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Eleanor Moty was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Moty was raised on a rural farm with little exposure to art as a child. In high school, Moty made and sold stained glass. Her first introduction to jewelry was a trip with her high school art teacher to
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In the 1980s her interest in faceted planes and geometric designs instigated a working relationship with chemist, Raoul Reiser. In 1980 Moty was the first woman and first humanities professor to receive the H.I. Romnes
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Moty was an early pioneer of the processes of photo etching and electroplating as applied to jewelry and led lectures and workshops on the subject. She also contributed to an authoritative article on photo etching processes for jewelry and three dimensional work in
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Strauss, Cindi, and Helen W. Drutt. Ornament As Art: Avant-garde
Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Stuttgart, Germany: Arnoldsche Art Publishers in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
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Fenster, and Eleanor Moty. "Metalsmiths and Mentors: Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison". Madison, WI: Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
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with precious stones and found objects. Creating settings for stones such as rutilated and tourmalinated quartz remained a material of interest for Moty over the next thirty years.
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American Studio Jewelry, 1940 to the present," "Studies in the Decorative Arts (U.S.A)" Vol. 6, No. 1, 1999.
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Metalsmithing in the United States: 1970-1980," "Metalsmith" Vol. 1, No. 3, 1980.
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in 1971. In 1972 she began teaching at the
University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she was a colleague of
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in Deer Isle, Maine. She was an honorary board member of the James
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Madison. She received two
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Moty, Eleanor. "Workshop: Photofabrication," "Craft
Horizons" Vol. 31, No. 3, (June 1971).
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Moran, Lois, ed. "American Craft Council Awards." "American Craft", Vol. 58, No. 5, 1998.
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Simon, Marjorie. "Eleanor Moty: Romancing The Stone," "Metalsmith" Vol. 32, No. 1, 2012.
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College of Fellows by her peers. From 1982 to 1991 she was a trustee of the
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Foley, Suzanne. "Eleanor Moty." "American Craft", Vol. 47, No. 3, 1987.
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