Phil Renato (Carrizzi) is the founding chair of the Allesee Metals/Jewelry Design Program at Kendall College of Art and Design.

Renato's work oscillates between mass-produced and one-of-a-kind, trendy and timeless, fashionable and over the top. The jewelry and functional wares he makes span the personal, political, technical, and absurd.

Renato earned his MFA at the University of Washington in 2002.

In 2009 he was a visiting artist at UW Madison, WMU, GVSU, and ECU; a participant in the CCCD’s ‘Think Tank’; and coordinator of the drawing area at the SIGGRAPH studio in New Orleans.

Renato’s work was featured in group exhibitions at the Woodturning Center and Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia, the CIA Faculty Show, at the Wheaton Arts Glass Studio in Millville, NJ, and the Scarab Club in Detroit.

In January of 2010 he mounted his post-sabbatical mini-retrospective exhibition at Kendall, called flow|state. In February he was a visiting artist at MassArt. In March he curated and helped to run the Media Lounge project at the SNAG conference in Houston, where he presented a paper on the teaching of jewelry in the studio context at the Education Dialogue.

From June 27-July 9, 2010 Renato will be teaching a class called “Polymer Chain Reactions” at Penland School of Crafts. In late July he and former Kendall colleague Courtney Starrett will be presenting a lecture called “Remote Resources: Contemporary Collaboration & Production in a Post Studio Age” at the Association for Contemporary Jewellery’s conference in the UK.