ARMORY ART CENTER - Key Persons
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- Jewelry & Metalsmithing Department Manager
Alicia Jane Boswell received her MFA in Metalsmithing/Jewelry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She has attained positions of visiting professor, Jewelry & Metalsmithing artist-in-residence, Studio technician, Museum Exhibitions Assistant, and visiting workshop instructor at arts & crafts education centers around the United States & Internationally including The Center for Enamel Art, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, the Society of Florida Goldsmiths, and The Textile Support Group Pavia Italy & Wollongong Australia.
In 2013 she was honored to be invited to assist and display work in a small workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Ratti Textile Center which coincided with the exhibition "Gems of European Lace" 1600- 1920. In April of the same year, she was invited by the Textile Support Organization in Pavia Italy to exhibit work, lecture and teach a small textile/lace jewelry workshop. Alicia also has had the pleasure of exhibiting at SIERAAD the International Jewelry Fair in Amsterdam. Her work can be found in public & private collections, including the Enamel Arts Foundation & The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale California. Alicia resides in West Palm Beach Florida, where she is the Jewelry & Metalsmithing Department Manager at the Armory Art Center & presently teaches enameling & advanced metalsmithing workshops & classes. She also continues to pursue her studio practice with commissions and limited production work.
Alicia currently resides in West Palm Beach, Florida where she is the Jewelry & Metalsmithing Department Manager at the Armory Art Center and the BIJOUX! 2021 Assistant Director.
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- Member of the OFFICERS Team
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
Ellen Levy is an art jeweler and has been knitting for over 60 years. She finds combining both hobbies and avocations has been an absolute joy. She has been selling her jewelry at art jewelry boutiques and major art shows in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Austin, Texas and southern Florida for the past 15 years and presently sells locally at Whitespace and the Armory Art Center. Ellen Levy's first career was as an environmental designer, designing sensory stimulation environments for multiply handicapped individuals. Her second career was capital goods sales for one of the two largest hospital equipment companies in the world. Her third career was as executive vice president of a clinical research company that performed research for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, from which she retired. Ellen returned to her love of design when she studied jewelry design at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Taos Institute of Art in Taos, New Mexico and from many Master Jewelry Artists throughout the United States. As a graduate student in design, Ellen was deeply influenced by the geometry, form and function of the architects and designers of the Bauhaus School. As a jewelry artist she has transformed her love of form and function into a unique combination of style, form, texture, and color.
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- Chairman
- Member of the OFFICERS Team
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
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- Assistant
- Registrar
- PR & Marketing
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
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- Director of Ceramics & Sculpture Department
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
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- Member of the OFFICERS Team
- VICE CHAIR
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- Digital Media Manager / Assistant to the CEO
Naomi Wallen graduated from Palm Beach Atlantic University with a B.A. in studio art and a minor in creative writing in 2016. While at university she worked as an administrative assistant for the art department, covering everything from art history to exhibitions, and in her senior year began an internship at the Armory Art Center as assistant to the Chief of Education & Exhibitions. Since that time, she has worked in many capacities at the Armory. Currently, Naomi is the Digital Media Manager, responsible for website management, social media promotion, and assisting with various programming. As a creative, she enjoys incorporating her love of artistic pursuits with her affinity for the written word, documenting all that she can.
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS
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- Member of the OFFICERS Team
- TREASURER
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- Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
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- Member of the BOARD of DIRECTORS