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ayala naphtali
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Jewelry designer Ayala Naphtali draws inspiration from ancient alphanumeric systems, contemporary architecture and her own personal, cultural history. She is intrigued with balance and proportion and feels that each of her pieces must find its axis on the wearer. She creates work with elegance and minimal, bold forms, precious metals and alternative materials.
Education
State University of New York at New Paltz — 1985
BFA Metal Gold and Silversmithing
Workshops / Teaching experience
Private Workshops in Brooklyn, Studios - 2015 -present - Basic Jewelry making,
Rings/bands bangles, recycle/ restore/repair, problem solving
THE NEWARK MUSEUM OF ART, Newark, nj JEWELRY STUDIOS 2013
CANVAS ART STUDIOS, RUMSON NJ, 2011 -2012
Children’s Workshop School, NEW YORK, NY 2003 - 2006
Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center 2009–2017
92ND ST. YMHA Jewelry instructor all levels 1987 -1998,
Awards
NYCxDESIGN Awards, Honoree 2021
Krasl Art Fair, Award of Merit 2015
Boston Mills Arts Festival, Honorable Mention 2014
Main St Fort Worth Arts Festival. Award of Merit, 2010
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Award of Distinction 2008
Professional experience
Adornaxis - co-founder
Featured Publications
Goldfoil Magazine Feature issue #07 2021
https://www.goldfoil.eu/goldfoil-magazine/p/goldfoil-magazine-issue-07-printed-edition
MADE in NYC Women’s History Month 2021
https://madeinnyc.org/articles/made-in-nyc-celebrates-womens-history-month-texture-versatility-ayala-jewelry/
American Craft Magazine MATERIAL CRUSH 2014
POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL ( insert feature photo) 2014
JEWISH RICHMOND MAGAZINE 2013
New York Post, careers FEATURE 1992
FASHIONS OF THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES 1991
WORKING WOMAN MAGAZINE COVER 1990
Mademoiselle (cover) 1990
Glamour MAGAZINE 1990
Women’s Wear Daily 1990
Self Magazine (cover) 1990
Ornament Magazine,“CELEBRATE COLOR” 1988
Juror
Metalwerx “Outside the Lines” 2021
Monmouth Festival of the Arts, Tinton Falls, NJ 2013
American Craft Council 2005
Permanent Collections
White House Ornament Collection, Washington, DC 1993
Cooper Hewitt Museum, Permanent Collection, New York, NY 1987
Kunsindustriumuseum, Trondheim, Norway 1985
Workshops/teaching experience
Private Workshops in Brooklyn, Studios - 2015 -present - Basic Jewelry making,
Rings/bands bangles, recycle/ restore/repair, problem solving
THE NEWARK MUSEUM OF ART, Newark, nj JEWELRY STUDIOS 2013
CANVAS ART STUDIOS, RUMSON NJ, 2011 -2012
Children’s Workshop School, NEW YORK, NY 2003 - 2006
Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center 2009–2017
92ND ST. YMHA Jewelry instructor all levels 1987 -1998,
Upcoming exhibitions
Governors’ island art fair, New York, NY -collaboration installation / audio chandelier - Dafna Naphtali - May 2021
Select Exhibitions & Invitational
NYCxDESIGN MAY 2021 New Collection Launch
ADORNAXIS International Exhibition with NYCxDESIGN 2021
Governors’ island art fair, New York, NY -collaboration installation / audio chandelier - Dafna Naphtali - May 2021
American Crafts Council Shows, Baltimore, San Francisco, St. Paul, 1989- 2019
Snag conference Boston “the homework project” lanconia gallery 2015
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Holiday Art Show, LBI, NJ 2019
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, featured Artist Trunk Show, 2017
The Delaware Contemporary Museum, Wilmington, DE, feature artist, museum shop 2014
Atlanta Contemporary Jewelry Show, Atlanta GA 2009 -2011
Craftforms 2010, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA, 2010
“Make Me Something Beautiful”, 2010 Craft Arts Annual, Newark Museum, NJ, 2010
SOFA Chicago, Pistachios Gallery, 2003-2010
Cloudnine Fashion Design Expo, Milan, Italy represented by Urban Designs, 2008 2009
Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO 2008, 2010, 2014, 2018
American Crafts Council Shows, Baltimore, San Francisco, St. Paul, 1989- 2019
“Renewable Materials”, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 2005
Crafts at the Castle, Boston, MA 2005
SOFA Chicago, Finer Things Gallery 2001-2003
xoxo gallery, baltimore, md 2000
martina and company, providence, rhode island 2000
kaylo contemporary art, glasgow, scotland 1999
aaron faber galley “portfolio show” New york, ny 1998
mind’s eye gallery scottsdale, AZ 1998sculpture to wear, los angeles, ca 1997
jewelers werk gallery, washington, dc 1997
gayle severn gallery, ketchum, id 1997
facere jewelry art “celebrate color” Seattle, wa 1999
Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC, 1994
Select Galleries, Shops and Museums Stores
De Young Museum Shop, San Francisco, CA
W Gallery, Cleveland, OH
High Museum Shop, Atlanta GA
Pistachios Gallery, Chicago, IL
caleb meyer jewelry, philadelphia, pa
concepts of art, lenox, ma
laurie donovan, lenox, ma
motto/mdf, cambridge, ma
artful home, on line galleries
barneys’ new york, ny
ayesha studio, engelwood, nj
craft alliance center, St Louis, MO
Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Museum Shops Chicago, IL
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Society of Arts and Craft Galleries, Boston, MA
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Bellevue Art Museum Shop, Bellevue, WA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
American Folk Art Museum, NY, NY
Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Decordova Museum, “Renewable Materials”, Lincoln, MA
Bellevue Art Museum Shop, Bellevue, WA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
National museum of women in the arts, Washington, DC
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
Aaron Faber Gallery, Portfolio Show, New York, NY
Quadrum Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA
Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle WA
Organizations and guilds
society of north american goldsmiths
pennsylvania guild of crftsmen
ny handmade collective
made in nyc
Juried arts festivals/exhibitor
American craft council, baltimore Md
American craft council, atlanta, ga
American craft council, st. paul, mn
American craft council, springfield, ma
American craft council san francisco, ca
American craft council, sarasota, fl
atlanta contemporary jewelry show, GA
paradise city arts festival , northamton, ma
paradise city arts festival, marlboro, ma brookside, arts festival, kansas city, mo
sun valley arts festival, ketchum, id
krasl arts festival, st joseph, mi
new orleans jazzfest contemporary crafts, new orleans, la
rittenhouse Fine craft fair, philadelphia, pa
Media
“the 10 show” , morning talk show review of exhibition, philadelphia, pa
Jewelry assistantships and benchwork
Reinstein and Ross, New York, NY 1988
Takashi Wada, new york, ny 1983 -1986 summer