College of Fellows

Cindi Strauss

Cindi Strauss

Cindi Strauss of Houston, Texas is the Sara and Bill Morgan Curator of Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design and Assistant Director, Programming at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. At the museum, she is responsible for the acquisition, research, publication, and exhibition of post-1900 decorative arts, design, and craft.
Mediums Mixed Media Recognition College of Fellows
Diana Baird N’Diaye, Ph.D.

Diana N'Diaye, Ph.D.

Diana N'Diaye, Ph. D. is an interdisciplinary visual artist/maker, and folklore scholar. Her artwork, research and writing, reference sacred expressions of identity across Africa and the Diaspora.
Mediums Mixed Media Recognition College of Fellows
Lynda Watson

Lynda Watson

Lynda was born and raised in Orange, CA. She did undergraduate work in Drawing and Illustration, Crafts and Jewelry, and received an MA and MFA in Jewelry/Metalsmithing from California State University, Long Beach.
Mediums Metal Recognition College of Fellows
Diego Romero

Diego Romero

Diego Romero is well known for his ceramic vessels, which elevate Pueblo life to Olympian stature. He draws on historical oral traditions as source material. He distinguishes his work from more traditional Pueblo pottery by the use of a narrative style influenced by comic books and popular culture.
Mediums Clay Recognition College of Fellows
Portrait of Michael Puryear

Michael Puryear

Michael Puryear is an internationally recognized designer/furniture maker. He is self-taught learning his craft through reading and experimentation and has been practicing his craft for more than 45 years.
Mediums Wood Furniture Recognition College of Fellows
Mark Newport

Mark Newport

Mark Newport’s work uses textiles, performance, print, and photography to reveal the vulnerability inherent in traditional western ideals of masculinity.
Mediums Fiber Mixed Media Recognition College of Fellows
Yuri Kobayashi

Yuri Kobayashi

Yuri Kobayashi, a sculptor and furniture maker based in Rockport, Maine, brings a wealth of expertise honed through diverse educational and professional experiences.
Mediums Furniture Wood Recognition College of Fellows
the brother de la Torre

Einar and Jamex De La Torre

Collaborating brothers, Einar and Jamex de la Torre, were born in Guadalajara, México, 1963, & 1960. In a sudden family move, the Brothers moved to The United States in 1972, going from a traditional Catholic school to a small California beach town. They both studied at California State University at Long Beach and taught at the prestigious Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington. Currently the brothers live and work on both sides of the border, the Guadalupe Valley in Baja California, México, and San Diego, California. The complexities of the immigrant experience and contradicting bicultural identities, as well as their current life and practice on both sides of the border, inform their narrative and aesthetics.
Mediums Glass Mixed Media Recognition College of Fellows
Michael A. Cummings portrait

Michael A. Cummings

In the tradition of the African griot(storyteller) Michael A. Cummings'quilts tell the stories of African American life. As a result of his masterful creativity, he has become one of America's premier quiltmakers.
Mediums Fiber Mixed Media Recognition College of Fellows
Syd Carpenter Headshot

Syd Carpenter

Syd Carpenter is a sculptor working in clay and mixed media. She focuses on African American farms and gardens as a source of form and content attributing this interest to her mother, Ernestine and grandmother, Indiana Hutson, both of whom were master gardeners
Mediums Clay Mixed Media Recognition College of Fellows
ceramic artist tip toland in studio

Tip Toland

Tip Toland of Vaughn, Washington, is a full-time studio artist and a part-time instructor in Seattle.

Mediums Clay Recognition College of Fellows
glass artist preston singletary posing in studio

Preston Singletary

Preston Singletary of Seattle spent years studying and participating at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington.

Mediums Glass Recognition College of Fellows
ceramic artist mark pharis in studio

Mark Pharis

Mark Pharis of Roberts, Wisconsin, was introduced to ceramics in 1967 at the University of Minnesota.

Mediums Clay Recognition College of Fellows
wood artist kristina madsen posing in shop next to band saw

Kristina Madsen

Kristina Madsen of Southampton, Massachusetts, trained under British-born furniture maker David Powell from 1975–1979 and has been building furnitu

Mediums Furniture Recognition College of Fellows
jewelry artist keith lewis in studio

Keith Lewis

Keith Lewis of Thorp, Washington, creates jewelry which deals with issues of sexual identity, memory, and loss and the notion of jewelry as a trans

Mediums Jewelry Recognition College of Fellows
portrait of textile artist nancy koenigsberg in studio

Nancy Koenigsberg

Nancy Koenigsberg of New York City weaves, knits, and crochets copper and steel wire into sculpture that can be both evocative and abstract.

Mediums Mixed Media Recognition College of Fellows
textile artist karen hampton holding weaving in studio

Karen Hampton

Karen Hampton of Lowell, Massachusetts, is a conceptually based fiber artist, addressing issues of colorism and kinship.

Mediums Fiber Recognition College of Fellows
portrait of artist teri greeves posing in field with dried grasses and sunflowers

Teri Greeves

Teri Greeves (Kiowa) of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was born on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming where her mother ran a trading post.

Mediums Mixed Media Recognition College of Fellows