EDUCATORS/EDUCATED ARTISTS’ BIOS Sue Amendolara was born in Youngstown, Ohio 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 Metals 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 Renwick Gallery, The Carnegie Museum and The White House 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 metal 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 Cleveland 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. Education: 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: Cleveland Museum of Art, 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 Goldsmiths, 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 Metalworking/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 / Industry 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 Faber 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.