Penland School of Crafts 2008 Annual Benefit Auction

Contributing Artists

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Cathy Adelman, Lot 101
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, California Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers; awarded the 2007 Society of Bookbinding Biennial Competition Ratchford Cup for Cased Binding.

Jacque Allen, Lot 430
Studio artist; Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Fellowship (ME); exhibitions: Penland Gallery, Heritage Gallery (NC), Grovewood Gallery (NC), Design Gallery (NC); work published in 500 Chairs (Lark Books), 500 Tables (Lark Books), Furniture Society Journal, Woodcraft, Mountain Life.

Heather Allen-Swarttouw, Lot 301
Studio artist; NEA and Tennessee Arts Commission fellowships; collections: Racine Art Museum (WI), Ohio State University, BTI Center for Performing Arts (NC); exhibitions: Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC).

Carlos Alves, Lot 102
Studio artist; Kohler Industries residency; mosaic tile commissions: University of Florida, Miami Beach City Hall, Everglades National Park.

Stanley Mace Andersen, Lot 103
Studio artist; NEA fellowship; work exhibited nationally for more than 30 years; former Penland resident artist.

Joseph Anderson, Lot 241
Studio artist making functional objects and sculpture; lectured, taught, and demonstrated at national and regional

blacksmithing conferences since 1980.

Linda Arbuckle, Lot 302
Professor at University of Florida; NEA and Florida Department of State Individual Artist fellowships; China residency from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts; contributor to Masters: Earthenware (Lark Books); director-at-large on the board of NCECA.

Junichiro Baba, Lot 420
Instructor at Joshibi University of Art and Design (Japan), Meisei University (Japan), Tokyo Glass Institute; exhibitions: Heller Gallery (NYC), SOFA Chicago; former Penland resident artist.

Posey Bacopoulos, Lot 104
Studio artist and workshop teacher; exhibitions: Worcester Center for Crafts (MA), Clay Art Center (NY), Baltimore Clayworks, Santa Fe Clay; awards: Strictly Functional Pottery National and International Orton Cone Box Show.

Dan Bailey, Lot 219
Digital artist and director of the Imaging Research Center at UMBC (Baltimore); collection: Museum of Modern Art.

Phillip Baldwin, Lot 209
Studio artist making work ranging from tools to architectural metal; founder of Shining Wave Metals; teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME); collection: Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

Alice R. Ballard, Lot 221
Teacher at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities; South Carolina Artist fellowship; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Mint Museums (NC), Greenville County Museum of Art (SC); representation: Blue Spiral 1 (NC).

Boris Bally, Lot 303
Studio artist; recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and two Rhode Island Council on the Arts fellowships; teaching: University of Akron (OH), Carnegie Mellon University (PA); collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Renwick Gallery (DC), Cooper-Hewitt (NY), Carnegie Museum of Art (PA), Museum of Art and Design (NY); exhibitions: American Craft Museum (NY), Carnegie Museum of Art (PA), National Ornamental Metals Museum (TN), SOFA Chicago.

Pinky/MM Bass, Lot 304
Studio artist; NEA/Southern Arts Federation fellowship, RAP grant; numerous residencies; teaching: Penland, Oregon College of Art and Craft; collections: High Museum (Atlanta), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Polaroid Corporation.

Michelle Bates, Lot 305
Studio artist; author of Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity; teaching: Photographic Center Northwest (WA), Maine Media Workshops, International Center of Photography (NYC), Julia Dean Workshops (CA), f295 Symposium (NYC).

Hayne Bayless, Lot 105
Studio artist and workshop teacher; residency: Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts; awards: Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Smithsonian Craft Show Award of Excellence; representation: Ferrin Gallery (MA).

Rick Beck, Lot 452
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist; recent solo traveling exhibition at Green Hill Center (NC), Montgomery Museum (AL), Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark); collections; Mint Museums (NC), Racine Art Museum (WI), Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark).

Gary Beecham, Lot 106
Studio artist; North Carolina Arts Council fellowship grant; collections: High Museum (Atlanta), Mint Museum (NC), Glasmuseum Frauenau (Germany); exhibitions: Corning Museum of Glass (NY), Maurine Littleton Gallery (DC), Blue Spiral 1 (NC); awarded the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa (Japan) Silver Prize.

Vivian Beer, Lot 447
Studio artist and workshop teacher; collections: Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Winslow Art Park (ME); exhibitions: Mint Museum (NC), SOFA Chicago, International Contemporary Furniture Fair (FL); representation: Wexler Gallery (PA), William Zimmer Gallery (CA); former Penland resident artist.

Scott Benefield, Lot 107
Studio artist; Fulbright grant, CGCA fellowship; residencies: Creative Glass Center of America (NJ), Pittsburgh Glass Center, North Lands Creative Glass (Scotland); teaching, Penland, Pilchuck (WA), Haystack (ME); collection: Tacoma Museum of Glass (WA); past president of the Glass Art Society’s board of directors.

Paulus Berensohn, Lots 108, 230
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, Lot 448
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, Lot 109
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, Lot 242
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, Lot 306
Studio artist; Illinois Arts Council grant; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Mint Museum (NC), Wustum Museum (WI), Southern Illinois University Museum, Rockford Art Museum (IL), South Bend Art Museum (IN).

Doug Beube, Lot 110
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, Lot 307
Assistant professor at Syracuse University (NY); Fulbright fellowship; residencies: McColl Center for Visual Art (NC), Vermont Studio Center; collections: Penn State University, University of North Carolina/Greensboro, Avampato Discovery Museum (WV).

Nathan Blank, Lot 202
Studio artist; Ludwig Vogelstein grant; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: National Ornamental Metals Museum (TN), representation: Blue Spiral 1 (NC); work published in From Fire to Form (Schiffer Publishing); former Penland studio coordinator.

Pamela Blotner, Lot 308
Artist and educator on faculty at Pixar University at Pixar Animation Studios and University of California/Berkeley; collections: Beihang University (Beijing), Jilin School of Art and Animation (China).

Brian Boggs, Lot 434
Studio artist and tool designer specializing in traditional chairmaking; spokeshave design licensed to Veritas (Canada) and Nielsen Toolworks (ME).

Michael Bondi, Lot 111
Studio artist; demonstrator at ABANA national conference and National Ornamental Metals Museum conferences; work in numerous exhibitions and private collections.

Joe Bova, Lot 410
Studio artist; NEA/Southern Artists Federation and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art fellowships; teaching: Ohio University, Louisiana State University/Baton Rouge; exhibitions: San Angelo Museum of Art (TX), Santa Fe Clay, Baltimore Clayworks; fellow and past president of NCECA; 2006 NCECA excellence in teaching award; former Penland trustee.

George Bowes, Lot 112
Studio artist; NEA fellowship and multiple individual artist fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Canada), Joseph Schein International Museum of Ceramic Art (NY).

Deborah Brackenbury, Lot 309
Studio artist; NEA/South Florida Art Center grant; residencies: Light Work (NY), Atlantic Center of the Arts (FL), Roswell Museum and Art Center (NM); teaching: University of Oklahoma, Penland.

Frank Brannon, Lot 113
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.

Jana Brevick, Lot 114
Studio artist; exhibitions: SOIL Backspace Gallery (Seattle), Art Basel South Beach (Miami), Facere Gallery (Seattle); work published in Metalsmith Exhibition in Print, Ornament, 1,000 Rings (Lark).

Elizabeth Brim, Lot 438
Studio artist; former Penland studio coordinator; McColl Center (NC) residency, retrospective show at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design (NC), recent public art commission for the town of Spruce Pine.

Cynthia Bringle, Lot 310
Studio artist and teacher; fellow of the American Craft Council, NC Award for Fine Art, honorary doctorate from Memphis College of Art.

Edwina Bringle, Lot 310
Studio artist; professor emerita from UNC Charlotte; collections: NC Museum of History, Greenville Museum of Art (SC).

Lola Brooks, Lot 239
Studio artist and teacher at RISD and University of the Arts (PA); teaching: Penland, SUNY New Paltz, Haystack (ME), 92nd Street Y (NY); collections: Museum of Art and Design (NY), Metropolitan Museum of Arts (NY), Racine Museum of Art (WI); 2002 Sienna Gallery Emerging Artist Award.

Angela Bubash, Lot 311
Studio artist and faculty at Appalachian State University (NC); RAP grant; exhibitions: SOFA Chicago and New York, Museum of Contemporary Craft (OR), Mesa Contemporary Arts (AZ); representation: Mobilia (MA), Quirk (VA), Blue Heron Gallery (ME); former Penland resident artist.

Jennifer Bueno, Lot 115
Studio artist; residencies: Pilchuck (WA), Corning Museum of Glass (NY); teaching: Penland; exhibitions: Tacoma Museum of Art (WA), Contemporary Art Center (LA), Levine Children’s Hospital (NC); former resident artist at Penland.

Thor Bueno, Lot 312
Studio artist; Brooklyn Arts Council grant; teaching: Pilchuck (WA), Alfred University (NY), UrbanGlass (NY); collections: Boise Art Museum, GlasMuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark), Kanazu Glass Museum (Japan); Tiffany award, Bessie award from New York Dance Theater Workshop; former Penland resident artist.

Jim Buonaccorsi, Lot 116
Studio artist and associate professor at University of Georgia/Athens; Georgia State Council for the Arts Individual Artist grant; exhibitions: Fugitive Art Center (TN), Flood Fine Art Center (NC), 621 Gallery (FL).

Devin Burgess, Lot 424
Penland resident artist; work in collections nationally and internationally; recent exhibition: Mint Museum of Craft + Design; representation: Sandra Ainsley Gallery (Toronto).

Richard Burkett, Lot 117

Studio artist and professor at San Diego State University; teaching: Penland; co-author of Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook and curator of Masters: Porcelain, Major Works by Leading Ceramists (Lark Books).

Jay Burnham-Kidwell, Lot 118
Studio artist; demonstrates and exhibits nationally; professor emeritus from Mohave Community College (NM).

David Butler, Lot 416
Professor at Pratt Institute (NY) and teacher at 92nd Street Y (NY); teaching: Parsons School of Design (NY), Westchester Art Workshop (NY); exhibitions: National Ornamental Metals Museum (TN), Aaron Faber (NY), OXOXO Gallery (MD); many years in the jewelry industry as a designer/goldsmith.

Susan Goethel Campbell, Lot 421
Studio artist; residency: Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium); collections: National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC), New York Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art; exhibitions: International Print Center (NY), Drawing Center (NY); representation: Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (NY), Lemberg Gallery (MI).

Ken Carder, Lot 231
Studio artist; collections: Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark), Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of American Glass (NJ); former Penland resident artist.

Gordon Chandler, Lot 313
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 K. Chatt, Lot 412
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.

Jiyoung Chung, Lot 314
Painter, mixed-media artist and freelance writer; residencies: Vermont Studio Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts; teaching: Penland, Peter’s Valley (NJ), Academy Art Center (HI); collection: Museum of Arts and Design (NYC); exhibitions: Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, Smithsonian Craft Show; representation: Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft (OR).

Lisa Clague, Lot 449
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.

John Cogswell, Lot 204
Studio artist and educator at SUNY New Paltz; collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Jewish Museum (NY), Ackland Museum of Art (NC); author and illustrator of Creative Stonesetting (Brynmorgan Press); contributor to Metals Technic (Brynmorgan Press), Contemporary Silver (Merrell), and The Penland Book of Jewelry (Lark Books).

Margaret Couch Cogswell, Lot 405
Penland resident artist; RAP grant; exhibitions: Columbia College Chicago, Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Fayetteville Museum of Art (NC); awarded first place for Other Media, Embellishment at the 2000 International Bead and Button Show.

Lisa Colby, Lot 315
Studio artist and faculty at Craft Alliance (MO); teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Penland; collection: Sinai Temple (IL); exhibitions: Aaron Faber (NY), Nancy Sachs Gallery (MO), Habatat Galleries (VA); representation: Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA), Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery (NC), Craft Alliance (MO).

James D.W. Cooper, Lot 119
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, Lots 120, 440
Studio artist; teaching: Mudfire (Atlanta), Santa Fe Clay (NM), Odyssey Center (NC); American Craft Council Emerging Artist Grant, North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship; exhibitions: SOFA Chicago, Ann Nathan Gallery (Chicago), Pamil Fine Art (Puerto Rico); former Penland resident artist.

Nancy Megan Corwin, Lot 121
Studio artist; teaching: former head of Jewelry and Metals at the University of Oregon/Eugene, Penland, California College of the Arts, Cabrillo College (CA), Monterey Peninsula College (CA); collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Tacoma Art Museum (WA), State University of New Mexico Art Gallery; exhibitions: Velvet da Vinci (CA), Tacoma Art Museum (WA), Mobilia (MA); representation: Facèré (WA).

Vittorio Costantini, Lot 316
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

Kevin Crowe, Lot 317
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).

Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt, Lot 122
Collaborative studio potters; Michael studied traditional Onggi pottery in Korea; work in many collections and homes.

Linda Darty, Lot 237
Professor and head of metals at East Carolina University; author of The Art of Enameling (Lark Books); former trustee of the Enamelists Society, former Penland trustee.

Einar de la Torre and Jamex de la Torre, Lot 233
Collaborating studio artists; collections: Museum of Glass (WA), American Glass Museum (NJ), Glasmuseum Frauenau (Germany).

Dail Dixon, Lot 318
Partner in Dixon Weinstein Friedlein Architects; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: Duke Museum (NC), Penland; fellow in the American Institute of Architects; designer of several Penland structures including Dorm 54, Radcliffe, the Pines Portico, and the Penland Gallery’s expansion.

Tess Doran and David Jones , Lot 123
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, Lot 319
Studio artist; residency: Arrowmont (TN); exhibitions: Focus Gallery at Grovewood Gallery (NC), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Craft Alliance (MO); former Penland core student and resident artist.

Robin Dreyer, Lot 320
Photographer, Penland communications manager; publications: Lark Books, Time-Life Books, American Craft, American Style, Pinhole Journal, Southern Accents, Country Living, and many Penland publications; exhibitions: Asheville Art Museum (NC), East Carolina University (NC); collection: Asheville Art Museum (NC).

Bandhu Dunham, Lot 124
Studio artist known for his whimsical goblets, abstract forms, and kinetic sculpture; collections: Corning Glass Museum (NY) and others; author of Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame and Formed of Fire: Selections in Contemporary Lampworked Glass.

Bob Ebendorf, Lot 207, 402

Studio artist and Belk Distinguished Professor at East Carolina University (NC); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Jon Ellenbogen and Rebecca Plummer, Lot 125
Studio potters collaborating as Barking Spider Pottery; work in more than 50 shops nationwide.

Kim Ellington, Lot 126
Studio artist; collections: Mint Museum (NC), Crocker Art Museum (CA), Everson Museum of Art (NY); exhibitions: North Carolina Museum of Art, Pritam and Eames (NY), Ferrin Gallery (MA).

Catharine Ellis, Lot 321
Studio artist and guest teacher at international schools and workshops; North Carolina Artist Regional grant; teaching: Haywood Community College (NC); recent exhibitions in Paris, Sydney, and Brussels; author of Woven Shibori (Interweave Press).

Daniel Essig, Lot 232
Studio artist; North Carolina Artist Fellowship grant; teaching: Penland, Arrowmont (TN), Campbell Folk School (NC); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Charlotte Smith Collection of Miniature Books at the University of Iowa Libraries; contributor to The Penland Book of Handmade Books (Lark Books); former Penland core student.

Dan Estabrook, Lot 322
Studio artist: representation: Catherine Edelman Gallery (Chicago), Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta); recent retrospective exhibition at Daniel Cooney Fine Art (NYC); work published in Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde by Lyle Rexer, and The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James; subject of documentary film by Anthropy Arts.

Fred Fenster, Lot 433
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, Lot 455
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, UrbanGlass (NY), Pratt Fine Arts Center (WA), The Studio at Corning Museum (NY), Pilchuck (WA); work in private and public collections worldwide; president of the board of directors of the Glass Art Society.

Dan Finnegan, Lot 127
Studio artist; founder/director of LibertyTown Arts Workshop (VA); teaching: Penland, Savannah College of Art and Design (GA), Cape Cod Potters (MA); exhibitions: Penland, Odyssey (NC).

Alida Fish, Lot 411
Professor at The University of the Arts (PA); NEA fellowship; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: Philadelphia Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum (CA); representation: Schmidt-Dean Gallery (PA), Alan Klotz Gallery (NY); member of Penland board of trustees and a former core student.

April Flanders, Lot 128
Professor at Appalachian State University (NC), exhibitions: P. Gallery (Kansas City), Concordia Gallery (St. Paul), University of Northern Iowa, Close Quarters Gallery (OH), Patriot Hall (SC).

Steven Forbes-deSoule, Lot 208
Studio artist; teaching: Agnes Scott College (GA), Callanwolde Fine Art Center (Atlanta), Odyssey Center (NC), Campbell Folk School (NC), Arrowmont (TN); gallery representation: Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Carolina Clay Gallery (NC).

Gail Fredell, Lot 430
Studio artist and head of the Furniture Department at Western Piedmont Community College (NC); NEA fellowship; teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME), Anderson Ranch (CO), RISD, California College of Arts; former director of the furniture program at Anderson Ranch (CO); collections: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum (CA), Stanford University Memorial Chapel (CA), AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park; member of the board of directors of The Furniture Society.

Debra Fritts, Lot 403
Studio artist and teacher at Art Center West (GA); teaching: Santa Fe Clay, Arrowmont (TN); exhibitions: SOFA Chicago and New York, American Museum of Ceramic Art (CA); representation: Ferrin Gallery (NY), Blue Spiral 1 (NC).

Susie Ganch, Lot 428
Assistant professor and head of the metals program at Virginia Commonwealth University; Virginia Commission for the Arts grant; exhibitions: Japan Jewelry Art Competition, SOFA Chicago and New York; 2008 Theresa Pollack Fine Art award; representation: Sienna Gallery (MA), Velvet da Vinci (CA), Snyderman Works Gallery (PA), Quirk (VA).

Robert Gardner, Lot 323
Studio artist and owner of Studio C Glassworks (NC); exhibitions: Kramer Museum (IL), Habatat Gallery (MA), Blue Spiral (NC).

Terry Gess, Lot 129
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.

Margeurite Jay Gignoux, Lot 214
Studio artist; teaching and residencies: Penland, Arrowmont (TN), RISD, Chateau du Pin (France); exhibitions: Mint Museum (NC), Artspace (NC), American Quilt and Textile Museum (CA); numerous community art projects throughout North Carolina.

Jenna Goldberg, Lots 130, 324
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, Lot 413
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).

Arthur González, Lot 131
Professor at the California College of Art; NEA fellowships; residencies: Pilchuck (WA), Tainan National University (Taiwan); collections: Oakland Museum (CA), Smithsonian Institution (DC), Yale University Art Gallery (CT), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Mint Museum (NC); exhibitions: John Elder Gallery (NY), Susan Cummins Gallery (CA).

Karen Gorst, Lot 351
Studio artist; teaching: School of Sacred Arts (NYC), Metropolitan Museum (NYC), Center for Book Arts (NYC); work in private collections in U.S. and Europe

Peter Gourfain, Lot 325
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.

David Graham, Lot 326
Professor at the University of the Arts (PA); collections: Museum of Modern Art (NY), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum; exhibitions: Snyderman Gallery (PA), International Center of Photography (NY), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC).

Silvie Granatelli, Lot 132
Studio potter; Virginia Museum fellowship; teaching: Virginia Tech, Arrowmont (TN), Anderson Ranch (CO), Berea College (KY), Illinois Institute of Technology; collections: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Mint Museum (NC), Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred University (NY).

Carmen Grier, Lot 327
Studio artist; collection: Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC); silver award at the Smithsonian Craft Show; former Penland resident artist.

Susan Hagen, Lot 408
Studio artist; grants: Independence Foundation, the George Sugarman Foundation, the Leeway Foundation; residency: Tryon Center; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: del Mano Gallery (CA), Center of the Earth Gallery (NC), Schmidt/Dean Gallery (PA), SOFA Chicago.

Douglas Harling, Lot 439
Teacher of metalsmithing at Kentucky School of Craft; NEA/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship, North Carolina Artist Fellowship; work currently touring the the Southern Arts Federation exhibition Innovation/Tradition: Masterpieces of Southern Craft.

Abie Harris, Lot 328
Architect and campus planner; author of the Penland campus master plan; teaching: North Carolina State University; Penland trustee.

James Henkel, Lot 450
Studio artist and teacher at the University of Minnesota; grants and fellowships: NEA, Bush Foundation, McKnight Foundation; collections: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum (NY), Walker Art Center (MN), Minneapolis Institute of Arts; exhibitions: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Pace MacGill Gallery (NY).

Jean Hicks, Lot 329
Studio artist and owner of Erratica; recent exhibitions: Museu da Chaperieria (Portugal), Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Orcas Center (WA), Bellevue Art Museum (WA), Smithsonian Craft Show (DC).

Bryant Holsenbeck, Lot 133
Studio artist; North Carolina Arts Council fellowship; residencies: Resource Center for Women Ministry and the South (NC), Contemporary Art Museum (NC), Southwest School of Art (TX); teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Haystack (ME), Penland, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics; collection: Philadelphia Museum of Art; maker of an ornament for the 2002 White House Christmas tree.

Ayumi Horie, Lot 201
Studio artist; residencies: Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (ME), Archie Bray Foundation (MT), Guldagergaard International Ceramic Center (Denmark), Golem Ziegel Brick Factory (Germany); teaching: Haystack (ME), Arrowmont (TN), American School of Craft at RIT (NY); exhibitions: Santa Fe Clay (PA), Ferrin Gallery (MA), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Baltimore Clayworks, Worcester Center for Crafts (MA).

Robyn Horn, Lot 444
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, Lot 427

Studio artist; NEA grant, 2008 Individual Artists Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission; residencies:
Pilchuck (WA), Bullseye Factory (WA); collections: Portland Art Museum (OR), Mint Museum (NC).

Judith Hoyt, Lot 330
Studio artist; New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship; collections: Guggenheim Museum (NY), Smithsonian Institution (DC); exhibitions: OXOXO (MD), SOFA Chicago, Nancy Margolis (ME), Susan Cummins Gallery (CA); awarded 2005 Craft Boston Best in Show.

Mary Lee Hu, Lot 229
Studio artist; taught metals at University of Washington from 1980–2006; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Metropolitan Museum (NYC), Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

Cassandra James, Lot 235
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, Texas State University, Ringling School of Art and Design (FL); collections: Ringling School (FL); Austin Museum of Art (TX); exhibitions: Inman Gallery (TX), Blue House (FL), State Department/ Bulgarian Embassy; representation: Flat Bed Press (TX).

Nicholas Joerling, 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).

Keith Johnson, Lot 417
Photographer and consultant; residencies: Light Work (NY), CEPA Gallery (NY), Visual Studies Workshop (NY); teaching: University of New Haven (CT), Maine Media Workshop, Penland, Visual Studies Workshop (NY); collections: RISD, George Eastman House (NY), Center for Creative Photography (AZ); exhibitions: Panopticon (MA), George Eastman House (NY), CEPA Gallery (NY), FotoFest (TX).

Mickey Johnston, Lots 207, 402
Studio artist/goldsmith/enamelist; teaching: Southwest Craft Center (TX), Virginia Commonwealth University, Penland; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), as well as private holdings.

Richard Jolley, Lot 441
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, Lot 226
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.

Matt Kelleher, Lot 425
Studio artist; residencies: Penland, Shigaraki Cultural Ceramic Park (Japan), Archie Bray Foundation (MT); teaching: Penland, Ohio University; collections: Wichita Center for the Arts (KS), Yixing Ceramics Museum (China), Archie Bray Foundation (MT); representation: Signature Shop and Gallery (GA).

Kathy King, Lot 134
Studio artist; has taught and given lectures at more than 50 colleges, schools, and art centers across the U.S., including Penland; exhibitions: Santa Fe Clay, Mobilia Gallery (MA), Ferrin Gallery (MA), Erie Museum of Art (PA), Baltimore Clayworks.

L. Brent Kington, Lot 442
Professor emeritus from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; two NEA fellowships; collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC), Smithsonian National Museum of American Art (DC), Cranbrook Museum (MI), National Ornamental Metals Museum (TN), Museum of Contemporary Crafts (NY); American Craft Council Gold award.

Lisa Klakulak, Lot 135
Studio artist and workshop teacher; exhibitions: Craft Alliance (MO), Folk Art Center (NC), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Lancaster Museum of Art (PA), Tag Art Gallery (TN); awards: HGA, Fiber National.

Jeana Eve Klein, Lot 457
Assistant professor at Appalachian State University (NC); RAP grant; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: Dayton Visual Arts Center (OH), Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University, Horace Williams House (NC).

Michael Kline, Lot 331
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist; exhibitions: Worcester Craft Center (MA), AKAR Design Gallery (IA), Pewabic Pottery (Detroit), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Ferrin Gallery (MA).

Gloria Kosco, Lot 136
Studio artist with 20 years of experience as a tile maker; two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts fellowships; teaching: Penland, Arrowmont (TN), Campbell Folk School (NC); collections: Philadelphia International Airport; Museum of Arts and Design (NY); exhibitions: Odyssey (NC), Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Stacey Lane, Lot 431
Studio artist and teaching artist; manager of Community Collaboration at Penland; representation: Ogden Museum (LA), DOW Studios (ME).

Jeong Ju Lee, Lot 454
Penland resident artist; Niche Award; exhibitions: Lockhart Gallery (NY), Davison Gallery (NY), Ock Hee’s Gallery (NY), Memorial Art Gallery (NY).

Leah Leitson, Lot 137
Head of the art department and teacher at Warren Wilson College (NC); residencies: Archie Bray Foundation (MY), Banff Center for the Arts (Canada); teaching: Penland, Arrowmont (TN), Louisiana State University; collections: Archie Bray Foundation (MT), Louisiana State University School of Art Museum, Gregg Museum of Art and Design (NC).

Anne Lemanski, Lot 436
Studio artist; collection: Asheville Art Museum (NC); exhibitions: Winthrop University (SC), Ferrin Gallery (MA), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC), SOFA New York; former Penland resident artist.

Julie Leonard, Lot 138
Studio artist and faculty at University of Iowa Center for the Book; teaching: Penland, Oxbow (MI), University of Utah Book Arts Program; collections: Ringling School of Art and Design (FL), Western Michigan University Special Collections, Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry (FL); former Penland resident artist.

Suze Lindsay, Lot 332
Studio artist and co-owner of Fork Mountain Pottery (NC); teaching: Haystack (ME), Arrowmont (TN), Anderson Ranch (CO), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Canada); collections: George E. Ohr Museum (MS), Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), Islip Art Museum (NY); former Penland resident artist and core student.

Janet Link, Lot 419
Studio artist and faculty at Meredith College (NC); teaching: Penland, Murray State University (KY); work in corporate and private collections.

John Littleton and Kate Vogel, Lot 225
Studio artists; teaching: Penland; collections: Corning Museum of Glass (NY), High Museum (Atlanta), Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark), White House Collection, Clinton Library (AR), Mint Museum (NC).

Marcia Macdonald, Lot 445
Studio artist; teaching: Haystack (ME), Penland, Arrowmont (TN); exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show, American Craft Council show, Philadelphia Museum of Art craft show.

Warren Mackenzie, Lots 139, 333, 334
Studio artist since 1950; work in many national and international exhibitions and collections.

Kaeko Maehata, Lot 206
Glassblower at Augusta Glass Studio (MO); exhibitions: Craft Alliance (MO), Des Moines Arts Festival, Louisiana Heritage Festival.

Marc Maiorana, Lot 335
Owner of Iron Design Company; teaching: Haystack (ME), Penland, Peters Valley (NJ); exhibitions: Mobile Museum of Art (AL), Kentucky Museum of Art; work featured in Gourmet and Dwell magazines’ online product of the day; former Penland resident artist.

Daniel Marinelli, Lot 422
Penland resident artist; residency: Odyssey (NC); teaching: East Tennessee State University, Jacksonville Center for the Arts (VA), Lu Xen Art Academy (China); exhibitions: Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Slocumb Galleries (TN), Reece Museum (TN).

Christopher McElroy, Lot 140
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Israel), Nagoya University of Arts (Japan); exhibitions: Vetri International Glass (WA), Del Vidrio Gallery (CO), William Traver Gallery (WA), Glasshouse (WA).

Linda McFarling, Lot 141
Studio artist and teacher at craft schools and clay centers across the U.S.; exhibits nationally and internationally.

Kent McLaughlin, Lot 336
Studio potter and co-owner of Fork Mountain Pottery (NC); teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME), Anderson Ranch (CO), Campbell Folk School (NC), Odyssey (NC), Curaumilla Art Center (Chile), Ceramic Institute (China); exhibitions: Baltimore Clayworks, Santa Fe Clay.

Laura Jean McLaughlin, Lots 142, 211
Studio artist; NEA grant; three residencies with the Kohler Company (WI); collections: Kohler Art Center (WI), Whole Foods Market (TX), HBO (NY); exhibitions: SOFA Chicago, Mobile Museum of Art (AL), Carnegie Museum of Art (PA), Baltimore Institute of Art; recipient of Maggie Milono Memorial Award from Carnegie Museum of Art (PA).

Jenny Mendes, Lots 108, 456
Studio artist; Ohio Arts Council individual artist grant; exhibitions: Signature Gallery (Atlanta), Works Gallery (Philadelphia), Obsidian Gallery (Tucson), Penland resident artist.

Ron Meyers, Lot 143
Studio artist; residencies: Western Carolina University, Archie Bray Foundation (MT); teaching: professor emeritus at University of Georgia, University of South Carolina; recent exhibitions: Babcock Galleries (NY), Edinboro University (PA).

Kristine Michael, Lot 337
Potter, craft activist, designer, sculptor, writer, and teacher; numerous exhibitions in India and UK; work included in 4th World Ceramics Biennale (Seoul).

Gregory Hamilton Miller, Lot 144
Studio potter; teaching: Macalester College (MN); apprenticed with Shimaoka Tatsuzo in Japan; organizer of the Nordic Network Ceramic Studio Exchange.

John R. Miller, Lot 145
Assistant professor and head of glass at Illinois State University at Bloomington-Normal, staff member at Pilchuck (WA) for 15 years, including technician, coordinator, gaffer, and instructor; Creative Glass Center of America fellowship (NJ); work exhibited nationally.

Sana Musasama, Lot 146
Associate adjunct professor at Hunter College (NY); teaching: 92nd Street Y (NY); collections: European Ceramic Center (Holland), Archie Bray Foundation (MT), Cooper-Hewitt (NY), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC); exhibitions: Katonah Museum of Art (NY), Robert Hodges Gallery (TX), Spaces Gallery (OH), Westchester Council of the Art (NY), John Malloy Gallery (NY).

Karen Newgard, Lot 240
Studio artist; teaching: Odyssey (NC), Penland; exhibitions: Ferrin Gallery (MA), Santa Fe Clay, Grovewood Gallery (NC), Reston Art Center (VA), Blue Spiral 1 (NC); former Penland core student.

Joe Nielander, Lot 338
Studio artist; collections: Toledo Children’s Hospital (OH), Rockford Art Museum (IL), Columbia Museum of Art (SC); exhibitions: Vitrum Gallery (NC), Vesperman Gallery (GA), Marx/Saunders Gallery (IL).

Zack Noble, Lot 147
Studio blacksmith specializing in custom architectural iron work; teaching: Peters Valley (NJ), Campbell Folk School (NC); former Penland core student.

Leslie Noell, Lot 205
Studio artist, Penland core fellowship coordinator; teaching: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Asheville Art Museum (NC); exhibitions: Mobile Museum of Art (AL), Asheville Art Museum (NC).

Gary Noffke, Lot 222
Studio artist; NEA fellowship; teaching: professor emeritus at University of Georgia, Penland; collections: Vatican (Rome), President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter, Museum of Art and Design (NY), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC); exhibitions: Kohler Arts Center (WI), National Ornamental Metals Museum (TN), Mobilia Gallery (MA), Jewish Museum (CA).

Richard Notkin, Lot 148
Studio artist; fellowships: NEA, Tiffany, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, USA Hoi; collections: Cooper-Hewitt (NY), Kunstindustrimuseet (Norway), Victoria and Albert Museum (London); exhibitions: Garth Clark Gallery (NY), Seattle Art Museum, Esther Saks Gallery (IL); fellow of the American Craft Council.

Katherine Ortega, Lot 149
Studio artist and teacher at the Design Institute (CA); American Craft Council Emerging Artist Award; exhibitions; San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, Oceanside Museum of Art (CA).

Kathryn Osgood, Lot 339
Studio artist and assistant professor at College of The Albemarle (NC); exhibitions: Center for Visual Arts (TX), Mobilia Gallery (MA).

Ben Owen III, Lot 340,
Studio artist; collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Chrysler Museum (VA), Mint Museums (NC), Cleveland Museum, North Carolina Museum of History.

Winnie Owens-Hart, Lot 150
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).

Heidi Paul, Lot 341
Studio artist, educator, proprietor of Design by Heidi Paul; teaching: Oregon College of Art and Craft, Southwest School of Art and Craft (TX), Miami University (OH), Cincinnati Weavers Guild; collections: Oregon College of Art and Craft, St.

Vincent Chapel (OR).

Goedele Peeters, Lot 342
Professor at Municipal Art School of Kontich and Merksem (Belgium); collections: Flemish Government, Cabinet of Prints Antwerp (Belgium); exhibitions: Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Galerie Link (Belgium); EPI 2008 Silver Prize.

Jane Peiser, Lot 215
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist and trustee; collections: Smithsonian Institution (DC), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (Charlotte).

Mark Peiser, Lot 443
Studio artist; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Minneapolis Institute of Art; 2007 and 2008 critic’s choice award at Habatat International; co-founder of Glass Art Society; former Penland resident artist.

Kiara Pelissier, Lot 151
Studio artist; Creative Glass Center of America (NJ) fellowship; residency: Cleveland Institute of Art; teaching: Virginia Commonwealth University, Haystack (ME), Penland; exhibitions: Blue Heron Gallery (ME), Quirk (VA).

Flo Perkins, Lot 152
Teacher at College of Santa Fe; collections: Corning Museum (NY), Huntington Museum (WV).

Mark Peters, Lot 153
Studio artist and teacher at Appalachian State University (NC); teaching: Campbell Folk School (NC), Arrowmont (TN), Brookfield (CT); exhibitions: Santa Fe Clay, Mudfire Gallery (GA); on board of directors at the Energy Xchange (NC).

Kenny Pieper, Lot 236
Studio artist; collections: Corning Glass Museum (NY), New Orleans Museum of Art, Asheville Art Museum (NC), and numerous private collections; exhibitions: Vitrum (NC), Susan Cummings Gallery (CA), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Craft Alliance (MO); former Penland studio coordinator.

Charles Pinckney, Lot 154
Studio artist for more than 30 years; two grants from the Georgia Council for the Arts; exhibits and teaches nationally.

Stephen Pittelkow, Lot 155
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.

IlaSahai Prouty, Lot 156
Adjunct faculty at Appalachian State University (NC); former chair of art department at the Waring School (MA); exhibitions: Asheville Art Museum (NC), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC); former Penland resident artist.

Suzanne Pugh, Lot 157
Teacher at City College of San Francisco and Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts (CA); work published in Metalsmith, The Art of Enameling (Lark Books), The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry (Lark Books), The Penland Book of Jewelry (Lark Books).

Amy Putansu, Lot 343
Instructor in the Professional Crafts Program at Haywood Community College (NC).

Daniel Randall, Lot 426
Studio artist; representation: Rakova Brecker Gallery (FL); work included in the international juried online exhibition METAL Inclinations.

Brian David Reid, Lot 344
Studio artist; residencies: Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (ME), Anderson Ranch (CO); teaching: Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (ME), Penland, as well as master classes in the U.S. and Europe; exhibitions: Aspen Art Museum (CO), Space Gallery (ME).

Lee Renninger, Lot 345
Studio artist; Pollock-Krasner grant; residency: Santa Fe Art Institute, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Camargo Foundation (France); exhibitions: Sidney Meyer International Ceramics Competition (Australia), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Mint Museum (NC).

Ché Rhodes, Lot 212
Assistant professor at University of Louisville (KY); recent solo exhibitions: Gallery HQ (Kansas City), Millenic Glass (Kansas City); representation: Tobin Hewett Gallery (KY); Penland trustee.

Ross Richmond, Lot 212
Studio artist; teaching: Kent State University (OH), Cleveland Institute of Art, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pratt Fine Arts Center (WA); exhibitions: SOFA Chicago and New York, Habatat Galleries (MI), Pilchuck (WA), Art Palm Beach, R. Duane Reed Gallery (NY); former member of William Morris Team.

Rowland Ricketts, Lot 406
Studio artist using natural materials and historic processes to create contemporary textiles; visiting assistant professor in textiles at Indiana University; trained in indigo farming and dyeing in Japan.

Gail Rieke, Lot 213
Internationally recognized collage/assemblage artist and teacher; Western States Arts Federation grant; teaching: San Francisco Center for the Book, Convergence, Haystack (ME); collections: Albuquerque Museum, Santa Fe Institute; exhibitions: Cheongju International Biennale (Korea), New Mexico Museum of Art.

Sang Parkinson Roberson, Lot 158
Studio artist; exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show (DC), SOFA Chicago and New York, Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, Blue Spiral 1 (NC); collections: Stetson University (FL), Museum of Arts and Sciences (FL).

Andrew Rubin, Lot 346
Master printer and studio manager at Tandem Press (WI); teaching: University of Southern California, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Penland.

Katherine McCanless Ruffin, Lot 159
Book arts program director at Wellesley College (MA), proprietor of Shinola Press; teaching: Center for Book Arts (NY), San Francisco Center for the Book, Wells Book Arts Summer Institute (MA), Penland.

Tommie Rush, Lot 217
Studio artist; collections: Mobile Museum of Art (AL), Sheldon Museum of Art (NE), Renwick Gallery (DC); former Penland trustee.

Linda Sacra, Lot 160
Studio artist for more than 30 years; exhibitions: City Art Works (NC), Crimson Laurel Gallery (NC), The Fat Cat Ltd. (NC), Dennison Moran Gallery (FL).

Andrew Saftel, Lot 409
Studio artist; Tennessee State Individual Artist grant; collections: Knoxville Museum of Art (TN), Asheville Museum of Art (NC), Hartsfield International Airport (GA), Huntsville Museum of Art (AL); exhibitions: Bennett Galleries (TN), Cheekwood Museum of Art (TN); former Penland resident artist.

Alyssa C. Salomon, Lot 161
Studio artist, and disc jockey and underwriting manager at WRIR Richmond Independent Radio (VA); two Virginia Museum of Fine Arts professional fellowships; teaching: Penland, Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VA), Photographer’s Formulary (MT); exhibitions: Quirk (VA), Museum of Photographic Arts (CA); representation: Page Bond Gallery (VA), Soho Myriad (GA).

Davide Salvadore, Lot 432
Studio artist; teaching: Pilchuck (WA), UrbanGlass (NY), Penland, Haystack (ME), Glass Workshop (Italy), Studio at Corning Glass (NY); exhibitions: SOFA New York, Habatat Gallery (MI), William Traver Gallery (WA); former employment at the prestigious glass houses of Venini, Barovier and Toso, Salviati, and La Murrina (Italy).

Phil Sanders, Lot 347
Studio artist, collaborative master printer and director at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (NY), and educator; teaching: Penland, Stanford University (CA); collections: Yale University Art Gallery (CT), Arizona State University, Ohio University; exhibitions: Royal Academy of Arts (London), IPCNY (NY).

Margaret Scanlan, Lot 162
Studio artist; signature member of the American Watercolor Society; teaching: Campbell Folk School (NC), Arrowmont (TN); solo shows: New Light Gallery (VA), L’Abbaye de la Roe (France), Silver Fox Galleries (NC); collections: Huntsville Museum of Art (AL), Springfield Art Museum (MO).

Judith Schaechter, Lot 437
Studio artist; Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships US Artists Fellowship; collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Corning Museum (NY), Renwick Gallery (DC).

Mary Ann Scherr, Lot 451
Studio artist; teaching: North Carolina State University; collections: Vatican (Rome), Metropolitan Museum (NY), Museum of Arts and Design (NY); former chair at Parsons School (NY).

Edward T. Schmid, Lot 348
Studio artist and teacher; work in museums and collections worldwide; author of Beginning Glassblowing, Advanced Glassworking Techniques and The Glassworker’s Bathroom Reader.

Norm Schulman, Lot 415
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, Hawaii Potters’ Guild, Honolulu Academy of Arts; 2009 award National Treasure of NC; 2007–2008 retrospective at Asheville Art Museum (NC); representation: John Natsoulas Gallery (CA).

Frank Shelton, Lot 423
Studio artist, poet; teaching: Roswell Visual Arts Center (GA), OCEE Art Center (GA), Jackson State Community College (TN); exhibitions: Brooks Art Museum (Memphis), Blue Spiral 1 (NC); gallery representation: Bennett Gallery (TN), Tanner Hill Gallery (TN).

Michael Sherrill, Lot 435
Studio artist; North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship; collections: Los Angeles County Museum (CA), Renwick Gallery (DC), Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC), White House Collection of American Crafts (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Racine Art Museum (WI); representation: Ferrin Gallery (MA).

Esther Shimazu, Lot 429
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).

Christina Shmigel, Lot 238
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, Webster University (MO); exhibitions: National Ornamental Metals Museum (TN); John Elder Gallery (NY), St. Louis Art Museum, Duolun Museum of Art (Shanghai); Greensboro Public Library (NC); representation: Bruno David Gallery (MO); former Penland resident artist.

Paul Shore, Lot 163
Studio artist; residencies: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Blue Mountain Center (NY); teaching: Penland, 92nd Street Y (NY), Oxbow (MI); collections: Brooklyn Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum of Modern Art (NY); exhibitions: Brattleboro Museum (VT), Fassbender Gallery (IL).

Brent Skidmore, Lot 459
Studio artist and director of the University of North Carolina/Asheville Craft Campus; RAP grant; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Kendall College of Art and Design (MI), Penland, Anderson Ranch (CO), Peters Valley (NJ).

Clarissa T. Sligh, Lot 349
Studio artist; NEA and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships; collections: George Eastman House (NY), Museum of Modern Art (NY), Museum of Fine Arts (TX), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), Whitney Museum (NY); awards: ICP Annual Infinity, Anonymous Was a Woman; representation: Ellen Sragow Gallery (NY).

Dolph Smith, Lot 218
Professor Emeritus from Memphis College of Art (TN); other teaching: Arrowmont (TN) Paper and Book Intensive; collections: Arkansas Art Center, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (TN), Ford Motor Company (MI), Nashville Airport Authority, National Soaring Museum (NY).

Gertrude Graham Smith, Lot 164
Studio artist; North Carolina Arts Council fellowship grant; residencies: Archie Bray Foundation (MO), Penland; teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME), Harvard University Ceramics Studio (MA), Odyssey (NC); collections: Mint Museum (NC), Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), Crocker Art Museum (CA).

Pablo Soto, Lots 350, 458
Studio artist; exhibitions: Liquid Heat Studio Eight Gallery (PA), Pamil Fine Art (Puerto Rico), Blue Heron Gallery (ME); collection: New Orleans Museum of Art.

Tom Spleth, Lot 224
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).

Sam Stang, Lot 407
Proprietor of Augusta Glass Studio (MO); teaching: Penland, Craft Alliance (MO); exhibitions: Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (NY), Craft Alliance (MO), Smithsonian Craft Show, Pritam and Eames (NY), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC).

Paul J. Stankard, Lot 446
Studio artist and faculty at Salem County Community College (NJ); collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Musée des Arts Décoratif (Paris), Renwick Gallery (DC), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY).

Jim Stone, Lot 234
Associate professor at the University of NM; NEA grant; teaching: collections: Museum of Modern Art (NY), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Los Angeles County Museum of Art; work exhibited and published internationally; author or co-author of nine books.

Wayne Strattman, Lot 165
Artist, industrial designer, proprietor of Strattman Design (Boston); author of the textbook Neon Techniques.

Billie Ruth Sudduth, Lot 216
Studio artist; North Carolina Arts Council fellowships; teaching: Penland, Arrowmont (TN), Campbell Folk School (NC); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Mint Museum (NC); exhibitions: Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), SOFA Chicago and New York.

Toshiko Takaezu, Lot 228
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.

Mina Takahashi, Lot 351
Studio artist and editor of Hand Papermaking Magazine; teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME).

James L. Tanner, Lot 166
Studio artist; teaching: Mankato State University (MN), Haystack (ME), Anderson Ranch (CO); McKnight Foundation fellowship, two NEA fellowships; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), DE Art Museum; fellow of the American Craft Council.

Tim Tate, Lot 220
Studio artist and co-founder of the Washington Glass School (DC); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Mint Museum (NC); exhibitions: Palm Beach 3, Habatat Gallery (MA), SOFA Chicago, Corcoran Gallery (DC).

Amy Tavern, Lot 453
Penland resident artist; teaching: Penland, Pratt Fine Arts Center (WA); exhibitions: Sienna Gallery (MA), Museum of Contemporary Craft (OR).

Janet Taylor, Lot 352
Studio artist; teaching: Appalachian State University (NC), professor emeritus at Arizona State University, Kent State University (OH), Haystack (ME), Arrowmont (TN); exhibitions: Mint Museum (NC), Museum of Contemporary Crafts (NY).

Nancy Meadows Taylor, Lot 353
Studio artist; collections: Duke University (NC), Hickory Museum of Art (NC), Elon College (NC); exhibitions: American Watercolor Society (NY), National Watercolor Society (CA).

Shoko Teruyama, Lot 425
Studio artist; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: Baltimore Clayworks, Santa Fe Clay, Mint Museum (NC), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Kohler Arts Center (WI); former Penland resident artist.

Jeff Todd and Yaffa Todd, Lot 167
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, Lot 223
Studio artist; two NEA fellowships; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Asheville Art Museum (NC); exhibitions: Mint Museum (NC), Franklin Parrasch (NY).

Jack Troy, Lot 168
Studio artist; workshop teacher; author of Salt Glazed Ceramics (Watson-Guptill Publications) and Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain (KP Books).

Elizabeth Turrell, Lot 354
Senior research fellow in enamel at the University of West England; teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME), Birmingham Jewelery School (UK); collections: British Museum (London), Musée de l’Eveché (France), National Museum of Scotland; exhibitions: Quirk (VA), Thomas Mann 1/0 Gallery (LA), Mobilia (MA).

Jerilyn Virden, Lot 461
North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist fellowship grant and RAP grant; teaching: Penland, Odyssey (NC); exhibitions: SOFA Chicago and New York, Mint Museum (NC), Santa Fe Clay; NCECA 2003 Clay National Purchase award; former Penland resident artist.

James Viste, Lot 404
Manager of Edgewise Forge LLC (MI) and teacher at the College for Creative Studies (MI); work has been exhibited in a variety of forums since 1986.

Holly Walker, Lot 169
Studio artist; residency: Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (ME); teaching: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Canada), former director of Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (ME); exhibitions: Old Church Invitational (MT), Santa Fe Clay.

James Wallace, Lot 355
Studio artist; founding director of the National Ornamental Metals Museum (TN); taught and lectured from Hereford (UK) to Christchurch (New Zealand); numerous awards and fellowships.

Robert Walp, Lot 170
Studio artist; collections: Library of Congress (DC), New York Public Library, Shelburne Museum (VT), Brown University Rockefeller Library (RI), Dartmouth College Rauner Library (NH).

Sandy Webster, Lot 356
Studio artist; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Penland, Campbell Folk School (NC); collection: Arrowmont (TN); exhibitions: BookWorks (NC), Appalachian Center for Craft (TN), Dairy Barn (OH).

Jan Williams, Lot 418
Studio artist and community activist; teaching: Penland; collections: High Museum (Atlanta), Corning Museum of Glass (NY); exhibitions: R. Duane Reed Gallery (MO), Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Denmark), Blue Spiral 1 (NC).

David Wilson, Lot 171
Studio artist; teaching: Penland; work exhibited nationally and internationally; developer of Glo-Glass, a fluorescent glass for artists.

Julia Woodman, Lot 210
Studio artist and teacher; Fulbright fellow, certified master silversmith in Finland; collections: High Museum (Atlanta), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Georgia State University, Cathedral of St. Phillip (Atlanta), Temple Sinai (Atlanta).

Hiroko Yamada, Lot 460
Studio artist and owner of HYART Gallery (WI); teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME), Art Institute of Chicago.

Kyu Yamamoto , Lot 172
Studio artist; teaching: Odyssey (NC), Penland; assistant sculptor on the 42-foot Nashville Parthenon (TN); representation: The Arts Center (FL), M Gallery (FL); numerous exhibitions and public art commissions.

Mary Ann Zotto, Lot 357
Studio artist; Women and the Arts grant; teaching: University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Tougaloo Art Colony (MS); collections: Wachovia Bank and Trust National Headquarters, Winston-Salem North Carolina Arts Council; work appears in the films House of Cards and Parenthood.

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