Artist Info

ADDISON DE LISLE
Deer Isle, ME

IRON | Functional and sculptural objects

Penland Affiliation | Penland Winter Residency 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, Penland Student 2018

Artist Information | Studio artist; education: MFA Southern Illinois University Carbondale (IL), BFA Maine College of Art (ME); teaching: Southern Illinois University Carbondale (IL), Touchstone Center for Crafts (PA), John C. Campbell Folk School (NC), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), Wooden Boat School (ME), Appalachian Center for Craft (TN), Center for Metal Arts (PA), American College of the Building Arts (SC); exhibitions: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), College of the Albemarle (NC), Art League of Hilton Head (SC), Institute for Contemporary Art (ME), Tsinghua International (Beijing, China), Metals Museum (TN), CRAFT Gallery (ME), Peter’s Valley School of Craft (NJ), Wayne Art Center (PA)

Artist Bio | Addison de Lisle earned his BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry at the Maine College of Art in 2011. He then apprenticed with Wilson Forge on Little Deer Isle, ME from 2012-2014. In 2014 he was awarded a year-long fellowship in architectural ironwork at the Fondation de Coubertin in France. Following this program he enrolled in the graduate program for Blacksmithing and Metalsmithing at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and received his MFA in 2018. He has attended numerous workshops and residencies around the country.

de Lisle was a Professor of Blacksmithing at the American College of the Building Arts from 2018-2021, and from 2021-2023 he worked as Programs Director at Pocosin Arts in Columbia, NC. He currently works as Contributing Editor & Designer of the Anvil’s Ring, a quarterly publication of the Artist-Blacksmith’s Association of North America, and maintains a studio practice in Deer Isle, ME.