Jake Cress - Cabinetmaker

Publications

Art & Antiques magazine, "Tradition--with a Twist" - April 2004
Emotional Design: Why We Love or Hate Everyday Things, Donald A. Norma, Basic Books, 2004
The Workshop: Celebrating The Place Where Craftsmanship Begins, text by Scott Gibson, photography by Randy O'Rourke, Taunton Press, 2003
The Roanoke Times, "Meet Jake, a 'nonartist' who makes art," by Joanne Poindexter, July 21, 2003
The Washington Post, "Tongue-and-Groove and Tongue and Cheek", by Paul Fitzgerald, January 15, 2001
Art As Evidence, Jules David Prown, Yale University Press, 2001
There's a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home, Myrna Kaye, Little, Brown and Co., 1998
The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, Galen Cranz, Norton Pub. Co., 1998
American Art magazine, (illustration in "Promise and Perils of Context"), Summer, 1997
Harvard magazine, New England Ed. (frontispiece to "The Life of Chairs") - Jan. -Feb 1997
Fine Woodworking magazine (back cover) - February, 1996
The Philadelphia Inquirer - 7/21/95
The Washington Post, "Washington Home" section - 5/25/1995
Woodcarving magazine (England) - Vol. 2, 1992
Traditional Home magazine - August, 1991

Worcester Center for Crafts, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts, "The Chair", October 12 through November 23, 2002, Juried by Sam Maloof
Michael B. Tusing Gallery, Staunton, Virginia - 2000
Sansar Gallery, Washington, DC - 1985, 1996-97
Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, MD - 1994
Urban Artware, Winston-Salem, NC - 1993-94

Served as one of three judges at the Sixth Annual Texas Furniture Markers Show, Nov. 5th & 6th, 2005
"The Chair Show," Southern Highlands Crafts Guild, NC - 1995
Alleghany Highlands Arts and Crafts Center, Covington, VA - 1995
Towson State University, Baltimore, MD - 1994
Medical College of VA, Richmond, VA - 1990

"Hickory Dickory Clock", gift from Jacob Cress to the Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund by Sotheby's NY, NY, January 19, 2001.
Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA - 2000
Indianapolis Children's Museum, Indianapolis, IN - 2000
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL - 2000

Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian), "Right At Home: American Studio Furniture," April 2, 2004 through January 17, 2005
International Arts and Artists - 2000-2003
Ohio Craft Museum - 2000
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, PA - 1999
Art Museum of Western Virginia, "By Heart and Hand: Collecting Southern Decorative Arts", October 2, 1998 through February 17, 1999
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama - 10/9/98-3/2001
Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian), Washington, D.C. - 1995