Penland School of Crafts
2008 Annual Benefit AuctionContributing Artists
Cathy Adelman, Friday Silent, Lot 101
Studio artist; studies with Edwin Heirn at the Centro del Bel Libro (Switzerland); teaching: California Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers and at her own studio; 2007 Society of Bookbinders International Competition Ratchford Cup Award for Cased Binding.
Sean Albert, Friday Live, Lot 228
Studio artist; artist residencies: North Lands Creative Glass (Scotland), Pilchuck (WA); workshop teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME).
Heather Allen-Swarttouw, Saturday Silent, Lot 301
Studio artist; recipient of NEA and Tennessee Arts Commission fellowships; exhibitions: Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Mint Museum of Craft + Design; collections: Racine Art Museum (WI), Ohio State University, BTI Center for the Performing Arts (NC).
Stanley Mace Andersen, Friday Silent, Lot 102
Studio potter; former Penland resident artist; NEA fellowship; work exhibited nationally and internationally for the past 30 years.
Joseph Anderson, Friday Live, Lot 231
Studio artist making functional objects and sculpture; lectured, taught, and demonstrated at national and regional blacksmithing conferences since 1980.
Linda Arbuckle, Friday Live Lot 205
Artist and educator; faculty at the University of FL; NEA fellowship, FL Department of State Individual Artist Fellowship; China residency from the NCECA; author of a chapter in The Penland Book of Ceramics (Lark Books).
Junichiro Baba, Friday Live, Lot 218
Studio artist and teacher; teacher at Joshibi University of Art and Design (Japan), Meisei University (Japan), and Tokyo Glass Art Institute of Art; exhibitions: Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Heller Gallery (NYC), and SOFA Chicago; former Penland resident artist.
Posey Bacopoulos, Saturday Silent, Lot 302
Studio artist; Strictly Functional National and Orton Cone Box awards; exhibitions: Contemporary Crafts Gallery (OR), Baltimore Clayworks, Vermont Clay Studio.
Phillip Baldwin, Saturday Live, Lot 412
Studio artist making work ranging from tools to architectural metalwork; teaching: University of Washington, Haystack (ME), Peters Valley (NJ), SummerVail (CO), Penland, and others.
Alice Ballard, Saturday Live, Lot 407
Studio artist; South Carolina Arts Commission and Fulbright fellowships; representation: Jerald Melberg Gallery (NC), Blue Spiral 1 (NC); collections: Mint Museum of Craft + Design (Charlotte), Renwick Gallery (DC).
Boris Bally, Friday Silent, Saturday Silent, Lots 103, 104, 303, 304
Studio artist; Felissimo Design Award, Fortunoff Silver Award; work featured in many international exhibitions; collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Brooklyn Museum, National Museum of American Art.
Pinky Bass, Saturday Silent, Lot 305
Studio artist and workshop teacher; NEA/Southern Arts Federation and RAP grant; collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, High Museum (Atlanta), Polaroid.
Rick Beck and Valerie Beck, Saturday Live, Lot 452
Collaborating studio artists living near Penland; former Penland resident artists.
Vivian Beer, Saturday Live, Lot 424
Penland resident artist; exhibitions: Mint Museum (NC), Fuller Craft Museum (MA), SOFA Chicago, Palm Beach 3 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (FL); representation: Penland Gallery, Wexler Gallery (PA), William Zimmer Gallery (CA), Hodges Taylor Gallery (NC), Courthouse Gallery (ME); public art commission: Winslow Park in Portland, ME.
Scott Benefield, Saturday Silent, Lot 306
Studio artist; Fulbright scholarship; past president of the Glass Art Society; residencies: Contemporary Glass Center of America (NJ), North Lands Creative Glass (Scotland); teaching: Appalachian Center for Crafts (TN), Pilchuck (WA).
Paulus Berensohn, Friday Silent, Saturday Silent, Saturday Live, Lots 105, 307, 418
Amateur visual artist, passionate deep ecologist, workshop teacher; author of Finding One’s Way with Clay; honorary fellow of the American Crafts Council.
Alex Gabriel Bernstein, Saturday Live, Lot 458
Studio artist; teaching: Worcester Center for Crafts (MA), Cleveland Institute of Art; recent solo shows: William Traver Gallery (Seattle), Chappell Gallery (NYC), Sandra Ainsley Gallery (Toronto), Hodgell Gallery (FL); collections: Corning Museum (NY), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Katherine Bernstein, Friday Live, Lot 236
Studio artist; collections: Asheville Art Museum (NC), Smithsonian Institute (DC), Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Japan), Chrysler Museum (VA); former Penland resident artist.
William “Billy” Bernstein, Friday Silent, Lot 106
Studio artist; collections: Corning Museum of Glass (NY), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC), Ebeltoft Glasmuseum (Denmark); Penland trustee, former Penland resident artist.
Chris Berti, Friday Silent, Lot 107
Studio artist; recent exhibitions: Cranbrook Art Museum (MI), Robert Kidd Gallery (MI), Ogle Gallery (OR), Craft Alliance (St. Louis), Wustum Museum (WI); collections: Alfred University (NY), Wustum Museum (WI), Mint Museum (NC).
Doug Beube, Saturday Silent, Lot 308
Studio artist; teaching: Cooper Union (NYC), Center for Book Arts (NYC), Visual Studies Workshop (NY); collections: Brooklyn Museum (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (NYC).
Sharif Bey, Saturday Silent, Lot 309
Assistant professor at Winston-Salem State University; Fulbright fellowship; collections: Paul Robeson Culture Center at Penn State University, Avampato Museum (WV), University of NC/Greensboro.
George Bowes, Friday Silent, Lot 108
Studio artist; Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art (NC), Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Wustum Museum (WI).
Christina Boy, Saturday Silent, Lot 316
Penland core fellowship student.
Frank Brannon, Friday Silent, Saturday Silent, Lots 109, 310
Proprietor of SpeakEasy Press; Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship; lead printer for Penland 2008 winter residency in letterpress; recent monograph on the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper of northern Georgia, 1828–1834.
Meredith Knapp Brickell, Friday Live, Lot 212
Studio artist; silver prize in the 2008 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale at the Yingge Ceramics Museum; solo exhibitions: Clay Studio (Philadelphia), Dubhe Carreno Gallery (Chicago); former Penland core fellowship student.
Elizabeth Brim, Saturday Live, Lot 417
Studio artist; former Penland studio coordinator; McColl Center (Charlotte) residency, retrospective show at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design (Raleigh), recent public art commission for the town of Spruce Pine.Cynthia Bringle, Saturday Live, Lot 463
Studio artist and teacher; fellow of the American Craft Council, NC Award for Fine Art, honorary doctorate from Memphis College of Art.
Edwina Bringle, Saturday Silent, Lot 311
Studio artist; professor emerita from UNC Charlotte; collections: NC Museum of History, Greenville Museum of Art (SC).
Jon Brooks, Friday Live, Lot 211
Studio artist; teaching and residencies: University of Tasmania (Australia), Rochester Institute of Technology (NY), Haystack (ME); collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Mark and David Grainer (DC), lifetime fellow of the NH Crafts Council.
Angela Bubash, Saturday Silent, Lot 312
Studio artist; exhibitions: SOFA Chicago and New York; Blue Heron Gallery (ME), Sculpture to Wear (CA); work published in The Art and Craft of Jewelry Making (Lark Books); representation: Penland Gallery, Quirk (VA), Mobilia (MA); former Penland resident artist.
George Bucquet, Friday Silent, Lot 110
Studio artist; public collections: Museé des Arts Décoratifs (Switzerland), Asheville Art Museum (NC), National Liberty Museum (PA); private collections: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Carol Burnett, Mark Peiser; former Penland resident artist.
Jennifer Bueno, Friday Silent, Friday Live, Lots 111, 230
Studio artist; former resident at Pilchuck (WA) and Corning Museum (NY); exhibitions: Tacoma Museum of Art (WA), Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans); former Penland resident artist.
Thor Bueno, Friday Live, Saturday Silent, Lots 230, 313
Studio artist; Tiffany award, Bessie award from New York Dance Theater; teaching: Penland, Pilchuck (WA), The Glass Furnace (Turkey); collections: Museum of Man (San Diego); Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark) Glasmuseum Frauenau (Germany); Penland resident artist.
Raïssa Bump, Saturday Live, Lot 421
Studio artist working in jewelry and knitwear; teaching: IS183 Art School of the Berkshires (NY), Rhode Island School of Design; exhibitions: SOFA Chicago and New York, Fuller Craft Museum (MA); knitwear represented by The Browns (MA).
Devin Burgess, Saturday Live, Lot 428
Penland resident artist; work in collections nationally and internationally; representation: Sandra Ainsley Gallery (Toronto).
Richard Burkett, Saturday Silent, Lot 314
Professor of Art at San Diego State University; co-author of Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook, curator of Masters: Porcelain: Major Works by Leading Ceramists (Lark Books).
Jay Burnham-Kidwell, Friday Live, Lot 235
Studio artist; professor emeritus from Mohave Community College (AZ); demonstrates and teaches nationally and internationally.
Joseph Burwell, Saturday Silent, Lot 315
Studio artist; teaching: Tulane University (New Orleans), Loyola University (New Orleans), recent exhibitions: Vanderbilt University (TN), PS 122 (NYC), Exit Art (NYC).
David Butler, Saturday Live, Lot 405
Professor at Pratt Institute (NYC) and instructor at 92nd St. Y (NYC); many years in jewelry industry as designer/goldsmith; work exhibited extensively and included in public and private collections.
Susan Goethel Campbell, Saturday Live, Lot 413
Studio artist; residency: Frans Masereel Centre (Belgium); exhibitions: The Drawing Center (NY), Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (NY), Lemberg Gallery (MI); collections: National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC), New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of the Arts.
Marisela Gutierrez Campos, Saturday Live, Lot 468
Studio artist; exhibits at art fairs in San Miguel Allende, Mexico; teaching: Lousiana Art and Science Museum, Penland, private studios; work in private collections.
Ken Carder, Friday Silent, Lot 112
Studio artist; collections: Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark), Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of American Glass (NJ); former Penland resident artist.
Gordon Chandler, Friday Live, Lot 219
Studio artist; recent exhibitions: Ferrin Gallery (MA), Terminus Gallery (Atlanta), Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art (GA), Bonnarroo Festival (TN); commissions: Fulton County Arts Council (Atlanta), Wild Horse Saloon (Nashville), Bulova Building (NY).
David Chatt, Saturday Live, Lots 402, 426
Penland resident artist; recent solo show at Bellevue Arts Museum (WA); collections: Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Tacoma Art Museum (WA), Racine Art Museum (WI), Sonny and Gloria Kamm.
Susan Chin, Friday Live, Lot 208
Studio artist; teaching: Mendocino Art Center (CA); recent exhibitions: Taboo Gallery (CA), Signature Shop and Gallery (Atlanta), Kohler Arts Center (WI), DeNovo (CA).
Fong Choo, Friday Silent, Lot 113
Resident artist and teacher at Bellarmine University (KY); exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show (DC), Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, Del Mano Gallery (Los Angeles), Red Dot Gallery (AL), Function + Art (Chicago).
Elin Christopherson, Saturday Live, Lot 414
Studio artist and teacher at San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts (Oakland); other teaching: Pilchuck (WA), Pratt Fine Arts Center (Seattle), The Studio at Corning Museum (NY); residencies: Public Glass (San Francisco) and Tacoma Museum of Glass (WA).
Sam Chung, Friday Live, Lot 233
Assistant professor at Arizona State University; exhibitions: AKAR Design Gallery (IA), Gallery Materia (AZ); collections: Everson Museum of Art (NY), Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center (Denmark).
Lisa Clague, Saturday Live, Lot 434
Studio artist; Virginia Groot grant; exhibitions: John Elder Gallery (NYC), SOFA Chicago, Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Santa Fe Clay.
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John Clark, Saturday Live, Lot 411
Studio furniture maker; former Penland studio coordinator, instructor, and resident artist.
Daniel G. Clayman, Saturday Live, Lot 433
Studio artist; recent exhibition: “White Light: Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman” at Mint Museum (NC); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Museum of American Glass (NJ).
Margaret Couch Cogswell, Saturday Silent, Saturday Live, Lots 316, 454
Penland resident artist; exhibitions: Fayetteville Museum of Art (NC), Columbia College Chicago, Asheville Area Arts Council (NC), “Embellishment: International Bead and Button Show” (various locations).
Alan Cohen, Saturday Live, Lot 317
Adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, visiting faculty at DePaul University (Chicago) and Columbia College Chicago; collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian Museum of American Art (DC), author of On European Ground (University of Chicago).
alan-cohen.comLisa Colby, Friday Silent, Lot 114
Studio artist, teacher at Craft Alliance (St. Louis); exhibitions: Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), Southern Highlands Craft Guild (NC), Aaron Faber Gallery (NYC); work featured in 1,000 Rings (Lark Books).
James D.W. Cooper, Friday Silent, Lot 115
Studio artist producing sculptural and functional works in all metals; recently completed a monumental bronze for the city of Greensboro (NC); has worked as a jeweler, foundry manager, blacksmith, and metals conservator.
Cristina Córdova, Saturday Live, Lot 439
Studio artist; American Craft Council Emerging Artist grant, NC Arts Council fellowship; representation: Ann Nathan Gallery (Chicago), Pamil Fine Art (Puerto Rico); former Penland resident artist, Penland trustee.
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Béatrice Coron, Saturday Live, Lot 427
Studio artist specializing in cutting for artist’s books, illustrations, and public art; collections: Metropolitan Museum (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Getty Center (CA), Bibliothèque Nationale (France).
Vittorio Costantini, Saturday Live, Lot 435
Studio artist; glassworker since age 11; well-known for his realistic glass insects, butterflies, fish, seashells, and flowers; work exhibited in museums and galleries in Italy and other countries.
Kim Cridler, Saturday Live, Lot 450
Assistant professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison; recent exhibitions: John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI), Paine Art Center (WI), Museum of Wisconsin Art.
Kevin Crowe, Saturday Silent, Lot 318
Studio potter producing functional, woodfired stoneware for 30 years; exhibitions: Rye Arts Center (NY), Butternut Gallery (PA), Baltimore Clayworks, East Tennessee State University, Vermont Clay Studio, “Strictly Functional National” (PA).
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William Daley, Saturday Silent, Lot 319
Studio artist; fellow of the American Craft Council; James Renwick Alliance distinguished educator; collections: Metropolitan Museum (NYC), Smithsonian Institution (DC), Racine Art Museum (WI), Los Angeles County Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), National Museum of Korea.
Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt, Saturday Silent, Lot 331
Collaborative studio potters; Michael studied traditional Onggi pottery in Korea; work in many collections and homes.
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Robert Dancik, Saturday Live, Lot 402
Artist/educator working in jewelry, sculpture and the melding of the two; adjunct instructor at Pace University (NY); other teaching: Glassel Museum (Houston), Southwest School of Arts and Crafts (San Antonio), Brookfield Craft Center (CT); exhibitions: Racine Museum of Art (WI), SOFA Chicago, National Ornamental Metals Museum (Memphis).
Scott Darlington, Friday Silent, Lot 116
Visiting assistant professor and head of glass at Bowling Green State University (OH), former hot shop coordinator at Pilchuck Glass School (WA); exhibitions: University of Cincinnati, Yasuda Castle Site (Japan), Mas Art Gallery (St. Louis).
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Paige Davis, Saturday Live, Lot 320
Studio artist; recent exhibitions: Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (NC), Blue Spiral I (NC); recent commissions: Brummit House (NC), Penland School; collections: Kenilworth Gardens (NC), Gregg Museum of Art & Design (NC).
Maggi DeBaecke, Saturday Live, Lot 321
Studio artist; teacher and metals coordinator at Delaware Art Museum; Niche award; work published in Art Jewelry Today by Dona Meilach.
Julie Anne Denton, Friday Silent, Lot 117
Studio artist; teaching: The Glass Furnace (Turkey), Snow Farm (MA); exhibited extensively in U.K.; currently making cast pieces with figurative flameworked inclusions.
Virginia Derryberry, Friday Silent, Lot 118
Professor of art at University of North Carolina-Asheville; recent solo shows: School of Art and Design at Wichita State (KS), University of North Carolina-Charlotte, William King Arts Center (VA).
Dail Dixon, Friday Silent, Lot 119
Partner in Dixon Weinstein Architects, fellow of the American Institute of Architects; designer of several Penland buildings including Dorm 54, Radcliffe renovation, Pines Portico (with Patrick Dougherty), Penland Gallery expansion, and Wyatt Apartments.
Tess Doran and David Jones, Friday Silent, Lot 120
Studio artists collaborating as MADE Studio; exhibitions: American Craft Council shows, Smithsonian Craft Show (DC), Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, Craft Boston; work represented by 74 galleries nationwide.
Sondra L. Dorn, Saturday Silent, Lot 322
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist and core student, Arrowmont (TN) residency; work in many juried and invitational exhibitions; several corporate commissions.
Robin Dreyer, Saturday Silent, Lot 323
Communications manager, publication editor, and photographer at Penland; exhibitions: Asheville Art Museum, Grove Arcade (NC), Blue Spiral I (NC), Penland Gallery; collection: Asheville Art Museum; work published in many books and magazines.
Erwin Eisch, Saturday Silent, Lot 324
Studio artist and glass pioneer; exhibitions in Germany, Austria, U.S., Japan, Czechoslovakia, France, Netherlands; collections: Corning Museum (NY), Elvehjem Museum (WI), Smithsonian Institution (DC), Toledo Museum (OH).
Jon Ellenbogen and Rebecca Plummer, Friday Live, Lot 207
Studio potters collaborating as Barking Spider Pottery; work in more than 50 shops nationwide.
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Daniel Essig, Saturday Live, Lot 425
Studio artist; former Penland core student; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Campbell Folk School (NC), Penland, and bookbinding centers around the country; member of Ariel Gallery (NC); collection: Renwick Gallery (DC).
danielessig.comFred Fenster, Friday Live, Lot 206
Studio artist; fellow of the American Crafts Council; collections: Detroit Institute of Art, Yale University Art Museum (CT), Wustum Museum (WI), Milwaukee Art Museum, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul).
Shane Fero, Friday Live, Lot 226
Studio artist; teaching: Espace Verre (Montreal), UrbanGlass (NYC), The Studio at Corning Museum (NY), Pilchuck (WA), Bild-Werk (Germany); work in collections worldwide; president of the board of the Glass Art Society.
Susan Filley, Friday Silent, Lot 121
Studio potter; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), workshops in college and museum programs; past president of NCECA.
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Angela Fina, Saturday Silent, Lot 325
Studio potter; exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show, Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, NCECA Invitational Shino Show, Demarest Invitational, invitational group show in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Dan Finnegan, Friday Silent, Lot 122
Studio potter; director and founder of Libertytown Arts Workshop (VA); work in many exhibitions in U.S. and U.K.; trained at Winchcombe Pottery (England).
Alida Fish, Saturday Live, Lot 406
Professor at The University of the Arts (Philadelphia); NEA Fellowship, Delaware artists grants, State of Delaware Masters Fellowship; collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Santa Barbara Art Museum; representation: Clotz Gallery (NY), Schmidt-Deen (Philadelphia); Penland trustee.
Gail Fredell, Saturday Live, Lot 445
Studio artist; former program director for wood at Anderson Ranch; exhibitions: Leo Kaplan Modern, Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), Oakland Museum (CA); collections: Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), Oakland Museum (CA); board of the Furniture Society.
Jim Gallucci, Friday Silent, Lot 123
Studio artist; public art commissions: First Union Commons (Charlotte, NC), North Carolina Botanical Garden, Town of Cary (NC), Rockville Center Park (MD), North Carolina Zoological Park, The Green (Charlotte, NC), North Carolina Art in Public Buildings Program.
jimgalluccisculptor.comRobert Gardner, Friday Live, Lot 209
Studio artist; teacher at Western Carolina University; exhibitions: Kramer Museum (IL), Habatat Gallery (MA), Blue Spiral (NC).
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Suzanne Gernandt, Saturday Silent, Lot 326
Owner of Textures—For the Finely Crafted Home, Waynesville, NC; founding member of L.I.N.T. Ladies in New Textiles, a regional textiles group; member of Southern Highland Craft Guild (NC), founding member of Ariel Gallery: A Fine Craft Cooperative (NC); workshop teaching: Penland, Appalachian Center for Craft.
Terry Gess, Saturday Silent, Lot 327
Studio potter; exhibits and teaches nationally; NC Arts Council residency in LaNapoule (France); participated in the first annual Yixing Teapot Symposium for Western Potters (China); former Penland resident.
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Marguerite Jay Gignoux, Saturday Silent, Lot 328
Studio artist; exhibitions: Mint Museum (NC), North Carolina Museum of Art, Artspace Gallery (NC); numerous community art projects throughout NC.
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Jenna Goldberg, Saturday Live, Lot 403
Studio artist and teacher at Rhode Island School of Design; exhibitions: SOFA Chicago, Clark Gallery (MA), Elvehjem Museum (WI); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Mint Museums (NC).
Joanna Gollberg, Saturday Live, Lot 459
Studio artist; author of Making Metal Jewelry (Lark Books), Creative Metal Crafts (Lark Books), and Studio Jewelry (Lark Books); representation: Aaron Faber Gallery (NYC), Penland Gallery, and Life Gallery (Stockholm).
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Arthur González, Friday Silent, Friday Live, Lots 124, 216
Associate professor at California College of the Arts; four NEA fellowships, two Virginia Groot awards; residencies: University of Akron (OH), Penland, University of Georgia, Taiwan University; monograph: The Art of Rejection.
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Peter Gourfain, Saturday Silent, Lot 329
Studio artist; collections: Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC); retrospective exhibitions: Elvehjem Museum (WI), Brooklyn Museum (NYC); commissions: New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, National Park Service.
Lisa Grey, Saturday Live, Lot 415
Studio artist; first to recognize the potential of disperse dyes in marbling; teaching: Maine College of Art, Haystack (ME), Peters Valley (NJ).
Carmen Grier, Saturday Live, Lot 446
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist; member of Ariel Gallery (NC); collection: Mint Museums (NC); silver award at the Smithsonian Craft Show.
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Audrey Handler, Saturday Live, Lot 443
Studio artist; two NEA master craftsman awards, lifetime membership award from Glass Art Society; collections: Lobmeyer Museum (Austria), Bergstrom-Mahler Museum (WI), Corning Museum (NY), Racine Art Museum (WI).
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Douglas Harling, Saturday Live, Lot 432
Head of jewelry and metals at the Kentucky School of Craft; Southern Arts Foundation/NEA grant, North Carolina Arts Council fellowship; exhibitions: “The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience” at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, “The Art of Gold,” a touring exhibition.
Abie Harris Lots, Friday Silent, Saturday Silent, 125, 330
Architect and campus planner; author of the Penland campus master plan; teaching: North Carolina State University; Penland trustee.
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Andrew Hayes, Saturday Silent, Lot 316
Penland core fellowship student.
Steven Heinemann, Saturday Live, Lot 437
Studio artist; collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (London), National Museum of History (Taiwan), Museum Boymans (Rotterdam), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston).
James Henkel, Saturday Live, Lot 449
Associate professor at the University of MN; NEA fellowship, Bush Foundation fellowship; collections: Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), Whitney Museum (NYC).
Bryant Holsenbeck, Friday Silent, Lot 127
Studio artist; North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship; exhibitions: Snyderman-Works Gallery (Philadelphia), Fuller Craft Museum (MA), John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University (NC), Exploris Museum (NC).
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Robyn Horn, Saturday Live, Lot 429
Studio artist; collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), White House Collection of American Crafts.
Deborah Horrell, Saturday Live, Lot 447
Studio artist: solo shows: Elizabeth Leach Gallery (OR), Traver Gallery (WA), Museum of Northwest Art (OR), Lill Street Gallery (Chicago); collections: Portland Art Museum (OR), Microsoft Corporation (WA), Bullseye Glass (OR), Mint Museum (NC), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI).
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Judith Hoyt, Friday Silent, Lot 128
Studio artist; NY Foundation for the Arts fellowship, finalist for Elizabeth Raphael Founder’s Award from the Society for Contemporary Craft, Ballinglen Arts Foundation residency (Ireland); exhibitions: The Works (Philadelphia), Signature Shop and Gallery (Atlanta).Susan Hutchinson, Saturday Live, Lot 332
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, Campbell Folk School (NC); former Penland core student.Caitlin B. Hyde, Friday Silent, Lot 129
Studio artist; teaching: The Studio at Corning (NY), Snow Farm (MA), UrbanGlass (NYC), Bullseye Connection (OR); exhibitions: Pismo Fine Art Glass Gallery (Denver), Bullseye Connection, Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston), SOFA Chicago.
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Shawn Ireland, Friday Silent, Lot 130
Studio potter and wood kiln builder; three visiting artist internships at University of Georgia Cortona, Italy Program; exhibitions: Mint Museum (NC), Smithsonian Craft Show (DC); former Penland core student and resident artist.
Rob Jackson, Saturday Live, Lot 416
Associate professor and chair of metals at University of Georgia; work published in 500 Brooches (Lark Books), 1000 Rings (Lark Books) and Metalsmith Exhibition in Print; wrote a chapter for The Penland Book of Jewelry (Lark Books).
Cassandra James, Saturday Silent, Lot 333
Studio artist; teaching: Ringling School of Art and Design (FL), Texas State University, Austin Museum of Art (TX); exhibitions: Clayton Galleries (FL), Flatbed Press (TX), Munson Gallery (NM); collections: Mercedes Benz Corporation, IBM, Motorola, McDonald’s.
Michael Janis, Friday Silent, Lot 131
Co-director of the Washington Glass School (DC); representation: Maurine Littleton Gallery (DC), Duane Reed Gallery (St. Louis); collection: Art Institute of Chicago.
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Nicholas Joerling, Friday Live, Lot 203
Studio artist and workshop teacher; exhibitions: Santa Fe Clay (NM), Baltimore Clay Works, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Design, Worcester Center for Crafts (MA), AKAR Design Gallery (IA).
theartistsshowcase.com/nickjoerlingKeith Johnson, Friday Live, Lot 213
Studio artist and consultant; teaching: Visual Studies Workshop (NY), Maine Photographic, Jackson Hole Art Association (WY); Light Work (NY) and Visual Studies Workshop residencies; solo shows: FotoFest (Houston), George Eastman House (NY); collections; George Eastman House, Center for Creative Photography (AZ).
Robert Johnson, Saturday Live, Lot 440
Studio artist; many state and regional grants; representation: Blue Spiral I (NC), Somerhill Gallery (NC).
Richard Jolley, Saturday Live, Lot 423
Studio artist; collections: Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Corning Museum of Glass (NY), Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Japan), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Mint Museums (NC).
Deb Karash, Saturday Live, Lot 464
Studio jeweler; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Mendocino Arts Center (CA); exhibitions: Artspace (WI), Aaron Faber Gallery (NYC), SOFA Chicago, Mobilia Gallery (MA), ACC shows; work represented by galleries nationwide.
Jon Keenan, Saturday Silent, Lot 334
Teacher and associate director of craft campus at University of North Carolina-Asheville; NEA, Fulbright, and New England Foundation for the Arts fellowships; work exhibited widely in U.S. and abroad.
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Matt Kelleher, Saturday Live, Lot 444
Penland resident artist; residencies: Archie Bray Foundation (MT) and Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan).
Thomas Kerrigan, Friday Silent, Lot 132
Studio artist; workshop teaching in U.S., Canada, and Europe; collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Pushkin Museum (Moscow).Kathy King, Friday Silent, Lot 133
Studio artist; solo shows: Erie Museum of Art (PA), University of South Carolina, University of West Georgia, Spacelab (Cleveland); group exhibitions: SOFA Chicago, World Ceramic Exposition (Korea), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC); demonstrator at NCECA conference.
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Lisa Klakulak, Friday Live, Lot 214
Studio artist; Appalachian Center for Craft residency; exhibits and teaches nationally; recent exhibition at Blue Spiral 1 (NC).
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Jeana Eve Klein, Saturday Live, Lot 456
Studio artist and lecturer in fibers at Appalachian State University (NC); exhibitions: Fiber Directions (KS), Fine Contemporary Crafts (NC), Craftforms (PA), Spotlight (KY); representation: Glance Gallery (NC).
Michael Kline, Friday Live, Lot 215
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist; exhibitions: Worcester Craft Center (MA), AKAR Design Gallery (IA), Pewabic Pottery (Detroit), Blue Spiral I (NC), Ferrin Gallery (MA).
George Kokis, Friday Live, Lot 134
Professor emeritus from University of Oregon, former curriculum and publications director for the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), teacher of mythopoetic workshops; exhibitions: Syracuse Ceramic National (NY), Museum of Contemporary Crafts (NY), Volkous-Leedy Gallery (MO).
Preston B. Lawing, Saturday Silent, Lot 335
Associate professor at Saint Mary’s University (MN); recently selected by Japanese government as the only U.S. artist to participate in a six-week residency studying with Japan’s master artists designated as National Living Treasures.
Leah Leitson, Saturday Silent, Lot 336
Chair of art department at Warren Wilson College (NC); workshop teaching: Penland, Arrowmont (TN), and in Italy and Israel.
Anne Lemanski, Saturday Live, Lot 401
Studio artist; work recently included in the “Make It New” juried exhibition at Asheville Art Museum (NC) and “Possibilities: Rising Stars of Contemporary Craft in North Carolina” at The Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC); former Penland resident artist.
Julie Leonard, Saturday Silent, Lot 337
Assistant professor at University of Iowa; collections: Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry (FL), Ringling School of Art and Design (FL), University of Delaware; exhibitions: Bright Hill Press (NY), University of Iowa Museum of Art, and Wyoming Art Museum; Penland trustee.
Robert Levin, Friday Live, Lot 227
Studio artist; three North Carolina Arts Council fellowships; NEA/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship; collections: Corning Museum (NY), Museum of American Glass (NJ), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark), Contemporary Glass Museum (Madrid).
Suze Lindsay, Friday Silent, Lot 135
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist; teaching: Haystack (ME), Arrowmont (TN), Anderson Ranch (CO), Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Ohio University; collections: Ohr Museum (MS), Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), North Carolina Pottery Center.
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Beth Lipman, Saturday Live, Lot 420
Studio artist; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, Ruth Chenven Grant, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts/NEA Fellowship; residencies: Creative Glass Center of America (NJ), Kohler Arts/Industry Program (WI); solo exhibitions: Museum of Glass (WA), Heller Gallery (NYC), Fuller Craft Museum (MA); collections: Brooklyn Museum (NYC), Corning Museum (NY), Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC).John Littleton and Kate Vogel, Saturday Live, Lot 461
Collaborating studio artists; collections: Corning Museum (NY), High Museum (Atlanta), Mint Museums (NC), Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Germany), White House Craft Collection (DC), Clinton Library (AR).
Peter Loewer, Saturday Silent, Lot 338
Illustrator and writer of books on natural history for more than 35 years; collection: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie-Mellon University (Pittsburgh).
thewildgardener.comSteve Loucks, Friday Live, Lot 229
Professor of art at Jacksonville State University (AL); Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship, Southern Arts Foundation/NEA Fellowship; workshop teaching: Penland, Odyssey Center (NC), Arrowmont (NC).
Marcia A. Macdonald, Friday Live, Lot 210
Studio artist; exhibitions: Hibbard/McGrath Gallery (CO), The Works (Philadelphia), Velvet da Vinci (San Francisco), OXOXO Gallery (Baltimore), Wustum Museum (WI).
Warren Mackenzie, Friday Silent, Saturday Silent, Lots 136, 137, 339, 340
Studio artist; professor emeritus from University of Minnesota; American Crafts Council gold medal award, McKnight Foundation fellowship.
Michael Mangiafico, Saturday Silent, Lot 341
Studio artist; teaching: Pittsburgh Glass Center, Touchstone (PA); representation: Morgan Contemporary Glass (PA), Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass (TX), Thomas Riley Gallery (OH); work in private and corporate collections.
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Sarah Martin, Saturday Live, Lot 460
Penland resident artist; exhibitions: Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Lux Center for the Arts (NE), Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (Louisville), Worcester Center for Crafts (MA), Illinois State University, “Craft USA ’05” at Silvermine Guild Art Center (CT).
John Martner, Saturday Live, Lot 443
Woodworker and teacher of computer programming.
Christopher McElroy, Saturday Silent, Lot 342
Studio artist; teaching: Red Deer College (Canada), Pittsburgh Glass Center, Bezalel Academy (Israel); exhibitions: William Traver Gallery (Seattle), Pismo Gallery (CO), solo show at Del Vidrio Gallery (Denver).
Linda McFarling, Friday Silent, Lot 138
Studio potter; exhibitions: Blue Spiral (NC), Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), Red Star Studio (Kansas City), “Strictly Functional Pottery National” (PA); published in Clay Times, 500 Cups (Lark Books), Objects for Use (American Craft Museum), and The Art of Contemporary American Pottery (Krause Publications).
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Kent McLaughlin, Saturday Silent, Lot 343
Studio potter; pioneer in the use of waste fry oil as kiln fuel; exhibitions: Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis), Baltimore Clayworks, Santa Fe Clay; member of Southern Highland Craft Guild.
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Laura Jean McLaughlin, Friday Live, Lot 224
Studio artist; three Kohler Company residencies; exhibitions: Montgomery Museum (AL), Baltimore Institute of Art, Mobile Museum (AL), State Museum of Pennsylvania; published in 500 Figures, 500 Teapots, 500 Bowls, 500 Cups (all Lark Books).
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Jenny Mendes, Saturday Live, Lot 465
Studio artist; Ohio Arts Council individual artist grant; exhibitions: Signature Gallery (Atlanta), Works Gallery (Philadelphia), Obsidian Gallery (Tucson), Penland resident artist.
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Daniel Michalik, Friday Silent, Lot 139
Furniture designer focused on overlooked, environmentally responsible materials; teacher at Rhode Island School of Design; exhibitions: Milan Furniture Fair, Gallery NAGA (Boston); work published in Dwell, Wallpaper, American Craft.
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LeeAnn Mitchell, Friday Silent, Lot 140
Studio artist, former executive director of ABANA; work included in over 100 exhibitions; solo shows: PA State University, University of GA; former associate curator for University of TN Sculpture Tour, former independent curator for Ornamental Metals Museum (Memphis).
Sabiha Mujtaba, Friday Live, Lot 223
Studio artist; teaching: Highland Woodworking (Atlanta); Niche award; gallery representation: Grovewood Gallery (NC); exhibits nationally.
chrysaliswoodworks.comTom Nakashima, Saturday Silent, Lot 344
William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art at Augusta State University (GA); professor emeritus from Catholic University (DC); Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship; exhibitions: Steinbaum Krauss Gallery (NYC), Anton Gallery (DC); collections: Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), L’Hermitage (Switzerland).
Heather Nania, Friday Silent, Lot 141
Studio artist; solo show at The Cross Gallery (Kansas City) during the 2007 Surface Design Conference; work published in Surface Design and American Craft.
Lisa Naples, Friday Silent, Lot 142
Studio potter; NCECA residency at Australian National University; exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show (DC), Philadelphia Museum Craft Show.
www.lisanaples.comKaren Newgard, Saturday Silent, Lot 345
Studio artist; two Best of Show awards at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival; exhibitions: AKAR Design Gallery (IA), Santa Fe Clay (NM), Harrison Street Gallery (NJ), Grovewood Gallery (NC), Signature Shops and Gallery (Atlanta), Hodges Taylor Gallery (NC), Blue Spiral I (NC).
Lilith E. Nielander, Saturday Silent, Lot 346
Studio artist and instructor at Appalachian State University; work in numerous collections including Wolfsonian Museum (FL).
Bob Nulf, Saturday Silent, Lot 347
Painter creating decorative finishes and trompe l’oeil murals; featured on several nationally televised painting and home improvement shows.
Judith O’Rourke, Saturday Silent, Lot 348
Master printer at Littleton Studios (NC); teaching: Augusta State University (GA), Western Carolina University (NC), Appalachian State University (NC), Highlands Visual Arts Center (NC), School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Kathryn Osgood, Friday Live, Lot 204
Studio artist and instructor at College of the Albemarle (NC); work published in The Art of Enameling: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration (Lark Books), 1,000 Rings (Lark Books), 500 Necklaces (Lark Books), and Contemporary Enameling: Art and Techniques (Schiffer).
Ben Owen III, Saturday Live, Lot 419
Studio artist; collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Chrysler Museum (VA), Mint Museums (NC), Cleveland Museum, North Carolina Museum of History.
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Winnie Owens-Hart, Friday Silent, Lot 126
Professor at Howard University; founder of Ile Amo Research Center, dedicated to aboriginal ceramics; curator of “Reconstructing the Shards,” an exhibition of African American ceramists; collection: Renwick Gallery (DC).
Jeannie Pearce, Saturday Silent, Lot 349
Professor at University of the Arts (Philadelphia); currently working on a series of manipulated landscapes; many museum collections and exhibitions.
Jane Peiser, Friday Live, Lot 225
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist and trustee; collections: Smithsonian Institution (DC), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (Charlotte).
Mark Peters, Saturday Silent, Lot 350
Studio artist; workshop teaching: Campbell Folk School (NC), Arrowmont (TN), Odyssey Center (NC), Brookfield Craft Center (MC); exhibitions: Red Star Studios (Kansas City), AKAR Design Gallery (IA), Cedar Creek Gallery (NC), North Carolina Pottery Center.
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Meg Peterson, Friday Silent, Lot 105
Educator in Penland’s Teaching Artist Initiative; workshop leader; former Penland resident artist.
Thomas Philabaum, Saturday Live, Lot 351
Studio artist; exhibitions: Pima College (AZ), Tucson Museum of Art (AZ), Real Mother Goose (OR); collections: Glasmuseum Frauenau (Germany), Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark), Time-Life, Inc. (Chicago), University of Florence (Italy), University of Minnesota Art Museum, Arizona State University Museum of Art.
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Kenny Pieper, Friday Live, Lot 202
Studio artist; exhibitions: Redsky Gallery (NC), Glass Symphony (OR), Lost Angle Glass Gallery (NY), Riley Hawk Galleries (OH), Craft Alliance (MO), Blue Spiral I (NC), Hodges-Taylor Gallery (NC); collections: Asheville Art Museum (NC), Hickory Museum of Art (NC), New Orleans Museum of Art (LA); former Penland studio coordinator.
Sandi Pierantozzi, Friday Silent, Lot 143
Studio artist; demonstrator at NCECA conference; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, People’s Choice Award at Strictly Functional Pottery National (PA); collections: Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University (NYC), San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (TX).
Charles Pinckney, Saturday Silent, Lot 352
Studio artist; teaching: Lyndon House Arts Center (GA); exhibitions: Georgia Museum of Art, Tifton Museum of Art (GA), Sumter Gallery (SC), Nancy Sachs Gallery (St. Louis), Gainesville College (GA).Stephen Pittelkow, Friday Silent, Lot 144
Decorative paper artist and bookbinder; teaching: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, guest artist at Penland and University of Georgia Cortona, Italy program; papers in collections and artist’s books in U.S. and Europe.
John Risseeuw, Friday Silent, Lot 145
Professor and director of Pyracantha Press at Arizona State University; his own Cabbagehead Press founded in 1972; collections: Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Minneapolis Institute of Art, New York Public Library, Folger Shakespeare Library (DC), Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (Miami).
cabbageheadpress.comRichard Ritter, Saturday Live, Lot 441
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist; collections: White House Collection of American Crafts (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Corning Museum (NY); 30-year retrospective exhibition at Christian Brothers University (TN).
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Sang Parkinson Roberson, Saturday Live, Lot 462
Studio artist; exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show (DC), SOFA Chicago and New York, Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, Blue Spiral I (NC); collections: Stetson University (FL), Museum of Arts and Sciences (FL).
Jim Romberg, Friday Silent, Lot 146
Director of Eagleheart Center for Art and Inquiry (CO), professor emeritus of art from Southern Oregon University; recently convened the International Raku Summit; collections: Boise Museum of Art (ID), Marer Collection of American Ceramics at Scripps College (CA), Pottery Northwest (Seattle).
Tommie Rush, Friday Live, Lot 220
Studio artist; collections: Mobile Museum of Art (AL), Sheldon Museum of Art (NE), Renwick Gallery (DC); Penland trustee.
Andrew Saftel, Saturday Silent, Lot 353
Studio artist; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Haystack (ME); Tennessee Individual Artist Fellowship; more than 40 solo exhibitions including Knoxville Museum (TN), Huntsville Museum (AL), Hunter Museum (TN); representation: Cumberland Gallery (Nashville), Lanoue Fine Art (Boston).
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Phillip Sanders, Friday Live, Lot 217
Studio artist and Tamarind-trained master printer; director of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (NYC); teaching: Stanford University (CA), San Francisco State University.
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Nadine Saylor, Saturday Silent, Lot 147
Studio artist; adjunct faculty at Alfred University (NY); exhibitions: San Francisco Airport Museum, Masaoka Glass Design (CA), Michaelangelo Gallery (CA), Triton Art Museum (CA), Boca Raton Museum of Art (FL).
Margaret Scanlan, Saturday Silent, Lot 354
Studio artist; signature member of the American Watercolor Society; teaching: Campbell Folk School (NC), Arrowmont (TN); solo shows: New Light Gallery (VA), Bennett Galleries (TN), L’Abbaye de la Roe (France), Silver Fox Galleries (NC); collections: Huntsville Museum of Art (AL), Springfield Art Museum (MO).
Mary Ann Scherr, Saturday Live, Lot 448
Studio artist; former chair of product design at Parsons School of Design (NYC); collections: The Vatican, Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC)
Jude Schlotzhauer, Saturday Silent, Lot 355
Studio artist; commissions: Capital One Corporation, Children’s Museum of Richmond (VA), US Marine Corps Officers Club (Japan), Randolph Community Center (VA); work exhibited at museums and galleries nationally.
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Edward T. Schmid, Saturday Silent, Lot 356
Studio artist and teacher; author of Beginning Glassblowing, Advanced Glassworking Techniques, and The Glassworker’s Bathroom Reader; teacher of workshops worldwide.
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Jack A. Schmidt, Saturday Silent, Lot 357
Studio artist; exhibitions: Habatat Galleries (MI and FL), Toledo Museum (OH), Hokkaido Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan); collections: Belrive Museum (Switzerland), Corning Museum (NY), Detroit Institute of the Arts, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum (WI), National Museum of American Art (DC).
JoAnn Schnabel, Saturday Silent, Lot 358
Professor of art at University of Northern Iowa; recent exhibitions: Santa Fe Clay, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, solo show at Kristen Wigley-Flemming Gallery at the Center for the Arts at Luther College (IA); former Penland resident artist.
Norm Schulman, Saturday Live, Lot 453
Studio artist; fellow of the American Craft Council; collections: Mint Museums (NC), Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC); recent retrospective at Asheville Art Museum (NC).
Virgina Scotchie, Friday Silent, Lot 148
Head of ceramics at University of South Carolina-Columbia; Syndey Meyer Fund International Ceramics Premiere Award from the Shepparton Museum (Australia); artist residencies in Taiwan, Italy, Australia, Netherlands.
Kathrin Weber Scott, Friday Silent, Lot 149
Studio artist; teaching: Campbell Folk School (NC), Southeast Fiber Forum, workshops for southeast fiber guilds; exhibitions: ACC shows, Folk Art Center (NC).
Lizabeth Shannon, Saturday Silent, Lot 359
Studio artist and designer, former textile designer for industry; exhibitions: Folk Art Center (NC), Sawtooth Center (NC), Kentucky Museum of Arts + Design; collection: Renwick Gallery (DC).
Jeff Shapiro, Saturday Silent, Lot 360
Studio artist; solo exhibitions: Lacoste Gallery (MA), Gallery Lemani (Japan), Ceramic Art Gallery (Australia); collections: American Museum of Ceramic Art (CA), Mint Museum (NC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC), Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Arkansas Art Center, Longhouse Foundation (NY).Mark Shapiro, Friday Live, Lot 234
Studio artist; invited artist at World Ceramic Bienniale (Korea); collections: Smithsonian Institution (DC), Racine Art Museum (WI), Mint Museums (NC), International Museum of Ceramics at Alfred (NY).
Esther Shimazu, Saturday Live, Lot 442
Studio artist; representation: John Natsoulas Gallery (CA); exhibitions: Ann Nathan Gallery (Chicago), Napua Gallery (HI), Xen Gallery (St. Louis); collections: Contemporary Museum (HI), Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Fresno Art Museum (CA).
Randy Shull, Saturday Live, Lot 438
Studio artist; solo show currently touring to San Francisco Museum of Art and Design, Melleview Museum (WA), Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA), and Gregg Museum of Art and Design at North Carolina State University; collections: Brooklyn Museum (NYC), High Museum (Atlanta), Renwick Gallery (DC).
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Sherry Simms, Friday Silent, Lot 150
Assistant professor and coordinator of metals at University of Akron’s Myers School of Art; two Ohio Arts Council fellowships;q Jentel Foundation (WY) residency; work published in Metalsmith and American Craft.
Brent Skidmore, Friday Silent, Lot 221
Co-director of University of North Carolina-Asheville craft campus; solo shows: Blue Spiral (Asheville), Gallery W.D.O. (Charlotte), Durham Arts Council (NC); exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show (DC), ACC craft shows, Philadelphia Furniture Show.
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Clarissa Sligh, Saturday Silent, Lot 361
Studio artist and teacher at New York University and University of Pennsylvania; Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, NEA Fellowship, Andrea Frank Foundation; recent exhibitions: Visual Studies Workshop (NY), Holter Museum (MT), Haverford College (PA); Penland trustee.
Christina Y. Smith, Friday Silent, Lot 151
Associate professor of art at California State University-Fullerton; NEA Fellowship, California Arts Board Fellowship; collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Victoria and Albert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Racine Art Museum (WI), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC).
David T. Smith, Friday Live, Lot 201
Owner/operator of Underground Neon (NC); teaching assistant for glass instructors nationally; neon exhibitions: Atlanta International Museum, Grovewood Gallery (CA).
Gertrude Graham Smith, Friday Live, Lot 152
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, Harvard Ceramics Studio (MA), Odyssey Center (NC), Findhorn (Scotland); North Carolina Arts Council visual arts fellowship; work published in Functional Pottery and Mark Making by Robin Hopper and Working with Clay by Susan Peterson.
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Pablo Soto, Saturday Live, Lot 408
Studio artist; exhibitions: Liquid Heat Studio Eight Gallery (PA), Pamil Fine Art (Puerto Rico), Blue Heron Gallery (ME); collection: New Orleans Museum of Art.
desotoglassdesign.comTom Spleth, Saturday Live, Lot 455
Studio artist; exhibitions: Blue Spiral (NC), Kohler Arts Center (WI), Greenwich House Pottery (NYC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC); collections: Rhode Island School of Design, Corning Museum of Glass (NY), Renwick Gallery (DC).
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Sam Stang, Saturday Live, Lot 404
Studio artist; demonstrator at Glass Art Society conferences, visiting artist at many universities; co-founder of Ibex Glass Studio (St. Louis); exhibitions: Craft Alliance (St. Louis), Mad Art Gallery (St. Louis), Smithsonian Craft Show (DC), ACC Baltimore shows.
Paul J. Stankard, Saturday Live, Lot 431
Studio artist; collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC), Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark), Palais du Louvre (Paris).
Lisa Stinson, Friday Silent, Lot 112
Associate professor at Appalachian State University; exhibits nationally.
Billie Ruth Sudduth, Saturday Live, Lot 430
Studio artist; solo shows: Asheville Art Museum (NC), Montgomery Museum (AL); collections: Mint Museums (NC), Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Racine Art Museum (WI).
brsbasket.comJen Swearington, Saturday Silent, Lot 232
Studio artist; teaching: Savannah College of Art and Design (GA), University of North Carolina at Asheville, Haywood Community College Professional Crafts Program (NC); residencies: Arrowmont (TN), Penland winter residency in printmaking; exhibitions: Quilt National 2003 and 2005; publications: Fiberarts (cover), Surface Design Journal.
Toshiko Takaezu, Saturday Live, Lot 457
Studio artist; recent retrospective at Green Hill Center (NC); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Tim Tate, Saturday Live, Lot 410
Co-director of the Washington Glass School (DC); collections: Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Mint Museums (NC).
www.timtateglass.comJanet Taylor, Friday Silent, Saturday Live, Lots 153, 409
Professor emerita from Arizona State University; currently teaching at Appalachian State University (NC); recent exhibition at Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (NC); member of Ariel Gallery (NC).
Nancy Meadows Taylor, Saturday Silent, Lot 362
Studio artist; signature memberships: American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society; solo shows: Artspace (NC), Tyndall Galleries (NC), Carteret Contemporary Art (NC).
Phil Tennant , Saturday Silent, Lot 363
Professor of furniture design at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design (Indianapolis).
Shoko Teruyama, Saturday Live, Lot 444
Penland resident artist; recent exhibitions: Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design (NC), Upstairs Gallery (NC), ACC Baltimore.
Matthew Thomason, Saturday Silent, Lot 364
Studio artist; exhibitions: University of Wyoming Art Museum, Emerge Gallery (NC); collection: University of Maine at Machias.
Jeff Todd and Yaffa Todd, Saturday Silent, Lot 365
Collaborating studio artists; collections: Asheville Art Museum (NC), Chrysler Museum (VA), Ebeltoft Glasmuseum (Denmark), Frauenau Glasmuseum (Germany), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC), Hickory Museum (NC).
Bob Trotman, Saturday Live, Lot 436, 451
Studio artist; solo shows: Weatherspoon Gallery (NC), Mint Museum (NC), Franklin Parrasch (NYC); collections: Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Renwick Gallery (DC), Mint Museums (NC), Asheville Art Museum (NC).
Jack Troy, Saturday Silent, Lot 366
Studio artist; workshop teacher; author of Salt Glazed Ceramics (Watson-Guptill Publications) and Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain (KP Books).
jacktroy.netAnthony Ulinski, Saturday Silent, Lot 367
Designer and custom furniture maker building everything from cradles to corporate conference tables; exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Fair (DC), Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, John Elder Gallery (NYC).
Jerilyn Virden, Saturday Live, Lot 422
Studio artist; North Carolina Individual Artist Fellowship; gallery representation: Ann Nathan (Chicago), Penland Gallery, Lacoste Gallery (MA).
jvirdenceramics.comJames Viste, Saturday Silent, Lot 368
Manager of EdgeWise Forge (Detroit) and craft technician at College for Creative Studies (Detroit); work exhibited in a variety of forums.
Holly Walker, Friday Silent, Lot 154
Studio artist; teaching: Odyssey Center (NC), Penland, Arrowmont (TN); Watershed Center residency (ME); exhibitions: Blue Spiral (NC), Baltimore Clayworks, James Patrick Gallery (ME).
theartistsshowcase.com/hollywalkerPaul Andrew Wandless, Saturday Silent, Lot 369
Studio artist; boards of National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and the Clay Studio (Philadelphia); author of Image Transfer on Clay (Lark Books), co-author of Alternative Kilns and Firing Techniques (Lark Books).
Jan Williams, Saturday Live, Lot 467
Studio artist; collections: Corning Museum (NY), High Museum (Atlanta), R.J Reynolds (NC).
David A. Wilson, Friday Silent, Lot 155
Studio artist specializing in neon/hot glass hybrids; frequent Penland instructor; neon exhibitions: Museum of Neon Art (Los Angeles), four GAS conferences, University of California-San Diego.
Lana Wilson, Saturday Silent, Lot 370
Studio potter; teacher of 80 workshops in U.S., Israel, New Zealand, and South Africa; work in 180 exhibitions.
Julia Woodman, Saturday Live, Lot 466
Studio artist; Fulbright fellowship, certified master silversmith in Finland; collections: Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Cathedral of St. Phillip (Atlanta), Temple Sinai (Atlanta); representation: Signature Shop and Gallery (Atlanta).
juliawoodman.comHiroko Yamada, Friday Silent, Lot 156
Studio artist and owner of HYART Gallery (WI); honorary fellow at University of Wisconsin-Madison; work shown at galleries and museums internationally and at ACC shows in Baltimore, St. Paul, and San Francisco; work published in 500 Brooches (Lark Books).
Kyu Yamamoto, Friday Silent, Lot 157
Studio artist; teacher at the Arts Center (FL) and the Dunedin Fine Arts Center (FL); served as assistant sculptor for the 42-foot Athena Parthenos in Nashville’s replica Parthenon; numerous exhibitions and public art commissions.
Sayumi Yokouchi, Friday Live, Lot 222
Studio artist, instructor at 92nd St. Y (NYC); other teaching: State University of New York at New Paltz, Kutztown State University (PA), Craft Students League (NYC); exhibitions: Velvet da Vinci (CA), Quirk Gallery (VA), Sienna Gallery (MA).
Mary Ann Zotto, Saturday Silent, Lot 371
Studio artist; teaching: North Carolina School of the Arts, Tougaloo Art Colony (MS); collections: IBM Germany, Kimberly-Clark, U.S. Department of State Art Bank Project; work used in the films Parenthood and House of Cards.