Faculty


Printable Version of Program Information Faculty Chunghi Choo
Chunghi Choo received a B.F.A. from Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea and M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. She is the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Art and Head of the Jewelry and Metal Arts program. She teaches beginning, intermediate, mixed media workshop and graduate workshop courses. Her jewelry, hollowware, flatware, sculptures, mixed media objects and textile art works have been exhibited worldwide. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain; Museé des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France; Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseets, Copenhagen, Denmark; Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.C; Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C; American Craft Museum, N.Y.C; Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution’s National Design Museum, N.Y.C; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Detroit Institute of Art; Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI; General Food Corporate Headquarters, White Plains, N.Y; Long House Reserve, East Hampton, NY, and other museums and public places. She is recipient of a N.E.A. Fellowship; AMOCO Excellence in Teaching Award from Univ. of Iowa; Regents Award for Faculty Excellence from State of Iowa Board of Regents, and elected to the College of Fellows, American Craft Council, among others.
Kee-ho Yuen
Kee-ho Yuen was born in Hong Kong and received a B.A. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1983 and an M.F.A. in Metalsmithing and Jewelry from the University of Iowa in 1989. After teaching at the University of Northern Iowa for ten years, he joined the University of Iowa as an Associate Professor of the Metalsmithing and Jewelry program in the fall of 2000, and become the Head of the program in the fall of 2001. He teaches beginning, advanced and graduate workshop metals courses, as well as teaching software techniques, including AutoCAD and 3-D computer modeling. Kee-ho’s work has been acquired by the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; the Museum of Arts and Design (formerly American Craft Museum), New York, NY; the Museum of Art, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Cedar Rapids Museum, Cedar Rapids, IA as well as other places. Collectors of his work include Rosanne Raab, New York, NY; Sonny Kamm, Los Angeles, CA. and Lois Jecklin, Washington, DC. His work have been exhibited in numerous national and international invitational group and solo exhibitions as well as competitive exhibitions including: the Goldsmith Hall, London, England; Museum Für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; Pionine Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea; the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Museum of Arts and Design, Fortunoff, and Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Museum of Art, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and many times at the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TN. Publication of Kee-ho’s work can be found at: The Metalsmith’s Books of Boxes and lockets by Tim McCreight; Contemporary Silver: Commissioning, Designing, Creating by Benton Seymour Rabinovitch and Helen Clifford, and Metalsmith, “Exhibition in Print” 2005 issue. In addition to his various publications, Kee-ho’s work was chosen to be presented in Dawn Nakanishi’s lecture, titled “Asian Roots, Western Soil: Visual Poetry in Metal,” at the 1998 National Conference of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. Kee-ho has currated many international and national exhibitions, such as the “International Metal Artists Invitational Exhibition” at the Kepco Plaza Gallery in Seoul, Korea in 2004; “International Jewelry and Metalsmithing Invitational” at the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa city, IA in 2002, and “Seven British Silversmiths” at the gallery of Art of the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA in 1997.
Lab Coordinator Ben Anzelc
Benjamin Anzelc received a B.S.Ed in Art Education from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb IL. He has also earned a MA in Drawing/Painting from Northern Illinois University. Currently, he is the Lab Coordinator in the Metalsmithing/Jewelry area. He is responsible for safety, maintenance, materials and processes in jewelry/metal arts. Ben has been a high school art teacher for the last several years at Elgin High School in Elgin Illinois and the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts. He was named Cannon Art Educator of the year and has participated in a variety of group and solo exhibitions.