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Hands-on demonstrations and craft activities will take place on

the show floor throughout the weekend.

AW ARDS OF E X C E LLE N C E W ALKING TOUR

Friday, April 15, 2-2:30 pm

Meet at Council Booth in Rotunda

The American Craft Council will bestow Awards of Excellence to four

artists at the St. Paul Show. Three recipients will receive awards for

the outstanding quality of their work, while one exhibitor will be

recognized for booth design. The juror for the 2011 American Craft

Council show in St. Paul is Mark Pharis. Pharis teaches ceramics at

the University of Minnesota, where he has been a faculty member

since 1985. He was first introduced to ceramics as a student of

Warren MacKenzie in 1967. Pharis’ functional ceramic forms have

appeared in numerous exhibitions and can be found in collections

around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the

Gardner Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Mark

will lead a walking tour on Friday at 2 pm to present the winning

exhibitors with their awards and discuss what he found exceptional

in each artist’s work or booth design.