Lunch on Fridays: Focus on Craft: Matthew Hollern

Lunch on Fridays at CIA

Spend a lunch hour learning about the latest in art and design during these Friday lectures. This event is free and open to the public. Pizza and beverages will be provided.

Matthew Hollern: Professor, Department of Jewelry+Metals, CIA

Matthew Hollern has taught jewelry + metals, CAD and 3D Printing, and business at the Cleveland Institute of Art since 1989. He is a co-founder of Cadlaboration, an inter-institutional collaboration established to contribute to the ongoing evolution of the field of jewelry and metals by fostering education and substantive collaboration among artists working with digital technologies.

He earned the Bachelor of Science Degree in Art and French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his junior year he lived in Aix-en-Provence, France where he attended the Universite´ Aix-Marseille, and studied blacksmithing at the École des Beaux-Arts - Aix-en-Provence. In 1989 he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Jewelry and Metals from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. He has received research and professional development grants from the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Lilly Foundation, The John and Maxeen Flower Fund, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture - Creative Workforce Fellowship, and two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and is included in public and private collections including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Design Museum Helsinki - Finland, the Vatican Archive, the Ohio Crafts Museum, the Cleveland Art Association, Alcatel-Sprint, and others.