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Awards of Excellence

ACC’s Awards of Excellence celebrate outstanding artists in our marketplaces who demonstrate exceptional quality of work, mastery of material, entrepreneurial effort, and whose values align with ACC’s mission to create healthy, vibrant, and equitable marketplaces.

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Meet the awardees.

The ACC Awards of Excellence include five individual awards given. Three of those awards follow the general marketplace categories of: Home & Living, Jewelry, Apparel & Accessories; and an additional recognition of those newest to our marketplace with an Emerging Artist award.

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  • Carin Jones

    Carin Jones (Kuh-rin) is a Seattle area based artist that derives her inspiration from a zoological background, particularly years of collecting and cataloging specimens. As an architect’s daughter, she obsessively studies shapes and their interactions, notably those of elements not paired in nature. In her Mineral & Marrow Series, Carin concentrates on an unexpected coupling of discarded bones and high end gemstones. While, at first glance this may seem contradictory, the partnership chall...

  • Philip Roberts

    Philip’s work blends modern technology with old-school patience, resulting in his original, intricate wooden designs. After selling his solid-wood furniture business, he pursued this unique fusion full-time, honing his craft through trial and error. Raised in rural New Jersey by engineers, carpenters, and farmers, Philip grew up tinkering, creating, and learning. Now a happily married artist and father of three, he aims to craft pieces that bring warmth and life to spaces in a way few other me...

  • Rachael Levine

    Rachael Levine is a textiles artist and fashion designer with a focus on Shibori fabric dyeing and textile manipulation. Rachael has been a working artist since 2014, after graduating with her BFA in Fashion Design from Columbia College Chicago. Her love of clothing construction and manipulating textiles has blossomed into an ever changing art-to-wear collection. The brand name ARAE is a play on words, deriving from Rachael's nickname, Rae, and the word 'array' - an impressive display of thin...

  • Wenjing Yang

    A Nod To Design was founded by Wenjing Yang through her passion for creating beautiful objects. Leaning on her background in fine art and fashion design, Yang creates elegant, modern jewelry featuring Japanese glass beads, chains, and semi-precious stones to explore the design elements of shape, line, form, and texture. Yang’s aesthetic pays homage to her cultural roots and heritage with a nod to Zen philosophy. One bead at a time, all pieces are handmade in Portland, Oregon.

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