Craig Nutt
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Governor's Arts Award, 1985, State of Alabama.
Alumnus Arts Award, University of Alabama, College of Arts and Sciences, 1997.
Award of Distinction, The Furniture Society, 2018.
Honorary Lifetime Member, Tennessee Craft, 2018.
Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation, 1989.
Artists Fellowship, Tennessee State Arts Commission, 1998-99.
Artists Fellowships, Alabama State Council on the Arts, 1988, 1995.
Harriet Murray Award, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL.
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL.
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN.
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA.
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT.
Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA.
PUBLIC ART
Bellevue Bench Mark, Watermarks (commemorating the response to the 2010 Nashville Flood, Nashville Arts Commission, Nashville, TN, 2013.
Imperator, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (Gate E 16), Atlanta, GA, 2003.
Corncorde, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (Gate E 16), Atlanta, GA, 1996.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Out of Bounds: The Art of Croquet, Messler Gallery, Rockport, ME, 2020. Travel to Museum of Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, 2021; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 2022.
The Woodworkers Journey: Concept to Creation, Maui Arts and Culture Center, Kahului, HA, 2020.
Telling Tales: Narrative Works from the Collection, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, 2019-20.
Wood Works, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA. 2017.
Craig Nutt: ‘Pataphysical Ponderings, Leu Art Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, TN. 2016.
Hawai’i: Change and Continuity, Ewa Gallery, Honolulu, HA. 2015.
Raudelunas Exposition 2013, Ferguson Center Art Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. 2013.
Your Personal Hangups, Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA, 2012.
Craig Nutt: Wood Transformed, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum of Art, Wausau, WI, 2009
Craig Nutt: Certified Organic (Retrospective), Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 2008.
Traditions/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art, Southern Arts Federation, Various Venues through 2010.
Craig Nutt: Flying Objects & Tossed Salads, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH, 2005.
Function Follows Form, Craft Alliance, St.Louis, MO, 2004.
Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 2003.
Studio Art Furniture Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2002
Southeastern Craft Innovations, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, 2002.
North American Wood Turning Since 1930, Wood Turning Center & Yale University Art Gallery, venues: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum (2001), Yale University Art Gallery (2002).
Objects for Use: Handmade by Design, American Craft Museum, New York, N, 2001.
Studio Furniture: A Fine Art Invitational, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, 2000.
Craig Nutt: Furniture & Sculpture, Joan Derryberry Art Gallery, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, 1999.
Craig Nutt & Tom Lee: Fellowship Exhibition, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN, 1999.
Celebrating the Creative Spirit: Contemporary Southeastern Furniture, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL. (Touring exhibition), 1998.
Craig Nutt: Furniture With a Flair, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, 1997.
Solo Exhibition, University of North Alabama Art Gallery, Florence, AL, 1997.
Survey of North American Contemporary Furniture, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, 1997.
Please Be Seated: Masters of the Art of Seating, Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL, 1995.
Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists With Alabama Ties, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, 1995.
Craig Nutt: From Fine Furniture to Flying Vegetables, Solo Exhibition, Clark Hall Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, 1994.
Solo Exhibition, Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 1993.
Artists, Architects and Designers: Furniture of Our Century, High Museum of Art at Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA, 1991.
Seeds of Change, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.(1991-1993).
Feet First: The Shoe Show, (Craig Nutt & Gaza Bowen), Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1991
Focus: Four Alabama Artists, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, 1990.
Solo Exhibition, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, 1989.
Solo Exhibition, Great American Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1988.
Political Statements, Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. 1986. Touring exhibition (Southern Arts Federation).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS FEATURING WORK
Books
500 Cabinets, Lark Books, 2010.
New Masters of the Wooden Box, Oscar P. Fitzgerald, Fox Chapel Publishing, 2009.
500 Tables, Lark Books, 2009.
Alabama Masters: Artists and Their Work, ed. Georgine Clarke, Alabama State Council on the Arts, 2008.
Studio Furniture of the Renwick Gallery, Oscar P. Fitzgerald, Fox Chapel Publishing, 2008.
500 Chairs, (Contributor, juror, introduction), Lark Books, 2008.
Penland Book of Woodworking, Lark Books, 2006.
Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2003.
Artful Jesters, by Nicholas Roukes, Ten Speed Press, 2003.
Wood Art Today, by Dona Z. Meilach, 2003
Scratching the Surface – Art and Content in Contemporary Wood, by Michael Hosaluk, 2002, Guild Publishing.
Masterpieces East & West - from the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, 1993, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.
Magazines
American Craft, Dec.05/Jan.06, Review: Craig Nutt, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth.
American Craft, April/May 1995, Be Seated (Feature on "Please Be Seated: Masters of the art of Seating, Flagler Museum).
American Craft, December 1987/January 1988: Portfolio.
Mojo, July 2001, Pataphysical Graffiti, by Gerald E. Brennan, account of art and music activities in 1970’s.
Fine Woodworking, January/February, 1991, Craig Nutt: Combining humor and a bit of Cayenne, by Gary Weisenburger.
Southern Accents, September, 1988, Craig Nutt: From Fine Furniture to Flying Vegetables, by Laura Lieberman.
EDUCATION
University of Alabama, 1968-1972, BA 1972 (Major: Religious Studies, minor: Psychology).
Employment
1998-Present: Self-Employed Studio Artist, Kingston Springs, TN.
2006-2016: Director of Programs, Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Montpelier, VT.
2006: Interim Executive Director, Tennessee Association of Craft Artists, Nashville, TN.
1997-1998: Self-Employed Studio Artist, Smithville, TN.
1979-1997: Self-Employed Studio Artist, Northport, AL.
1977-1979: Master Craftsman, Studio Industries of Tuskaloosa, Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL (Business Incubator).
1972-1977: Antique Restorer, Boykin Antiques, Tuscaloosa, AL.