Marjorie Schick

For four decades, Marjorie Schick influenced the worlds of craft and jewelry in both the U.S. and abroad. Her ability to create forms that are both jewelry and sculpture placed her in the first wave of crossover artists who combined the conceptual programs of the fine arts with methods and values associated with craft. She received her MFA with distinction in jewelry and metalsmithing in 1966 from Indiana University-Bloomington where she studied with Alma Eikerman, a pioneer in the field of metalsmithing. She went on to teach at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, retiring in 2017 after fifty years. She was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council, and her works are in numerous museums and private collections throughout the world. In 2004 she was the subject of an oral history recorded for the Archives of American Art Oral History Program at the Smithsonian Institution.