Related Employment

2006-    Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1985-2006         Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1980-85            Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1977-80            Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1976-77             Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1976, summer   Instructor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
1975, fall           Instructor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1968-69             Instructor, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
1967-    Studio metalsmith/jeweler                                                                                                                    Grants, Awards, Honors

2010 Invited by the Shanghai Workers Center for International Exchange to lead a delegation of
metalsmiths to China to meet with Chinese metalsmiths.  Took 9 metalsmith colleagues to Shanghai, Guizhou and Hangzhou, September 10-21.

2009 Interviewed by Mija Riedel for the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project in Craft 
And Decorative Arts in America, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,   Washington, DC.


2008 The National Metalsmiths Hall of Fame, Artist/Arts Educator category.  The Arts Center,
 St. Petersburg, Florida

The 2008 Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Artist Trust,  Washington 
 
2006 Voted Professor Emeritus of the University of Washington upon retirement December 15, 2006.

Lifetime Achievement Award, Seattle Metals Guild

2004   Invited to donate my papers to start a Mary Lee Hu research collection at The Archives Of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, as part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.