Ana M. Lopez is an Assistant Professor, teaching Metalsmithing & Jewelry as well as History of Crafts at the University of North Texas. Her creative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and includes a major commission for the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She is also the author of the reference book Metalworking Through History: An Encyclopedia, published in the Spring of 2009 by Greenwood Press. Ana currently lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband Keith.

Education

2007	MA History of American Decorative Arts, Parsons School of Design The Smithsonian Associates, Washington, District of Columbia
1999	MFA Metalsmithing, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1996	BFA, Studio Art: Sculpture and Metalsmithing/Jewelry, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (Magna Cum Laude)

TEACHING AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005 - Present	Assistant Professor, Jewelry & Metalsmithing, History of Crafts University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
2008-2010	Member and Chairperson Elect of the Education Dialog Committee Society of North American Goldsmiths
2008	Artist in Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2006-2007	Coordinator, Fusion International Exhibitions, The Enamelist Society
2005	Continuing Education Instructor, Jewelry, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, District of Columbia Special Project Assistant, Ceramics and Glass Collection, Division of Home and Community Life, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia
2004	Juror, Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, Pennsylvania Instructor, "Sculpture with Alternative Materials", The Smithsonian Associate's Studio Arts Program Fellowship recipient, National Museum of American History, Assistant to Bonnie Lilienfeld, Curator of Ceramics and Glass
2000-2003	Assistant Professor, Metalsmithing, Sculpture, Drawing, Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado
1999-2000	Artist-in-Residence, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee Adult and Children’s Community Class Instructor, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
1998-2000	Summer Faculty, Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen Michigan

Selected Exhibitions

2008	Craft Texas Houston Center for Craft, Houston, Texas Third Intercollegiate Metals Exhibition K. Herberger College of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2007	Second Annual Intercollegiate Metals Exhibition K. Herberger College of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Past, Present, Future Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado Topeka Competition 28 Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, Kansas
2006	Golden Opportunity (virtual exhibition) featured at: Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Association for Contemporary Jewelry conference, London, England Polished: Three Decades of Metal at UNT School of Visual Arts UNT Artspace, Fort Worth, Texas Critical Mass: Metalsmithing at Cranbrook Under Gary Griffin Network Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan The Art of Adornment Cornucopia Art Center, Lanesboro, Minnesota Parameters of Preciousness Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois Reinterpreting the Vessel Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Metalisms: Signature Works in Jewelry & Metalsmithing Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado Unfolding Kendal College of Art and Design Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Awarded Best of Show)
2004	Educators/Educated: Jewelry and Metals in Ohio, Riffe Gallery, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, Ohio Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2003	Hammered and Forged Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio (Catalog) Minute to Massive, All Monumental, Cultureclash Gallery, Salida, Colorado
2002	Colorado Metalsmithing Association Exhibition Improv Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado Hybrids and Hardware (solo) Southwest Missouri State Art and Design Gallery, Springfield, Missouri ASC Faculty Show New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas New Mexico Sculptural Attitudes Show of Hands Gallery, Denver, Colorado. Clay, Fiber, Paper, Glass, Metal, and Wood The Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, Iowa.
2001	Metal Departures The Society for Midwest Metalsmiths, Emerson and Rose Galleries, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri. (Catalog) The Breath of Nature, Cheongju International Craft Biennale Cheongju-city, Korea. (Honorable Mention) (Catalog)

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

2008	Presented paper “The Changing Nature of Blacksmithing Instructional Systems in America And its Effect on the Participation of Women: Nineteenth Century to Present” at the Crafticulation and Education conference at the University of Helsinki, Finland Workshop Presenter, University of Houston, Houston, Texas Guest Lecturer, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2007	Guest Lecturer and Workshop Presenter, Art Department, Stephen F. Austin State University
2004	Workshop Instructor, Indian Church Village Artisans’ Center, Indian Church Village, Belize
2002	Guest Lecturer and Workshop Presenter, Southwest Missouri State University Guest Lecturer, New Mexico Highlands University Presenter, Colorado Metalsmithing Association
2001	Presenter, Art Resources of Southern Colorado Annual Conference
2000	Weekend Workshop Instructor, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, Michigan.

Publications

2009	Lopez, Ana M., Metalworking Through History: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing Group. Anticipated publication date April, 2009 Lopez, Ana M., Conference Proceedings, Crafticulation and Education, University of Helsinki, Finland

Public Commmissions

2006	Commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to create a large-scale wind chime for the entrance to the Asian Arts Galleries for the occasion of their grand re-opening