2009 CODA Conference
CRAFTING PARTNERSHIPS FOR GROWTH: CREATING CONNECTIONS
April 23-26, 2009 • St. Paul, Minnesota
Hosts: American Association of Woodturners
Sponsors: American Craft Council, Minnesota State Arts Board, The Crafts Report, CraftNet, & Handmade at New York International Gift Fair
Dan Alberghetti teaches computer applications, computer networking, and photography at Sheridan College in Sheridan, Wyoming. He led the two-person programming team that helped develop the new CraftNet website, which features online galleries showcasing student and faculty fine handcraft from each CraftNet member college. Over the past 10 years, Dan has taught at the high school, adult school, and college levels. Last year, he started a web design business with a former student who is now his business partner. Their company, 14thStoryDesign, specializes in database-driven website design and management. Dan received his bachelors of arts (BA) from UCLA and his master of fine arts (MFA) from Cal State Long Beach. In his free time, he likes to program and design single-player and multiplayer Flash applications and games, as well as paint and draw.
Lisa Bayne is CEO of The Guild and Artful Home. This position has allowed Lisa to merge her training as a textile artist, her professional 25 year career in specialty multi-channel retailing for brands including J. Jill, Gymboree, and Eddie Bauer, and her personal passion for art. Helping hundreds and hundreds of supremely talented artists market their work to a greater art-loving public in a changing retail environment is her daily mission, with the online opportunities growing and requiring flexibility on everyone’s part – buyers, sellers, marketers. Lisa is also a self-described serial knitter.
About Artful Home: Tagline: Art for Life. For Home. For Ever.
Our Mission: To use the power of the Internet to
Help artists make a living creating their artwork
Offer consumers easy access to a broad and fine selection of original art.
We Believe: in the importance of art in our daily lives; that individually designed and crafted objects stir the soul and connect the maker and user; that art is highly personal.
Susie Burch is the Director of Economic Development and Continuing Education at Flathead Valley Community College. Previously she acquired 20 years of small business management experience as owner of the tour boat concession in Glacier National Park. She has a geology degree from Rice University and spent her early career prospecting for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico, conducting field surveys in central Texas, and researching Antarctica’s geologic past.
Susie is a past board chair of the local chamber of commerce and has been active in numerous other civic activities. She is married and has two splendid daughters.
Robert Donnan is a community and economic development consultant who manages focused, ongoing learning groups in a variety of settings, including face-to-face meetings, site visits, workshops, and facilitated distance learning. He currently serves as the facilitator for the CraftNet, a learning and innovation network of community colleges and technical schools in North America, Europe, and South Africa that teach artisan-based workforce development skills, and for the Media Arts Alliance, a parallel network of community colleges that teach skills in the digital media arts, such as filmmaking, animation, music production, and graphic design. Robert also is an award-winning writer and multimedia producer. Over the past 20 years, he has held senior positions with the Aspen Institute and the Southern Growth Policies Board.
Dr. Cindy Kittredge was born and raised on a ranch that lies along the banks of the Missouri River outside of Cascade, MT. She currently serves as the Folk Arts and Market Development Specialist for the Montana Arts Council. Cindy previously served for as the Executive Director of a regional history museum and then created and directed the Creative Arts Enterprise Program at Montana State University-Great Falls. She has 30 years experience in the field of education, having taught on both the high school and college level.
Cindy also does private consulting in writing, grantsmanship, and entrepreneurship. She received her BA from the University of Montana, her MA from Arizona State University, and a doctorate from Montana State University. She also attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, has done post graduate work in anthropology and museology, and received entrepreneurship training from the Sirolli Institute.
Robert L. Mitchum,
Business and Agriculture Division Chair--Arkansas State University-Beebe
Assistant Professor of Business--Arkansas State University-Beebe
Visiting Instructor of Real Estate--University of Central Arkansas
Real Estate Instructor for over thirty years
Past President Arkansas College Teachers of Economics and Business
Past Chair of Arkansas College Teachers of Economics and Business Executive Committee
Current Member of Arkansas College Teachers of Economics and Business Executive Committee
Former Executive Director of White River Regional Housing Authority
Former President of Mitchum, Thompson, Belon-a real estate appraisal firm
Former Director/Administrator of Century 21 Real Estate Academy of Arkansas
Craig Nutt is the Director of Programs for the Craft Emergency Relief Fund. He has served as Interim Executive Director of the Tennessee Association of Craft artists and on the boards of the Furniture Society, CERF, and many local and regional arts organizations. He currently serves on the He currently serves on the Artists’ Council of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN and the board of Tennesseans for the Arts.
As a studio furniture maker and sculptor, he is known for his vegetable-inspired work that is included in numerous collections including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, The High Museum of Art, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Mobile Museum of Art, and the Tennessee State Museum.
Dr. Stuart A. Rosenfeld is founder and principal of Regional Technology Strategies, Inc. located in Carrboro, North Carolina. He previously served as deputy director of the Southern Growth Policies Board and founded and directed the Southern Technology Council. His areas of interest include collaborative and cluster based economic development, workforce development, and creative economies. He started and manages a number of international alliances of community colleges, including CraftNet. Prior to joining Southern Growth, he was a Senior Associate at the National Institute of Education. Before that he worked for the General Electric Company and later directed a private school in Vermont. He has published more than 100 books, chapters, and articles and has advised, served on, or testified before various panels and committees of the U.S. Congress, National Academy of Sciences, and OECD. Over the past five years he has led or participated in creative economy studies for Arkansas, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, Wyoming, and Washington, DC. Rosenfeld has an Ed.D. in Education Planning, Social Policy, and Administration from Harvard University and a B.S. cum laude in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2004 he received a Lifetime Achievement award by The Competitiveness Institute in Barcelona.
Tracy S. Michaud Stutzman, Ph.D. is a native of rural Maine. As Executive Director of The Maine Highlands Artisan Guild she received State and National recognition as the winner of the 2003 National Social Venture Competition and as the author of a Middle School curriculum “Teaching Sense of Place through the Arts”. Tracy sat on Maine’s Governor’s Council for the Creative Economy and the Governor’s Council on Quality of Place. She is a leader in the Realize!Maine Youth Initiative, on the board of the Maine Arts Commission and the Maine Association of Non-profits. In 2005 she was chosen for Maine Biz magazine’s “NEXT” list. In 2007 she won the Governors Award for CDBG Administrator of the Year. As the current Executive Director of the Maine Crafts Association, Tracy oversaw the development of the Center for Maine Craft and an Associates Degree in Traditional and Contemporary Craft in the Maine Community College system. Tracy is an adjunct professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine and represents Maine at the National Center for Civic Education. She is involved in her community on the board of directors of the Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft, as a member of the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council, and as a singer/musician in the Doughty Hill Band.
CODA BOARD OF DIRECTORS and peer session moderators
Julia Daily, a native Mississippian, received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi. During her very varied career, she served as an educator, strategic planner, administrator and public relations and marketing director. She is the co-promoter of Handworks, a 26-year-old arts and crafts gift show, was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, an open-air arts, crafts and farmers’ market, the Public Relations Director of Millsaps College; Investor Relations Director of a publicly traded company; and the Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education. She is active in many local and statewide organizations and she is the Executive Director of the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi where she works with approximately 400 talented crafts people in the state of Mississippi and operates the Mississippi Craft Center.
Tim Glotzbach has served as the Director of the Berea College Student Craft Program since August of 2007. Prior to his position at Berea College, Tim was Dean of Heritage & Humanities at Hazard Community & Technical College and Founding Dean and Director of the Kentucky School of Craft in Hindman, KY. Tim spent 21 years as Professor of Art at Eastern Kentucky University and has over 30 years of experience as an art professor, administrator and consultant for arts-related economic development. He serves on both national and regional arts organization boards. Tim is a past CODA Board Chair and currently serves as Secretary.
Cheryl Hartley, General Manager of Tamarack: The Best of West Virginia, a passionate advocate for economic development through the arts. Ms Hartley has more than 20 years of experience in non-profit administration and development, retail management, education, public service, tourism, and hospitality, and currently serves as board chair of the Craft Organization Development Association (CODA). She is currently working on several West Virginia initiatives in an advocacy role for developing creative communities and promoting West Virginia-made products. Additionally, she was instrumental in the start-up of the Tamarack Foundation, which provides programs that benefit West Virginia artisans.
Cheryl has been with Tamarack for nine years and holds a BA in anthropology from Temple University. Before coming to Tamarack, she worked for six years as Director of Artist Services for the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) in New Mexico and later served on SWAIA’s board of directors. Tamarack: The Best of West Virginia is an economic development project of the West Virginia Parkways Authority, formed in the mid-1990s. Under Cheryl’s guidance, Tamarack has since developed a national reputation as a lighthouse project for economic development.
Mary Lacer was introduced to woodturning in 1980 and has turned more than 100 different kinds of domestic and exotic woods.
Mary has given numerous demonstrations for students, exhibited woodturnings in galleries, written articles for magazines and served as a Woodturning Assistant for Classes at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, ME. and Marc Adams School of Woodworking.
Mary was founder of the Minnesota Woodturners Association in January, 1987 which has grown to over 265 members. Mary was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Woodturners and has been Administrator and Executive Director over the past 19 years. AAW is an international organization with over 13,000 members. After AAW’s move to Landmark Center in August, 2004 the Association has a gallery consisting of 2,400 square feet. There are 3 – 6 rotating exhibits each year some of which are traveling venues. Mary is now working with numerous galleries and museums around the country to set up exhibits and educate the public about woodturning and also to introduce woodturning to students of all ages.
Steve Loar began his work at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2005 as Director of the Center for Turning and Furniture Design. He is also Faculty in the Department of Art, teaching Three-dimensional Design. Steve is widely recognized as one of the primary innovators in the development of the field of contemporary woodturning. As such, his artwork is in major public and private collections throughout the United States, and is featured in over 30 books and texts. Prior to his work at IUP, Steve retired as a Professor from RIT after 25 years of university teaching and administrative positions. He is past Director of RIT's School of Art, School of Design, and School for American Crafts, having previously been the Chair of the School for American Crafts.
Carolyn Patterson, Director of the Illinois Artisans Program, Illinois State Museum. Serving as Vice-Chair of CODA
Nancy O’Meara, Executive Director and Craft Show Manager for The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Women’s Committee is a not-for-profit, volunteer organization committed to furthering interest in and support of the Museum by producing events intended to raise funds. Responsible for the management of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, a nationally renowned, juried show and sale of contemporary crafts. Accountable for all phases of show management including operations, budgeting, administration, personnel, marketing and long range planning.
Education: B.A. University of Pittsburgh. Other interests and associations: Board member, Wissahickon Educational Opportunities Foundation and Member, Mattison Avenue Home & School
Linda Van Trump, Managing Director of CODA since 2001. Over 30 years experience in the crafts field beginning as a jeweler and leather worker, wholesaling and marketing at craft shows. From 1987-1999, she was exec. dir. of the Arkansas Craft Guild, a 300 member marketing cooperative, with 5 retail outlets and 3 annual craft fairs. 1999-2004 worked as a consultant for nonprofit organizational development.
Appointed to the Arkansas State Arts Council 1989 through 2005; serving as Chair for two years. She is a member of the Mid-America Arts Alliance Board of Directors since 2002, one of the six regional arts organizations serving each of the 50 states, (supported by the NEA).
She has worked with the Clinton White House (on the Collection of Crafts and the Year of American Craft), the Smithsonian Institute, three Governors of Arkansas, the Secretary of State (to begin a Christmas craft show at the State Capitol), Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (starting a catalog & a craft/trade show), the USDA Cooperative Extension Service (Wash. D.C.) used membership, board of directors and employee handbooks of policies and programs produced by Van Trump as a model in their training programs.
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 on the boards of the Gatlinburg Gateway Foundation, Tennesseans for the Arts and the Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission.