Akio Takamori
Akio Takamori (1950-2017) was born and raised in Japan. Takamori apprenticed with a master folk potter in Kyushu and met American ceramist Ken Ferguson, who encouraged Takamori go to the United States and study with him at the Kansas City Art... MORE »
Bayle Owens
Bayle grew up in a family working in craft (Vernon, Pam and Travis Owens) who own Jugtown Pottery, an American Craft Shop located in Seagrove, NC. As a child, she spent a large amount of time around the... MORE »
Carlomagno Pedro Martínez
Carlomagno Pedro Martínez is a Mexican ceramic artist from San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, a Zapotec town famous for producing barro negro, polished black pottery. Carlomagno comes from a long line of ceramic artists and as a young child,... MORE »
Cary Esser
Cary Esser is a ceramic artist who works in Kansas City, Missouri. She creates architectural tiles and terra cotta details using the language of architectural ornament to interpret human culture and the natural world. Esser received her BFA from... MORE »
Clary Illian
Clary Illian is a potter who lives in Ely, Iowa. Illian apprenticed at Leach Pottery in England from 1964-65. Hewing to the Leach philosophy, her subsequent work concentrated on the purity of the pot’s form and the potter’s life... MORE »
Cliff Lee
Cliff Lee is a ceramic artist who works in Pennsylvania creating forms that mimics natural, creating imagery of flowers, gourds, leaves. As a young man Lee studied medicine and became a successful neurosurgeon but became a potter in the... MORE »
Cynthia Bringle
Cynthia Bringle is a ceramic artist, who lives and works in Penland, North Carolina. Although she is most well known for her ceramics, she is also a painter and printmaker. She earned a BFA from Memphis Academy of Art and... MORE »
David Gurney
David Gurney is a potter and painter. He received his MA in Ceramics from California State University, Fullerton. He now lives on California’s Central Coast. His work is influenced by nature, food, Mexican folk art, and his childhood, growing... MORE »
Ed Rossbach
Ed Rossbach (1914-2002) was a fiber artist who worked in basketmaking and weaving. Originally from Chicago, he worked and lived in Berkeley, CA. He was drawn to nontraditional textile materials including foil, plastic bags, Mylar, twigs, staples, Styrofoam, and... MORE »
Ehren Tool
Ehren Tool is a ceramic artist and Senior Laboratory Mechanician at the Ceramic Department at University of California, Berkeley, and Marine Veteran of the 1991 Gulf War. Tool was greatly influenced by American expressionist ceramic sculptor, Peter Voulkos. Tool... MORE »
Gail Kendall
Gail Kendall is a ceramic artist whose work is influenced by European earthenware pottery and porcelain traditions from the 13th through 18th centuries. Kendall is an Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. www.gailkendall.com
Gerardo Monterrubio
For millennia, numerous cultures have used the ceramic medium to record their existence. From these artifacts, we can form an understanding and various interpretations of the cultural paradigms, socio political practices, mythologies, and the human experience of the worlds... MORE »
Gere Kavanaugh
Gere Kavanaugh (b. 1929) grew up in Memphis, TN. After earning a BFA from Memphis College of Art, Kavanaugh went on to pursue an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. After Cranbrook, she was hired at General Motors working... MORE »
Harrison McIntosh
Harrison McIntosh (1914-2016) was a studio potter. McIntosh was introduced to ceramics at a USC night class taught by Glen Lukens. In 1944, he was drafted by the U.S. Army and used the G.I. Bill to study ceramics at the Claremont Graduate School.... MORE »
Jeff Oestreich
Jeff Oestreich was trained in the austere simplicity of traditional Asian pottery while serving as apprentice to Bernard Leach in England in the 1960s. Driven to achieve a personal style, he overlaid this foundation with a passion for Art... MORE »
Judas Recendez
Judas Recendez is a ceramic artist who spent his youth in sunny Visalia, CA, surfing, hiking and exploring an interest in fine art and ceramics. Recendez is a U.S. Army Veteran of the Iraq War who participated in 2... MORE »
Linda Sikora
Linda Sikora is a potter and Professor at Alfred University. Sikora is known for her jars and teapots, which she thoughtfully crafts. Sikora received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and her BFA from the Nova Scotia College... MORE »
Magdalena Pedro Martínez
Magdalena Pedro Martínez is an outstanding barro negro ceramist, in the tradition of her family in San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Trained as a medical doctor, she also devotes time to ceramics, specializing in female figures dressed in the... MORE »
Mark Hewitt
Mark Hewitt is a potter, who was born in England. Although his father and grandfather were the directors of Spode, a fine china manufacturing company, he decided to become a studio potter instead of an industry manager. He received... MORE »
Matt Kelleher
Matt Kelleher is a studio potter who creates soda-fired tableware as well as sculptural forms. After working as a studio potter in North Carolina as well as participating in residences at Penland School of Crafts, Archie Bray Foundation, Kelleher... MORE »
Matthew Metz
Matthew Metz is a potter who works and resides in Alfred, New York. Metz received a BFA from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and MFA from Edinboro University in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. From 1989 to 1991 he was a resident... MORE »
Motawi Tileworks
Motawi Tileworks was founded in 1992 by Nawal Motawi, who started out making tiles in her garage and selling them at the local farmers market. Utilizing Toyota-style production techniques (kanban), Motawi sells tiles to over 400 stores across the... MORE »
Nikki Lewis
Nikki Lewis (b. 1976) is a ceramic artist who works in Los Angeles, CA. “I like to get dirty,” she says, explaining her long-standing love for making all things clay. She throws exquisite delicate functional work that feature intricate... MORE »
Pamela Owens
Pam’s pottery studies began with seven years of pottery apprenticeship, the traditional method of pottery study. Beginning in 1975, she studied for two years at High Mowing School, a small Waldorf School in New Hampshire, under the guidance of... MORE »
Peter Voulkos
Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) was a ceramist most known for his abstract expressionist sculptures. He received his BS from the Montana State College, Bozeman and received his MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College... MORE »
Pewabic
Pewabic has been a beacon for artists since 1905, producing museum quality ceramics in Detroit for over 100 years. Long honored for its museum quality ceramics with a unique iridescent glaze, Pewabic is now one of only two active... MORE »
Richard Notkin
Richard Notkin is a ceramic artist who works in Helena, MT. Influenced by the tradition of Yixing pottery, his work is a vehicle for political commentary. He received his BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from... MORE »
Sandy Simon
Sandy Simon is a studio potter and in 1994 opened TRAX Gallery in Berkeley, CA to provide greater representation for ceramicists dedicated to utility. Simon keeps her forms minimal, thus highlighting the landscape of a form, the detailed addition... MORE »
Sarah Jaeger
Sarah Jaeger is a potter who works in Helena, MT. She received a BA from Harvard College and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Jaeger creates functional porcelain pottery, often thrown and altered, and glazed using wax... MORE »
Shoko Teruyama
Shoko Teruyama is a ceramic artist. Teruyama’s handbuilt work is made of earthenware with white slip and sgraffito decoration. She has developed a cast of characters based on experience with human relations. As the characters interact, Shoko wants the viewer to... MORE »
Steven Portigal
Steven Portigal received his BFA from California State University, Northridge, where he studied with Howard Tollefson, and his MFA in Ceramics at UCLA, where he studied with Adrian Saxe. An artist and educator whose creative endeavors in the studio... MORE »
Susan Garson
Susan Garson grew up knowing that she would lead a life in the arts. When she began her master’s work at UCLA, she was drawn to ceramics and decided to use her newly found love of hand building united... MORE »
Travis Owens
Travis, the son of Vernon and Pam Owens began working with clay as soon as he could walk and grew up learning the craft from his family. Travis received a BA in Art and Design at North Carolina State... MORE »
Veralee Bassler
Ceramic artist Veralee Bassler first took clay in hand around the age of 15 in a favorite high school class, ceramics. Several years later, she graduated from UCLA Art Department with a concentration in ceramics. Veralee then began a... MORE »
Vernon Owens
Vernon Owens is a native of Seagrove in Moore County, NC. His roots in pottery go back four to five generations. Vernon grew up working in his father’s shop, M.L. Owens, absorbing the style and shapes. In the late... MORE »
Veronica Castillo
Veronica Castillo is a ceramic artist who crafts exquisitely detailed, brightly colored folk art objects using centuries-old methods and symbols. She is a member of the honored Castillo Orta folk art family of Izucar de Matamoros in Puebla, Mexico,... MORE »
Warren MacKenzie
Warren MacKenzie (1924-2018) was one of America’s greatest potters and an inspiration to younger generations. Having apprenticed at the Leach Pottery in 1952, MacKenzie brought the Mingei aesthetic to the St. Croix Valley where it took root and spread.... MORE »
Wayne Higby
Wayne Higby is a ceramic artist, Professor of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, and Director of the Alfred University Ceramic Museum. Higby’s unique vision of the American Landscape and its manifestation in work ranging from vessel form to tile,... MORE »
William Daley
William Daley (b.1925) is a ceramic artist known for his large, unglazed stoneware vessels. After surviving prison camp during World War II, Daley went on to attend The Massachusetts College of Art in Boston where, under the G.I. Bill,... MORE »
Fiber
Ana Lisa Hedstrom
Ana Lisa Hedstrom (b. 1943) is a textile artist who uses a contemporary interpretation of Japanese Shibori to create wall hangings and art clothing. She hand-dyes, then cuts and folds the cloth. This process creates a conversation between East... MORE »
Anni Albers
Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a textile artist trained at the Bauhaus. In 1932, Anni and her husband Josef Albers fled Germany and moved to North Carolina, where they were invited to teach at Black Mountain College. Anni Albers was... MORE »
Arline Fisch
Arline Fisch (b. 1931 in Brooklyn, NY) incorporates different materials and textile processes by knitting, plaiting, and weaving, in order to create her jewelry. She creates collars, pectorals, and head ornaments in a larger than usual scale. Fisch’s work... MORE »
Barbara Teller Ornelas
Barbara Teller Ornelas is a 5th generation Master Navajo weaver who specializes in Two Grey Hills style pieces. Her father, Sam Teller, worked at the Two Grey Hills Trading Post in New Mexico, where she was raised with her... MORE »
Bayle Owens
Bayle grew up in a family working in craft (Vernon, Pam and Travis Owens) who own Jugtown Pottery, an American Craft Shop located in Seagrove, NC. As a child, she spent a large amount of time around the... MORE »
Bernard Kester
Bernard Kester (b. 1928) entered the craft world as a potter and textile designer in the 1950s. Over the course of his career, he wore many other hats including writer, professor, curator, and exhibition designer. Kester studied and worked... MORE »
Bethanne Knudson
Bethanne Knudson is the Design Director and CEO of The Oriole Mill and a fiber artist. For many years, Knudson trained textile designers to use software for Jacquard looms, and in 2000, opened the Jacquard Center in Hendersonville, NC,... MORE »
Billie Ruth Sudduth
Billie Ruth Sudduth (b. 1945) is a self taught basketmaker who works in Bakersville, NC. Her baskets are inspired by the Shaker and Appalachian baskets, but are also based on the Fibonacci sequence. Her baskets are made of reed... MORE »
Carol Shaw-Sutton
Carol Shaw-Sutton is an artist specializing in fiber and textile processes using both ancient and more modern techniques. She has been a Professor of Art at California State University, Long Beach for over 31 years and has been the... MORE »
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is most well known for her textiles and installation work which represents her own history as a migrant agricultural worker, signifying her hybrid culture as well as the arbitrary lines that divide her homes. Artistic expression... MORE »
Corine Pearce
Corine Pearce is a Pomo basket weaver from Redwood Valley, CA. Throughout the history of the Pomo people, baskets were the essential tool of life and Pomo baskets are among the best in the world by fact of their... MORE »
David Chatt
David Chatt (b. 1960 in Des Moines, IA) is a sculptural glass bead artist. He creates vessels, trinkets, and sculptures by hand sewing glass beads using a right angle weave stitch that he adapted. He received his BA from... MORE »
Deborah Cross
Deborah Cross is a textile artist designing wearable art in Freedom, CA near Santa Cruz. Working with the interplay of fabric and the body, she considers beauty and comfort while constructing unique garments that are wondrously varied in their... MORE »
Dona Look
Dona Look is a basket maker who works in Algoma, WI, where she lives with her husband, Ken Loeber and their son, Reid. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in 1970. She collects bark from the region’s... MORE »
Dorothy Gill Barnes
Dorothy Gill Barnes (b. 1927) is a sculptor who works in wood using the bark, branches and roots as she weaves sculptural vessels, often basket-like, that incorporate the unique characteristics of the wood. She was born in Iowa and... MORE »
Edwina Bringle
Edwina Bringle who lives and works in Penland, NC. As a fiber artist she is known for her use of color and design in her woven textiles and free motion embroidered pieces. Bringle also runs a gallery with her... MORE »
Eugene Burks Jr.
Eugene Burks Jr. is a 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) and a saddler. Burks learned many aspects of his leather craft from his grandmother, a dressmaker. Trained in canvas and light textile repair, Burks worked in the... MORE »
Faith Ringgold
Internationally celebrated artist, teacher, and author, Faith Ringgold is best known for her painted story quilts – art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. Her famous quilt, Tar Beach, resides at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New... MORE »
Geraldine Nash
Geraldine Nash learned to quilt after being hired to babysit while the students and mothers learned to quilt. “…after I got the job the parents came but they didn’t bring their kids. So, Miss Rankin told me to... MORE »
Gere Kavanaugh
Gere Kavanaugh (b. 1929) grew up in Memphis, TN. After earning a BFA from Memphis College of Art, Kavanaugh went on to pursue an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. After Cranbrook, she was hired at General Motors working... MORE »
Gerhardt Knodel
Gerhardt Knodel (b. 1940) is a fiber artist and former director at Cranbrook Academy of Art and the former Fiber Department head. Knodel’s work with fiber includes installations, theater, architectural commissions, and the pictorial potential of weaving. He graduated... MORE »
Helena Hernmarck
Helena Hernmarck (b. 1941 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a textile artist and weaver who specializes in large-scale public tapestries. She uses spun and dyed yarns from Sweden and Swedish looms. Hernmarck received her education at the Stockholm College of... MORE »
Hystercine Rankin
Hystercine Rankin (1929-2010) learned quilting from her grandmother at the age of 12 and started making quilts to keep her family warm. She made traditional quilts like the log cabin, but created her own unique versions of them, utilizing... MORE »
J. Isaac Vasquez Garcia
J. Isaac Vásquez García, master weaver and dyer, the eldest living member of the one of the oldest weaving families in Teotitlán del Valle, México, pioneered the renaissance of using pre-Hispanic natural dyes on pure wool. Isaac’s three sons,... MORE »
Jack Lenor Larsen
Jack Lenor Larsen is a textile designer, and an author/collector/ promoter of traditional and contemporary craftsmanship in all its forms. The “Larsen Look” (colors, materials, and weaves that are synonymous with modern 20th century design) was begun with his... MORE »
Janet Lipkin
Janet Lipkin (b. 1948) is a textile artist in Northern California. She helped define wearable art in the 1970s and is one of the founders of the Artwear movement. She graduated from Pratt Institute with Jean Cacicedo. At the... MORE »
Jean Williams Cacicedo
Jean Williams Cacicedo (b. 1948) is a fiber artist who works in Berkeley, CA. She is most known for her wool coats that are pieced and sewn together. Inspired by personal myths and symbolic imagery, her work tells stories... MORE »
Jim Bassler
Jim Bassler was introduced to the textile traditions at an early age from his father. The Cold War strategies gave him the opportunity to see the world and introduced him to the craft traditions of Europe, the Middle East,... MORE »
Joe Cunningham
Joe Cunningham began making quilts professionally in 1979 after a ten-year career as a musician in Michigan. Cunningham’s life is steeped in the study of quilt history and a love of traditional technique from which he has developed a... MORE »
Joseph Pereira
Joseph Pereira, Principal Timpanist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2007, composer and teacher, has appeared in some of the world’s greatest orchestras and can be heard on numerous recordings and soundtracks to major motion pictures. Working closely with... MORE »
Joyce J. Scott
Joyce J. Scott is a versatile artist from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a printmaker, weaver, sculptor, performance artist, and educator, but she is probably most well known for her work in jewelry, beadwork, and glass. Her art reflects her... MORE »
Judith Content
Judith Content (b. 1957) is a fiber artist in Palo Alto, CA, who utilizes a contemporary interpretation of the Japanese dye technique, Arashi Shibori. Her hand-dyed, quilted, and pieced silk wall pieces often depict elaborate landscapes that are inspired... MORE »
K. Lee Manuel
K. Lee Manuel (1936-2003) was a fiber artist who is most well known for her leather work, suede garments, and painted feather collars. She was a California native, who made Santa Cruz her home and studio. She studied at... MORE »
Karyl Sisson
Karyl Sisson (b.1948) is a fiber artist originally from Brooklyn, NY. Using recycled or repurposed materials (like old cloth tape measures, wood clothespins, vintage paper drinking straws and vintage zippers), she creates wall art and sculptural forms. Sisson says,... MORE »
Kay Sekimachi
Kay Sekimachi is a fiber artist and weaver, known as a “weaver’s weaver” for her unusual use of the loom in constructing three-dimensional sculptural pieces. In the early 1970s she used nylon monofilament to create hanging quadruple tubular woven... MORE »
Lia Cook
Lia Cook is a fiber artist who combines weaving, painting, photography and digital technology to create her work. Cook’s work attempts to shatter restrictive theories about craft, art, science and technology. Her focus is on the history and meaning... MORE »
Libby O’Bryan
Libby O’Bryan is the owner of the manufacturing enterprise Sew Co. housed within The Oriole Mill in an effort to preserve the skill of sewing and new model for our domestic production economy. O’Bryan developed her practice following a... MORE »
Lisa Sorrell
Lisa Sorrell learned to sew clothing at age twelve. By the time she was fifteen she was both designing her own clothing and sewing professionally. In 1990, when she was 20, she moved from Missouri to Guthrie, Oklahoma.... MORE »
Lissa Hunter
Lissa Hunter (b. 1945 in Indianapolis, IN) is a sculptor who creates contemporary coiled baskets and currently resides in Portland, ME. Her baskets are covered with paper, then painted, and adorned. She displays her work on wall-mounted boxes. She... MORE »
Louisa Keyser
Louisa Keyser (c. 1829-1925) also known as Dat So La Lee was a Washoe Native American basket maker. She was born in Nevada as Dabuda, which means Young Willow, but later changed her name. She learned to weave baskets... MORE »
Lucy Mingo
Born in 1931, just north of Gee’s Bend, AL, Lucy Mingo grew up picking crops, cooking for her family, and walking four miles to and from school each day. She worked many jobs through the years, all the while... MORE »
Lynda Teller Pete
Lynda Teller Pete is a 5th generation Navajo weaver who is known for weaving in the traditional Two Grey Hills pattern. Her father, Sam Teller, worked at the Two Grey Hills Trading Post in New Mexico, where she was... MORE »
Mary Ann Pettway
Mary Ann Pettway, manager of the Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective, learned to quilt as a young child from her mother. She made her first quilt for the collective in the summer of 2005. The seventh of 12 children, Mary... MORE »
Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson is a basket maker who lives in Charleston, SC with her husband, Stoney. She makes sweetgrass baskets that come out of a tradition that has been passed down from her ancestors. It originated in West Africa, and... MORE »
Mary Little
Mary Little is an Irish-born artist that lives and works in Downtown Los Angeles. She began her career after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London as an avant-garde furniture maker–working in one-of-a-kind pieces of furniture. In... MORE »
Mary Merkel-Hess
Mary Merkel-Hess grew up in the farmlands of Iowa, where she still lives and works. Studying both metalsmithing and fiber for her undergraduate degrees, Merkel-Hess received an MFA in metalsmithing from the University of Iowa under the tutelage of Professor Chunghi Choo.... MORE »
Michael F. Rohde
After pursuing dual careers in biochemistry and weaving, Michael F. Rohde left behind his job as director of a biotechnology research lab in 1998 to devote full time to his work. Weaving has been a fervent activity since 1973.... MORE »
Neda Al-Hilali
Neda Al Hilali is a Czech-born, Los Angles-based artist who was one of the leading female artists working in large-scale three-dimensional fiber in the 1970s. She adopted processes that had traditional origins in the domestic realm, including crochet and... MORE »
Pat Courtney Gold
Pat Courtney Gold is a basket maker influenced by her ancestors, the Wasco Indians. Her work is based on the baskets of her ancestors using the full turn twine technique but she experiments with different materials (cattail leaves, tule,... MORE »
Randall Darwall
Randall Darwall (1948-2017) was a master colorist and weaver whose hallmark is an extraordinarily refined aesthetic, and one of contemporary craft’s finest weavers, bringing an intelligence and liveliness to his work. He saw his goal as “not just making... MORE »
Steve Fenton
Steve Fenton (1946-2010) was a needle pointer and collector of craft. He first learned Bargello and then counted cross stitch from his father. Honing his skills over many years, he only worked with blank canvasses or fabrics for all... MORE »
Tanya Aguiñiga
Tanya Aguiñiga grew up in both San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, a bi-cultural artist whose quest is to create a dialogue between two very different cultural experiences in her craft-based artistic expression. Having learned her trade from vastly... MORE »
Terese Agnew
Terese Agnew’s work has evolved from sculpture to densely embroidered quilts by a process she calls drawing with thread. Her themes are environmental and social. Her most notable quilt to date is the Portrait of a Textile Worker, constructed... MORE »
Teri Greeves
Teri Greeves is a beadwork artist who lives in Santa Fe, NM. She is enrolled in the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma. Teri follows and updates the Kiowa tradition of beadwork, to tell the story of the American Indian,... MORE »
Tim Harding
Tim Harding is a fiber artist. He uses a self developed technique (complex, free-reverse appliqué) to create interesting surfaces and patterns in his work. He creates colorful, vibrant wall hangings as well as women’s coats. His work is in... MORE »
Victor De La Rosa
Victor De La Rosa, an Oakland, CA native, works across a variety of media, including fiber and digital, engaging projects that explore Latino identity. De La Rosa works with a vast language of textiles where he discusses the different,... MORE »
Glass
Beth Lipman
Beth Lipman is a glass artist working in Wisconsin. Her work explores the symbolism of 17th century still life paintings through glimmering creations made of clear glass, symbolizing wealth and consumerism. Since earning her BFA from Tyler School of... MORE »
Christine Stankard Kressley
Christine Stankard Kressley is a glass artist who resides in Southern New Jersey. Under the mastery of international studio glass artist, Paul J. Stankard, Christine creates glass paperweights, continuing the American Paperweight tradition. Growing up in the Stankard home,... MORE »
Dale Chihuly
Dale Chihuly (b. 1941, Tacoma, WA) is a glassblower, who resides in Seattle, Washington. Exploring color and form in his work, he is known for his organic, large scale installations and multi-part compositions. Chihuly studied interior design at the... MORE »
Dante Marioni
Dante Marioni is a glass artist most well known for his freely blown, colorful, tall, and thin vessel forms. His work is influenced in its form by the Venetian tradition. He attended Pilchuck Glass School, Colorado Mountain College, and... MORE »
David Graeber
David Graeber is a glass artist, who was drawn to art from an early age. The New Jersey native obtained a Fine Arts degree from Camden County Community College, and went on to express himself through graphic art and... MORE »
Flora Mace & Joey Kirkpatrick
Flora Mace (b. 1949) and Joey Kirkpatrick (b. 1952) are glass artists that have worked collaboratively for over 25 years. They create a diverse body of work that includes blown glass vessels with applied imagery and sculpture fabricated with... MORE »
Garcia Art Glass
Garcia Art Glass was founded by Gini Garcia in 1998 and is now a family-run hot glass design and fabrication studio that specializes in one-of-a-kind blown glass lighting and sculpture. Designs range from functional to the whimsical and are... MORE »
Gini Garcia
Gini Garcia is a glass blower, designer and founder of Garcia Art Glass. Commissioned by both public institutions and private corporations, she has completed more than 50 site-specific works. Garcia also creates dignitary gifts and countless residential commissions worldwide.... MORE »
Harvey Littleton
Harvey K. Littleton (1922-2013) was a glass artist and educator, who is considered a pioneer in the Studio Glass Movement. His work ranged from functional vessels to sculptural forms. His father was a physicist at Corning Glass Works so... MORE »
Hugh Jenkins
Hugh Jenkins has worked in glass since 1969. He got his first introduction to glass blowing and the Foundry in Honolulu. He brought glass blowing into the Punahou School art department in 1972 and continued to teach there until... MORE »
Jaime Guerrero
Before I am an artist I am a craftsman… My work is about intersecting experiences and the rediscovery and shaping of relics into new forms as a way of self-questioning. Many things can exist as relics. In my vocabulary... MORE »
Jamex & Einar de la Torre
Jamex de la Torre and Einar de la Torre are sculptors who primarily works in glass. The brothers moved to California in 1972 and graduated from California State University Long Beach. Their unique work is based on their Mexican-American... MORE »
John Drury and Robbie Miller (CUD)
CUD is a collaborative, art effort between John Drury (b.1960) and Robbie Miller (b.1955). Chance, situation and humor inform non-traditional work in glass. Collaboration, concept and reflection of place enlighten the glass making processes in the creation of sculptural... MORE »
Joyce J. Scott
Joyce J. Scott is a versatile artist from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a printmaker, weaver, sculptor, performance artist, and educator, but she is probably most well known for her work in jewelry, beadwork, and glass. Her art reflects her... MORE »
Judson Studios
Judson Studios is a fine arts studio specializing in stained glass, located in the Arroyo Seco area of Los Angeles, CA. Judson is the oldest family-run stained glass studio in America still making exquisite handcrafted glass, now under the... MORE »
Katherine Gray
Katherine Gray (b. 1965) is a glass artist, creating functional glass objects like vases, candelabras, and goblets, many of which fit neatly inside each other. Her recent work incorporates these works into installations. Gray is a glass lecturer at... MORE »
Katherine Stankard Campbell
Katherine Stankard Campbell is a glass artist who resides in Southern New Jersey. After earning her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Campbell entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was awarded an MFA... MORE »
Kazuki Takizawa
Kazuki Takizawa is a Japanese glass artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2010. He has since worked and taught at various glass educational facilities including Pilchuck Glass School and Public... MORE »
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Company. During his youth, his main interest was painting. Tiffany studied under the American painters George Inness and Samuel Colman, as well as studying... MORE »
Mark Mitsuda
Mark Mitsuda was born and raised in Honolulu, HI. He learned the art of glassblowing in high school at Punahou School, working under the tutelage of Hugh Jenkins. Mitsuda continued his studies at the New York State College of... MORE »
Marvin Lipofsky
Marvin Lipofsky (1938-2016) was a glass artist in Berkeley, CA. He received a BFA from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana and studied with Harvey Littleton (a pioneer of the studio art glass movement) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where... MORE »
Paul J. Stankard
Paul J. Stankard is a glass artist living in Mantua, NJ, an area where glass has been produced since 1739. Paul follows in the tradition of centuries-old European lampwork, elevating the practice of flamework to the highest art form... MORE »
Paul Marioni
Paul Marioni is a glass artist whose work is about human nature and is often inspired by his dreams. Known as an innovator in the glass world, Marioni pushes his techniques to their limits, regularly redefining what is possible... MORE »
Preston Singletary
Preston Singletary is a Tlingit glass artist. Singletary transfers Tlingit designs, traditionally carved in wood, onto glass. He studied at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington. Light is integral to his work, and he uses it to... MORE »
Richard Marquis
Richard Marquis (b. 1945) is a glass artist from Bumblebee, AZ, now living in Freeland, WA. He received both his BA and MA from the University of California, Berkeley. He also apprenticed at Venetian glass factories where he learned... MORE »
Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend
Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend is a glass artist. Stinsmuehlen-Amend’s early work concentrated on bold, experimental pieces that defied idealized standards of beauty, taste, form and pattern. She crossed over the various methods of manipulating glass and incorporated other media into her... MORE »
Therman Statom
Therman Statom (b. 1953) is a glass artist currently living in Omaha, NE. Statom is best known for his painted ladders, houses, chairs, etc., constructed out of plate glass, blown glass objects, plywood, and found objects. He studied glass at Pilchuck... MORE »
William Morris
William Morris joined Dale Chihuly as a gaffer in his glass-blowing enterprise at Pilchuck Glass School in the late 1970s and soon became Chihuly’s chief assistant. Morris’s relationship with Pilchuck continues to this day. As Morris developed his most... MORE »
Metal
Albert Paley
Albert Paley is a metal sculptor and artist. Beginning as a goldsmith, Paley’s work has evolved through time and technology to a monumental scale. From first mental image, to drawings, to cardboard models, to CAD (computer-aided design) maquette, to... MORE »
Allan Adler
Allan Adler (1916-2002) was a silversmith who worked in the Arts and Crafts style. Born in Missoula, MT, he lived and worked most of his life in Los Angeles. He learned the trade from his father-in-law, Porter Blanchard. The... MORE »
Carlton Simmons
Carlton Simmons (b. 1959), a nephew of the master blacksmith, Philip Simmons (1912-2009), enjoys the free style design in iron with an eye on nature. He went into the blacksmith shop at the age of 13 also – the... MORE »
Carmen Tapia
Carmen Tapia, designer, preserves and refines her family’s tradition of fabricating jewelry in metals and stones. Carmen has won numerous prizes in significant jewelry design competitions in Mexico and the U.S., her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums,... MORE »
Charles Loloma
Charles Loloma (1921-1991) was a Hopi American Indian from the Badger Clan. Although he was a painter, potter and sculptor, he was best known for his jewelry. He started making jewelry in 1955 and changed the look of Hopi... MORE »
Chloe Darke
Chloe Darke is of the generation fueling the DIY movement, hungry to explore and savor the act of making, driven to create. Having studied metalsmithing and jewelry at Maine College of Art, she now produces fine sterling place settings... MORE »
Christina Smith
Christina Smith (b. 1951) is a silversmith living in Fullerton, CA. Her work has a passion for luxury, yet they speak to a modern mind with sharp lines and biting, narrative wit. She creates brooches, boxes, purses, tea sets,... MORE »
Chunghi Choo
Chunghi Choo (b. 1938 in Inchon, Korea, retired) is a metalworker. She creates jewelry, hollowware, flatware, sculptures, mixed media objects, and textile art works. She received a BFA from Ewha Womans University in Korea and an MFA from Cranbrook... MORE »
Cristina Romo
Cristina Romo began designing in silver at the age of five. Her grandfather Antonio, trained by the renowned silversmith William Spratling, later departed to establish his own workshop outside of Taxco. Cristina’s mother, Emilia Castillo, is a celebrated silversmith... MORE »
Dave & Roberta Williamson
Dave and Roberta Williamson are jewelers who live in Berea, OH. The Williamsons create jewelry that combines ephemera and found objects, some of which has been passed down in their families, and others found at the many flea markets... MORE »
David Monette
Now in their 30th year of inventing, designing and hand-crafting custom brass instruments and mouthpieces, the David G. Monette Corporation (Portland, OR) has developed a holistic philosophy taking into account the player, the instrument, the performance space and the... MORE »
Davide Prete
Davide Prete is a sculptor and architect who specializes in urban scale works using stainless steel and forged steel. Prete wants to connect traditional technique with modern shapes. For this reason he loves to work with iron forging but... MORE »
Deborah Boskin
Deborah Boskin is a fine jewelry artist based in San Francisco, CA. Her work ranges from one-of-a-kind sculptural works to custom made jewelry. She studied at California College of the Arts, where she received a BFA with a focus... MORE »
Denise Wallace
Denise Wallace is a jewelry artist of Native Alaskan Aleut descent, who worked with her husband, Samuel Wallace (1936-2010). She maintains and modifies a walrus-ivory carving tradition. Wallace is most well known for her elaborate belts which depict people,... MORE »
Donna D’Aquino
Donna D’Aquino (b. 1965 in Newburgh, NY) is a studio jeweler and metalsmith. She is most known for her minimal wire bracelets and brooches, which are often coated in a plastic dip to add color. The jewelry is meant... MORE »
Eduardo Herrera
Eduardo Herrera, architect and designer, explored many artistic fields before committing himself to goldsmithing and designing jewelry. His designs are inspired by nature and architectural elements which he translates into silver, gold and tumbaga, an alloy of gold and... MORE »
Eliel Saarinen
Eliel Saarinen (1873-1950) was a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century. As a young man, Saarinen studied painting and architecture at Helsinki University. He moved to the... MORE »
Garry Knox Bennett
Garry Knox Bennett is a furniture maker who works in Oakland, CA. He attended the California College of Arts and Crafts (currently California College of the Arts) where he learned to paint and sculpt. In the 1960s, he used... MORE »
Geoffrey Blake
Geoffrey Blake was born in Kittery, ME and grew up in Hampton, NH. Blake became intrigued with hand making sterling silver products during a visit to Old Newbury Crafters in his teens. After four years in the Air Force,... MORE »
Gere Kavanaugh
Gere Kavanaugh (b. 1929) grew up in Memphis, TN. After earning a BFA from Memphis College of Art, Kavanaugh went on to pursue an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. After Cranbrook, she was hired at General Motors working... MORE »
Helen Shirk
Helen Shirk (b. 1942 in Buffalo, NY) is a metalsmith/jeweler and educator. She is known for her large richly colored copper vessels that draw on the power and diversity of the natural world for inspiration and meaning. She is... MORE »
Holly Lee
Holly Lee is a metalsmith who creates one-of-a-kind pieces using gold, silver, precious and semi-precious stones. She creates pieces that are hollow constructed, pierced and hand-drilled. These drilled forms create texture and a sense of light passing through space.... MORE »
Jan Yager
Jan Yager is an artist and mixed-media jeweler. She received a BFA from Western Michigan University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is known for its close observation of nature, reference to colonial... MORE »
Jana Brevick
Jana Brevick is a Seattle-based metal artist who creates modern sculptural work and unique small pieces of jewelry to be worn as tools of engagement and accessibility. With crisp craftsmanship, she uses technology, designs and forms that surround us... MORE »
Jaydan Moore
Jaydan Moore was born into a family of fourth generation tombstone makers. Most of his childhood was spent at the family business, which doubled as a rental storage space where he would rummage through other peoples’ objects and listen... MORE »
Jesse Monongya
Jesse Monongya (b. 1952) is a master inlay jeweler, who followed in his father’s footsteps. I didn’t know my dad, Preston Monongye, until after I came home from the Marines and Vietnam. Then I looked for him and found... MORE »
John Prip
John Prip (b. 1922) is a fourth generation metalsmith, born in New York and raised in Denmark. At the age of 15, he began his apprenticeship at his father’s silversmithing factory. At the age of 26, he immigrated back... MORE »
Joseph “Ronnie” Pringle
Joseph Pringle (b. 1943), better known as “Ronnie,” was born and raised in Charleston, SC. He fell in love with the blacksmith shop at an early age while visiting his cousin, Philip Simmons, practically every day. He loved his... MORE »
June Schwarcz
June Schwarcz (1918-2015) was a metalworker whose arena was enamel. Born in Denver, she studied writing at the University of Colorado and then at the University of Chicago. Deciding that “posterity would forgive her” if she put her talents... MORE »
Kat Cole
Kat Cole received her MFA at East Carolina University and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and was a Visiting Professor in Metals/Jewelry at Western Michigan University. She has been a presenter at Yuma Symposium and Craft Boston, teaches workshops nationally... MORE »
Kate Lindsay
Kate Lindsay, originally from Portland, OR, is a studio jewelry and metalsmith currently working in Los Angeles. She studied with the late master goldsmith, Clemente Urrutia, who taught her, among other skills, the importance of tool making. She also... MORE »
Kathleen Browne
Coming from a background in ceramic, fashion jewelry, and metals, Kathleen Browne’s jewelry often uses photography and its manipulation to provide commentary, sometimes with humor, about the human condition. Kathleen Browne has headed the Jewelry/Metals/Enameling department at Kent State... MORE »
Ken Loeber
Ken Loeber is a jeweler who works in Algoma, WI, where he lives with his wife, Dona Look and their son, Reid. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee with his BFA in 1970 and MFA in 1978... MORE »
Kiff Slemmons
Kiff Slemmons is an artist who creates sculptural jewelry in paper and metal. During a trip to Mexico, Slemmons saw the jewelry in Tomb 7 at Monte Albán and it sparked her interest in non-precious jewelry materials. Slemmon’s metal jewelry... MORE »
Kit Carson
Kit Carson is an artist and jeweler, who lives and works at Cactus Camp in New River, AZ with his wife, artist Aryana B. Londir. Carson grew up on a dude ranch with supportive and energetic parents. He later... MORE »
Laurie J. Hall
Laurie J. Hall studied under renowned jewelry artist Ramona Solberg at the University of Washington. She holds a BA from Willamette University and a MAT from the University of Washington. Hall has more than 40 years of teaching experience.... MORE »
Marilyn da Silva
Marilyn da Silva’s work is based on telling stories through imagery and representational elements. Her trademark surface treatment of gesso and colored pencil creates a rich palette for her sculpture and wearable pieces. Da Silva is Professor and Program... MORE »
Marina Marioni
Marina Marioni is a self taught jewelry artist who comes from an artistic family. Marina creates jewelry that often plays with form and meaning, much like her father’s (Paul Marioni) sculptures often play with visual puns. Marina has experience... MORE »
Mary Lee Hu
Mary Lee Hu (b. 1943 in Lakewood, OH) creates jewelry using refined textile weaving techniques to sculpt her pieces. Her designs are base on natural forms, movement and symmetry. The many hours of repetitive twining are a meditative activity.... MORE »
Merry Renk
Merry Renk (1921-2012) was a jeweler known for her work in enamels, interlocking forms and small metal sculptures. She attended the Institute of Design in Chicago and opened a gallery showcasing contemporary painting, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry. While still... MORE »
Miguel Angel Ortiz Miranda
Miguel Angel Ortiz Miranda’s father Jorge was a maestro in William Spratling’s legendary silver workshop in Taxco. Taking inspiration from his father, Miguel Ángel is a gifted designer and jeweler, winning numerous prestigious national awards for jewelry design and... MORE »
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray (b. 1962) is a metalsmith and educator. She is currently a Professor of Art in the Metal Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She received her BFA from the Philadelphia College of... MORE »
Nancy Worden
For more than three decades, Nancy Worden has interpreted the events in her life as an American woman. Her jewelry intertwines an exploration of materials from contemporary American culture and an intensive study of the history of jewelry design... MORE »
Philip Simmons
Philip Simmons (1912–2009) was a renowned blacksmith in Charleston, SC. Enticed by the sparks flying in a blacksmith shop he passed on his way to school, he became an apprentice at the early age of 13 in the shop... MORE »
Ramona Solberg
Ramona Solberg (1921-2005) was a jeweler, who was born in Watertown, SD, but lived and taught in Seattle. She was a pioneer in the contemporary jewelry movement. Solberg rarely used precious metals, preferring found objects and incorporating ethnic elements... MORE »
Randy Stromsoe
Randy Stromsoe, at the age of 19 was classically trained by silversmith, Porter Blanchard. Stromsoe has been designing and hand crafting fine tableware for most of his adult life. He has created presentation pieces for the U.S. State Department,... MORE »
Richard Mawdsley
Richard Mawdsley (b. 1945) is a metalsmith. He is most well known for his intricately designed and meticulously fabricated objects and jewelry created with precious metal tubing, metals and stones. His work is influenced by old machinery and mechanical... MORE »
Ron Ho
Ron Ho (b. 1936) is a jeweler and honored art educator living in Seattle, WA. Born to traditional Chinese parents, Ho grew up in Hawaii, surrounded by diverse cultures and their unique artistic expressions. His work has been influenced... MORE »
Samuel Wallace
Lapidary Samuel Wallace (1936-2010) worked with his wife Denise Wallace (b. 1957 in Seattle, WA), a jeweler of Native Alaskan Aleut descent. She maintains and modifies a walrus-ivory carving tradition. Their work has been in the collections of the... MORE »
Sandra Enterline
Sandra Enterline’s sculptural jewelry comes to life on the wearer. Her pieces incorporate precious and semiprecious gemstones, quail’s eggs, snail shells, insects, and vials of found objects. The intrigue of each piece lies in the ability of the jewelry... MORE »
Shane Yamane
Originally from Oahu, Hawaii, Shane Yamane pursued his love of gemstones and handcrafting fine jewelry in New York City. A fully trained and developed artist, his focus is on form and proportion. His custom designs are classic, clean and... MORE »
Stanley Lechtzin
Stanley Lechtzin (b. 1936) is a jewelry artist who uses the electroforming process, which allows him to create wearable, large scale, lightweight jewelry. This process also allows for the combination of materials that were previously difficult or impossible to... MORE »
Steve Ford & David Forlano
Steven Ford (b. 1964 in Lafayette, IN) and David Forlano (b. 1964 in Charleston, SC) are jewelers, collaborating since 1988. They have worked with glass, fiber techniques, polymer clay, and metal in their jewelry. Steven Ford received a BFA... MORE »
Susan Chin
Susan Chin has been a studio jeweler since 1985. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she inherited some metalsmithing tools, which catalyzed a course of learning through various workshops and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, where... MORE »
Susie Ganch
Susie Ganch is a jewelry artist. Her work explores permeability and interconnectedness. By playing with material, design, and function, she pushes the expectations of how jewelry both looks and feels when worn. She is currently an Assistant Professor and... MORE »
Sydney Lynch
Sydney Lynch (b. 1951 in New Haven, CT) is a jeweler currently working and managing her studio in Lincoln, NE. She received her BFA at the University of Colorado. Her jewelry combines bold, simple structural shapes creating a dynamic... MORE »
Taweesak Molsawat
Taweesak Molsawat is an instructor of Industrial Design and Jewelry/Metalsmith at King Monkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand. He is a former Assistant Professor of the Jewelry/Metals program at San Diego State University, San Diego, California. He holds... MORE »
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann is an artist who works in the medium of jewelry and sculpture. The primary design vocabulary which he employs in the making of jewelry objects combines industrial aesthetics and materials with evocative romantic themes and imagery. He... MORE »
Tiff Massey
Tiff Massey is a metalsmith who creates wearable sculptures stemming from conceptual expression. Massey’s works are an observation of class and race in contemporary culture viewed through the lens of the African diaspora and life in an industrial urban... MORE »
Tom Joyce
Tom Joyce is a blacksmith who works in Santa Fe, NM. At the age of 13, he became an apprentice to a blacksmith and at 16 he dropped out of school to dedicate his life to metalsmithing. Tom constructs... MORE »
Tom Pullin
Tom Pullin served in the U.S. Army for almost twenty-five years and has brought his service to his art. He says, reminiscent of his training in the military, “It would be impossible to work with metal and not have... MORE »
Trudee Hill
Trudee Hill, originally from Seattle, Washington, holds a BFA in Jewelry/Metals from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has lived for extended periods in Hawaii and Estonia, where she completed a Fulbright Fellowship in 2006. Trudee currently... MORE »
Paper
Catherine Alice Michaelis
Catherine Alice Michaelis is a book artist who works near the South Salish Sea in Washington. Michaelis incorporates letterpress printing, book design, and other printing techniques into her work, including eco-printing. Michaelis is inspired by plants and uses them to... MORE »
Chris Low
Chinese lion dancer and lion head maker Chris Low first began studying the lion dance as a young boy growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown. He is one of few artists who have mastered both the martial arts based... MORE »
Claire Van Vliet
Claire Van Vliet is widely recognized as a master printmaker and has won numerous awards including election to the National Academy, two Honorary Doctorates of Fine Arts and the prestigious MacArthur Prize Fellowship. Born in Ottawa in 1933, she... MORE »
Corey Chan
An early interest in Chinese arts led martial artist and historian Corey Chan to train in the ancient Chinese New Year lion dance performed annually to bring good fortune. Chan is the Director of Kei Lun Martial Arts, dedicated... MORE »
East West Floats
In San Francisco, the Chinese New Year festival has grown to be the largest celebration of Asian culture outside of Asia. Started in 1860 by Chinese immigrants to America, the 150-year-old tradition of celebrating the Chinese New Year with a parade continues... MORE »
Felicia Rice
Felicia Rice, book artist, book arts educator, sole proprietor of Moving Parts Press in Santa Cruz, CA, collaborates with visual and performing artists and writers to create book structures that combine word and image. Moving Parts Press publications have... MORE »
Hidde Van Duym
Hidde Van Duym enjoys collecting and combining images of many different realities to create watercolor assemblages. By playing on the interaction of meaning, space and color, he produces visual discoveries that go beyond the laws of time and space.... MORE »
Jared Young
Jared Young has been involved in Chinese performing arts since early childhood. He started Chinese folk dance at a young age and his interest expanded to Chinese martial arts. Later he became involved with Chinese Opera—which makes sense because... MORE »
Jeff Lee
At 18, Jeff Lee started his martial arts training and was quickly attracted to the ancient philosophy underpinning Chinese martial arts. His training gravitated towards Taiji Quan. Further practice in Bagua Zhang lead him to the study of traditional... MORE »
Joy Stocksdale
Joy Stocksdale received a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. As a result of studies at Goldsmith’s College, University of London in 1979, she developed polychromatic screen printing. Her printed silk garments, hangings, and... MORE »
Julie Chen
After completing a degree in printmaking at the University of California, Berkeley, Julie Chen became intrigued by the language, equipment, and materials of Book Arts and entered the Book Arts program at Mills College. Book Arts encompass binding, letterpress,... MORE »
Kathleen Trenchard
Kathleen Trenchard has researched and worked in traditional Mexican papel picado (punched paper) ever since the early ‘90s when she was introduced to the technique in Huixcolotla, Mexico. Her work explores contemporary designs, applications and materials suitable for cut... MORE »
Kiff Slemmons
Kiff Slemmons is an artist who creates sculptural jewelry in paper and metal. During a trip to Mexico, Slemmons saw the jewelry in Tomb 7 at Monte Albán and it sparked her interest in non-precious jewelry materials. Slemmon’s metal jewelry... MORE »
Lorraine Bubar
Lorraine Bubar is an artist, art educator, and passionate advocate for the arts. She is a native of Los Angeles and received her BA from UCLA. She studied animation at Yale University and her short independent films won numerous... MORE »
Maureen Cummins
Maureen Cummins (b. 1963) is a native New Yorker. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, where she studied Fine Art with an emphasis on Printmaking and Book Arts. She has studied with master printers... MORE »
Ofelia Esparza
We all suffer three deaths, the first death is the day that we give our last breath, the day that we die. Our second death is the day that we are buried, never to be seen on the... MORE »
Pam DeLuco
Pam DeLuco, a papermaker and owner of Shotwell Paper Mill (San Francisco, CA), is the architect of the project Paper Dolls: stories from women who served which contains 20 stories spanning more than 40 years of service and all... MORE »
Philip Zimmermann
Philip Zimmermann has been making artists’ books under the imprint Spaceheater Editions since 1979 and making books since 1974. He now teaches at the University of Arizona but taught for 24 years at Purchase College, State University of New... MORE »
Taweesak Molsawat
Taweesak Molsawat is an instructor of Industrial Design and Jewelry/Metalsmith at King Monkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand. He is a former Assistant Professor of the Jewelry/Metals program at San Diego State University, San Diego, California. He holds... MORE »
Thomas Chun
Thomas Chun was immersed in a community of Chinese performing arts since childhood. Merely following his parents’ weekend routine, Chun eventually joined as a dancer and musician. He expanded his repertoire with martial arts and after joining a team,... MORE »
Tom Killion
Tom Killion was born and raised in Mill Valley, California, on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais. The rugged scenery of Marin County and Northern California inspired him from an early age, creating landscape prints using wood, linoleum blocks and... MORE »
Travis Lum
Travis Lum is a seasoned Chinese lion dancer, martial artist, and designer. Inspired by the staccato, vigor, and excitement of the lions seen in his youth, his appreciation and knowledge for this centuries-old art has only grown. Drawing parallels between his career... MORE »
Yoshiko Yamamoto
Yoshiko Yamamoto’s love of Japanese ukiyo-e informs her blockprint and letterpress art that she creates at The Arts and Crafts Press in Tacoma, WA. Letterpress printing is a relief process, the oldest form of printing, and Yoshiko is self-taught in... MORE »
Yumei Hou
Yumei Hou is a sculptor and renowned master of the ancient Chinese art of paper cutting. Hou has dedicated decades to learning, perfecting, and passing on the art of paper cutting in China and the United States. Her talent... MORE »
Wood
Arthur Espenet Carpenter
Arthur “Art” Espenet Carpenter (1920-2006) was a woodworker, who was declared a “living California treasure” in 1984. He is most well known for his sleek and distinctive furniture, especially his wishbone chair and desk with scalloped seashell sides. Inspired... MORE »
Babatunde Graves
In Chicago, artist Babatunde has been making kinaras, the candleholders for Kwanzaa celebrations, for more than forty years. Based on African harvest celebrations, Kwanzaa is a time of self-affirmation and reflection for African American communities and families. At Chicago... MORE »
Charles M. Carrillo
Charles M. Carrillo is an artist, author, and archaeologist known particularly for creating art using Spanish colonial techniques that reflect 18th century Spanish New Mexico. Carrillo has blended craft, conservation, and innovation throughout his career as a santero, a... MORE »
Christian Burchard
Christian Burchard (b. 1955) is a woodworker who is self taught on the lathe and most known for his wood turned vessel forms and sculptures. His wood of choice is Pacific Mandrone burl because as it dries, it warps,... MORE »
David Ellsworth
Over the past thirty years, David Ellsworth has become known as one of the premier designers of turned wooden vessel forms. His work is included in the permanent collections of thirty museums and numerous private collections. He is a... MORE »
Ed Moulthrop
Ed Moulthrop (1916-2003) was a self taught woodturner, known as the father of modern woodturning. His interest in wood began as a child and he bought his first lathe when he was a teenager. Although he studied to become... MORE »
Frank E. Cummings III
Frank E. Cummings III (b. 1938) is a sculptural woodturner. He is most known for his vessels formed on the lathe, then chiseled and sawed. He uses a variety of wood, gems and metals to create his works. He... MORE »
Garry Knox Bennett
Garry Knox Bennett is a furniture maker who works in Oakland, CA. He attended the California College of Arts and Crafts (currently California College of the Arts) where he learned to paint and sculpt. In the 1960s, he used... MORE »
Geoff Stelling
Geoff Stelling has spent the past 40 years perfecting his five-string Bluegrass banjos, from the patented wedge-fitted pot assembly up to the pivot-pin tailpiece. His designs assures the best possible tone ring and flange to wood rim fit possible... MORE »
George Nakashima
George Nakashima (1905-1990) was a woodworker, born in Spokane, WA. He attended the University of Washington and received his Masters in Architecture from MIT. During WWII, he was placed in an internment camp where he learned woodworking from a... MORE »
Glen Guarino
Glen Guarino’s love for working with wood began when he was nine years old after visiting his uncle in England. His functional sculpture lives in the shared space where the values of aesthetics and function join to make a... MORE »
Graham McKay
Graham McKay is a boat builder and manager at Lowell’s Boat Shop. McKay built his first boat in high school and has explored and mastered myriad aspects of the maritime industry, professional sailing, as well as many facets of... MORE »
Harley Refsal
Harley Refsal is an internationally recognized figure carver, specializing in Scandinavian flat-plane wood carving. Raised in Minnesota, he has lived in Norway in the 1960s and 1980s, and traveled extensively throughout Scandinavia. Refsal, who speaks fluent Norwegian, has shared... MORE »
J.B. Blunk
J.B. Blunk (1926-2002) was a sculptor known primarily for working in wood. After serving in the United States Army in Korea, he met sculptor Isamu Noguchi in Japan and served apprenticeships with Japanese potter Kitaoji Rosanjin and potter and Living... MORE »
Jack Ipekjian
John “Jack” Ipekjian (b. 1983 Pasadena, Ca) graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in American history and then joined ICW in 2006. Since then he has tried to learn as much as he can from his father.... MORE »
James Ipekjian
James “Jim” Ipekjian established Ipekjian Custom Woodwork in 1972. He graduated from Pasadena City College with training as a machinist and subsequently worked in the aerospace industry. This provided a valuable skill set which would later strengthen his woodworking... MORE »
James Prestini
James Prestini (1908-1993) was a woodworker who worked in the Bauhaus tradition; blending craft with function. Though he began his career as a mechanical engineer, studying at Yale University and the University of Stockholm, he also attended Chicago’s Institute... MORE »
Jan Lee
Jan Lee is a designer, furniture maker and Asian antiques dealer who uses, whenever possible, reclaimed materials such as antique bamboo and hardwood from responsible foreign and domestic sources. In addition to the antiques, Jan Lee provides interior design... MORE »
Janel Jacobson
Janel Jacobson (b. 1950) is a wood carver, whose inspiration comes from nature. The material of choice has changed, but the thoughtful observation of the setting and detail of her subjects has been a key interest to the vitality... MORE »
Jason Ginter
Jason Ginter is a timpanist, percussionist, educator as well as the owner of JGpercussion, a company specializing in high-quality mallets and percussion products. A native of Elyria, Ohio, Jason began playing the drums at age 12. He currently serves on... MORE »
Jeremiah Holland
Jeremiah Holland is a sculptor whose work explores topographical and architectural forms through sculpture in wood. His approach reflects sculpture as furniture and borrows from natural and commonplace architectonic forms. Holland received a BFA at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, DC. ... MORE »
Jim Hartel
In the 17th century, slaves transported from Africa to America began making early banjos based on indigenous African instruments. The banjo has since developed into a versatile instrument used in many styles of music: Bluegrass, Dixieland, Country, and Classical.... MORE »
John Cederquist
John Cederquist (b. 1946) is a woodworker in San Juan Capistrano, CA, who references traditional forms but uses surface painting to create illusionistic effects. Because his surface painting explores perspective and depth, his works appears to be 3-dimensional. His... MORE »
John Nyquist
John Nyquist (1936-2018) was a furniture designer and craftsman, working since 1959 creating one of a kind or limited production furniture. John exhibited his work and conducted workshops around the country. He taught at California State University, Long Beach... MORE »
Jon Brooks
Jon Brooks (b. 1944 in Manchester, NH) is a woodworker and furniture maker. He makes use of found materials from his house and surrounding woods to create his playful furniture and sculpture. Brooks derives inspiration from the natural setting... MORE »
Joseph Pereira
Joseph Pereira, Principal Timpanist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2007, composer and teacher, has appeared in some of the world’s greatest orchestras and can be heard on numerous recordings and soundtracks to major motion pictures. Working closely with... MORE »
Kamaka Hawaii
Four generations of luthiers preserve the Hawaiian heritage craft of making extraordinary ukuleles at Kamaka Hawaii, Inc. (Honolulu, HI). World renowned for their outstanding tonal characteristics, these instruments are collected and played by the finest ukulele musicians in the world,... MORE »
Martin Guitar Co
C.F Martin & Co. has been creating the finest instruments in the world since 1833. It continues to innovate, introducing techniques and features that have become industry standards including X-bracing, the 14-fret guitar and the “Dreadnought” size. One of... MORE »
Matt Moulthrop
Matt Moulthrop is a woodturner and son of Philip Moulthrop and grandson of Ed Moulthrop. Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, Matt turned his first bowl at the age of 7. Completing his BA at the... MORE »
Michelle Holzapfel
Michelle Holzapfel is a self-taught woodturner and carver. She creates vases, bowls, boxes, and still life sculpture from local hardwoods like burls, unmanageable crotches, gnarled branches, center rotten trunks that are left behind in the forest after logging operations have... MORE »
Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez
Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez has combined a first career practicing architecture with his North Bennet Street School training as a cabinet maker to become a nationally recognized designer and maker of studio furniture. He has contributed articles and essays on furniture... MORE »
Mira Nakashima
Mira Nakashima is following her father’s (George Nakashima) path by becoming a woodworker. She attended Harvard University and received a Masters degree in Architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo. She worked with her father for many years as a... MORE »
Pamela Weir-Quiton
Pamela Weir-Quiton is a Los Angeles artist with more than fifty years of woodworking under her tool belt. As a young art student at CSUN with a knack for fashion design, Weir-Quiton initially explored ceramics and photography but was soon... MORE »
Patrick Dougherty
Patrick Dougherty is a sculptor who weaves tree saplings into site specific sculptural installations. Dougherty’s interest in carpentry and love of nature inspired him to experiment with tree saplings and learn about building techniques. In 1982, he created his first work, Maple Body... MORE »
Philip Moulthrop
Philip Moulthrop is a woodturner who works in Marietta, Georgia. He started woodturning in 1979, learning the woodturning basics from his father, Ed Moulthrop. Philip is most famous for his mosaic bowls and pioneering his composite technique. He received... MORE »
Robyn Horn
Robyn Horn (b. 1951) is a wood sculptor who works in Arkansas. Her career as a wood artist began in 1983 when her brother-in-law returned from a lathe-turning workshop at the Arrowmont School for Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg,... MORE »
Sam Maloof
Sam Maloof (1916-2009) was a self taught furniture maker and woodworker who worked and lived in Alta Loma, CA. He married his first wife, Alfreda Ward (d. 1998) in 1948 and together they founded the Sam and Alfreda Maloof... MORE »
Tom Eckert
Tom Eckert (b. 1942) is a Professor of Art at Arizona State University. His sculptures are formed entirely of wood using traditional woodworking techniques that include laminating, bending, carving, turning and painting. He received his BFA and MFA at... MORE »
Victor DiNovi
Victor DiNovi has been a professional woodworker for over fifty years and has completed over 5,000 pieces of furniture within that time frame. DiNovi comes from a family with a strong background in various art practices, which allowed him... MORE »
Wendell Castle
Wendell Castle (1932-2018) is a furniture maker based in Scottsville, NY. His furniture designs in wood, plastic and bronze are unique creations that blur the boundaries between function and sculpture. Born in Emporia, KS, he graduated from the University... MORE »
Wendy Maruyama
Wendy Maruyama is a craftsperson and educator from San Diego, CA. Besides working as a professor at San Diego State University in the Woodworking and Furniture Design Program, Maruyama also uses her woodworking techniques to make sculpture and narrative... MORE »
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