College of Fellows
College of Fellows
Since 1975, the American Craft Council has recognized people who have made an outstanding contribution to the crafts in America by awarding the distinction of Fellow of the Council. The body of awardees is known collectively as the College of Fellows. ACC names new fellows every other year.
To be nominated, an artist must demonstrate leadership in the field, outstanding ability as an artist, and 25 years or more of professional achievement as an American craftsperson. Awardees are nominated by the active College of Fellows and a small group of guest nominators. The final selection of the cohort is made by the ACC Awards sub-committee, whose members include only current Fellows—making this distinction even more meaningful because it is not awarded by critics, scholars, or collectors, but by one’s peers.
In addition to artists, individuals who have made their own significant contribution to the craft movement are nominated and elected as Honorary Fellows, their designation including all the distinction and recognition of the College. The significance of the College of Fellows to the field cannot be overstated, and the value of material related to the individuals has proportional importance to the preservation and scholarship of American craft.
Introducing Our 2022 Fellows
Beadwork Artist | Santa Fe, NM | View Bio/Work
A collective statement from the ACC Awards Committee notes that “Greeves’ incredible beadwork carries a heritage tradition into contemporary contexts, often straddling the realms of craft and fashion while using materials and motifs to subvert traditional structures of power. Additionally, her role as a co-curator for the powerful 2019 exhibition The Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists at the Minneapolis Institute of Art should be duly noted as an important point in the study and appreciation of Native contemporary art.”
Fiber Artist/Educator | Lowell, MA | View Bio/Work
"Karen Hampton tells stories using needle and thread, dye and cloth, creating historic narratives based on her engaged, careful research focused on where her ancestors were enslaved. Her visual art gives voice and serves as a cry for a collective conscience, based on memory, resilience, and hope." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Pat Hickman
Textile Artist/Organizer | New York, NY | View Bio/Work
"Koenigsberg is active as a consummate maker of her innovative, knotted wire sculptures. She continues to foster a community of textile artists, regionally and beyond, through the Textile Study Group of New York, as one its founders–over forty years ago." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Pat Hickman
Jewelry Artist | Thorp, WA | View Bio/Work
"Lewis has had the courage to address issues of Queer identity and politics in his work as well as sexual freedom, politics, Gay male relationships and larger questions about loss, memory, history, and our obligations to the past. These are areas jewelry has rarely approached so directly." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Susan Cummins
Furniture Artist | Southampton, MA | View Bio/Work
"Madsen merges a traditional English cabinetmaking education, which results in meticulously constructed objects, with surfaces derived from her own intensive research into and interpretation of Fijian hand-carving. She persistently keeps experimenting, broadening and deepening the scope of this investigation. The latest work uses precise hand-carving to penetrate through complex layers of marquetry patterns and painted surfaces so that her strategic cuts partially expose hints of a depth and complexity lurking below the surface." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Tom Loeser
Ceramic Artist/Educator | Roberts, WI | View Bio/Work
"Mark Pharis has consistently brought an invigorating and contemporary vitality to the traditional conventions of pottery, finding shape, surface, and color through a lens that playfully captures and interprets architectural and geometric references. Generous as an educator, Mark is highly respected by individuals who feel fortunate to have had him as a teacher." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Anne Currier
Glass Artist | Seattle, WA | View Bio/Work
"Preston Singletary has consistently explored new avenues of inquiry in the context of traditional native Northwest Coast art and the medium of glass. He does not just copy the designs of ancient objects and then execute them in glass. Rather, he has used ancient traditions to inform his art at the most basic level, and through this investigation of the ancient and living Tlingit culture that is part of his personal history, he has transformed himself." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Tina Oldknow
Sculptor/Educator | Vaughn, WA | View Bio/Work
"Tip Toland's sculptures depict the human condition in all of its ugly and beautiful moments. Just brilliant." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Susan Cummins
2022 Honorary Fellows
Artist/Educator/Author/Organizer/Curator | West Chester, OH | View Bio/Work
"Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi founded the African-American Quilt Guild of Los Angeles and the Women of Color Quilters Network. In her career as a quilter, curator, educator and author, she has tirelessly honored the history of African-American quilt making. Many of her own narrative quilts chronicle the past of racial violence in America; she speaks eloquently and powerfully of the greater need, on the part of all of us, to work toward diversity in our lives." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Pat Hickman
Craft Scholar | Richmond, VA | View Bio/Work
"Howard Risatti was chair of the influential Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2001 to 2005, where he championed new directions for craft. His scholarly publications on history and theory, positioning craft in the larger world of contemporary art and design, are essential resources in the field of contemporary craft." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Tina Oldknow
Educator/Curator | Baltimore, MD | View Bio/Work
"An internationally-respected specialist in modern and contemporary art, Lowery Stokes Sims has a long and successful career, focusing her gaze on African, Latino, Native, and Asian-American artists at a time when few curators did. Later in her career, her commitment to diversity and inclusion in the art world embraced craft when she became senior curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a post she held from 2007 to 2014. Her exhibitions and her writings have contributed new, important, and essential scholarship to the field of contemporary craft." ~ACC Awards Committee Member Tina Oldknow
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The Entire College of Fellows
We are currently working on building an online collection of artist profiles for each of the Fellows. View the work in progress.
2022 Teri Greeves, Fellow
2022 Karen Hampton, Fellow
2022 Nancy Koenigsberg, Fellow
2022 Keith Lewis, Fellow
2022 Kristina Madsen, Fellow
2022 Mark Pharis, Fellow
2022 Preston Singletary, Fellow
2022 Tip Toland, Fellow
2022 Carolyn Mazloomi, Honorary Fellow
2022 Howard Risatti, Honorary Fellow
2022 Lowery Stokes Sims, Honoray Fellow
2020 Sonya Clark, Fellow
2020 Lisa Gralnick, Fellow
2020 Katherine Gray, Fellow
2020 Annabeth Rosen, Fellow
2020 Bob Trotman, Fellow
2020 Patricia Malarcher, Honorary Fellow
2018 Mark Burns, Fellow
2018 Thomas Gentille, Fellow
2018 Thomas Hucker, Fellow
2018 Mary Jackson, Fellow
2018 Beth Lipman, Fellow
2018 Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Fellow
2018 Susan Cummins, Honorary Fellow
2018 Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Honorary Fellow
2016 Nick Cave, Fellow
2016 Michael Cooper, Fellow
2016 Françoise Grossen, Fellow
2016 Chris Gustin, Fellow
2016 Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Fellow
2016 Hank Murta Adams, Fellow
2016 Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Honorary Fellow
2014 Tina Oldknow, Honorary Fellow
2014 Judith Schaechter, Fellow
2014 Bruce Metcalf, Fellow
2014 Jane Lackey, Fellow
2014 Michael Hurwitz, Fellow
2014 John Gill, Fellow
2014 William Carlson, Fellow
2012 Bruce Pepich, Honorary Fellow
2012 Thomas Loeser, Fellow
2012 Sherri Smith, Fellow
2012 Sharon Church, Fellow
2012 Lewis Knauss, Fellow
2012 Dante Marioni, Fellow
2012 Anne Currier, Fellow
2012 Andrea Gill, Fellow
2010 Janet Koplos, Honorary Fellow
2010 William Hunter, Fellow
2010 Susanne Stephenson, Fellow
2010 Ron Ho, Fellow
2010 Rebecca Medel, Fellow
2010 John Stephenson, Fellow
2010 John Garrett, Fellow
2010 Ginny Ruffner, Fellow
2009 Robert Pfannebecker, Honorary Fellow
2009 Rosanne Somerson, Fellow
2009 Louis Marak, Fellow
2009 Jamie Bennett, Fellow
2009 Carol Shaw-Sutton, Fellow
2009 Bernard Bernstein, Fellow
2009 Benjamin Moore, Fellow
2008 Lois Moran, Honorary Fellow
2008 Wendy Maruyama, Fellow
2008 Toots Zynsky, Fellow
2008 Tony Hepburn, Fellow
2008 Gyöngy Laky, Fellow
2008 Glenda Arentzen, Fellow
2008 Adela Akers, Fellow
2007 Nanette Laitman, Honorary Fellow
2007 William Morris, Fellow
2007 Robert Brady, Fellow
2007 Richard Notkin, Fellow
2007 Mark Lindquist, Fellow
2007 Marilyn da Silva, Fellow
2007 Arturo Sandoval, Fellow
2006 Stuart Kestenbaum, Honorary Fellow
2006 Walter Hamady, Fellow
2006 Kiff Slemmons, Fellow
2006 Jason Pollen, Fellow
2006 Howard Ben-Tré, Fellow
2006 Akio Takamori, Fellow
2005 Martha Longenecker, Honorary Fellow
2005 Patricia Hickman, Fellow
2005 Linda Threadgill, Fellow
2005 Joey Kirkpatrick, Fellow
2005 Gary Griffin, Fellow
2005 Flora Mace, Fellow
2005 Alphonse Mattia, Fellow
2003 Albert LeCoff, Honorary Fellow
2003 Tom Joyce, Fellow
2003 Norma Minkowitz, Fellow
2003 Kurt Weiser, Fellow
2003 James Tanner, Fellow
2003 Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Fellow
2002 Garth Clark, Honorary Fellow
2002 Robert Winokur, Fellow
2002 Paula Winokur, Fellow
2002 John Cederquist, Fellow
2002 Jane Sauer, Fellow
2002 Harlan Butt, Fellow
2001 Alice Rooney, Honorary Fellow
2001 Warren Seelig, Fellow
2001 Thomas Patti, Fellow
2001 Norman Schulman, Fellow
2001 Michael James, Fellow
2001 John Glick, Fellow
2001 Joan Livingstone, Fellow
2001 Gary Noffke, Fellow
2001 David Ellsworth, Fellow
2000 Theodore Cohen, Honorary Fellow
2000 Christa C. Mayer Thurman, Honorary Fellow
2000 Paul Stankard, Fellow
2000 Marjorie Schick, Fellow
2000 Joyce Scott, Fellow
2000 James Krenov, Fellow
2000 Hiroko Sato-Pijanowski, Fellow
2000 Eugene Pijanowski, Fellow
2000 Cynthia Bringle, Fellow
2000 Anne Wilson, Fellow
2000 Adrian Saxe, Fellow
1999 Fred Marer, Honorary Fellow
1999 Therman Statom, Fellow
1999 Ralph Baccera, Fellow
1999 Paul Marioni, Fellow
1999 Nancy Crow, Fellow
1999 Irena Brynner, Fellow
1999 Helen Shirk, Fellow
1999 Dorothy Barnes, Fellow
1998 Paulus Berensohn, Honorary Fellow
1998 William Harper, Fellow
1998 Richard Shaw, Fellow
1998 Richard Mawdsley, Fellow
1998 Judy McKie, Fellow
1998 James Bassler, Fellow
1998 Eleanor Moty, Fellow
1998 Edwin Scheier, Fellow
1998 Dan Dailey, Fellow
1997 Sandra Blain, Honorary Fellow
1997 William Keyser, Fellow
1997 Tommy Simpson, Fellow
1997 Ron Nagle, Fellow
1997 Robert Winston, Fellow
1997 Lia Cook, Fellow
1997 Ka Kwong Hui, Fellow
1997 Jack Earl, Fellow
1997 Chunghi Choo, Fellow
1996 Virginia Harvey, Honorary Fellow
1996 Jean Griffith, Honorary Fellow
1996 Mary Lee Hu, Fellow
1996 Mark Levine, Fellow
1996 Kenneth Bates, Fellow
1996 Jun Kaneko, Fellow
1996 Helena Hernmarck, Fellow
1996 Garry Knox Bennett, Fellow
1996 Claude Horan, Fellow
1996 Betty Cooke, Fellow
1995 Michael Monroe, Honorary Fellow
1995 Wayne Higby, Fellow
1995 Richard Marquis, Fellow
1995 Karl Drerup, Fellow
1995 J. Fred Woell, Fellow
1995 Fred Fenster, Fellow
1995 Ferne Jacobs, Fellow
1995 Charles Counts, Fellow
1994 Lee Nordness, Honorary Fellow
1994 Viola Frey, Fellow
1994 Stephen de Staebler, Fellow
1994 Rude Osolnik, Fellow
1994 Robert Ebendorf, Fellow
1994 Patti Warashina, Fellow
1994 Merry Renk, Fellow
1994 John McQueen, Fellow
1994 Henry Halem, Fellow
1994 Albert Paley, Fellow
1993 Robert G. Hart, Honorary Fellow
1993 Oppi Untracht, Honorary Fellow
1993 Margarete Seeler, Fellow
1993 Ken Price, Fellow
1993 John Marshall, Fellow
1993 Jere Osgood, Fellow
1993 Gerhardt Knodel, Fellow
1993 Betty Woodman, Fellow
1992 Ruth DeYoung Kohler, Honorary Fellow
1992 Mildred Constantine, Honorary Fellow
1992 Helen Drutt English, Honorary Fellow
1992 Walker Weed, Fellow
1992 Stanley Lechtzin, Fellow
1992 Robert Arneson, Fellow
1992 Marvin Lipofsky, Fellow
1992 Kurt Matzdorf, Fellow
1992 Karl Martz, Fellow
1992 Joyce Anderson, Fellow
1992 James "Mel" Someroski, Fellow
1992 Edgar Anderson, Fellow
1992 David Shaner, Fellow
1992 Cynthia Schira, Fellow
1990 R. Leigh Glover, Honorary Fellow
1990 Blanche Reeves, Honorary Fellow
1990 Vivika Heino, Fellow
1990 Viktor Schreckengost, Fellow
1990 Otto Natzler, Fellow
1990 Otto Heino, Fellow
1990 Michael Higgins, Fellow
1990 Margaret Tafoya, Fellow
1990 Lillian Elliott, Fellow
1990 Gertrud Natzler, Fellow
1990 Francis Whitaker, Fellow
1990 Frances Higgins, Fellow
1990 Edris Eckhardt, Fellow
1988 Rudy Turk, Honorary Fellow
1988 Paul J. Smith, Honorary Fellow
1988 Marion Stroud Swingle, Honorary Fellow
1988 Lloyd Herman, Honorary Fellow
1988 James Melchert, Honorary Fellow
1988 C. Malcolm Watkins, Honorary Fellow
1988 William Daley, Fellow
1988 Walter G. Nottingham, Fellow
1988 Ted Hallman, Fellow
1988 Polly Lada-Mocarski, Fellow
1988 Phillip Fike, Fellow
1988 Paul Soldner, Fellow
1988 Nan McKinnell, Fellow
1988 Mary Scheier, Fellow
1988 Mark Peiser, Fellow
1988 James McKinnell, Fellow
1988 Harrison McIntosh, Fellow
1988 Glen Kaufman, Fellow
1988 Fritz Dreisbach, Fellow
1988 Frances Senska, Fellow
1988 C. Carl Jennings, Fellow
1988 Arthur Carpenter, Fellow
1988 Albert Green, Fellow
1987 LaMar Harrington, Honorary Fellow
1987 Jonathan Fairbanks, Honorary Fellow
1987 James Wallace, Honorary Fellow
1987 Carlyle Smith, Honorary Fellow
1987 Val Cushing, Fellow
1987 Robert Sperry, Fellow
1987 Richard DeVore, Fellow
1987 June Schwarcz, Fellow
1987 Heikki Seppä, Fellow
1987 Edward Moulthrop, Fellow
1987 Dominic Di Mare, Fellow
1987 Claire Zeisler, Fellow
1987 Beatrice Wood, Fellow
1986 Wendell Castle, Fellow
1986 Kenneth Ferguson, Fellow
1986 Dale Chihuly, Fellow
1985 Sydney Butchkes, Honorary Fellow
1985 Harold Brennan, Honorary Fellow
1985 Ted Randall, Fellow
1985 Richard Thomas, Fellow
1985 Maurice Heaton, Fellow
1985 Marianne Strengell, Fellow
1985 Kay Sekimachi, Fellow
1985 John Mason, Fellow
1983 Susan Peterson, Honorary Fellow
1983 Marian Heard, Honorary Fellow
1983 Sheila Hicks, Fellow
1983 Ruth Duckworth, Fellow
1983 Mary Ann Scherr, Fellow
1983 F. Carlton Ball, Fellow
1983 Douglass Morse Howell, Fellow
1980 Robert W. Gray, Honorary Fellow
1980 Eudorah Moore, Honorary Fellow
1980 Warren MacKenzie, Fellow
1980 Tage Frid, Fellow
1980 Mary Nyburg, Fellow
1980 Margret Craver, Fellow
1980 Joel Myers, Fellow
1980 Bernard Kester, Fellow
1979 William Brown, Honorary Fellow
1979 Rose Slivka, Honorary Fellow
1979 Margery Anneburg, Honorary Fellow
1979 Joan Mondale, Honorary Fellow
1979 Katherine Westphal, Fellow
1979 Hans Christensen, Fellow
1979 Gerry Williams, Fellow
1979 George Nakashima, Fellow
1979 Arline Fisch, Fellow
1978 Eugenia Campbell Nowlin, Honorary Fellow
1978 Rudy Autio, Fellow
1978 Rudolf Staffel, Fellow
1978 Mary W. Phillips, Fellow
1978 L. Brent Kington, Fellow
1978 Jack Lenor Larsen, Fellow
1978 Frederick Miller, Fellow
1978 Dominick Labino, Fellow
1978 Bob Stocksdale, Fellow
1978 Alma Eikerman, Fellow
1977 Aileen Osborn Webb, Honorary Fellow
1977 Robert C. Turner, Fellow
1977 Ramona Solberg, Fellow
1977 Mary Caroline Richards, Fellow
1977 John Prip, Fellow
1977 Donald Reitz, Fellow
1977 Daniel Rhodes, Fellow
1977 Alice Parrott, Fellow
1976 Lloyd Kiva New, Honorary Fellow
1976 Anna Wetheril Olmsted, Honorary Fellow
1976 Ruth Penington, Fellow
1976 Ronald Hayes Pearson, Fellow
1976 Laura Andreson, Fellow
1976 Karen Karnes, Fellow
1976 John Paul Miller, Fellow
1976 Else Regensteiner, Fellow
1976 Charles Loloma, Fellow
1975 Rudolph Schaeffer, Honorary Fellow
1975 Maurine Roberts, Honorary Fellow
1975 Mary Lyon, Honorary Fellow
1975 Margaret Patch, Honorary Fellow
1975 Francis Merritt, Honorary Fellow
1975 Florence Eastmead, Honorary Fellow
1975 Trude Guermonprez, Fellow
1975 Toshiko Takaezu, Fellow
1975 Sam Maloof, Fellow
1975 Peter Voulkos, Fellow
1975 Lili Blumenau, Fellow
1975 Lenore Tawney, Fellow
1975 Harvey Littleton, Fellow
1975 Frans Wildenhain, Fellow
1975 Ed Rossbach, Fellow
1975 Dorothy Meredith, Fellow
1975 Adda Husted-Andersen, Fellow
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