Gary Gary Griffin has been a practicing metalsmith for over 30 years and recently moved to El Rito, NM, after spending 22 years as an artist in residence at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. He is the recipient of the Society of North American Goldsmith’s 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contributions to the field. His work has been acquired by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The Detroit Zoo, University of Detroit, and by numerous private collectors. Griffin has exhibited extensively in the United States, Mexico, South America, Japan and Europe. Additionally, Griffin authors catalog essays, critical reviews and articles. He has written for Metalsmith and American Craft magazines, as well as for numerous exhibition catalogs. He has also been a resident artist of the Kohler Co. Arts and Industry series, the subject of an Archives of American art oral history interview, and Master Metalsmith of the National Ornamental Metal Museum. Griffin has received numerous awards and fellowships including two National Endowment of Arts grants. In 2005, he was elected to the American Craft Council College of Fellows for his contributions and achievements in the field of Metalsmithing.
