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Hosted by:
Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery and The Oregon College of Art & Craft
With support from:
George Little Management, LLC; Western Exhibitors; The CraftsReport, American Craft Council, and Bullseye Glass
SPEAKER INFORMATION
David Cohen
David Cohen, the Executive Director of Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery, is a graduate of the Pacific Northwest College of Art. David has worked for a range of institutions including Portland Center for the Visual Arts, The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Elizabeth Leach Gallery, the Salem Art Association (SAA), and the Portland Children’s Museum. During his time in Salem, he also managed and oversaw the expansion of the Salem Art Fair & Festival, the city’s largest and longest running community event. He has been involved in numerous statewide activities including being on the advisory board for the Masters in Arts Administration program and the Board of Visitors for the University of Oregon Allied Arts and Architecture Department, the Northwest Business for Culture and the Arts, the Oregon Festival and Events Association, the Salem Convention and Visitors Association and Salem’s Riverfront Carousel. David is serving as host for the 2006 CODA Conference.
Kate Eilertsen
Kate Eilertsen joined the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art in January 2004, at a turning point in its history. She has successfully reorganized its staff and operations, developed the board, expanded membership, and balanced the budget for the first time in four years. Eilertsen has over thirty years of experience in museum leadership and community engagement. As Executive Director for the Museum and for Youth in Arts and Intersection for the Arts, she directed the exhibition and education programming while defining their vision, writing a strategic plan, and initiating their successful expansion. Her work at the Metropolitan Museum and Harvard University Museums allowed her to work closely with fine collections of art from around the world. Before coming to the Museum, she was Associate Dean and Director of Community Engagement for the San Francisco Art Institute. She has curated several exhibitions on a variety of subjects, written extensively and recently curated an exhibition of Scandinavian Design. Eilertsen received an MA from Hunter College, and a BA from Macalester College, and an ED (Arts Education Teaching Credential) from the San Francisco State University.
Andrew Glasgow
Andrew Glasgow is currently Executive Director of The Furniture Society and former Director of Programs and Collections for the Southern Highland Craft Guild (1997-2001). The Furniture Society, an international organization of over 1,500 members, has a mission to advance the art of furniture making by inspiring creativity, promoting excellence and fostering an understanding of this art and its place in society. Glasgow has been the Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts for the Birmingham Museum of Art; Southern Highland Craft Guild’s Curator of Education and Collections; and Assistant Director of Blue Spiral 1, Asheville’s premier commercial art space. Glasgow has a degree in Art History from the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
Cheryl Hartley
Cheryl Hartley, with over 20 years experience in non-profit administration and development, retail management, education, public service, tourism, and hospitality, Tamarack’s general manager describes herself as a passionate advocate for economic development through the arts. In New Mexico, she worked with Native Americans and cultural tourism during her 6-year tenure as Director of Artist Services for the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (Santa Fe Indian Market). She is a member of the Craft Advisory Council of the HandMade Institute for Creative Communities, the West Virginia Industry of Culture steering committee, and was elected to the CODA board of directors in 2004. She assisted with founding the Tamarack Foundation, which provides programs that benefit artisans by creating viable economic, educational and marketing opportunities for the craft industry of West Virginia. Cheryl has been with Tamarack for five years and holds a BA in anthropology from Temple University.
Lynette Jennings
Lynette Jennings is the Founding Director of Eagleheart Center for Art and Inquiry, the program development facility for The Lynette Jennings Foundation Art for Life. Her career spans 38 years as a writer and editor-in-chief to two magazines; principal of an international design and architecture firm; a published writer; and a trend, market and product development consultant to a long list of Fortunes 500 companies. Jennings is best known in the public arena for a long-running television show broadcast in 37 countries and featuring the works and philosophies of architects, designers and artists. Jennings has been recognized for “elevating the standards and awareness of the arts within the public domain,” and her current mission with her foundation is “to close the gap between art, artists and society.”
Jenny Joyce
Jenny Joyce received her BS in Fine Art Education from Hofstra University, and has been an exhibiting artist since 1966. In 1970 she moved to Oregon and became founding member of the Artback artist co-op. Since then, she has completed over 50 murals with children throughout the state. Joyce is currently a full-time artist for the McMenamin brothers. Her work at their many historic sites includes site work such as mural design and execution, and studio work such as illustration for printed materials.
Matthew Kangas
Matthew Kangas is an independent art critic and curator who has written eleven books, over 40 catalogues and curated over 35 exhibitions of art and craft including “Storytelling in 20th-Century American Craft: (with Lloyd E. Herman); “Robert Sperry: A Retrospective” (with LaMar Harrington); and “Breaking Barriers: Recent American Craft” (American Craft Museum; Philip Morris-funded national tour, 1994-95). He was the 2003 commissioner for North America at the Korea World Ceramic Biennale, “North American Ceramic Sculpture Now.” His latest essays collection, “Craft and Concept: The Rematerialization of the Art Object” has just been published by Midmarch Arts Press, New York. He lives in Seattle.
Mary Lacer
Mary Lacer, River Falls, WI, is managing director of the American Association of Woodturners. Years ago Mary wanted to work with wood so she took a refinishing class but found out that was not what she wanted to do. North Hennepin Vo-Tech offered cabinet making courses and this is where she discovered a lathe tucked back in a corner. Mary has been turning for 25 years and had her own business for 10 years doing one-of-a-kind woodturnings and production runs prior to becoming Administrator for AAW. She also enjoys turning alternative materials such as plexiglass, bone, soft stone and metals including copper, brass and aluminum. Mary is known for turning goblets of all sizes and materials. She has assisted in teaching numerous week-long and week-end woodturning classes at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and Marc Adams School of Woodworking. Currently, Mary is the driving force behind AAW’s 2,400 square foot Exhibition Gallery located in downtown St. Paul’s Landmark Center.
Steve Loar
Steve Loar is the Director of the newly created Center for Turning and Furniture Design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania. He was a professor in the Foundations Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Steve is past director of RIT's School of Art, School of Design, and School for American Crafts, having previously been the Chairman of the School for American Crafts. Steve's teaching expertise is three-dimensional design, with special interests in introductory design curriculum, creativity, and the issues of transition to college. His work is in major collections throughout the United States. Being a commentator on contemporary woodturning and craft, he lectures regularly at major conferences, and has articles appearing frequently in publications in the U.S., England, and Australia. He is an active member of the National Advisory Council that guided the creation of the Kentucky School of Craft. He is currently serving on the CODA board of directors.
Andrew Maydoney
Andrew Maydoney is vice president, research and strategy, at Sametz Blackstone Associates, Boston. He received his BFA in design and photography from Southeastern Massachusetts University, and also studied at Syracuse University and MIT. Before joining Sametz Blackstone, Andrew managed events for the Don Law Company and was director of new media for Think Tank, Oak Design and their parent, Spire. Maydoney has lectured, taught, and facilitated workshops on communication and new media strategy, design, and production internationally. He has guest lectured to trade organizations in communications, biotechnology, academia, social services, high-technology, culture, and the arts. For a variety of social service organizations, he has mentored students, judged business plans, and lectured on communication planning. Recently recognized by Boston Business Journal as one of the area’s “top 40 under 40 executives,” Maydoney has served on the board of several New England institutions, including Bottom Line, an organization that helps at-risk urban youth get into, and graduate from, college; Fuller Craft Museum, New England’s home for contemporary craft; Root Cause Institute, an action tank for the social sector; as well as the Corporate Executive Council for WGBH, Boston.
Bonnie Meltzer
Bonnie Meltzer was born with a crochet hook in one hand, a purple crayon in the other, and she has been adding art materials to her tool box ever since. Meltzer started exhibiting in 1969, and shortly after began developing her trademark electronic wire crochet technique. She now also uses computers to design her large-scale work, as well as produce imagery used within these sculptures. Her work has been exhibited widely, beginning with inclusion in the 1969 group exhibition Young Americans at the Museum of American Craft in New York, which traveled for 2 years. Her first solo exhibition was in 1971 at Contemporary Crafts Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Meltzer’s work is currently included in the group exhibition, Sustaining Change on the American Farm: an Artist-Farmer Interchange at Maryhill Museum, Maryhill, Oregon. As an advocate for the arts, she is an active participant in two grassroots art organizations: Portland Open Studios and Art on the Peninsula, both of which include artists of all disciplines. Bonnie has an MFA in design from the University of Washington.
Michael Monroe
Michael Monroe is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Bellevue Arts Museum. Since 2004, he has also served as Executive Director of the American Craft Council and President of the Peter Joseph Gallery, both in New York City. From 1974 to 1995 Monroe was Curator and later Curator-in-Charge of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery. He holds an MFA Degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BS Degree in Art from the University of Wisconsin with additional studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Art.
Torie Nguyen
Torie Nguyen is a member of PDX Super Crafty, a collective of four creative businesswomen who have banded together to teach others about the joys of creating objects by hand and the importance of buying handmade items. Their first book, Super Crafty: Over 75 Amazing How-To Projects was released last fall. Nguyen is also a co-organizer of Crafty Wonderland, a monthly art and craft sale that takes place in Portland, Oregon’s hip Doug Fir Lounge. And, she is also the designer of custom handbags and accessories under the name of Totinette.
Paula Owen
Paula Owen has been the president of the Southwest School of Art & Craft in San Antonio, Texas since 1996 and was the director of the Hand Workshop Art Center in Richmond, Virginia from 1985-1996. She has served on numerous national boards and panels, including the Visual Arts Panel for the NEA, and has written for the New Art Examiner, American Craft, Metalsmith, Artpapers, and American Ceramics. A book of essays, OBJECTS AND MEANING: New Perspectives on Art and Craft, by Owen and Anna Fariello was published in 2003. Owen has also organized or been the curator of over 100 exhibitions, including MARK LINDQUIST: Revolutions In Wood, which traveled to the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art in 1995. She has also organized regional and national conferences, including Women and the Craft Arts at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1993. She holds an MFA degree in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, a Masters Degree in Art Education from Moorhead State University in Minnesota, and a BA in Art and Political Science from Luther College in Iowa, which awarded her a Distinguished Service Award in 1996.
Leslie Pryzbylek
Leslie Pryzbylek is the Curator of Humanities Exhibitions at the Mid-America Arts Alliance and Project Manager for the MAAA’s NEH on the Road initiative. Prior to her work with MAAA, Pryzbylek was Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Fort Smith Museum of History, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. Her professional focus is building cultural appreciation at the local level, and has included acting as a county representative and treasurer for the Northwestern Pennsylvania Quilt Documentation project and project illustrator for the Arkansas Stories curriculum project. Pryzbylek has an M.A. in Art History with a focus on American Art/Public Sculpture from the University of Delaware, and a B.A. in Art/Art History from Gettysburg College, where she graduated Phi Betta Kappa.
Fran Redmon
Fran Redmon is program director of the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program (KCMP), a division of the Kentucky Arts Council. Since 1987, Fran has directed the activities of this nationally recognized model program that works to develop the state's craft industry. KCMP activities include the award winning annual wholesale/retail show, Kentucky Crafted: The Market, the Product Development Initiative and the Kentucky Collection. She has consulted with numerous states and countries about craft programming, served on numerous interagency government, state and national boards and committees, and is presently on the national advisory council for the Handmade Institute for the Creative Economies. She is presently a member of the CODA board of directors, and is one of the 2005 conference hosts, serving as conference chair.
Jim Romberg
An M.F.A. graduate in ceramics from Claremont and early student of Paul Soldner, Jim Romberg is well known to collectors and academics for his outstanding work in Raku. Even more influential in the world of ceramics is his philosophy and search for significance in art which influenced today’s art leaders attending his 15 years as Director of Ceramics at Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities. Jim’s workshops are well known throughout the US, in France at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts, and Geneva. His work is featured in the permanent collections of Janss Sun Valley, Northern Arizona Museum of Art, Geneva Municipal Art Collection, The Banff Art Center, and the Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics at Scripps College. His work has appeared in numerous publications as an important influence in the development of Raku ceramics, including the independent publication “Ceramics Today: James Romberg” by the International Academy of Ceramics, Switzerland. Jim’s recent retirement from 18 years as Professor Emeritus of Art, Southern Oregon University has led to his Directorship of the Eagleheart Center for Arts and Inquiry, where he has authored and organized this current international “Raku Summit 2005: Origins, Impact and Contemporary Expression”. Jim’s work: “The stretching of clay around volume, around experience, contain activities of the heart, mind, soul and body which are specifically directed toward a sense of time, movement, atmosphere and abstract relations intended to provoke”.
Deborah Smith
Deborah C. Smith is Communications Manager for the American Craft Council. Formerly the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the National Dance Institute (NDI), her experience includes development and execution of national marketing and corporate sponsorship programs, large-scale event management, Web design and fundraising. Smith has presented arts programming at the White House, the Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center, as well as in public schools across the country. As a consultant, Smith has provided valuable guidance in the areas of brand management, marketing and public relations to clients such as California Dance Institute, Theater for the New City, Aspen’s Celebrate the Beat, Blackbird Community Arts Collective, and the Living Theater. Deborah holds a BA in Theater from SUNY Geneseo and is a recent graduate of the Arts & Business Council’s Arts Marketing Associate Degree Program. She sits on the Advisory Council of Blackbird Community Arts Collective and the National Dance Institute.
Dennis Stevens
Dennis Stevens’ research and writings engage the hybrid intersections of art, craft and design while analyzing the triumphs and challenges of craft object makers in their efforts for validation in the art world. As a critic, former object maker and gallery owner, Stevens interprets contemporary art and craft practice with an interdisciplinary perspective and eye toward the future. Stevens received his BFA in Ceramics from Clemson University in South Carolina and will soon complete an MA in Instructional Technology with the School of Education at San Jose State University, where he also works full time as the Ceramics and Glass Technician in the School of Art and Design. He has published articles in several national and international magazines and actively writes about craft issues and educational technology on his blog site: www.RedefiningCraft.com.
Susan Warner
Susan Warner is the Director of Education at the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, in Tacoma, Washington. Warner has developed an education program which partners with many community organizations, is a creative fusion of traditional programming and innovative interdisciplinary initiatives, and meets the many challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Warner has over twenty years of arts administration and museum education experience including extensive curating, collection management, and exhibition development. In 1998 she received the President’s Committee for Arts and Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts Coming Up Taller award for outstanding service to children and youth at risk. Her programs were also recognized by Washington State’s Gold Apple Award for Excellence in Education in 1997, the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World in 2001, and the City of Tacoma’s Art at Work award “for developing powerful and far-reaching education programs for Tacomans of all ages” in 2003.
Namita Gupta Wiggers
Namita Gupta Wiggers, Curator at Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery, is developing the curatorial vision for the museum through expansion and relocation. Wiggers worked in several museums in Houston, taught film studies at Columbia College, Chicago, and conducted research for E-lab, a product design firm. She has published articles on museum education and art, and produced a line of sterling silver jewelry sold through galleries and guild.com. She has forthcoming articles in "Artlies" and "Metalsmith" magazines. Wiggers pursued doctoral studies at The University of Chicago, where she received an MA in Art History. She holds a BA from Rice University, Houston.
Greg Wilbur
Greg Wilbur is a founder and board member of Portland’s Art in the Pearl. Greg has helped promote a number of arts and craft venues including, the Creative Metal Arts Guild in Oregon, Maude Kerns Art Center, and the Artist Holiday Sale in Eugene, Oregon. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Greg is a practicing metalsmith. His work is represented by Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery, Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco, and La Fonsee in Michigan. He has also shown at the ACC Baltimore/San Fran, Smithsonian Crafts Fair, Philadelphia Museum Crafts Fair, Oregon Country Fair, Art Quake, and the Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair.
David Willard
David Willard is director of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts since 2001, with over 25 years experience in visual arts education, university administration, fundraising and community arts leadership. After receiving his MFA he continued his research in glass as a Fulbright Scholar in England. As a community arts advocate he has served as a panelist and juror for many organizations and on the Board of Directors of the TX Assoc. of Schools of Art. He is currently serving as a charter member of the Craft Advisory Council for Handmade Institute for Creative Economies and on the board of the Gatlinburg Gateway Foundation.
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