Jake Cress & Son

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, Scott Gibson, photos by Randy O'Rourke, Tauton Press, 2003

 

The Roanoke Times, "Meet Jake, a "non-Artist' Who Makes Art", by Joanne Pointdexter, July 21, 2003

 

The Washington Post, "Tongue-and-Groove and Tongue and Cheek", Paul Fitzgerald, 1/15/01

 

Art as Evidence, Jules David Prown, Yale Univerity Press, 2001

 

There's a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home, Myrna Kaye, Little, Brown & Co., 1998

 

The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, Galen Cranz, Norton Pub. Co., 1998

 

Fine Woodworking Magazine (back cover), February, 1996

 

American Art Magazine (illustration in "Promise and Perils of Context", Summer, 1997

 

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/21/95

 

The Washington Post, 'Washington Home' section, 5/25/95

 

Woodcarving Magazine (England), Vol.2, 1992

 

Shows

Served as one of three judges at the Sixth Annual Texas Furniture Makers Show, Nov. 5th & 6th, 2005

 

"The Chair Show", Southern Highlands Craft Guild, NC, 1995

 

Alleghany Arts and Crafts Center, Covington, Va., 1995

 

Towson State University, Baltimore, MD, 1994 Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, 1990

 

 

Museum Exhibitions

Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian), "Right at Home: American Studio Furniture", April 2, 2004 - Jan. 17, 2005

 

International Arts & 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", 10/2/98 - 2/17/99

 

Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 10/9/98 - 3/2001

 

Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, 1995

 

Mischief-Making: Contemporary Craftsman Jake Cress, William King Museum, Abingdon, VA, 1/28/2011 - 6/19/2011