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Momentum -  Lecture by Boris Bally

Boris Bally is a Swiss-trained goldsmith working as a contemporary metalsmith and designer in Providence, Rhode Island, where he maintains his studio business, Bally Humanufactured. Bally’s work is a disciplined body of objects which vary from eccentric through formal to humorous, provoking thought and reflecting on some of the distortions of our ordered world. Over four decades, his practice has become an amalgam of the skills of an able industrial designer, a gifted craftsperson, a discriminating sculptor and a cultural critic. For years, he has been organizing major art exhibitions facilitating political activism to end gun violence.  

Recently, Bally was interviewed for the Smithsonian Institution’s, “Archives of American Art: Oral History Project.”  His work has been featured in numerous international and national exhibitions and prominent publications. Public collections include London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Art & Design New York, Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Brooklyn Museum, The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collections housed in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Renwick Gallery and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. His artwork has earned him numerous state fellowship grants in design and crafts including an International Design Resource Award, the Felissimo Design Award from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Green Dot Award, Second Prize in the Fortunoff Silver: New Forms and Expressions II, the Visual Arts Achievement Award from the Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island, and a Society of North American Goldsmiths Volunteer Recognition Award.