Seattle. His design for a series
of large glass vessels depicts
patterns and imagery inspired
by life at Pilchuck and the natu-
ral beauty of its Stanwood,
WA, campus.
.. Artist Michael
Janis was presented with the
2010 Saxe Fellowship at the Bay
Area Glass Institute’s recent
“Great Glass Auction” in San
Jose, CA. The evening’s other
awardees were Treg Silkwood/
Candace Martin and Randy
Strong (People’s Choice), and
Paul Cunningham, Kathleen
Elliot and Ethan Stern (Jurors’
Choice).
.. Cleveland-areacraft
artists James Jubal Harris, Nina
Huryn, Michael Mikula and
Mark Sudduth are among the
first to receive new $20,000
Creative Workforce Fellow-
ships from the local Community
Partnership for Arts and Cul-
ture.
.. For her work turning
neglected sites into vibrant gar-
dens, New York artist Joan
Bankemper©, creator of
Dion
©, was honored with the
first Gabi Award, established
to promote “the connection
of community service and the
arts,” from the McColl Center
for Visual Art in Charlotte,
NC.
.. This year’s artists-in-
residence at the Studio of the
Accolades
Betty and George Woodman,
who have earned international
acclaim over the course of their
57-year marriage—she for her
vividly colored ceramics and he
for painting and photography-
will receive the National Artist
Award at the Anderson Ranch
Arts Center’s annua] Recogni-
tion Dinner July 14 in Snowmass
Village, co . The Service to
the Arts Award will go to Garth
Clark and Mark Del Vecchio
for their influential work in the
ceramics field as dealers, cura-
tors and writers. (Clark and Del
Vecchio recently teamed with
Cowan’s Auctions to present
select, semiannual auctions
of modem and contemporary
ceramic art).
..
Cutting Free®,
a silver bracelet by John Iverson
of East Hampton, NY, garnered
him the prestigious Herbert
Hofmann Prize for contempo-
rary jewelry, announced at the
International Handwerksmesse
(craft fair) in Munich. Mia
Maljojoki of Finland and David
Biedlander of Switzerland
shared the award.
.. Chuck Van-
natta was chosen to create 250
centerpieces for the Pilchuck
Glass School’s 32nd annual
benefit auction October 15 in
People & Places
Happenings
Coming Museum of Glass, NY,
are Eliza Au, Marie Retpen,
Gayla Lee, Leo Tecosky and
Slate Grove, Erica Rosenfeld
and K Hyewook Huh.
Makers, Markets
Most craft artists work at home,
but 69 percent aren’t properly
insured against accidents or
natural disasters that could dev-
astate their studios, equipment
and inventories. That’s the key
finding of Insuring Creativity,
a report from the nonprofit Craft
Emergency Relief Fund, which
surveyed nearly 3,000 profes-
sional makers nationwide. “The
results indicate a need to better
inform artists of the risks they
take,” says furniture maker
Craig Nutt, program director
for
c e r F.
A majority cited cost
as their main obstacle to buying
business insurance; 80 percent
said they’d likely buy a policy
if it was offered by a craft orga-
nization to which they be-
longed. “W e’re hoping this will
assist people who are trying to
put plans together, and inspire
some organizations to look into
this for their members,” Nutt
says. Meanwhile CERF’s new
Studio Protector is a must-have
kit for every artist’s workplace,
offering tips on safety, insur-
ance and disaster relief, in
a calendar-size, ready-to-hang
format with wheel charts and
removable quick-guides. $16
each from studioprotector.org
or CERF’s website, craftemer
gency.org.
.. The Pacific North-
west College of Art in Port-
land, OR, has teamed with Etsy.
com, the online craft market-
place, to advocate for the city’s
D IY youth community.
.. Potters
do it, jewelers do it, and now
mixed-media artists can do it,
too-that is, network in an online
community of their own, the
new site ClothPaperScissors.
com.
.. HandMade: The West-
ern North Carolina Craft,
Architecture & Design Expo
022 amcrican craft june/july io
www.WorldMags.net & www.Journal-Plaza.net
D io n
photo courtesy o f Nancy Hoffman Gallery / Bankemper photo courtesy of Michael Andrew, McColl Center for Visual A rt / Iverson photo R. Hensleigh.
