Paul Brayton
Carrie Burckle
Suzi Click
Deborah Cross
Terry de Castro
Anne Olsen Daub
Barbara Danzi
Harold Greene
Tzipora Hoynik
Marianne & Bill Hunter
Elaine Hyde
Audrey Jung
Exhibitors
Beanie Kaman
Cindy Keefer
Kathleen Klein-Wakefield
Bill Meek
Robert Miller
Valerie Mitchell
Joan Robey
Michael F. Rohde
Leslie Rosdol
Adrian Sandstrom
Joshua Saltman
Eric Silva
Peggy Sivert
Rachel Shimpock
Meredith Strauss
Randy Stromsoe
Alex & Mona Szabados
Lisette Thierry
Cheryl Ann Thomas
Joan Takayama-Ogawa
Da Aie Park
Regina Vorgang
Michael Freitas Wood
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GLASS
Paul Brayton's spark as a glassblower was lit by his friend's father, an instructor at Pitzer College, as well as Claremont. Paul approached him for his independent study, and the rest is history. He also studied at the Pilchuck Glass School, and working together with his old friend, introduced glassworking at Peninsula High School.
CLOTHING
Deborah Cross has been making her distinctive, artistic and finely surfaced shirts for decades, and has honed her craft to a constantly changing kaleidoscope of colors and variations. Her pieced and textured clothes are fashionable throughout the year, and wear easily. Her sense of play is apparent, and her blouses, jackets and coats act as her canvas.
PAPER/SCULPTURE
Da Aie Park works with the Korean mulberry paper hanji, which beautifully receives paints and dyes. Her subtle and nuanced use of color creates quiet and emotional canvases. As an artist working in multiple media, she also builds exquisite shore bird sculptures from wire mesh.
JEWELRY/METAL
Randy Stromsoe worked as an apprentice for Porter Blanchard, a master of the Arts & Crafts Movement who lived in Pacoima, California. Stromsoe would eventually inherit his master's tools, and continues with his own legacy of impeccable craftsmanship.
CERAMICS
Adrian Sandstrom uses multi-fired porcelain to create his textural and highly patterned glaze finishes. He was born and raised in Iowa and graduated with a bachelor of arts from Buena Vista University in 2002. He then moved to Asheville, North Carolina to apprentice with Hank Goodman for two years, before finishing his voyage in California. He started his new life here working with ceramicist Ricky Maldonado.
FIBER ART
Regina Vorgang started out in life as a graphic designer who also studied traditional art. After many years working on the computer, she yearned to work with her hands. She taught herself through attending weaving workshops, and loves creating rugs and table runners that are filled with color. Her patterns pay homage to global cultures, and bear vocabulary from both indigenous sources, and modernist art.
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CERAMICS
Leslie Rosdol creates beautiful, gentle and quixotic work that finds clay as a partner in play. She experiments in both approach and subject matter, often bringing in nature or animals as silent participants in the environments she creates. Sometimes she depicts the absurd, unique glazes bringing human tableaus into stark relief.
ACCESSORIES
Audrey Jung has made quite a journey through her career, from selling her early felt bags and purses at the Contemporary Crafts Market in Pasadena to selling in the halls of the Smithsonian Craft Show and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. She's learned much from other artists, and has honed her craft, and designs, to an impeccable level. They are as smart as they are practical.
JEWELRY
Alex & Mona Szabados have quietly dedicated themselves to the art of enamel over the years. With more than four decades of experience, Mona has created an ethereal world of beauty with her union between nature and wilderness, and the soft girls who represent a child-like innocence, and humanity's capacity to live in harmony with the world.
FIBER ART
Michael F. Rohde is a traditional tapestry weaver and fiber artist who is enthralled with color, shape and pattern. His early works explore the impact of human and nature on people's homes and lives.
JEWELRY
Tzipora Hoynik has been a jewelrymaker for over thirty years, and is constantly finding new ways to pair metal and stone together. Her richly textured surfaces draw inspiration from global cultures, including her Warrior Woman pendants.
SCULPTURE
Joan Robey makes lyrical work from all manner of materials. Her Machine sculptures are from bits of old furniture and building materials, a playful commentary on our industrial world.
JEWELRY
Marianne Hunter and her husband Bill are master craftspeople in the media of jewelry and wood. Marianne has been an enamelist for over fifty years, using her little toy kiln to create jubilant and breathtaking pendants. Paired with beautiful precious and semiprecious stones, her Kabuki Kachina series often tackles issues of hope and social justice.
FIBER ART
Carrie Burckle has a sensitive eye for shape and color, combining the two according to a modernist sensibility. Her abstract forms and patterns suggest elements of nature and the cosmos. Her work expands beyond fiber to bring in any material necessary to accomplish her vision.
PAPER
Terry de Castro is a talented musician as well as an artist. Her paper collages draw from a variety of sources to create richly textural compositions, often like still lifes, of calm and contemplative scenes. A koi pond, or a vase of flowers exists as a moment in time, to be savored via strong and bold colors.
FIBER ART
Barbara Danzi's contemporary art quilts take an old tradition and bring a modernist spin. Brilliant and bright colors form abstract compositions and landscapes, occasionally meandering into realms with their own subtle sense of humor. Her large works bring light and color to any room.
GLASS
Bill Meek is adventuresome with his glass, sometimes carving or cutting it into shape, at other times texturing it, as he seeks to depict a fish in water, or King Arthur's sword in the stone. Self-taught and with over five decades of experience, Meek often uses plate glass, which possesses vivid colors, and sandblasting along with other tools in his repertoire to bring the material to vivid life.
JEWELRY/METAL
Lisette Thierry designing and making her jewelry for over thirty years, learning her craft at the California College of Arts and Crafts. She would go on to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach. Her hand piercing creates bold patterns that accompany lush semiprecious stones. Her metalwork thus forms robust frames for the canvas of the stone.
JEWELRY/METAL
Anne Olsen Daub has lived in Los Angeles for over twenty-five years, spending her earlier careers working for fashion and toy companies. Now free to work on her own terms, she takes her experience in assemblage to both jewelry and sculpture.
FIBER ART
Michael Frietas Wood blends together the scientific, the hand, and the digital in his application of unusual materials to two-dimensional art. From using colored plaster of fiberglass to create wall pieces utilizing grids to create complex layered patterns and messages to his more intimate stitched and collaged frames, Wood's work addresses the issues of our time.
CERAMICS
Kathleen Klein-Wakefield has a wry sense of humor that expresses itself through her work. Representative clay objects create miniature tableaus that can create incongruous moments for the observer through their clever trompe l'oeil. These still lifes are seen also in her paintings, while her mixed media collages are clever and thought-provoking.
CLOTHING
Suzi Click has been a staple of the Los Angeles marketplace for decades, sewing her own ensembles from ethnographic and tribal textiles. Vibrant and paying homage to the cultures they're drawn from, Suzi's unique clothing matches the adventurer's wardrobe.
JEWELRY
Eric Silva has always found his own vocabulary using minimalist elements with natural and organic materials, such as deer antler, which he gathers himself. Light and airy, they use brilliant semiprecious stones to good effect, always complementing the body with rich sea foam greens, and striking amethyst.
FURNITURE
Joshua Saltman combines veteran furniture making skills with a deep love for the lustre and grain of wood. His gracious, ample forms are generous with the material, and always display a reverence for wood and how it may best be formed.
CERAMICS
Joan Takayama-Ogawa offers both natural representations, and amusing trompe l'oeil cakes and confectionaries rendered in glazed kiln-fired clay. She also creates an exquisite series of teapots and other vessels, and dabbles in several different media, including making light fixtures.
MULTIMEDIA
Beanie Kaman mixes playfulness with a sober engagement with the world. She started off her career in art as a painter, eventually adding sewing to her oeuvre in 2015. Her childhood was grounded in a deep exposure to fine art, which translated to her own pursuit of painting and drawing.
JEWELRY
Rachel Shimpock is an enamel jeweler who seeks to pose questions of materiality and scale, while elevating the humble and mundane. From remaking plastic bread tags from metal and enamel, to creating facsimiles of half-eaten and moldy bread, popcorn and potato chips, Shimpock cleverly draws our attention to everyday objects and in doing so, conjures a sweet sentimentality.
FIBER ART
Cheryl Ann Thomas finds the qualities of fiber to be irresistible, and from crocheted wall pieces and standing sculptures to painting on silk, she expresses her deep love of nature, texture and light. Even when she switches mediums to porcelain, her delicate works imitate the intimate folds and surfaces of cloth and textiles.
FIBER ART
Meredith's contemporary fiber work combines weaving, dyeing, hand stitching, and surface painting, drawing inspiration from ethnic textiles and traditional techniques. Her distinctive layered process transforms simple materials into richly textured works that balance structural complexity with a sense of discovery and surprise.
Peggy Sivert works in a variety of media, from painting to sculpture, although it is more accurate to say she uses materials as a means to an end. Sometimes she mixes acrylic and paper collage to create richly textured landscapes; sometimes, she takes ceramic castoffs and assembles them into an awe-inspiring new form. Each times, she experiments and explores new ground.
CERAMICS
JEWELRY
Valerie Mitchell finds a sublime quality to enamel which she endlessly experiments with, creating architectural forms that form a counterpoint to a semiprecious stone. The vitreous enamel she favors, along with electroformed copper, often imitates the elements of verdigris, and this tension forms poignant moments of awareness of the passage of time.
SCULPTURE
Cindy Keefer is a sculpture artist, and a staple of the Rancho Palos Verdes community. She recently completed a public work installed at Griffith Observatory. She works in metal, with many figural sculptures celebrating life's moments of joy. The human body, or fish diving in the deep blue waters are just a few of her subjects.
FURNITURE
Harold Greene takes a modernist approach to furniture design, with clean, minimal but luxurious forms. He makes both purely wooden and upholstered furnishings, with a pronounced respect for the lustre and grain. He also carves larger sculptural works, such as his Water Dragon carved beam that pays homage to both Eastern and Native American influences. Since 1978, Greene has been mastering his craft.
CERAMICS
Robert Miller's parents wanted him to pursue a law degree rather than the arts, however a chance dinner with his father's friend, the famous Russian sculptor Serge Sarkis, in his senior year of high school opened up a new path for him. From Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, to UCLA, then to Shigaraki, Japan, Miller has been fortunate to have many valuable learning experiences that informs his work.