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Penland School of Crafts 2010 Annual Benefit Auction Contributing Artists

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Friday Silent Auction - Lots 101-165

Friday Live Auction - Lots 201-245

Saturday Silent Auction - Lots 301-362

Saturday Live Auction - Lots 401-461

Erika Adams, Lot 301
Faculty at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; editor of Graphic Impressions, the newsletter of the Southern Graphics Council; exhibitions: International Print Center (NY and Philadelphia).

Cathy Adelman, Lot 237
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 239
Studio furniture maker; exhibitions: Grovewood Gallery (NC), Art League Gallery (FL); published in 500 Cabinets, 500 Chairs, 500 Tables (Lark Books), and Furniture Studio: The Meaning of Craft, the annual journal of The Furniture Society.

Heather Allen-Swarttouw, Lot 215
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 Museums (NC).

Carlos Alves, Lot 101
Studio artist; Kohler Industries residency; mosaic tile commissions: University of Florida, Miami Beach City Hall, Everglades National Park.

Stanley Mace Andersen, Lot 102
Studio artist; NEA fellowship; work exhibited nationally for more than 30 years; former Penland resident artist.

Christina Z. Anderson, Lot 302
Faculty at Montana State University; author of The Experimental Photography Workbook and Alternative Processes, Condensed.

Lynne Avadenka, Lot 303
Teaching: Dartmouth College, Center for Book Arts (NY), College for Creative Studies (MI); NEA and Kresge Artist fellowships; collections: Library of Congress (DC), British Library (London), Getty Research Center (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL); exhibitions: Center for Book Art (NY), Detroit Institute of Arts (MI).

Junichiro Baba, Lot 218
Instructor at Joshibi University of Art and Design (Japan), Meisei University (Japan), Tokyo Glass Institute; exhibitions: Heller Gallery (NYC), SOFA Chicago, Blue Spiral 1 (NC); former Penland resident artist.

Posey Bacopoulos, Lot 103
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; published in 500 Cups and 500 Teapots (Lark Books).

Kyle Bajakian, Lot 304
Photographer and faculty at Montana State University.

Bryan Christopher Baker, Lot 305
Designer and printmaker specializing in letterpress; formerly employed at Yee-Haw Industries (TN); teaching: Penland, Center for Book Arts (NY).

Phillip Baldwin, Lot 306
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 Ballard, Lot 407
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 307
Studio artist; recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and two Rhode Island Council on the Arts fellowships; collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Renwick Gallery (DC), Cooper-Hewitt (NY), Carnegie Museum of Art (PA), Museum of Art and Design (NY).

Elizabeth Barton, Lot 410
Maker of art quilts; NEA fellowship; exhibitions: Quilt National (1995, 1999, 2007, 2009), Festival of Quilts (UK); collections include Atlanta Airport.

Curtis Bartone, Lot 308
Recipient of numerous grants, awards and residencies; many solo and group exhibitions.

Kenneth Baskin, Lot 104
Faculty at McNeese State University (LA); NCECA Emerging Artist Award; residency: Tainan National University of the Arts (Taiwan); exhibition: Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taipei); featured in November, 2009 issue of Ceramics Monthly.

Rick Beck, Lot 431
Studio artist; recent solo traveling exhibition at Green Hill Center (NC), Montgomery Museum (AL), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark); collections: Mint Museums (NC), Racine Art Museum (WI), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark); former Penland resident artist.

Scott Benefield, Lot 105
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 309, 408
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 436
Studio artist; teaching: Worcester Center for Crafts (MA), Cleveland Institute of Art; recent shows: Traver Gallery (Seattle), Chappell Gallery (NYC), Sandra Ainsley Gallery (Toronto), Habatat Gallery (FL), Blue Spiral 1 (NC); collections: Corning Museum (NY), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

William "Billy" Bernstein, Lot 106
Studio artist; collections: Corning Museum of Glass (NY), Mint Museums (NC), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark); Penland trustee, former Penland resident artist.

Chris Berti, Lot 211
Studio artist; teaching: Parkland College (IL); Illinois Arts Council grant; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Mint Museums (NC), Wustum Museum (WI), Southern Illinois University Museum, Rockford Art Museum (IL), South Bend Art Museum (IN), Montreal Museum of Art (Canada).

Sharif Bey, Lot 107
Assistant professor at Syracuse University (NY); Fulbright fellowship; residencies: Hunter College (NYC), 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 310
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.

Michael Bondi, Lot 108
Studio artist; demonstrator at ABANA national conference and National Ornamental Metals Museum conferences; work in numerous exhibitions and private collections.

George Bowes, Lot 109
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 311
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.

Elizabeth Brim, Lot 442
Studio artist; McColl Center (NC) residency; 2009 Master Metalsmith at National Ornamental Metal Museum (TN), Lifetime Achievement Award from ABANA; recent public art commission for the town of Spruce Pine; former Penland studio coordinator.

Cynthia Bringle, Lots 323, 461

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 312
Studio artist; professor emerita from UNC Charlotte; collections: NC Museum of History, Greenville Museum of Art (SC).

Lola Brooks, Lot 404
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 213
Studio artist and faculty at Appalachian State University (NC); RAP grant; exhibitions: SOFA Chicago and New York, Museum of Contemporary Craft (OR); representation: Mobilia (MA), Quirk (VA), Blue Heron Gallery (ME); published in Metalsmith, 500 Earrings, and 500 Metal Vessels; former Penland resident artist.

George Bucquet, Lot 419
Studio artist; public collections: Museé des Arts Décoratifs (Switzerland), Asheville Art Museum (NC), National Liberty Museum (PA); private collections: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Carol Burnett, Mark Peiser; former Penland resident artist.

Jennifer Bueno, Lot 110
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 Penland resident artist.

Thor Bueno, Lot 458
Studio artist; Brooklyn Arts Council grant; teaching: Pilchuck (WA), Alfred University (NY), UrbanGlass (NY); exhibitions: Blue Spiral 1 (NC); collections: Boise Art Museum, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark), Kanazu Glass Museum (Japan); Tiffany award, Bessie award from New York Dance Theater Workshop; former Penland resident artist.

Devin Burgess, Lot 434
Penland resident artist; work in collections nationally and internationally; recent exhibition: Mint Museums; representation: Sandra Ainsley Gallery (Toronto).

Jay Burnham-Kidwell, Lot 111
Studio artist; demonstrates and exhibits nationally; professor emeritus from Mohave Community College (NM).

Ralph Burns, Lot 313
Studio artist; frequent Penland instructor; North Carolina Arts Council Israel Residency, Boston University Institute on Religion and World Affairs Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Residency; solo exhibitions: California Museum of Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art, Asheville Art Museum, Blue Spiral I (NC).

David Butler, Lot 416
Professor at Pratt Institute (NY); teaching: Parsons School of Design (NY), Westchester Art Workshop (NY), 92nd Street Y (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 456
Studio artist; Kresge Artist fellowship; 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), Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (NY), Lemberg Gallery (MI).

Helen Carnac, Lot 423
Artist, curator and academic; collected nationally and internationally.
Keith Carter, Lot 411
Studio artist and Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University (TX); Texas Medal of Arts, Lange-Taylor Price from the Center for Documentary Studies (NC); author of 11 monographs; collections: National Portrait Gallery (DC), Art Institute of Chicago, Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, J Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, George Eastman House (NY).

Gordon Chandler, Lot 457
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 405
Penland resident artist; recent solo show at Bellevue Arts Museum (WA); collections: Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Tacoma Art Museum (WA), Museum of Glass (WA), Racine Art Museum (WI), Sonny and Gloria Kamm.

Nicole Chesney, Lot 429
Studio artist; UrbanGlass Award for New Talent, Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Commission Award; exhibitions: Heller Gallery (NY), Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Duane Reed Gallery (FL), Galerie B (Germany); collections: Corning Museum of Glass, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark), Pilchuck Glass School (WA), RISD Museum.

Lisa Clague, Lot 444
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 Clark, Lot 418
Studio furniture maker and designer; former Penland studio coordinator, instructor, and resident artist.

Bede Clarke, Lot 112
Professor and head of ceramics at University of Missouri; recent exhibitions: Linfield College (OR), Ohio Craft Museum; work represented by Red Star Studios (Kansas City), AKAR (Iowa City), Red Lodge Clay Center (MT).

Margaret Couch Cogswell, Lot 401
Penland resident artist; RAP grant; exhibitions: Columbia College Chicago, Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Fayetteville Museum of Art (NC), Purdue University (IN), Minneapolis Central Library (MN); awarded first place for Other Media, Embellishment at the 2000 International Bead and Button Show.

Lisa Colby, Lot 314
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); published in 1000 Rings (Lark Books).

James D.W. Cooper, Lot 226
Studio artist producing sculptural and functional works in all metals, and farmer; collections: National Ornamental Metal Museum (TN), City of Greensboro (NC); has worked as a jeweler, foundry manager, blacksmith, and metals conservator.

Cristina Córdova, Lot 448
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.

William Daley, Lot 236
Studio artist; fellow of the American Craft Council; James Renwick Alliance distinguished educator; collections: Metropolitan Museum (NYC), Smithsonian Institution (DC), Racine Art Museum (WI), Los Angeles County Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), National Museum of Korea.

Naomi Dalglish and Michael Hunt, Lot 126
Collaborative studio potters; Michael studied traditional Onggi pottery in Korea; work in many collections and homes; exhibits nationally and internationally.

Scott Darlington, Lot 412
Visiting professor at Bowling Green State Universtiy (OH); teaching: Toyoma City Institute of Glass Art (Japan); former hot shop coordinator at Pilchuck Glass School (WA).

Linda Darty, Lot 231
Professor and head of metals at East Carolina University (NC); author of The Art of Enameling (Lark Books); collections: Victoria and Albert (UK), Museum of Arts and Design (NY); former trustee of the Enamelists Society, former Penland trustee.

Maggi DeBaecke, Lot 113
Studio jeweler and educator; creator of the metals program and studio space at Delaware Art Museum.

Dail Dixon, Lot 240
Architect; 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, Guesthouse, Sleeping Cabins, and the Penland Gallery’s expansion.

Robin Dreyer, Lot 315
Photographer, editor, Penland communications manager; work published in Lark Books, Time-Life Books, and numerous magazines and Penland publications; exhibitions: Asheville Art Museum (NC), East Carolina University (NC), Upfront Gallery (NC); collection: Asheville Art Museum (NC).

Judith Duff, Lot 202
Studio potter; North Carolina Arts Council grant; teaching: Odyssey; collections: Mint Museums (NC), Icheon World Ceramic Center (Korea), Tokoname Museum (Japan), Crocker Art Museum (CA); exhibitions: Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Signature Shop (GA), American Shino Show (NY); curator of several exhibitions.

Jon Ellenbogen and Rebecca Plummer, Lot 114
Studio potters collaborating as Barking Spider Pottery; work in more than 50 shops nationwide.

Kim Ellington, Lot 115
Studio artist; collections: Mint Museums (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 316
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), featured in Fiberarts and Surface Design Journal.

Daniel Essig, Lot 443
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.

Vicki Essig, Lot 317
Studio artist; recent exhibitions: River Gallery (TN), Blue Spiral I (NC), Green Hill Center (NC); member Southern Highland Craft Guild (NC), Piedmont Craftsmen (NC).

Leah Fairbanks, Lot 116
Glass bead artist; teaches and exhibits nationally and internationally; featured in books and periodicals including Ornament, Bead and Button, Lapidary Journal, Glass Art, and Bead Unique.

Fred Fenster, Lot 205
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 442
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.

Greg Fidler, Lot 232
Studio artists and proprietor of Ipso Facto Productions (NC), former Penland resident artist.

Susan Filley, Lot 117
Studio potter; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), workshops in college and museum programs, past president of NCECA.

Angela Fina, Lot 118
Studio potter; exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Fair, Philadelphia Museum Show.

Alida Fish, Friday Luncheon
Professor at The University of the Arts (PA); NEA fellowship; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, 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.

Regina M. Flanagan, Lot 318
Landscape designer, writer and teacher; teaching: Penland, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (WI); collections: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (WI), Miller Brewing Company (WI); exhibitions: Rochester Art Center (MN), Minnesota Center for Photography (MN).

Pat Flynn, Lot 435
Studio goldsmith; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Yale University Art Gallery (CT), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; featured in Metalsmith and Masters of Stone Setting.

Steven Forbes-deSoule, Lot 119
Studio artist; teaching: Agnes Scott College (GA), Callanwolde Fine Art Center (Atlanta), Odyssey Center (NC), Campbell Folk School (NC), Arrowmont (TN); collections: Alfred University, Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences (GA), Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA); representation: Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Carolina Clay Gallery (NC).

Gail Fredell, Lot 447
Studio artist; director of programs and development for the Furniture Society; NEA fellowship; teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME), Anderson Ranch (CO), RISD, California College of Arts; collections: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum (CA), Stanford University Memorial Chapel (CA), AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park.

Mark Gardner, Lot 403
Studio woodworker; collections: Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Yale University Art Gallery.

Robert Gardner, Lot 221
Studio artist and owner of Studio C Glassworks (NC); exhibitions: Kramer Museum (IL), Habatat Gallery (MA), Blue Spiral 1 (NC); former Penland glass studio coordinator; former board member of the Glass Arts Society.

Terry Gess, Lot 120
Studio potter and department chair at Haywood Community College; exhibits and teaches nationally; North Carolina Arts Council residency in LaNapoule (France); participated in the first annual Yixing Teapot Symposium for Western Potters (China); former Penland resident artist.

Marguerite Jay Gignoux, Lot 319
Studio artist; teaching and residencies: Penland, Arrowmont (TN), RISD, Chateau du Pin (France); exhibitions: Mint Museums (NC), Artspace (NC), American Quilt and Textile Museum (CA); numerous community art projects throughout North Carolina.
Catherine Clark Gilbertson, Lot 121
Resident artist at Bishopsland Educational Trust (UK); exhibitions: Velvet da Vinci (CA), Pangolian Gallery (London).

Joanna Gollberg, Lot 452
Studio artist; author of The Ultimate Jeweler’s Guide, Making Metal Jewelry, Creative Metal Crafts, and Studio Jewelry (all Lark Books); representation: Aaron Faber Gallery (NYC), Penland Gallery, and Life Gallery (Stockholm).

Erica Gordon, Lot 122
Studio artist and owner of Steel Toes Studios; exhibitions: International Contemporary Furniture Fair 2009/2010, CODE (the Copenhagen Design Fair), PMAC show; featured in The Contemporary Blacksmith (Schiffer).

Celia Gray, Lot 222
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, Book Works (NC); residency: Vermont Studio Center; exhibitions: Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Rebus Works (NC); gallery representation: Blue Spiral 1 (NC).

Carmen Grier, Lot 320
Studio artist; collection: Mint Museums (NC); silver award at the Smithsonian Craft Show; former Penland resident artist.

Hoss Haley, Lots 440, 459
Studio artist; John Micheal Kohler Arts Center residency; several public art commissions for Charlotte Area Rapid Transit (NC) and Mecklenburg County (NC); recently designed and fabricated a fountain and a steel pergola for Asheville’s Pack Square Park (NC); former Penland resident artist.

Bill Hall, Lot 413
Master intaglio printer and studio director at Pace Prints (NY); teaching: University of Texas at Austin, Galveston College (TX).

Susan Halls, Lot 417
Studio artist; Crafts Council (UK) grant; has taught in the UK and Europe; collection: Victoria and Albert Museum.

Jin Won Han, Lot 123
Studio artist and resident artist at the University of Western Ontario; teaching: Rochester Institute of Technology (NY), University of Western Ontario, Penland; exhibits and demonstrates internationally.

Douglas Harling, Lot 446
Teacher of metalsmithing at Kentucky School of Craft; NEA/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship, North Carolina Artist Fellowship; work currently touring the Southern Arts Federation exhibitions Innovation/Tradition: Masterpieces of Southern Craft and The Art of Gold.

Abie Harris, Lot 321
Architect and campus planner; author of the Penland campus master plan; teaching: North Carolina State University; Penland trustee.

Julia Harrison, Lot 201
Studio woodcarver; teaching: 92nd Street Y (NY), Pratt Fine Arts Center (WA); exhibitions: Facèré (WA), Quirk (VA), SOFA Chicago, Julie: Artisans’ Gallery (NY).

James Henkel, Lot 206
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 (Iran), Pace MacGill (NY).

Chuck Hindes, Lot 322
Studio artist; teaching: University of Florida, RISD, Arrowmont, Anderson Ranch, University of Iowa; NEA grant; Archie Bray Foundation residency.

Bryant Holsenbeck, Lot 124
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.

Adam Holtzinger, Lot 125
Studio artist; teaching: UrbanGlass (NYC), Pilchuck (WA), The Studio at Corning (NY), Pittsburgh Glass Center.

John Horn, Lot 323
Printer for over 45 years; teaching: University of Arkansas/Fort Smith, University of Iowa Center for the Book, University of Alabama; proprietor of Shooting Star Press.

Shawn Ireland, Lot 127
Studio potter; collections: Asheville Art Museum, City of Rocky Mount Art Center (NC), numerous private collections; exhibitions: Mint Museums (NC), Smithsonian Craft Show, American Craft Expo, American Craft Council shows; former Penland core student and resident artist.

Rob Jackson, Lot 324
Area chair at the University of Georgia; exhibitions: Velvet da Vinci (CA), National Ornamental Metals museum; contributor to The Penland Book of Jewelry, published in 500 Pendants & Lockets, 1000 Rings (all Lark Books).

Marvin Jensen, Lot 437
Studio artist; collections: Mint Museums (NC), Museum of Art - RISD, numerous private collections; exhibitions: North Carolina Museum of Art, Hickory Museum of Art, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

Nicholas Joerling, Lot 128
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 409
Photographer and consultant; residencies: Light Work (NY), Visual Studies Workshop (NY); teaching: University of New Haven (CT), Maine Media Workshop, Penland, Visual Studies Workshop (NY); collections: RISD, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (NY), Center for Creative Photography (AZ).

Robert Johnson, Lot 325
Studio artist; many state and regional grants; exhibits regularly at Blue Spiral 1 (NC).

Daniel Johnston, Lot 453
Studio potter; apprenticed to Mark Hewitt (NC), Clive Bowen (England), Sawein Silakhom (Thailand); has exhibited and lectured at Texas A&M University, Sackler and Freer Gallery of Art (DC), Mint Museums (NC).

Richard Jolley, Lot 427
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).

Aimee Joyaux, Lot 326
Director of education at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond (VA); Illinois Arts Council and Indiana Arts Commission grants; has exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia and at the National Museum of Women in Art (DC).

John Mac Kah, Lot 331
Painter and teacher; teaching: Fine Arts League of the Carolinas, as well as at in his own studio and at workshops across the country; in private and public collections nationally and in London.

Deb Karash, Lot 444
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 438
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).

Gail Kendall, Lot 445
Hixson-Lied Professor of Art at University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Archy Bray Foundation (MT) and Watershed (VT) residencies; work published in Ceramics: Art and Perception (Australia), Neue Keramik (Germany), and the book International Ceramics by Emmanuel Cooper.

Ann Marie Kennedy, Lot 327
Installation artist, papermaker, and faculty at Wake Technical Community College (NC); residencies: Penland, Headlands Center for the Arts (CA); exhibitions: Gregg Museum of Art and Design (NC), Artspace (NC), Asheville Art Museum (NC).

Brian Kerkvliet, Lot 129
Studio artist; teacher of workshops in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the US.

Kathy King, Lot 130
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 235
Professor emeritus from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; two NEA fellowships; collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mint Museums (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 131
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; work published in Fiberarts and Surface Design Journal.

Jeana Eve Klein, Lot 328
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).

Mark Klett, Lot 449
Professor at Arizona State University at Tempe; NEA, Guggenheim, Buhl Foundation, and Japan/US Friendship Commission grants; his work is in more than 80 museum collections worldwide; exhibits nationally and internationally; author of 13 books.

Chunghie Lee, Lot 208
Faculty at RISD; Fulbright grant; collections: Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Museum of Arts and Design (NY).

Jeong Ju Lee, Lot 414
Penland resident artist; Niche Award; exhibitions: American Craft Council (MD), Washington Craft Show (DC), Lockhart Gallery (NY), Davison Gallery (NY).

Anne Lemanski, Lot 430
Studio artist; collection: Asheville Art Museum (NC); exhibitions: Winthrop University (SC), Ferrin Gallery (MA), Mint Museums (NC), SOFA New York and Chicago; former Penland resident artist.

Robert Levin, Lot 227
Studio artist and educator; Southern Arts Federation/NEA grant; collections: Corning Museum (NY), High Museum (GA), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Mint Museums (NC); exhibitions: Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Racine Art Museum (WI), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Cheongju Art Center (Korea); former Penland resident artist.

Suze Lindsay, Lot 132
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 329
Studio artist and faculty at Meredith College (NC); teaching: Penland, Murray State University (KY), Louisiana State University; exhibitions: Austin Peay State University (TN), Glassel Exhibition Gallery at Shaw Center (LA); work in corporate and private collections.

Peter Loewer, Lot 133
Writer and botanical artist who has authored and illustrated more than 25 books on natural history and gardening, and four science-based children’s books.

Steve Loucks, Lot 134
Professor at Jacksonville State University (AL), two Alabama State Council on the Arts and Southern Arts Federation/NEA fellowships.

Thomas Lucas, Lot 330
Professor at North Park University (Chicago); director of printmaking at Lillstreet Art Center (Chicago); representation: Lusenhop Fine Art (Chicago), Nicole Gallery (Chicago).

David R. MacDonald, Lot 135
Professor emeritus from Syracuse University (NY); exhibitions: The Clay Studio (Philadelphia), Lubin House Gallery (NYC), Alfred University (NY), Schenectady Museum (NY), Swarthmore College (PA), Eureka Crafts Gallery (NY).

Marcia Macdonald, Lot 332
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 136, 333
Studio artist since 1950; work in many national and international exhibitions and collections.

Kaeko Maehata, Lot 137
Studio artist; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: Craft Alliance (MO), Art and Air (St. Louis), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark), Toyama Institute of Glass Art (Japan).

Richard Margolis, Lot 217
Studio artist; author of Family Gatherings: Seder Tables and Bridges: Symbols of Progress; collections: Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris), High Museum of Art (Atlanta).

Daniel Marinelli, Lot 415
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).

Emily Martin, Lot 334
Faculty at the University of Iowa Center for the Book; collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

Sarah Martin, Lot 428
Penland resident artist; exhibitions: Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Lux Center for the Arts (NE), Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (Louisville), Worcester Center for Crafts (MA), Illinois State University, Silvermine Guild Art Center (CT).

Tom McCarthy, Lot 335
Studio jeweler; Florida Fellowship in the Arts; collections: Mint Museums (NC), numerous other public and private collections; contributor to The Penland Book of Jewelry (Lark Books).

Laura Jean McLaughlin, Lots 138, 214
Studio artist; NEA grant; three residencies with the Kohler Company (WI); exhibitions: Mobile Museum of Art (AL), Carnegie Museum of Art (PA), Baltimore Institute of Art; collections: Kohler Art Center (WI), Whole Foods Market (TX), HBO (NY); recipient of Maggie Milono Memorial Award from Carnegie Museum of Art (PA).

John Menapace, Lot 209
Studio photographer; author of Letter in a Klein Bottle (Jargon Press) and With Hidden Noise, which is the catalog for a retrospective exhibition at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design at North Carolina State University; subject of the first-ever photographic exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art (1984).

Jenny Mendes, Lot 402
Studio artist; Ohio Arts Council individual artist grant; exhibitions: Signature Gallery (Atlanta), Works Gallery (Philadelphia), Obsidian Gallery (Tucson), former Penland resident artist.

Deb Menz, Lot 139
Studio artist; exhibitions: Fine Line Creative Arts Center (IL); author of Color in Spinning and Color Works (both Interweave).

Hugh Merrill, Lot 336
Professor at Kansas City Art Institute; work in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and included in the book Printmaking at the Edge by Richard Noyce.

C. James Meyer, Lot 421
Professor emeritus from Virginia Commonwealth University; recent solo exhibition at Quirk Gallery (VA), work exhibited nationally and internationally and included in many collections.

Sequoia Miller, Lot 140
Studio potter; teaches workshops nationally; exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show, Craft in America Project.

Janis Miltenberger, Lot 424
Studio artist; teaching: Pratt Fine Art Center (Seattle), Niijima Glass School (Japan), Mesa Arts Center (AZ), Glasscraft (CO); galleries: Thomas Riley Galleries (OH), Habatat Galleries (FL, VA), CODA Galleries (CA, UT), Pismo Galleries (CO).

Mark Mitsuda, Lot 141
Educator; collections: Hawaii State Foundation on culture and the Arts; exhibitions: Art in Embassies program (for Laos), Artists of Hawaii, Hawaii Craftsmen Juried Show, Contemporary Museum (HI).

Clarence Morgan, Lot 228
Professor at University of Minnesota; Bush Foundation, McKnight Foundation, and North Carolina Arts Council fellowships; exhibitions: Reeves Contemporary (NYC), Romo Gallery (Atlanta), Thomas Barry (Minneapolis); collections: Cleveland Art Museum, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Minneapolis Art Institute.

David Naito, Lot 142
Studio artist and teacher; teaching: New York University (NYC), Urban Glass (NYC), former Visiting Assistant Professor at Alfred University (NY); exhibitions: 70 John (NYC), Boston Sculptors Gallery (MA), Fitchburg Art Museum (MA).

Bea Nettles, Lot 337
Photographer; collections: Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Phillips Collection (DC), National Gallery of Canada; exhibitions: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (NY), Museum of Contemporary Photography (IL), Light Gallery (NY), Witkin Gallery (NY); author of Breaking the Rules: A Photo Media Cookbook.

Lilith E. Nielander, Lot 216
Studio artist and faculty at Appalachian State University; collections: Wolfsonian Museum (FL), and other private holdings.

Zachary Noble, Lot 338
Studio blacksmith specializing in custom architectural iron work; teaching: Peters Valley (NJ), Campbell Folk School (NC); former Penland core student.

Gary Lee Noffke, Lot 339
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 Museums (NC); exhibitions: Kohler Arts Center (WI), National Ornamental Metals Museum (TN), Mobilia Gallery (MA), Jewish Museum (CA); currently working on a 50-year retrospective with the Mint Museums (NC).

Richard Notkin, Lot 143
Studio artist; fellowships: NEA, Tiffany, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; exhibitions: Garth Clark Gallery (NY), Seattle Art Museum, Esther Saks Gallery (IL); collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt (NY), Kunstindustrimuseet (Norway), Victoria and Albert Museum (London); fellow of the American Craft Council.

Kathryn Osgood, Lot 144
Studio artist and assistant professor at College of The Albemarle (NC); exhibitions: Center for Visual Arts (TX), Mobilia Gallery (MA); published in The Art of Enameling, 500 Necklaces, 500 Earrings (all Lark Books) and many other books.

Ben Owen III, Lot 461
Studio artist; collections: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Chrysler Museum (VA), Mint Museums (NC), Cleveland Museum, North Carolina Museum of History.

Jeannie Pearce, Lot 145
Faculty at the University of the Arts (PA); exhibits nationally with work held in many public and private collections.

Jane Peiser, Lot 233
Studio artist; former Penland resident artist and trustee; collections: Smithsonian Institution (DC), Mint Museums (Charlotte).

Kiara Pelissier, Lot 146
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), Museum of American Glass (NJ); collections: Capital One, Museum of American Glass (NJ).

Noellynn Pepos, Lot 147
Studio artist; New Jersey Council on the Arts fellowship; residency: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VA); collections: Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Missoula Art Museum (MT); exhibitions: National Ornamental Metal Museum (TN), Facérè (WA), American Craft Museum (NY).

Sarah Perkins, Lot 220
Faculty at Missouri State University; exhibitions: National Ornamental Metals Museum (TN), Mobilia (MA), Smithsonian Craft Show; work published in The Art of Enameling, The Penland Book of Jewelry (both Lark Books), Contemporary Enameling (Schiffer) and Metalsmith; representation: Mobilia (MA).

Andrea Peterson, Lot 340
Studio artist; teaching: Penland, Oxbow (MI), Indiana University; exhibitions: Acorn Gallery (MI), Fire Arts Inc. (IN), Friends of Dard Hunter Tokyo Exhibition.

Meg Peterson, Lot 148
Penland’s teaching artist in the schools; former Penland resident artist.

John Pfahl, Lot 432
Photographer; collections: Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), Chicago Art Institute; author of eight monographs including Altered Landscapes: The Photographs of John Pfahl (Friends of Photography); archive housed at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (NY).

Kenny Pieper, Lot 210
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.

Natalya Pinchuk, Lot 341
Studio jeweler; teaching: Virginia Commonwealth University, Stephen F. Austin State University (TX); exhibitions: SOFA New York and Chicago, Jewelers Werk Galerie (DC), Galerie Rob (Netherlands); collections: Mint Museums (NC), Stedelijk Museum (Netherlands).

Amy Pirkle, Lot 149
Book artist and letterpress printer, and faculty at University of Alabama; her work is held in more than 30 university collections.

Jason Pollen, Lot 342
Professor and chair at the Kansas City Art Institute; teaching: Parsons School of Design (NY), Pratt Institute (NY); fellow of the American Crafts Council and president emeritus of the Surface Design Association.

Fawn Potash, Lot 343
Studio artist; teaching: School of Visual Arts (NYC), Center for Photography (NY), Berkshire Art School (MA), Peter’s Valley (NJ); work exhibited internationally and published in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Art News.

Ché Rhodes, Lot 422
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.

Gail Rieke, Lot 344
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: SOFA Chicago, Cheongju International Biennale (Korea), New Mexico Museum of Art.

Richard Ritter, Lot 451
Studio artist; 40-year retrospective organized by the Fine Art Museum of Western Carolina University (NC) and the Toe River Arts Council (NC); NEA fellowship; teaching: Penland; collections: White House, Vice President’s Residence; former Penland resident artist.

Sang Parkinson Roberson, Lot 223
Studio artist; Visual Arts Fellowship (FL); 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); representation: Hibberd-McGrath Gallery (CO).

Holly Roberts, Lot 454
Studio artist; author of three monographs: Holly Roberts: Works 1989–1999 (Nazraeli Press), Holly Roberts (Friends of Photography), Holly Roberts: Works 2000–2009 (Nazraeli Press); solo exhibitions: Catherine Edelman Gallery (Chicago), Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco), Gibson Gallery (Seattle); collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Center for Creative Photography (AZ).

Lisa Beth Robinson, Lot 150
Bookmaker, owner of Somnambulist Tango Press, and instructor at East Carolina University (NC); RAP grant; collections: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Center for the Book at the University of Iowa, Multnomah County Library (OR); former Penland resident artist.

Mary Roehm, Lot 345
Studio artist; NEA and New York Council for the Arts fellowships; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan).

Sylvie Rosenthal, Lot 346
Studio artist; North Carolina Arts Council Crafts fellowship.

Mike Rossi, Lot 151
Studio artist; teaching: Ox-Bow (MI), Kalamazoo College (MI), Smartshop Metal Arts Collective (MI); exhibitions: National Ornamental Metals Museum (Memphis), Brookfield Craft Center (CT), Open End Gallery (Chicago); FERRO 2005 participant (Germany).

Andrew Rubin, Lot 347
Master printer and studio manager at Tandem Press (WI); teaching: University of Southern California, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Penland.

Tommie Rush, Lot 152
Studio artist; collections: Mobile Museum of Art (AL), Sheldon Museum of Art (NE), Renwick Gallery (DC); former Penland trustee.

Alyssa C. Salomon, Lot 348
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).

Phil Sanders, Lot 349
Director and master printer at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (NY), teaching: Penland, Stanford University (CA); collections: Yale University Art Gallery (CT), University of New Mexico Fine Art Museum; exhibitions: Franz Masereel Center (Belgium), Royal Academy of Arts (London).

Margaret Scanlan, Lot 212
Studio artist; signature member of the American Watercolor Society; teaching: Penland, Campbell Folk School (NC), Arrowmont (TN); shows: Bennett Galleries (TN), Silver Fox Galleries (NC); collections: Huntsville Museum of Art (AL), Springfield Art Museum (MO).

Tommye McClure Scanlin, Lot 350
Studio artist; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Campbell Folk School (NC), North Georgia College and State University; exhibitions: Convergence, Tapestry ’08 Symposium (Australia); collections: Georgia State Art Collection, Tennessee Valley Authority, North Carolina State University/Raleigh; life membership award from Southern Highland Craft Guild.

Mary Ann Scherr, Lot 204
Studio artist; teaching: North Carolina State University; collections: Vatican (Rome), Metropolitan Museum (NY), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Renwick Gallery (DC); former chair at Parsons School of Design (NY).

Mark Shapiro, Lot 219
Studio artist and workshop instructor; collections: Mint Museums (NC), Newark Museum (NJ), Racine Art Museum (WI), International Museum of Ceramic Art (NY); contributing advisor to Studio Potter and advisory board member of Ceramics Monthly.

Jenny Lou Sherburne, Lot 153
Studio potter; her work is exhibited and collected nationally.

Christina Shmigel, Lot 420
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.

Stephen Sidelinger, Lot 351
Book artist and professor; teaching: Kansas City Art Institute, Ringling College of Art and Design (FL), Otis College of Art and Design (CA), The Art Institute of California; representation: Freehand Gallery (CA), Vamp and Tramp Booksellers (AL).

Marjorie Simon, Lot 154
Studio jeweler, writer and educator; two-time recipient of New Jersey State Council on the Arts grants; most recent exhibit: Goldesberry Gallery (TX).

Laura Sims, Lot 352
Fiber artist, teacher and author; work collected internationally.

Brent Skidmore, Lot 203
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); exhibits nationally, as well as in Finland and the United Arab Emirates; contributor to The Penland Book of Woodworking (Lark Books).

Clarissa Sligh, Lot 353
Studio artist; NEA and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships; collections: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (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), Vamp and Tramp Booksellers (AL).

Adrienne Sloane, Lot 155
Fiber artist; consultant on knitting projects in Bolivia and Peru; teaches internationally; collections: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Goldstein Museum of Design (MN); published in Fiberarts, American Craft and Surface Design Journal, and profiled in the book Knitting Art.

David T. Smith, Lot 156
Owner/operator of Underground Neon (NC); teaching assistant nationally; exhibitions: Atlanta International Museum, Grovewood Gallery (CA).

Vanessa Somers, Lot 165
Studio artist; trained with Professor Anselmi, artistic director of the Vatican Mosaic Studio (Rome); teaching: The Studio at Corning (NY); work exhibited in Europe, North Africa, and U.S. and included in private and corporate collections.

Dolph Smith, Lot 225
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 460
Studio artist; North Carolina Arts Council fellowship and RAP grant; residencies: Archie Bray Foundation (MO), Penland; teaching: Penland, Haystack (ME), Harvard University Ceramics Studio (MA), Odyssey (NC); collections: Mint Museums (NC), Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), Crocker Art Museum (CA).

Jerry Spagnoli, Lot 354
Photographer; collections: Whitney Museum of American Art, National Portrait Gallery (DC), Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, High Museum (GA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; published in books and periodicals including Vanity Fair, Adbusters, Metropolis, Graphis.

Tom Spleth, Lot 450
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 425
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 230
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); fellow of the American Craft Council.

Evon Streetman, Lot 426
Professor emerita from the University of Florida; retrospective exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (SC); collections: Harn Museum (FL), Polaroid Corporation (MA), Ringling Museum (FL), The White House (DC).

Billie Ruth Sudduth, Lot 355
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 Museums (NC); exhibitions: Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), SOFA Chicago and New York.

Boyd Sugiki, Lot 439
Collections: Honolulu Academy of Art, Museum of Northwest Art (WA), Toyama City Institute of Glass Art (Japan), Tacoma Museum of Glass (WA); exhibitions: Traver Gallery (WA), Museum of Islamic Art (Berlin), Museum of Northwest Art (WA), The Contemporary Museum (HI).

Jen Swearington, Lot 356
Studio artist and owner of jennythreads, Inc.; residencies: Arrowmont (TN), Penland; 2009 Quilt National Award of Excellence; exhibitions: Quilt National (2003, 2005, 2009).

Tim Tate, Lot 455
Studio artist and co-founder of the Washington Glass School (DC); collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Mint Museums (NC); exhibitions: Palm Beach 3, Habatat Gallery (MA), SOFA Chicago, Corcoran Gallery (DC).

Amy Tavern, Lot 406
Penland resident artist; teaching: Penland, Pratt Fine Arts Center (WA); exhibitions: Quirk Gallery (VA), Taboo Studio (CA), Sienna Gallery (MA).

Shoko Teruyama, Lot 438
Studio artist; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: Baltimore Clayworks, Santa Fe Clay, Mint Museums (NC), Blue Spiral 1 (NC), Kohler Arts Center (WI); former Penland resident artist.

Jeff Todd and Yaffa Todd, Lot 158
Collaborating studio artists; collections: Asheville Art Museum (NC), Chrysler Museum (VA), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (Denmark), Glasmuseum Frauenau (Germany), Mint Museums (NC), Rochester Institute of Technology (NY), Wheaton Museum of Historical Glass (NJ).

Anna Tomczak, Lot 357
Studio artist; author of the monograph Sanctuary: Anna Tomczak Photography; collections: Brooklyn Museum of Art (NYC), Harn Museum of Art (FL), Polaroid Corporation Collection (MA), Deland Museum of Art (FL), Florida Gulf Coast Museum of Art.

Jen Townsend, Lot 207
Studio jeweler; collection: Imperial War Museum (UK); published in Art Jewelry Today 2 (Schiffer) and 500 Gemstone Jewels (Lark Books).

Bob Trotman, Lot 358
Studio artist; two NEA fellowships; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Asheville Art Museum (NC); exhibitions: Mint Museums (NC), Franklin Parrasch (NY), North Carolina Museum of Art.

Marlene True, Lot 238
Studio artist and workshop instructor; collection: Museum of Arts and Design (NY); manages the Society of North American Goldsmiths silent auction and raffle.

Elizabeth Turrell, Lot 159
Senior research fellow in enamel at the University of West England and director of Studio Fusion Gallery (London); formerly employed in the Coins and Medals collection at the British Museum; 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 I/O Gallery (LA), Mobilia (MA).

Jerry Uelsmann, Lots 229, 441
Photographer; NEA fellowship and Guggenheim fellowship; collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (NY), Museum of Modern Art (NY), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan); fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

Anthony Ulinski, Lot 359
Furniture maker and painter of still lifes.

Jerilyn Virden, Lot 433
North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist fellowship grant and RAP grant; teaching: Penland, Odyssey (NC); exhibitions: SOFA Chicago and New York, Mint Museums (NC), Santa Fe Clay; NCECA 2003 Clay National Purchase award; former Penland resident artist.

Jan-Ru Wan, Lot 360
Faculty at North Carolina State University; North Carolina Visual Art fellowship; exhibitions: Rocky Mount Arts Center (NC), Rauschenburg Gallery (FL), L.H. Horton, Jr. Gallery (CA).

Sandy Webster, Lot 160
Studio artist; teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Penland, Campbell Folk School (NC); collection: Arrowmont (TN); exhibitions: BookWorks (NC), Appalachian Center for Craft (TN), Dairy Barn (OH).

Wayne Wichern, Lot 234
Millinery designer and teacher; teaching: Cañada College (CA); exhibitions: Fuller Craft Museum (MA), Fino Fino (CA); collections: de Young Museum (CA), Museum of History and Industry (WA); founding member, Millinery Artisan Guild.

Lana Wilson, Lot 161
Studio potter and workshop teacher; has participated in 185 exhibits; author of Ceramics: Shape and Surface; writes for Clay Times.

Tara Wilson, Lot 162
Studio potter; residencies: Archie Bray Foundation, Red Lodge Clay Center; exhibitions: Baltimore Clayworks, Greenwich House Pottery (NYC), Terra Incognita (Chicago), Cedar Creek Gallery (NC); workshop teaching: Anderson Ranch (CO), University of Iowa, University of Montana, Louisville Potters Guild (KY).

Paul Wong, Lot 361
Artistic director of Dieu Donné papermill (NY); NYFA and Joan Mitchell grants; exhibitions: Neuberger Museum (NY), Plains Art Museum (ND).

Julia Woodman, Lot 224
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).

Sayumi Yokouchi, Lot 362
Studio artist, instructor at 92nd St. Y (NYC); other teaching: State University of New York at New Paltz, Kutztown State University (PA), Craft Students League (NYC); exhibitions: Velvet da Vinci (CA), Quirk Gallery (VA), Sienna Gallery (MA).

Jeff Zamek, Lot 163
Studio artist and proprietor of Ceramics Consulting Services; author of What Every Potter Should Know and Safety in the Ceramics Studio; regular contributor to Ceramics Monthly, Pottery Making Illustrated, Pottery Production Practices, Clay Times, Studio Potter.

Jen Zitkov, Lot 164
Studio artist; exhibits and teaches nationally and internationally.

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