merry renk's Blue Moon

merry renk

San Francisco, CA
MAG Founder, and Past President 1954-55
Contact
www.merryrenk.com

While a student at the Institute of Design in Chicago, Illinois, merry opened a gallery, with two other students, called 750 Studio, exhibiting crafts, painting, sculpture and photography.  They experimented with metals, built their kiln and began to make jewelry.  merry realized that making jewelry was her passion, quit school to teach herself the art of the Goldsmith.  She moved to San Francisco, CA, spent a year in Paris, painting, returned to San Francisco to become a full time professional goldsmith.  A founding member of the San Francisco Metal Arts Guild, merry is an honorary fellow on the American Craft Council.

Collections include OMCA, Oakland, CA; LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; MAD, New York, NY; mofaBoston, MA, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.