Awards
2025
Florence Biennalé Designers Award, 2nd Place Designer Catagory, Florence, Italy, October 2025
2024
Best of KC, Brookside Art Annual, Kansas City, MO, May 2024
2023
Best of KC, Brookside Art Annual, Kansas City, MO, May 2023
2021
Best of Show 3-d Category, Brookside Art Annual, Kansas City, MO
2018
Visionmakers 2018 Hogan Craftsmanship Award, 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK Juror: Emily Zilber, the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
2016
Special Merit Award Nature Art Exhibition, Light, Space & Time Online Gallery
3rd Place Award Nature Art Exhibition 3D Art Category, Light, Space & Time Online Gallery
2015
2nd Place Awarded Prairie Village State of the Arts Exhibition, Prairie Village, KS Juror: Larry Thomas
2nd Place Hollowware/Art Object Division Saul Bell International Design Award Competition, Albuquerque, NM
2014
1st Place Awarded 32nd Annual Juried River Market Regional Exhibition, Kansas City, MO JUROR: Antonia Boström, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
1998
First Place Awarded, Highland Park Festival, Highland Park, IL
1985
Merit Award, Columbia Art Festival 27, Columbia, MO
Grants
2018
Inspiration Grant, ArtsKC nonprofit artists organization
LECTURES/INTERVIEWS
2026
Artist Lecture and Demo, Belger Arts Center, February 6, 2025
2022
ARTTALK WITH APRIL, Podcast interview
2021
KOPN Columbia, MO, radio interview with Diana Moon
2019
Roeland Park Community Center Visiting Artist Presentation, March, 2019
2018
Visiting Artist Presentation, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS Argentium Silver Guild, Clare Felgate, ARGENTIUM SILVER GULD FEATURE: Genevieve Flynn, Award-Winning Silversmith, England, 2018
2017
FROM CONCEPT TO CREATION A live podcast interview with Carrie Richwine
2016
GUILDit Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO A live interactive talk with questions from the audience
2015
The Kansas City Artists Coalition, RE-MEMBERING - archiving for artists, Genevieve Flynn & Larry Thomas speakers for Nelson-Atkins Museum’s Artists Initiative Files
Bibliography
2025 Florence XV Biennalé, Florence, Italy
2024 Heartland Glass 6 Exhibition, Belger Arts, Kansas City, MO
2023 WINTER-SPRING 2023 EXHIBITIONS, Belger Arts, Kansas City, MO
2020 OPEN UP Hammerclub Schoonhoven 2020, Nederlands Zilvermuseum, Schoonhoven, Netherlands
2019 JAMS, jewelry and Metals survey, Society of North American Goldsmiths
2018 Argentium Silver Guild Newsletter, Clare Felgate, ARGENTIUM SILVER GUILD FEATURE: Genevieve Flynn, Award-Winning Silversmith, England, 2018 Mark Arts, Wichita National All-Media Exhibition, Wichita, KS, September-October, 2017
2017 Gabrielle, Wearable Expressions 2017, Seventh International Exhibition Featuring the Ultimate in Wearable Art, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, February, 2017 Rio Grande, Saul Bell Design Award 2017, Book of Finalists, Albuquerque, NM, May, 2017
2015 Floyd, Sudee, Chasing & Repoussé/A Survey 2000-2015, Littleton, CO, August 2015
Rio Grande, The 2015 Saul Bell Design Award, Book of Finalists, Albuquerque, NM,July, 2015
Benesh, Carolyn L.E., Saul Bell Design Award 2015, Ornament Magazine Volume 38 #3, pages 18-21
Simpson, Janet, re: MEMBERS, Kansas City, self-published, July 10 - August 20, 2015
Simpson, Janet, RMRE, self-published, July 11 - August 22, 2014
Hartman, Tanya, Exhibition finds inspiration in Midwest annual River Market Event, spotlights regional talents, August 7, 2014, pageC16
Hemachandra, Ray, 500 Judaica, Contemporary Ritual Art, New York, Lark Books, 2010
KC Studio, Renaissance Woman, Metalsmith Refines Art, July/August, 2009, page 30 The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism Calendar, 2005
The Kansas City Star Magazine, 2004
The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, 2004
The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, June Issue, 1997
The Wednesday Magazine, July Issue, 1997
The Kansas City Magazine, 1985
Collections/Commissions
2023 Private Collection of Fleur Bresler, Rockville, MD GOLDEN BOTRUS TEAPOT 2023 Private Collection of Dr. & Mrs. B. Bochner, Chicago, IL TREE OF LIFE SHABBAT CANDLESTICKS 2023 Private Collection of R. Davis, Maryland
2015 Private collection of Bai Ming, International Ceramic Artist, China
1994 St. Peter's Church, Kansas City, MO Custom sterling silver chalice
1990 Paula Abdul, actress/singer songwriter, Poppy Blossom mirror, sterling silver, Los Angeles, CA
1985 World Series Commemorative Pin presented to Ewing Kaufman, team owner, Kansas City, MO
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017 SNAG (Society of North American Goldsmiths) Hospitality Committee, New Orleans Conference
2016 ARTIST INC. Fellowship
2012-2013 President, Sterling Guild, Kansas City, MO
1997-Present Instructor/Director Jewelry Techniques School
1989-2000 Director of Baltimore Alternative Craft Show
1989-1997 Instructor Beginning Silversmithing/Junior High Level
1975-1982 Bench jeweler to the trade
Service to the Field
February 2018, Juror, Art in the Park, Columbia, MO
June, Awards Judge, Art in the Park, Columbia, MO
2017 May, SNAG (Society of North American Goldsmiths) Hospitality Committee, New Orleans, LA
2015 February, Juror, Art in the Park, Columbia, MO
June, Awards Judge, Art in the Park, Columbia, MO
2000 Juror, Shawnee Mission East High School Art/Design Competition, Overland Park, KS
Intensive Workshops
2018 Fabrizio Acquafresca, Intensive chasing and repoussé
2014, 2015 Kevin O'Dwyer, Intensive Class Hollow Forms
2012 David Huang, Intensive Class Raising Vessels
2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 Fabrizio Acquafresca, Intensive Classes in Old World Italian Chasing & Repoussé, Using snarling irons in hollowware
1999, Valentin Yotkov, Intensive Class in Eastern Chasing & Repoussé
1991, Heikki Seppa, Intensive Class in Metal Forming, Penland, NC
1986 Heikki Seppa, Intensive focus on anticlastic/synclastic techniques
1985 University of Kansas, Metalsmithing/Hollowware, Jon Havener
1974-75 The Kansas City School of Watchmaking, Jewelry Design, Jewelry Repair, Hand Engraving