Jon Michael Route
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b. 1954, Frederic, Wisconsin
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Metalsmiths and Mentors, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Time for a Nice Cuppa…Wisconsin Teapots, West Bend Art Museum,
West Bend, WI
2005 Objects for Use: Handmade by Design, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
2003 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works in Metal, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY and Chicago, IL
2001 Objects for Use: Handmade by Design, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1998 American Crafts Invitational, Indiana University, Kokomo, IN
1996 A Madcap Teapot Party, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC
1993-95 Sculptural Concerns, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, touring
1992 Solo Exhibition, Boulder Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Boulder, CO
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006 Lynda McDaniel, "All That Glitters Isn’t Gold", Niche Magazine, winter
2005 Craft Business Magazine, December
Dona Meilach, Teapots: Makers and Collectors, Schiffer Publications
2002 The Crafts Report Magazine, April
2001 Holly Hotchner, Objects for Use/Handmade by Design,
Harry N. Abrams, Inc
"Exhibition In Print", Metalsmith Magazine, September
2000 Tim McCreight, Metalsmith’s Book of Boxes and Lockets,
Hand Books Press
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jon Route has been a metalsmith working commercially, academically and independently, for over 30 years. Born in 1954, he received a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jon worked in an architectural metals firm and as a jeweler before striking out on his own as an independent craft-artist. He was invited to teach at the U-W-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin and has given many workshops throughout his career on the technical aspects of his craft. He has exhibited his hand constructed vessel forms and teapots at some of the best art/craft festival events in the United States including the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the American Craft Expo in Evanston, the Philadelphia Craft Show, and the Smithsonian Craft Show. He is a 1998 recipient of a Wisconsin Individual Artist Fellowship and featured in Metalsmith Magazine’s 2001 "Exhibition in Print".
Route’s work was chosen recently to be included at the American Craft Museum in New York in an exhibition entitled "Objects for Use: Handmade By Design", and the accompanying book published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Paul Smith, Director Emeritus, American Craft Museum, and General Editor. In 2006, Jon was invited to participate in an exhibition honoring the 28 year teaching collaboration between Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty in the University of Wisconsin, Madison Art Metals program, organized by the Chazen Museum of Art, U-W Madison, Wisconsin, and at an exhibition at the West Bend Art Museum entitled "Time For A Nice Cuppa: Wisconsin Teapots", in West Bend, Wisconsin.
Jon has served as a Juror and Advisor to several fairs and festivals and two years as a Director on the board of the National Association of Independent Artists. He lives and maintains his studio in the rural countryside of northwestern Wisconsin.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Metalsmiths and Mentors, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Time for a Nice Cuppa…Wisconsin Teapots, West Bend Art Museum,
West Bend, WI
2005 Objects for Use: Handmade by Design, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
2003 Hot Tea!, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works in Metal, The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Exposition, New York, NY and Chicago, IL
2001 Objects for Use: Handmade by Design, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1998 American Crafts Invitational, Indiana University, Kokomo, IN
1996 A Madcap Teapot Party, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC
1993-95 Sculptural Concerns, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, touring
1992 Solo Exhibition, Boulder Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Boulder, CO
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2006 Lynda McDaniel, "All That Glitters Isn’t Gold", Niche Magazine, winter
2005 Craft Business Magazine, December
Dona Meilach, Teapots: Makers and Collectors, Schiffer Publications
2002 The Crafts Report Magazine, April
2001 Holly Hotchner, Objects for Use/Handmade by Design,
Harry N. Abrams, Inc
"Exhibition In Print", Metalsmith Magazine, September
2000 Tim McCreight, Metalsmith’s Book of Boxes and Lockets,
Hand Books Press
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jon Route has been a metalsmith working commercially, academically and independently, for over 30 years. Born in 1954, he received a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jon worked in an architectural metals firm and as a jeweler before striking out on his own as an independent craft-artist. He was invited to teach at the U-W-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin and has given many workshops throughout his career on the technical aspects of his craft. He has exhibited his hand constructed vessel forms and teapots at some of the best art/craft festival events in the United States including the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the American Craft Expo in Evanston, the Philadelphia Craft Show, and the Smithsonian Craft Show. He is a 1998 recipient of a Wisconsin Individual Artist Fellowship and featured in Metalsmith Magazine’s 2001 "Exhibition in Print".
Route’s work was chosen recently to be included at the American Craft Museum in New York in an exhibition entitled "Objects for Use: Handmade By Design", and the accompanying book published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Paul Smith, Director Emeritus, American Craft Museum, and General Editor. In 2006, Jon was invited to participate in an exhibition honoring the 28 year teaching collaboration between Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty in the University of Wisconsin, Madison Art Metals program, organized by the Chazen Museum of Art, U-W Madison, Wisconsin, and at an exhibition at the West Bend Art Museum entitled "Time For A Nice Cuppa: Wisconsin Teapots", in West Bend, Wisconsin.
Jon has served as a Juror and Advisor to several fairs and festivals and two years as a Director on the board of the National Association of Independent Artists. He lives and maintains his studio in the rural countryside of northwestern Wisconsin.