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Sue Amendolara was born in Youngstown, in 1963. She received a BFA degree from Miami University in 1985 and an MFA degree from Indiana University in 1988. Currently, she lives in Edinboro, PA and is Head of at Edinboro University. She received Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Fellowships in 2003, 1999, 1994 and a Mid- Atlantic/NEA in 1995. Her work has been exhibited in "The Art of Gold" and Mobilia Gallery's "The Ring." Her work has been collected by The , The Carnegie Museum and The Collection of Crafts.

Diane A. Archer, born 1954, Akron, Ohio. She received a BFA from the University of Akron and an MFA from Kent State University. A residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology took her to Oregon in 1999. She currently lives on the Oregon coast. Diane explores emotional and physical concepts of place in a variety of formats, including jewelry, mixed media assemblage and installation. Her work is primarily composed of and paper maps, drawings and found objects. Her work has appeared in SNAG Exhibition In Print and has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country.

Pamela Argentieri, born in 1964 in Shaker Heights, Ohio, received a BFA in Jewelry & Metals from Institute of Art in 1987. She was awarded the first Agnes Gund Scholarship for international travel. Pamela designs jewelry and metalwork as an independent artist and has been faculty at Cleveland Institute of Art since 2002. Her work is shown nationally; it is held in the collection of the Renwick Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and the Ohio Crafts Museum.

Kenneth Bates, born 1904, North Scituate, MA., deceased 1993. : Bachelor of Science, 1926, Mass. School of Art. Attended Fontainebleu School of Fine Arts, France, 1931 and Berkshire School of Art, 1927. Employment: Cleveland Institute of Art, 40 years, first teacher in enameling. Selected Exhibitions: "Objects USA" 1969, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC; Brussels Worlds Fair, 1959. Grants and awards: Horace Potter Silver Medal for Excellence in Craftsmanship, 1949, 1957, 1966; Visual Arts Award, City of Cleveland, 1963. Collections: , Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, University of Notre Dame, Wichita Art Museum. Publications: "The Enamelist," Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967; "Basic Design: Principles and Practice," Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1951.

Jane D. Benjamin received her BFA in Metals from the Cleveland Art Institute in 1995.She teaches jewelry and metalsmithing at the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA and the Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT.Her conceptual sculptural work has been influenced by time in Japan and extensive travel in Asia.She combines natural materials with the integrity of metals to explore ideas. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of ART & Design, NYC. She has been awarded a Professional Development Grant from the MA Cultural Council (2002) and numerous juror's awards. Jane is an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient.

Christina Baitz Brandwie, born 1954, received her BFA from the College of Mt.St Joseph's, in Cincinnati, OH and then her masters degree in metals from Miami University in 1980. She is a self employed Art Jeweler/Metalsmith. She was adjunct professor, College of Mt. St. Joseph 1979-89. She exhibits regularly. Recently she participated in "Master Craft Works" College of Mt. St. Joseph, OH; Best of Ohio, 2001; "Annual Fine Crafts Exhibit", Crafts Guild of Cincinnati.

Kathleen Browne received her BFA from San Diego State University (Metalsmithing) in 1983 and her MFA (Metalsmithing) in 1986 from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. She has taught at Kent State University from 1992 to the present; she is Professor of Jewelry, Metals and Enameling, Undergraduate and Graduate Faculty. She has been visiting artist, presenter, lecturer and critic numerous times and places, an active member of the Board of the Society of North American , member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Metalsmith magazine and co-chair of the upcoming 2005 SNAG Conference, Cleveland. She has received numerous grants and artist fellowships: in 2000, she participated in a 2 month residency in the Czech Republic through support from the Ohio Arts Council and the Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art. She has been published numerous times in periodicals and catalogues. She exhibits nationally and internationally: at SOFA, New York and Chicago; in "Schmuck 2003", Munich, Germany; "The Ring Exhibition" 2001 traveling to Ruthin Wales; "Attitude & Action: North American Figurative Jewelry", Birmingham, England and Dublin, Ireland, 2000. Her unique work celebrates and comments on social imagery and jewelry history by employing dramatic images frozen in time and appropriated from magazine stories, then converted into enamel decals- "dated" pop culture portraits exploiting portrait miniatures- and addressing affordable jewels available to the broader public. Kathleen is an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient.

Kathy Buszkiewicz received a BS from Ball State University, Muncie, IN in 1975; she received a MFA in Jewelry/Metalsmithing in 1980 from Indiana University, Bloomington IN. She has been affiliated with Cleveland Institute of Art since 1983 as Professor of Jewelry and Metals. She has received numerous grants from the Ohio Arts Council, the Murphy Foundation, the Lilly Foundation and the Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art Faculty Grant. She has exhibited broadly in Ohio and nationally, most recently in "The Art of Gold", a three year travelling show; "At Arms Length" Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan, "Charmed Lives: Jewelry As Memento" Facere Jewelry Art, Seattle, WA; "The Ring", Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA and travelling venues; "Material Wealth" Kipp Gallery, IUP, Indiana, PA. She has been published extensively in Metalsmith magazine, American Craft, Sculptural Concerns: Contemporary American /CD-ROM and numerous catalogue essays. She has lectured, presented slides and been a visiting artist and juror many times as well. Her unique work focuses on the ideas of 'value' -exploring issues of materialism, environmentalism, commodities exchange, status, economics and spiritual and cultural values.

Catherine Butler was born in 1958 in Cleveland, OH. She holds a BFA in jewelry and metalsmithing from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her primary focus is jewelry, hand fabricated from sterling silver,, gold and non-precious metals. She is the recipient of two Individual Artists Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council. Her work has been included in numerous exhibition catalogs and in the book THE ART OF JEWELRY DESIGN by Deborah Krupenia, an in-depth survey of 20 American jewelers. In 2001 she was a finalist for the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder's Prize given by The Society for Contemporary Craft. Her work has been included in the following exhibitions: MIKROMEGAS (currently travelling around the world), CHARMED LIVES, JEWELS FROM PAINTING, TIARAS WILL BE WORN, ATTITUDE and ACTION: North American Figurative Jewelry, and COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS / TROPHIES: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY among others. Butler resides in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

. Jessica Calderwood Born in Cleveland, 1978 Currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona Shereceived her undergraduate degree from The Cleveland Institute of Art, with an emphasis in enameling. Coming from a painting background, enameling became an extension of that tradition. Soon after graduation, Jessica began a three month residency with Kohler’s Arts / program as the first artist to focus on enameling cast iron. In 2002, Jessica began graduate school at Arizona State University, where she is currently finishing her degree.Jessica’s work has been seen on the cover of Metalsmith Magazine’s Exhibition in Print, as well as Aaron Gallery’s SOFA New York exhibition Focus on Enamels.

Sofia Calderwood earned a BA in Design specializing in Silversmithing and jewelry at the Glasgow School of Art, 1993, Scotland, and a MFA, in 2000, at Kent State University. She has been adjunct professor in enameling and jewelry for several programs at CIA, Cleveland, Kent State and University of Akron. She has taught numerous workshops at Kent State. She has exhibited in diverse shows including Charmed Lives: Jewelry As Memento, Facere Jewelry Art, Seattle; Rings-12 Designers, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Jewelry: Hard & Soft, The Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA and The Best of Ohio 2000, The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH. She has been in print in Metalsmith magazine, Metalsmith Exhibition In Print 2000, and the upcoming 1000 Rings, Lark Books, 2004.

Susan Lovell Campbell currently resides in Little Rock, Arkansas. Born in 1975, she grew up in Detroit, Michigan. After finishing a BFA in photography and metalsmithing/jewelry design at Miami University, she earned an MFA in metalsmithing and jewelry design from Indiana University at Bloomington. Susan has participated in both SOFA Chicago and SOFA New York with the Yaw Gallery as well exhibitions at the Decorative Arts Museum and Arkansas Arts Center both in Little Rock. She currently runs her own design and manufacture business named Revelious Design Studio specializing in custom adornment for both the body and the home.

Katy Bergman Cassell “In my recent work in enamel, Islamic tile motifs become metaphors for the way in which culture is cyclically built and eroded. I integrate imagery that refers to the losses incurred by patterns of conflict.” Born 1975, lives in Akron, OH. She maintains an active studio and teaches enameling the Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA 1998) and Kent State University (MFA 2004). She was recently included in: Metalsmith Magazine’s Exhibition in Print 2003; the book The Art of Enameling: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration by Linda Darty; and exhibitions “Rising Stars”, Studio Fusion, London; “25th Annual Contemporary Crafts”, Mesa, AZ; and “bigLITTLE”, Oakland, CA.

Cynthia Cetlin earned an MFA in Metalsmithing at SUNY, New Paltz in 1983. She has been Professor of Art, Ohio Wesleyan University from 1987 to the present.She received 2 grants for research in Mexican craft and precious metals/mixed media from the Thomas E. Wenzlau Grant program in 97-98 and 99-00, consecutively. Her exhibition experience is national, including The Arsenal Metals & Enamels Exhibition 2004, Columbus, OH; The Best of Ohio 2003, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus; Craft USA 2002, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT and Metal Departures, the Society of Mid-West Metalsmiths, St Louis, MO. Her jewelry is figurative, introspective and reflects delight in material exploration.

Danielle Crissman BFA from Bowling Green U, Bowling Green, OH 1999. MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 2003.Crissman is a metalsmith working in , bronze and sterling silver. She has exhibited in "Formed To Function" Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI; "Craft Works Regional" South Bend Regional Museum, IN;"Hard and Soft Materials" Texas; "La Petite XI, Oregon. She has demonstrated for the Detroit Institute of Arts, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids CC, and Murray State University. She demonstrated coppersmithing for Modern Marvels: "Metals" broadcast on the History Channel.

Vicki S. Daiello, Delaware, Ohio; born 2/1/64. Education: BFA; Ohio Wesleyan University, 1999. MA; Art Education, The Ohio State University, 2004. Presently in PhD program; Art Education, The Ohio State University. Daiello creates sculpture, texts, and jewelry. Her work combines and computer processes to explore relationships of technology, memory, and affective experience. Exhibitions and awards include: Ohio Craft Museum juried exhibitions, 1999, 2000, 2002. Treasures for the Tree Governor¹s Award, 2001. Selected ornament artist, White House Christmas Tree, 2002. Arts Council Lake Erie West Award, Ohio Arts Council Award, Metals, 2003. Created Ohio Governor¹s Youth Art Award, 2003

Donna D'Aquino was born in Newburgh, New York in 1965. She received her BS in Design in 1989 from the State University College of New York at Buffalo and her MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from Kent State University in 1996. Her current work is based primarily on line and the act of . Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Recently it has been included in "New Talent in Craft II" at the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine, Wisconsin and "Collect" at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Donna received an Individual Ohio Arts Council Grant in 2002 and an Emerging Artist Grant from the in 2003. . Marilyn daSilva, born in Akron, OH, earned her BFA in Art Education at Bowling Green University in 1974. She earned an MFA in Jewelry Design/Metalsmithing at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN in 1977. She taught jewelry and metals at Bowling Green University from 1978-87. She is Professor and Program Chair of Jewelry/Metal Arts Department at California College of Arts, Oakland, CA.since 1988. Her work is based on telling stories through imagery and representational elements. Her trademark surface treatment of gesso and colored pencil creates a rich palette for her sculpture and wearable pieces. Her work has been displayed nationally and internationally, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Her work is represented in various public and private collections, in books and in catalogues.She was honored by being selected "Master Metalsmith 1999" by the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, TE.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1946, Jaclyn Davidson studied art education, metals, and enameling at Kent State University, Ohio earning a B.A. in Art Education and an M. A. in Metals and Enameling. Jaclyn Davidson’s work is exhibited at some of the most prestigious art shows in the country including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Craft Exposition in Evanston, Illinois, Craft America shows in Washington, D.C., Westchester, NY and Palm Beach, FL. Jaclyn’s work has won awards of distinction, merit and design and most recently won “Best of Show” at the 2003 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. Jaclyn creates lost-wax cast and enameled jewelry in 18 k gold in her studio in Vermont. Inspiration for many of Jaclyn’s pieces comes from myths, legends and history of various cultures

Helen Elizabeth Elliott, Baltimore, MD, DOB: 8/31/48. 1975 B.Ed Froebel Institute, London, UK: Major, Early Childhood Education 1997. MFA, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio: Major, Metals/Enamels. Contemporary /porcelain enamel on steel panels suitable for interior or exterior spaces (private and public art) 1998 Recipient of Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship, 2002 Solo Show, Parish Gallery, Georgetown, Washington, DC, 2003. 1% Public Art Commission for Lakeland Elementary/Middle School, Baltimore, Maryland. Publications: 2002 The Art of Fine Enameling, Publisher Sterling Publishing Company, Inc, New York, 2002 The Art of Prior's Court School, Book on Fine and Applied Art Collection, Publisher, Bohum Gallery, Designer Mark Thompson of Design International, West Sussex, UK. 2003 Exhibition in Print 2003, Enamel: A Current Perspective, Society of North American Goldsmiths, 2004 International Art Enamels, Elizabeth Turrell, London, UK. Helen Elliott Exhibits in the USA, UK, Canada and Jamaica

Chuck Evans, Hamilton, GA., BFA and MFA, School For American Crafts(RIT), author of the text "Jewelry: Contemporary Design And Technique". Evans taught for 30 years and is now professor emeritus He was faculty at Bowling Green University from 1972-78. He has exhibited work in approx. 300 exhibitions in this country and abroad and directed nearly 100 technical workshops. Photos of his work and written technical contributions are published in 15 books. His work is held in many private and public collections some of which are; Davenport Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Toledo Museum, Temple B'nai Jeshurun, John Sloan collection, Barbara Rockefeller, Mary Boone and Yamananashi Prefectural Govt., Japan.

Susan Ewing received a BA in 1976 and an MFA in 1980 from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. She taught at Miami University in Ohio from 1981-83 and then from 1984 to the present.She was named Professor in 1991.Her work has achieved much recognition here and abroad: she received Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 from Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Columbus, OH; Fulbright Senior Lecturing Scholar, The Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, Prague 1997-99; Guest Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1988. She exhibits widely, having had several one person exhibitions in Ohio and the Czech Republic, for one "Aggressive Solutions: The Metalwork of Susan Ewing, 1980- 1995" which travelled internationally. She created "Konvergence" a sculpture with Vratislav K. Novak, which continues to travel. Group shows, in the US and Prague include "Hammered & Forged" an exhibition she also curated celebrating 25 years of Metals at Miami University; "The Commemorative Cup" travelling exhibition; "Makers & Shakers" travelling exhibition; "Artisans in Silver: The Vase" the National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, TN. Her works are in public and private collections; she is the owner/designer of Interalia Design, Oxford, OH from 1984-present and a partner in Studio SEVN, Oxford, OH and Prague, Czech republic, 2003-present. Her design imperative is to challenge and tweek the history of table objects with a narrative wisdom, to contrast wicked and beautiful elements, to juxtapose the familiar with the new.

Julie Flanigan Hill received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1990 and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Towson University in 1993. She has been living in London, England since 1996 where she maintains a studio and taught jewelry making for five years at South Thames College. Her recent jewelry collection is based on simple, organic oval forms. The silver and gold have subtle textures and are combined with nylon line. Julie was born in 1968 and is the mother of two boys aged 5 and 2.

Gretchen Goss, born 1955, earned a BFA (1978) and an MFA (1982) from Kent State University. She is Associate Professor and has been Head of the Enameling Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art since 1989. She has had numerous residencies and visiting artist positions including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, and the Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX. She has received 2 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Grants.She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including "Color & Light: International Indian Enamel Exhibition," National Handicraft Museum, New Dehli, India; "Fired With Color- Focus On Contemporary Jewelley," The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; at Studio Fusion, OXO Tower, London, UK; and "Ohio Metals: a Legacy," a touring exhibition funded by the OH Arts Council and the NEA. She has received awards of recognition: Craftsboston, Best In Show '02, Rolex Award For Excellence in Metals, the Philadelphia Craft Show and a purchase award from the Butler Institute of American Art. Her work is in the collections of University Hospitals, Cleveland, University of Michigan College of Business Administration, Ann Arbor and the Cleveland Arts Association.

Elissa Graff has exhibited in many group exhibitions including “La Petite”, “Greater Midwest International”, “Manifestations: Form and Function”, “Contemporary Works of Faith”, “Containment”, and “Hammered and Forged: Twenty-five Years of Miami Metalsmiths”. She obtained a BFA from Miami University and a MFA from the University of Kansas. She resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and teaches at Appalachian State University. Graff’s current work draws upon historical and archetypical models of containers for functional and spiritual purposes. Her designs derive from both plant and animal forms. She most recently completed a large-scale water feature commission for a Japanese restaurant.

Harold L. Hasselschwert, born 1930, deceased June 5, 1990. Education Master of Arts, 1959, Bowling Green State University, OH.Bachelor of Science, 1958, Bowling Green State University. Professor of Art, Bowling Green State University, 1959-1990. Selected Exhibitions: "National Metals Invitational," 1984, McFall Gallery, Bowling Green University; "Findlay Art Auction," 1984, Findlay, Ohio; "Looking Forward and Looking Back: The Allure of Metals," 1983, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humbolt State University, Arcata, CA; "Enamels Today," 1982, the Northwest Craft Center and Gallery, Seattle, WA; "Intimate Works," 1982, Lima Art Association, Lima, Ohio; "Third National Metals Invitational", 1981, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humbolt State University; "Toledo Area Artists Exhibition," 1980, Toledo Museum of Art, OH; "Images of Self," 1980, McFall Gallery, Bowling Green State University. Grants and awards: Fullbright Fellow, Government College of Arts & Crafts, Lucknow, India, 1960-1.

Jon Havener has a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, 1973, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1975. He has taught metalsmithing and jewelry in the Design Department at the University of Kansas since 1977. His work is included in many public collections, including, the City of Lawrence, KS, the City of Manhatten, KS, A&M University, The University of Nebraska, Omaha and the US Comptroller of Currency, Kansas City, MO. He has received numerous awards- an NEA in sculpture in 1985, 5 research awards from the University of Kansas, 1998 Kansas Artists Fellowship in Sculpture and in 2000, an invitation by the Finnish Arts Council Artist Residency, Helsinki, .

Betty Heald, born 1947, attended University of Nebraska, BFA 1969 and Utah Stae University, MFA in sculpture 1976. She was faculty in metals and jewelry at Ohio Wesleyan 1975-86. In her studio work, she strives to capture the fragile quality of plant forms, using soft wax to leave the surfaces irregular. The forms are electroformed in copper and the color is developed with layers of pigmented epoxy.The skeleton/stem of the piece is fabricated from silver sheet and wire. Her most recent exhibition participation is in "Two Capitals-Contemporary Jewelry" Museum of Decorative & Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia. She is a featured artist in Resin Jewelry, a book by Kathie Murphy (2002.)

Matthew Hollern was born in Madison, WI in 1964. He earned a BS, majoring in Art and French at U of Wisconsin- Madison. In his junior year he lived in Aix-en-Provence, France where he attended the Universite Aix-Marseille and studied blacksmithing. In 1989 he received an MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from Tyler School of Art, Temple U, Philadelphia. He has received grants from SNAG, the Lilly Foundation and 2 individual artists grants from the Ohio Arts Council. His work has been exhibited thoughout the US and is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery, The Vatican, The Ohio Crafts Museum, Alcatel-Sprint and the Tyler School of Art. In 2001, he was featured metalsmith in a video, The Art of Craft: Metal, produced by the Renwick Gallery. Matthew Hollern is an Associate Professor of Jewelry and Metals and Dean of the Craft Environment at the Cleveland Institute of Art where he has taught jewelry and metalwork since 1989.

Lauralee Hutson , Born 4/20/52, Education: BS pre med science, BFA metals and jewelry My style is sculptural and focuses on form as juxtaposed to function. I enjoy challenging perceptions surrounding functional objects and may also layer objects with tongue in cheek wit. Exhibitions: Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, 2003; 2004 Smithsonian Museum fund-raising auction; 2004 Metals and Enameling Exhibition, Columbus Cultural Arts and various shows since 2002. In addition, I have several pieces in a nationally recognized private collection.

Amanda Butler Kolar , Residence: Northern Kentucky /Greater Cincinnati Area , Born: July 1975 ; BFA 1997 Miami University Oxford, Ohio; MFA 1999 Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio. Selected Exhibitions & Honors : 2003 Hammered and Forged: Twenty-five Years of Miami Metalsmiths, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio; Charmed Lives: Narratives of Personal Wisdom, Facere Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Solo Exhibition, The Carnegie Art Center, Covington, Kentucky. Awards and Recognition: 2000 Ohio Arts Council Individual Art Fellowship Grant Recipient, Visual Arts Category. American Craft Magazine, ‘Portfolio’, December 1999/ January 2000

Robin Kraft received a BA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1978 and an MFA from Kent State in 1991. She is currently Associate Professor of Art at Purdue University, having lectured and instructed at University of Akron and Kent State. She exhibits widely, most currently in "National Metal Art Invitational: Vessels & Jewelry", Montgomery College, Rockville, MD; "The Arsenal Metals and Enamel Show" Columbus Cultural Center, Columbus, OH, "The Teapot Redefined" Mobilia Gallery, SOFA Chicago and the "MId-States Craft Exhibition", Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, IN. Her work is included permanent collections- the Celestial Seasonings collection, the Evansville Museum, the Wichita Center For The Arts and Kent State University. Her work has been reviewed and reproduced in numerous publications and catalogues; she was juried into Metalsmith EXHIBITION IN PRINT 2001. She ingeniously uses the teapot form as a starting point for personal stories about the midwest landscape and commentary on social and cultural events.

Amy Kreiling is a metalsmith and jeweler who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Born in 1969 in Cleveland, OH she recieved her MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 1997. Her wire constructed jewelry piceces are inspired by the geometric qualities of and schematic drawings. Her work has been included in "A Closer Look², a group show of contemporary jewelry at the James Howe Fine Arts Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ as well as group faculty shows at the Craft Student's League and the 92nd St. Y in New York.

Sarah Krisher, of Warren, Ohio was born on June 17, 1979. Sarah graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2002. Throughout her education at the Institute, she received many merit-based scholarships. She won one of six traveling scholarships awared to graduating BFA exhibitors who demonstrate artistic excellence, which is the Institute’s highest artistic honor. Sarah’s use of enamel is often used in two-dimensional wall work as well as contemporary jewelry. Examples of her work was published in the 2003 exhibition in print, “Enamel: A Current Perspective”, in Metalsmith magazine. Sarah’s enamels can also be seen in the book, The Art of Enameling, by Linda Darty, published in 2004.

David LaPlantz, born in Toledo, OH, received a BA from Bowling Green University in 1966, where he studied with Hal Hasselschwert. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI, in 1969. He has taught in metals programs across the country, including Kent State in 1977-78 and Humbolt State University, Arcata, CA from 1971-2002. He has been an active metalsmith making both jewelry and small sculpture. His work asks questions of history and current events- political and social topics of note and news in the entertainment industry. His recent palette incorporates found objects to enhance the witty stories he tells. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. He has written Artists Anodizing Aluminum, The Sulfuric Acid Process and co-edited Jewelry/Metalwork Survey 1991, #2 and #3 with his wife, Shereen.

Rebekah Laskin, born 1955, earned her BFA from SUNY New Paltz. She taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1987-89. Her recent exhibitions include "Metal Under Glass" SMSU Art + Design Gallery, Springfield, MO; "50 Years of Studio Jewelry" Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA; "Masterworks Invitational" Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; "Modern Enamel Masters" Aaron Faber Gallery, NYC. Her works are in the collections of the Renwick Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Oslo Museum of Art and the Wustum Museum.

Terrence Lavin received a BS in Studio Art at Skidmore College in 1994 and an MFA from Bowling Green University in 1996. He has been Assistant Professor at Southern Connecticut University, New Haven, CT from 2000 to the present. He exhibits widely: in "8th Int'l Shoebox Sculpture", University of Hawaii and travelling; "Foreign & Domestic", Invited Artist, Artspace, New Haven, CT; "Metals Invitational" Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN. He has been awarded numerous grants and included in publications, including American Craft, and exhibition catalogues.

Keith Lewis, born 1959, Bellefonte, PA. He received a BS in Chemistry from Dickinson College, in 1981 and his MFA in Jewelry/Metalsmithing in 1993 from Kent State University. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at Central Washington University, where he has taught since 1994. He exhibits frequently in national and international shows including several solo exhibitions at Susan Cummings Gallery, Mill Valley, CA. “Her Story/HisStory” with Kathleen Browne at Akron Art Museum, OH; “Corporal Identity/Body Language” 9th Triennial for Form and Content USA and Germany, exhibited at the Museum of Art & Design, NYC; “ATTITUDE & ACTION: North American Figurative Jewelry,” Birmingham, England and Dublin, Ireland; New Times, New Thinking: Jewelry In Europe and America” touring exhibition. He lectures, writes and currently is a Directing Board Member of SNAG. His work deals with issues of sexual identity, loss, memory and the notion of jewelry as a transportable polemic. It was the subject of a recent article in Metalsmith.

Ana M. Lopez, of Alexandria, Virginia, was born in New York in 1974. Having earned a BFA from Miami University of Ohio and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, she was an assistant professor at Adams State College for three years. Ana is currently working on her Masters degree in the History of American Decorative Arts. Her metal work is primarily sculptural, -formed hybrids with organic and industrial references. Recent exhibitions include a 2002 solo show, Hybrids and Hardware, at Southwest Missouri State, and in 2001, an honorable mention at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Cheongju-city, Korea.

Tara Mackintosh, born October 3, 1969, currently lives and works as a studio artist in rural New Galilee Pennsylvania. She Attended The Cleveland Institute of Art where she received a BFA in enameling and later attended Arizona State University where she received an MFA in metalsmithing. Tara’s artwork is primarily created using copper enamel techniques. Most recent exhibitions of work include the faculty exhibition at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg Tennessee, The Jeweled Garden at Lill Street Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, A Solo exhibition at the Lill Street Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, Metal Departures in St. Louis, Missouri and Contemporary American Enamels, a traveling exhibition sponsored by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, Arizona.

Thomas Scott Madden, Temperance, Michigan. 10/11/58, Master of Fine Art, Bowling Green State University, Bachelor of Fine Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Hollowware and Jewelry: , Copper and Sterling Silver with various accented metals and materials. Exhibitions: 2004- Basket SOFA New York Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan. 2003- Jewelry+Objects, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Detroit Design, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan, 2002- Emergent: Solo Exhibition of Mixed-metal Vases, Wearley Studio Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan. Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, Ohiio, First Place Award

Kelly Malec-Kosak (b. 1970) resides in Columbus OH, where she is an assistant professor of Sculpture at Columbus College of Art and Design. She works sculpturally with fabrication and techniques. Her work has been exhibited nationally in solo and group shows at Kendall College of Art and Design, SOFA in New York (through Yaw Gallery), the Carnegie Center, and the Appalachian Center for Crafts. She was awarded an individual artist grant from the city of Cincinnati, and received her MFA from California College of the Arts, and her BFA from Miami University.

John C. Marshall, born 1936, received a BFA in Silversmithing and Design at Cleveland Institute of Art in 1965 and an MFA from the School of Art, Syracuse University in 1967. He taught at Syracuse and then went, in 1970, to the University of Washington, Seattle, where he became Professor from 1975-2001. His work is in many public and museum collections including the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; the Chicago Art Institute, IL; the Museum Of Art & Design, NYC; the Mukhina School of Art and Design, St Petersburg, Russia; the National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, TN; the Renwick Gallery, DC and the Yale University Silver Collection, New Haven, CT. He has received many awards and one- man shows. His work has appeared in many publications, including a major one man exhibition and catalogue "John Marshall, Metalsmith, Works From 1991-97" at the Henry Art Gallery, the University of Washington.

James Mazurkewicz received a BFA in Metals from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1967. He studied with three distinguished artist/teachers: Fredrick Miller, the ; , the ; and Kenneth Bates, the enamellist. After he received his MFA from Syracuse University in 1970, he returned to CIA to teach until 1989. For eight of those years, he was chair of the Metals department. He exhibited extensively and won prizes and awards, including the craft prize and the Horace Potter Medal in one of the May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Jim has been employed at Potter and Mellon since 1990 as a designer and goldsmith. The 1992-93 Jewelry Collection highlighted his designs and master craftsmanship.

Tim McCreight, born April 29, 1951, lives in Portland, Maine. BA, 1973, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. MFA, 1975, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Works in all metals, primarily silver and gold. Work includes wearables, vessels, and installations. Recent exhibitions-"Distinguishing Marks" solo exhibition, National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, TE; "Haystack: Pivotal Transformations- a 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME; "Once & Again- Jewelry & Sculpture Re-Creations" OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD; "ReCreation/Recreation" Fun With Found Objects, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ He taught for 12 years for the Wooster Center for Crafts, Wooster, MA and then for 15 years at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME. He has published a dozen books. He was the President of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and has served on the boards of Haystack, the ACC and the PMC Guild. He runs a small publishing company called Brynmorgen Press.

Becky I. Chader(McDonah), February 4, 1972, M.F.A. Arizona State University,.B.A. University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. Chader transforms the idea of historical reliquaries from containers for sacred objects into forms that elevate the ordinary. A Nathan Cummings Summer Travel Fellowship, allowed reliquary research in Europe that supplemented lectures at Arizona State University, Northern Michigan University, University of Minnesota-Morris, and Center for Creative Studies in Detroit. The National Society of Arts and Letters also awarded her First and Third place in their 2001 Small Sculpture Competition. Her work has been shown throughout the in galleries and museums including the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana.

Elise McWilliams was born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1970. She received a B.F.A. in Jewelry/Metals and Painting, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1993, and her M.F.A. in Jewelry/Metals from Kent State University in 1999. Since then she has shown her work fervently, including shows at the Miami University Art Museum, Wayne Art Center, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, Decorative Arts Museum, Ohio Crafts Museum, and Target Gallery, and she won third place in the Elvis Week 2002 Exhibition, at Graceland. She received several travel grants to go to Greece in 2003, in order to do research on metal effigies found in churches there. Her work has always been figurative and humorous, and for the past years, has focused on the subject of twins, as a metaphor for relationships. Elise is a permanent resident of Oxford, Ohio

BRUCE METCALF, BALA CYNWYD PA, Born 9/30/49. EDUCATION Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia: M.F.A. 1977, Syracuse University: B.F.A. 1972 TEACHING - Kent State University 1980-91. MAJOR EXHIBITIONS SINCE 1999 The Art of Gold, organized by ExhibitsUSA, tour 2003-2005 Corporal Identity – Body Language, tour 2003-2004 Frankfurt Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, Museum of Arts and Design, . Crafting a Legacy, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002. Oh My Dear! Amerikaanse sieraden uit de collectie van Museum Het Kruithuis Museum Het Kruithuis, s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 2000.Defining Craft I American Craft Museum, New York, New York, 2000 Attitude and Action, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Birmingham, England, DESIGNyard, Dublin, Ireland, 2000.

Frederick A. Miller, born 1913, Akron, Ohio, deceased 2000. Education: Graduate of Cleveland Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve, Cleveland. Employment: President and designer, Potter and Mellen, Inc., Cleveland 1946-77. Taught silversmithing and jewelry at CIA, Cleveland, 1948-1975. Selected exhibitions: Designer Craftsmen Show, First National Exhibition; "Fiber, Clay and Metal," 1953, 1955; "Metropolitan Handwrought Silver Exhibition," Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Newark Museum Show, Newark, NJ, 1954. Grants/awards: "Cleveland May Show," Cleveland Museum of Art, First prize or special award each year, 1948-1971; "Wichita National Exhibition," beginning in 1952: One Best Group Award, One First Place Award, One Second Place Award; Los Angeles County Fair, Best in Show, Allan Adler Award, 1956; First Place Award, 1956; Best of Show and Govenor's Award, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Columbus Cultural Center, 1966; Cleveland Fine Arts Award, 1968; elected to the College of Fellows, ACC, 1978. Selected collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Lawrence and Barbara Fleischmann Collection of American Art; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian; Chicago Institute of Art; Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Publications: "Modern Silver Throughout the World, 1880-1967," Graham Hughes; "Craft Horizons," December 1956; "American Artist," May 1953; "Jewelry Concepts and Technology," .

John Paul Miller was born 1918, Huntington, PA. Education: Participant, Handy and Harmon Silversmithing Conference, School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute, Rochester, NY. Certificate of Industrial Design, 1940, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Studied with Baron Eric Fleming, Kenneth Bates, . Employment: Professor, Cleveland Institute of Art, 1940-1983. Received the Lifetime Achievement Award and elected to the ACC College of Fellows 1976. Solo Exhibitions: The Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC, 1964; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957. Selected Exhibitions: "Expressions: Jewelry in the 1990's," Contemporary Arts Center, Cleveland, OH, 1991; "Masterworks of Contemporary American Jewelry: Sources and Concepts," Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1985; "Jewelry USA," American Craft Museum, NYC and tour, 1984-86; "American Crafts: An Aesthetic View," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1976; "Objects USA," The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts, national and international tour, 1969-72; "Jewelry International," London, England, 1962; Brussels World's Fair, Brussels, Belgium, 1958. Selected Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC, Huntington Galleries, West Virginia, Lawrence and Barbara Fleischmann Collection of American Art, Detroit MI, Minnesota Museum of Art, St Paul, MN.

Thomas P. Muir, Current Residence: Perrysburg, Ohio. Date of Birth: 1956, Atlanta, Georgia .M.F.A., 1985, Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Tom Muir is head of the Jewelry/Metalsmithing program at Bowling Green State University. He has held positions at universities and craft schools around the country. His award-winning vessels have been published (American Craft, Metalsmith, New York Times) and exhibited extensively, including The White House Collection of American Crafts; and Corporal Identity – Body Language, Frankfurt, Germany, with the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. He is the recipient of an Arts Midwest/National Endowment Fellowship, Michigan Council for the Arts Fellowship, and several Ohio Arts Council Fellowship Awards.

Teresa Young Murray received her BFA from Savannah College of Art & Design in 1995 and her MFA from Miami University of Ohio in 1997. She is a studio artist and designer making one-of-a-kind functional and non-functional objects. She exhibits nationally and internationally in invitational and juried exhibitions. She participated in "Hammered & Forged" celebrating 25 years of metals at Miami University and had a solo exhibition of steel sculpture in 2002 at Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT. Her work has been in print numerous times and is in many private collections.

Joan Parcher, born 1956, resides in Providence RI. BFA from Kent State University, Kent OH, 1979. MFA from RISD, Providence, RI, 1986. In 1990, I received a National Endowment For The Arts Award. My work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Arts & Design, NYC,The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NYC and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal, Canada. I have recently exhibited in "Jewelry from Painting" Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA.; "Matieres Et Couleur" Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h, Montreal, Canada; "Markers In Contemporary Metals" the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, NY; "Jewels And Gems" The Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC; and "LOOT 2004" the Museum of Art & Design, NYC. I have a great deal of fun making jewelry. I enjoy learning about the nature of various materials and exploring their uses in jewelry.Vitreous Enamel is one of my favorite materials.

Jonathan Quick has been faculty in sculpture at Ohio Wesleyan since 1988 to the present. He has been a metals artist for many years and has produced a wide range of forms. He attended New Works, a program sponsored by a private foundation which invited twenty artists at Haystack Mountain School in Deer Isle, ME. He worked in the , an experience which increased his fascination with the potential elegance of . His work reflects this interest in iron, the nature of blacksmithing and tool forms incorporated to create personally symbolic imagery.

ROY Metals Artist Born: 9/17/62. MFA, 1996, Metal/Jewelry Department, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. BFA, 1984, Drawing, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .Select Collections: Victoria & Albert Museum London, England, Smithsonian Institution Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., American Craft Museum New York City Select Major Exhibitions in last 5 years: Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie- Mellon University, Curators: Barbara Bloemink, Curatorial Director,The Cooper Hewitt Museum, NYC, Vicky A. Clark, independent curator and Adjunct Assoc. Prof, Carnegie Mellon University,Travel, book January 17, 2003- Dec 2004, The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, “Gestures,” Curators: Michael Olijnyk, Graham , an exhibition of small site-specific works, 16 individuals, 1414 Monterey Building Dec 20-Jan 26 2003 . University of Central England, "Attitude & Action! North American Figurative Jewelry,” Curator, Gail M. Brown, The Atrium of , Birmingham Institute of Art & Design.,DESIGNyard, Dublin, Ireland International, travel, catalog July-Oct, 2000. Museum of Crafts-Itami, Japan traveled to Osaka Municipal Craft Park, “Jewelry,” biennale competition, ROY only American represented. International, travel, catalog Nov 3-Dec 24 2002

Stephen Saracino. born 1948. Buffalo, New York. Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Art Education from SUNY Buffalo and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Metalsmithing from Kent State University. My work is often wide- ranging in genre with statements extending from personal responses to identifiable, albeit petulant, political/terrorist events, to a more esoteric vein, to privately commissioned jewelry work. Normally I keep the jewelry idiom (ring/bracelet etc.) as a format, but the studio-based objects have evolved far beyond any utilitarian function. 2003 exhibitions: bigLITTLE: Jewelers and Sculptors Making it in Metal. National, Juried. Craft and Cultural Arts Gallery, State of California Building- Atrium, Oakland, California May-June 2003.REFINED III: Small Forms in Precious Metals, National, Juried. Stephen F. Austin Art Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas. January 27- March 27, 2003 Artists’ Fellowship: Crafts, New York State Foundation for the Arts. June 2001 Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York. Visiting Lector. Etruscan Civilization. Special Studies Program. July, August 2001 Art Park, Lewiston New York. Visiting Artist Program. Summer 2000

Mary Ann Scherr, born 1921, studied at Cleveland Institute of Art and has a masters equivalency from Kent State University. She was the metals faculty at Kent State University from 1950-79. She has been a designer, educator, goldsmith, automobile designer for Ford Motor Co, designer for toys, and graphic design, metalsmithing commissions for US Steel Co., Alcoa, and a research and development designer for Electronic "Body Monitor" jewelry. She earned an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Defiance College, Ohio; a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Museum of Women in the Arts, DC; Columbia University- "Archival Collection" NYC; an "Achievement in Design Award- Samuel and ", NC State University; a Smithsonian Institution- International Archieve, 2001"; a NC Govenors Award For Achievement in the Fine Arts-2003 and the National Metalsmith's Hall of Fame in 2003. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art- "20th Century"; the Museum of Art & Design; The Vatican Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Goldsmiths hall, London; Yale Museum of Contemporary Art; Akron Museum of Art; Renwick Gallery; James A Michener Collection; the Andy Warhol Collection; Agnes Gund Collection and the White House Collection. Her work is currently touring in The Art Of Gold- a three year Travel Exhibition curated by SNAG.

Sherry Simms is currently an assistant professor and the coordinator of the metals and jewelry program at The University of Akron. Born June 27, 1968, she received her BFA in Metalsmithing from the University of Akron in 1992 and MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz 2000. Sherry received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in 1993 and in 2003. Her work has been widely exhibited and has won various awards both regionally and nationally. Recent shows include: The Arsenal Metals & Enamels Exhibition 2004, at the Cultural Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio; Current Directions: Studio Art Jewelry, at the Delaware Center For The Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, Delaware; Beauty Mark, at the B.K. Gallery in Painesville, Ohio; and New Work by Sherry Simms, at the Sybaris Gallery in Royal Oaks, Michigan. Her work also appeared in the Metalsmith magazine special edition Exhibition in Print 2000.

Susan J. Skoczen, Cleveland, OH , born 1977. She teaches at the University of Akron and Cleveland Institute of Art. After receiving her BFA at Kent State University, Susan continued her education at the Rhode Island School of Design for her MFA, also concentrating in jewelry and metalsmithing. Her style of work today is a slight continuation of her thesis work at RISD, with a heavy influence from her painter friends from the Cleveland Institute of Art. The most current recognition of her work will be seen at the Aaron Faber Gallery in New York City, for their Emerging Studio Jewelers Show in July ‘04; at Thrive: An Artspace Gallery in the Galleria, Cleveland, OH (June 04) and is currently at the Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus, OH for “Best Of 2004”, where last year was named the Emerging Artist. Susan has also exhibited nationally in Portland, OR, Nacogdoches, TX, Blissfield, MI, Providence, RI, and internationally at Gallerie Marzee in the Nether

Mel Someroski, born 1932, deceased 1995, studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, 1950-54, with Kenneth Bates, where he received the Agnes Gund Memorial Award Travelling Scholarship. He studied in Europe for one year and returned to complete the requirements for the BFA from the Institute and the BS Ed from Kent State University. He began to teach at Kent in 1957 and completed the requirements for the MA degree. He introduced enameling and offered the first course in jewelry in 1958. He taught workshops internationally and served as a Delegate to the World Crafts Council Conferences.He established a fund to endow The Large Scale Enameling Outreach Program at Kent. He wrote the catalogue for an exhibition "The Cleveland Enamelists, 1930-1955." He taught at Kent until 1992, retiring as Professor Emeritus. He exhibited nationally and internationally in enameling, and performance art. Grants and Awards: the Ohio Designer Craftsmen Lifetime Achievement Award, Kent State University Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Fellows, American Craft Council. Collections: Ohio Craft Museum, Akron Museum of Art, Massillon Museum of Art, Massilon, OH, Raleigh Art Museum, Raleigh, NC, Cleveland Museum of Art, the Johnson Wax Company Collection: Objects USA. Publications: "Objects USA," Lee Nordness, "Textile Techniques in Metal," .

Tara J. Stephenson ,born 1969. She received her BFA from Eastern Michigan University and her MFA from Kent State University. Stephenson has taught at Bowling Green State University and the University of North Dakota. She exhibits frequently, including “Metal and Otherwise: Jewelry Media Connections”; “REFINED III: Small Forms in Precious Metals”; “SNAG/3M Innovative Tool s”. Stephenson is an Assistant Professor and the Area Coordinator of the Jewelry and Metalsmithing area within the Buffalo State College Design Department.

Felicia Szorad earned a BFA from Bowling Green University in 1994 and an MFA from East Carolina University, NC in 1998. In the Fall of 2001, she became Assistant Professor of Art and the Metals Program Chair at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY. She exhibits actively, including "Mohallatee, Szorad, Townsend/ Print, Metal, Wood" a three person show at The Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Covington, KY 2004; a solo exhibition at Rogers Gallery, Berea College, Berea, KY in 2003; "Refined III: Small Forms In Precious Metal" Griffith Gallery, Stephen Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX; and "bigLITTLE: Jewelers & Sculptors Making It In Metal" Craft & Cultural Art Gallery, Oakland, CA. She has received awards and honors including the Kentucky Arts Council Professional Assistance Award in 2004.

Cathy Kay Taylor, Newton Falls Ohio, born 3/11/1953 Education- 1989 M.F.A. Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Thesis presented in vitreous enamel on copper. Professor of record, James “Mel” Someroski Medium/Style I work primarily in vitreous enamel on metal, usually steel or copper. Most of my exhibited work in the last few years is on steel and is two-dimensional. I paint with glass on metal using a variety of industrial techniques of enamel application used in an expressive manner. Exhibitions -2001, Color & Reflections, Enamel 2001,The Enamelist Society Eighth Invitational & Juried Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts And Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 2000- Enamels Exhibition At The Random Modern Gallery,Tacoma, Washington, 1999- Crossing Boundaries: Enamels 1999 ,The Enamelist Society Seventh Invitational & Juried Exhibition,Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Rachelle Rene Thiewes, El Paso, Texas ,Born: 1952. Education: BA, Southern Illinois University Carbondale 1974, MFA, Kent State Univeristy 1976. Thiewes makes jewelry: currently working with 18k palladium white and silver. Selected Exhibitions: 2003 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS, Washington, DC; "Book As Art XV" 2003 EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART, El Paso, Texas, "Air Patterns" - Susan Davidoff & Rachelle Thiewes; 2003 SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM RENWICK GALLERY, Washington, DC, "Jewels & Gems;" 2002-2004 POWERHOUSE MUSEUM, Sydney, GALLERY YU, Tokyo, MUSEE D'ART ET D'HISTOIRE, Geneve, JOHN CURTIN GALLERY, Perth, ORATORIO SAN ROCCO, Padova, BAYERISCHER KUNSTGEWERBE-VEREIN, Munich; "Mikromegas" 2002-2004 CROCKER ART MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND MUSEUMS, MINT MUSEUM, "Beyond the Mines: The Art of Gold"; 2002 ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, Little Rock, Arkansas, "Embellished With Gold"; 2000 JEWELERS'WERK GALERIE, Washington, DC, "Light Air - RACHELLE THIEWES;" 2000 MOBILIA, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "Rachelle Thiewes - New Jewelry"; 2000 BIRMINGHAM INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN, Birmingham, England, "Virtual - Jewellery" AWARDS 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship. COLLECTIONS: American Craft Museum, Arkansas Art Center, Art Institute of Chicago, EL Paso Museum of Art, Evansville Museum of Art, Craft Museum, National Museums of Scotland, Smithsonian Institute National Museum Renwick Gallery, New Mexico State University and Royal College of Art, London.

Pamela Morris Thomford, Perrysburg, Ohio .Born: 2/28/45. B.A.: Denison University Post Undergraduate Study: Ceramics, University of Toledo.Graduate Study: Jewelry and Metalsmithing, Bowling Green State University Medium/Style: Small narrative works in non-ferrous metals and found objects. Selected Exhibitions 2004:Toyohashi Exchange, Toyohashi City Museum, Japan, Baskets in Metal, Yaw Gallery, SOFA NYC. 2003: Anti-War Medals, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, California. 2002: Innovative Tools, Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, Colorado. 2001:Yul- tensils, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon (85).2000:Crafts National, Zoller Gallery, University Park, Pennsylvania. Publications: 1000 Rings, The Craft of Silversmithing, Art Jewelry Today

Julia Turner (1970) lives and works in San Francisco, California. Her work combines traditional fabrication techniques and experimental processes using non-traditional materials. Her jewelry was recently included in the international exhibition "Schmuck 2004" in Munich, Germany, in "Valuables: Jewelry in the new Millennium" at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, and in "Beyond the Mines: The Art of Gold". Her work and writing have appeared in Metalsmith Magazine, and her jewelry is included in Arch Gregory's recent book "Minimal Rings" and in "1000 rings" (Lark books). Julia received her MFA from Miami University in 1995.

Heather White, Boston, MA, born 7/8/68, BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, RI 1990, MFA SUNY, The College at New Paltz, NY 1994. Heather is a maker of wearable jewelry and metal objects. She embraces European ideologies from an American vantage point. White was faculty at the University of Akron 1995-2000. She is currently Associate Professor of Art in the Metals Department at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Solo exhibitions include:"Intimate Majesty" at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio, "Marks of Beauty "at the Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI, and "New Jewelry" at Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Selected group exhibitions include "The Art of Gold", a travelling exhibition 2002-04, curated by Michael Monroe and "Micromegia", a travelling, international show curated by Otto Kunzli. In 2003 she was the recipient of the Society of Arts and Crafts Excellence in Crafts Award and she received the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Award, an Educational Travel Grant, to study and attend an international jewelry conference in Finland.

Edward Winter, born in Pasadena, CA in 1908, studied art in Cleveland, where he was a student of Kenneth Bates from 1926-30 . He journeyed to Europe and studied with Josef Hoffman. He developed his enameling skills further in , Austria. He returned to Cleveland and began to teach the first enamels course in 1935. He was instrumental in helping Cleveland become the major center for enameling: "the golden age of enameling from 1935-55. He met R.A. Weaver, Chairman of the Ferro Corporation who offered Winter the use of enormous furnaces at the firm. Thus Winter was able to develop large scale enamels on copper, steel and aluminum. He was a pioneer in architectural scale enamels. He received many commissions and awards. He exhibited widely and wrote many books on enameling techniques, published extensively in professional magazines and periodicals, and lectured widely. He was known for his experimental work, with air brush, dripped and poured surfaces, as well as its signature scale and broad subject matter from the landscape to abstraction.His work is in many collections, including the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH

Joe Wood is currently the program coordinator for the Metals Department at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA. He has been teaching Jewelry, Metalsmithing, Computer techniques for object-makers and other classes at “MassArt” since 1985. He has taught workshops at The Royal College of Art in London, Silpakorn University in Bangkok Thailand, Haystack, Penland, Arrowmont, Seattle Metals Guild and others. Many exhibitions of work include Schmuck 2001, Munich Germany, Signals: Late 20th Century American Jewelry, Cranbrook Museum of Art. Work is in the public collection of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the private collection of Daphne Farago. His work has been published in catalogs, books and magazine articles

Helen V. Worall graduated from Ohio University in Art Education in 1938. She received a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1957. After 30 years of teaching in the secondary schools, she joined the staff of Miami University faculty in 1969, retiring in 1981 at the rank of Professor. She was one of the founders of Ohio Designer-Craftsmen in 1962; she served in several of its offices and was active in its development until her retirement. In 1979, they honored her with the Award for Outstanding Achievement. She was also a member of the American Crafts Council, the World Crafts Council and a Fellow of the Cincinnati Craft Guild. Her training in enameling included work with most of the nationally recognized artists in the field, including Kenneth F.Bates, William Harper, Harold Helwig, Eleanor Moty, June Schwarz and Charles Jeffrey.

Stephen Yusko earned his BFA in Sculpture and Metalsmithing at University of Akron in 1990 and his MFA in Metalsmithing at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL in 1999. He was nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant in 2004. He exhibits widely: in 2004 he will have a solo show "Condenser House Works" at Bonsack Gallery, John Burroughs School, St Louis, MO. He is participating in "A Work In Progress: 25 Years" Invitational at the National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, TN. He is an active visiting lecturer and demonstrator. His work is published in Color On Metal by Tim McCreight and Nicole Bsullak; The Contemporary by Dona Mellach and The Book of Boxes and Locks by Tim McCreight.