GILES GILSON

INDEPENDENT STUDIES

Fine arts, including various media in painting and sculpture
                           composition and dynamics
                           the role of the artist in society
                           decorative arts
                           music
                           drama
                           the function of aesthetics      

Industrial arts; including
                           2 dimensional design
                           3 dimensional design
                           industrial modelmaking
                           prototype development
                           machine design
                           materials and techniques
                           industrial advertising and display

Aircraft theory and design
Automobile design
Design philosophy and concept
Practical and Emotional dynamics and the art of existence

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Wash, D.C.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC

The Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL

The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

The Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, New York.

Arizona State University Museum of Art, Tempe, AZ

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Mach.

The Lewis Collection, Richmond, VA.

The Lipton Collection, Los Angeles, CA

The Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA

EXHIBITS (partial list of locations)

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY

Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY

Greenville Co. Museum of Art, Greenville, SC

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL.

Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK.

Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Canada.

Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio.

Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

"American Woodcarvers Show", Worcester, Mass., and Rockefeller Center, NYC.

Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC

Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah

Los Angeles Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Tromso Museum, Tromso, Norway.

Chateau De Wiltz, Luxembourg, Belgium.

Tartu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia.

Belvedere Palace, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

The American Cultural Center, Warsaw, Poland.

Historic Museum of Applied Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.

BY INVITATION   (Partial list)

Panelist-speaker, 1978 Convention of the American Society of Interior  Designers, Washington, D.C.

Technical consultant for 3M Corp, St. Paul, MN

Technical Consultant for Harmony Arts Ltd. NYC

Technical consultant for General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY

Consulting Artist for General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY

Speaker/slides at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Technical Consultant for Steinburger Sound, Newburgh, NY

Artist in residence- University of Pennsylvania at Indiana, 1989

Guest lecturer/Instructor at Cal State at Fullerton, 1990

Panelist/Instructor; ACC Southeastern conference, Jackson, MS, 1991

Body Design for Formula Honda racecar, 1991

Instructor; Woodturning Design Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, 1992

Keynote speaker, + workshops; AWGB International Seminar, Loughborough, England, 1993

BIBLIOGRAPHY (partial list)

American Craft   

Fine Woodworking 

Craft Art International (Australia)

500 Wood Bowls  ,Lark

Crafts (Great Britain)

Holz und Elfenbein (Germany)

American Woodturner (AAW journal)

Artistic Woodturning    Dale Nish.

Woodworking The New Wave - Dona Meilach.

The Art of Turned Wood Bowls - Edward Jacobson.

A Gallery of Turned Objects - Albert LeCoff.

Design Book II,  Taunton Press

Fine Woodworking Techniques 4      

On Making and Modifying Machines   

Lathe Turned Objects, Wood Turning Center.

Woodturning  (Great Britain)

Polychromatic Assembly for Woodturning

The Craft Factor (Canadian)

The Art of the Lathe, Speilman

Contemporary Turned Wood, Leier/Peters/Wallace

The Fine Art of Wood, Detroit Institute of Art

Woodturning in North America Since 1930,  Wood Turning Center/Yale

Nature Transformed  ,  Umma

Beneath the Bark,  Christensen Nish

SELECTED  PUBLICATIONS

The Craft Report

Fine Woodworking

American Woodturner

On Making and Modifying Machines, Taunton Press

AWARDS

Special Award: Turned Object Show, Phila, PA, 1981

Best Dimensional Display, 1985, Growth Inc. Upstate N.Y. Ad Club Inc.

Mid Atlantic Foundation For The Arts-artist in residency, 1988