Robert Ebendorf

born Topeka, Kansas, 1938

BiographyRobert Ebendorf earned a B.F.A. in 1958 and an M.F.A. in 1963, both from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He pursued studies in Norway through a Fulbright grant and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, training at Norway's State School for Applied Arts and Crafts and at Norway Silver Designs in Fredikstad.

Ebendorf was a founding member and past president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. In addition to his work as a metalsmith and jewelry maker he has taught at University of Georgia, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts and the State University of New York, New Paltz. He also has worked as a jewelry design consultant in Mexico City, Oslo, Norway, and Vicenza, Italy. In 2004 the Gallery of Art & Design, North Carolina State University published The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years.

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