & Charcoal - Pauline Warg, March 2001
Intermediate Jewelry & Metalsmithing - MECA, June 2000
Intro to Jewelry Making – LNHC Exeter Gallery – fall 1997
Master of Business Administration - Sacred Heart University, 1985
Bachelor of Business Administration - Western Connecticut State College, 1979
Awards
Best in Metal - Cedarhurst Craft Fair September 2011
Award of Distinction – Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival March 2011
3rd Place Jewelry – White Plains Outdoor Arts Festival 2007
2nd Place Jewelry – White Plains Outdoor Arts Festival 2006
Honorable mention – Booth Design at New England Artisan Lowell MA, 2004
Juried Shows in Attendance
Art Fest Fort Myers – Fort Myers, FL 2011
Bethesda Fine Arts Festival – Bethesda, MD 2010-2011
Images, a Festival of the Arts – New Smyrna Beach, FL 2010-2011
League of NH Craftsmen's Fair – Newbury, NH 2002-2011
Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival – Winter Park, FL March 2011
St. James Court, the Court Section – Louisville, KY 2011
Alexandria, Festival of the Arts, Alexandria VA 2010
Berkshires Arts Festival – Great Barrington, MA 2007-2010
Bethesda Row Arts Festival – Bethesda, MD 2009-2010
Cherokee Triangle Arts Festival – Louisville, KY 2010
Peters Valley Annual Craft Fair – 2009-2010
Under the Oaks – Vero Beach FL 2010
Craft Producers – Hildene VT, Stowe VT 2008-2009
Earrings an Exhibition at the Heidi Lowe Gallery, Rehoboth, DE – 2009
Frederick Festival of the Arts - Fredericks, MD 2008-2009
Paradise City - Northampton, MA – spring / fall 2009
Artrider Production – Lyndhurst, NY 2008-2009
Associations/ Memberships
League of NH Craftsmen
American Craft Council
Made in New Hampshire
Tennessee Arts & Craft Association
My work is available at the following retail locations:
Exeter Fine Crafts – Exeter NH
Tates Gallery – New Boston, NH
Village Goldsmith Gallery – Dover NH
NOA Gifts – Groton, Harvard (Fruitland's museum) & West Concord, MA
Work Experience Prior to 1999
1999 - 2001 – Stone setting for Market Square Jeweler's, Portsmouth, NH
1995 - 1999 – Apprenticed with Master Clock Maker –
R. D. McLaughlin at Taylor River Clock Works, Stratham, NH
1989 – 1995 Commodity Manager for GE Electrical Distribution & Control, private labeled products.
1986 – 1989 Proposal Pricing Analysts for United Technologies Radar Systems Group
1979 – 1986 Scheduler / Business Manager for the engineering group that designed and built the fine guidance sensor for the Hubble Space Telescope.
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