Joe Baker (Delaware Tribe of Indians), artist, educator, curator, and Executive Director, Longue Vue House and Gardens, New Orleans, has a distinguished career of arts advocacy. As the former Lloyd Kiva New Curator of Contemporary art at the Heard Museum, he pioneered opportunities for emerging and under-represented artists. He is the recipient of many awards, including the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian) Honored Designer Award, “Single Thread: Celebrated Native American Design & Style, 2008”. He has held various faculty appointments across the country. He holds a BFA and MFA from the University of Tulsa and completed postgraduate study at Harvard University.

Mary Kay Botkins has a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She has taught classes at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, John C. Campbell Folk School, and Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts. Her work has been published and exhibited in numerous venues nationally. She views pottery as small sculptures for domestic life and lives in East Dundee, Illinois.

Gerald Clarke is a Cahuilla Indian who spent his early childhood on the Cahuilla Reservation near Idyllwild, California. He went to college in Arkansas before moving to Texas where he earned both an MA and MFA in studio arts. Gerald has taught art on the community college and university level for over ten years. In addition, he teaches Cahuilla skills in various museums and venues. He has lectured on contemporary Native American Art and exhibited his work nationally and internationally, and is the subject of the film Borderlands. Gerald is the Cultural Preservation Coordinator for the Torres Martinez Tribal TANF, Cahuilla Site, and he lives with his family on the Cahuilla Indian Reservation. website

Karen Christians is the Founder of the non-profit jewelry school Metalwerx in Waltham, MA. She is the author of Making the Most of Your Flex-Shaft, published by the MJSA Press. Karen teaches workshops in jewelry, lectures at major trade shows and is a jewelry tool designer. She holds a BFA with High Honors from the Massachusetts College of Art. She is a regular participant at Burning Man where she teaches jewelry. Currently she has a studio at Artspace in Maynard, MA.

David Delgado is in his final year studying Sculpture at the College of the Arts in Oakland, California. He is well versed in traditional handbuilding techniques and the potter’s wheel for utilitarian and sculptural purposes. This will be David’s fifth year working for the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program.

Michael deMeng is an assemblage artist whose work is heavily influenced by Latin American art forms such as retablos, ex votos, and milagros. Born in Southern California, he now works and resides in Missoula, Montana. As an artist he has participated in numerous exhibits that promote awareness of such issues as AIDS, breast cancer, environmental and other social issues. DeMeng is co-founder of Missoula’s Festival of the Dead, an annual event based on the Latin Dia de los Muertos designed to celebrate life, death and the arts, through education, performance, and visual arts. He is the author of the bestselling craft book, Secrets of Rusty Things. As an educator, he offers a variety of mixed media workshops throughout the country and over the years has been actively involved with VSA Montana. Through these activities, as well as his artwork, deMeng fosters community awareness, and offers creative methods to explore the human experience. website

Barbara Drake is a member of the Ti’at (canoe) Society of the Gabrielino (Tongva) tribe and has served as secretary of the Tribal Council. She is a member of Mother Earth Clan, a group of Native American women educators who give cultural presentations on Southern California Indians in schools, museums and other venues throughout the region. She teaches Native Californian Lifeways at UC Riverside Extension. Barbara is a consultant to museums, nature centers and libraries and is involved in setting up cultural exhibits and living histories that reflect early California Indian lifestyles.

Robert Regis Dvorák, an artist and popular speaker on subjects of creativity in business and education, has been teaching drawing and watercolor painting for 35 years. He has authored four books on drawing: Drawing without Fear, The Magic of Drawing, Experiential Drawing, and The Practice of Drawing As Meditation. website

Katherine England is a muralist as well as an art teacher at the Muckenthaler Museum and several local schools and adult programs in Orange County, CA. She also has taught at workshops at art centers and retreats around the country. Though born in Hawaii, she was lucky to be raised a child of the ‘60’s near San Francisco. The colors and movement in art during this decade profoundly influenced her as a youth and show up as such in her art. Her favorite medium right now is glass and she loves breaking, nipping, melting it and coaxing it into playful patterns and whimsical figures. Her largest mosaic piece is 40’ by 8’ but she also enjoys playing with tinier pieces. She lives with her four children in Fullerton, CA. website

Jonna Faulkner has been working with metal clay since 1999. She is certified to teach in both Art Clay Silver and Precious Metal Clay. She is a contributing artist to Art Clay Silver and Gold by Jackie Truty, Exceptional Works in Metal Clay and Glass by Mary Ann Devos, The Art and Design of Metal Clay Jewelry and More 2009 by Holly Gage and The Art and Design of Metal Clay Jewelry 2010 by Holly Gage. Jonna has taught workshops at venues in France, New Mexico, California and Arizona. She also teaches out of her home studio in San Diego, CA. Her work has been sold at a number of fine craft shows and galleries. website

Amy Friedman is the author of two books of creative nonfiction, Kick the Dog and Shoot the Cat and Nothing Sacred: A Conversation with Feminism. She is currently completing a memoir, The Murderer’s House, and is the author of the long-running, world-wide syndicated newspaper for children, Tell Me A Story. She often performs her personal essays at Spoken Word venues in LA and has published hundreds of stories, columns and articles. Amy teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension and through PEN in the Schools for high school students in the LAUSD.

Joanna Gollberg is a studio jeweler in Asheville, North Carolina. In addition to making jewelry, she is the author of four books: Making Metal Jewelry, Creative Metal Crafts, The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry, and The Jeweler’s Guide. Joanna teaches jewelry making at craft schools such as The Penland School of Craft and Arrowmont Craft School as well as for metalsmithing groups across the country. She exhibits her work at fine craft shows and galleries nationally.website

Trudy Ellen Golley received her training at the Alberta College of Art and Design, the University of Calgary (BFA) and the University of Tasmania (MFA). She has been invited to participate in artist’s residencies, exhibit, lecture and lead workshops internationally. The Head of Ceramics at Red Deer College, her work is represented in numerous private and public collections in Canada and abroad. She challenges many of the conventionally held notions of ceramics by incorporating such elements as light that bleeds through openings, suggesting an internal presence. “For me,” Golley states, “the use of light is the manifestation of an energy—symbolic of one’s inner spirit—that offers a sense of mystery.” See Trudy’s recent article, Paperplaster in Ceramics: TECHNICAL, Issue No. 28. website

Arthur Gonzalez has an MFA from UC Davis and since 1991 has been teaching at California College of the Arts in Oakland. His figure-based sculptures and recent ceramic work reflect on the relationship between personal concerns and world issues. His work is collected nationally and internationally and has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Arthur is a widely sought after workshop presenter. website

Rose Ann Hamilton, Mountain Cahuilla, learned the art of Cahuilla Basketmaking from Donna Largo, longtime Idyllwild Arts summer faculty member and the weaver responsible for the current revival of the tradition. Rose Ann was one of Donna’s first Cahuilla students, and has been making baskets for almost 20 years now. She is active in the Southern California Indian Basketweavers Association, and teaches basketmaking at numerous venues, including Agua Caliente Cultural Museum and UCLA.

Jan Harris is a mixed media and jewelry artist in Vancouver, WA who teaches mixed media workshops in retreat venues across the United States. Her work has appeared in the books, Collage Lab and Creative Wildfire, as well as several national magazines. Jan has studied art at Montana State and Boise State University and is currently represented by Sixth Street Gallery, in Vancouver, WA. See Jan’s blog

Bridget Henry has been exploring the possibilities of color woodcut for 14 years, and continues to be enthralled with this alchemical process. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and the recipient of the 2001 James Phelan award in printmaking. Bridget works in the printmaking studio of UC Santa Cruz and has taught color woodcut at the Cabrillo College Summer Arts program, Momi Lani Paper Arts, California Art Education Association, Art League of Santa Cruz and out of her home studio on the north coast of Santa Cruz, CA. website

Deborah E. Love Jemmott has shared her love for metal by teaching jewelry making and metalsmithing to others since 1978. She teaches through the San Diego Community College District and Saddleback Community College in addition to teaching many workshops and private lessons in a wide range of topics. Her students have won awards for their work and many sell work that they have produced in class. Deb’s belief that we all have artistic creativity combined with her mastery of jewelry making techniques is key to her teaching. She works at nurturing the artistic creativity in each student as well as helping them achieve their ideas in metal. Deb’s work has been featured in American Style, American Craft, Metalsmith, San Diego Home Garden and Redbook magazines as well as the San Diego Union Tribune newspaper. It has also appeared in Art Clay Silver and Gold by Jackie Truty, The Goodfellow Catalog of Wonderful Things III, Jewelry Making: A Guide for Beginners by Thomas P. Foote, and 20 Years in Metal. She has exhibited widely and currently has work in galleries across the country. She continues to exhibit and create custom artwork in addition to keeping up with her jewelry and metalsmithing company, Enhancements. website

Greg Kennedy BS, Biology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. National Science Foundation Award for botany and geology studies in the Spring Mountain Range of Clark County Nevada. After graduating with honors in 1972, Greg turned his attention toward ceramics. Since that time, he has been a studio potter and ceramics teacher. His focus and inspiration is mountain topography and is continually charmed by nature. Respectful of traditional pottery, he enjoys meeting with indigenous potters and learning from them during his global travels. This will be Greg’s 25th year of teaching for Idyllwild Arts. His home and studio are located in the coast range of Oregon, where he practices quietness, authenticity, harmony and sustainability

Peggi Kroll-Roberts, award winning artist and teacher, was trained at Arizona State University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Peggi worked as a fashion and advertising illustrator before making the transition into fine art. Using intense color and value to accentuate her subject, she moved into fine art with a bold palette, a love for small paintings and a very loose style that achieves a lot with a few very energetic brush strokes. She prefers to suggest reality than render it. Inspired by her children she paints beach scenes and other aspects of their lives. She also breaks away from the conventional still life by painting scenes of cosmetics and the occasional coffee cup or slab of butter. Peggi’s work gives us a new appreciation of our own daily life. website

Jane LaFazio is a mixed media artist who works in paper and cloth. Her artwork has been featured in Cloth, Paper, Scissors and Quilting Arts magazines many times and she appeared on Quilting Arts TV season 3. Her piece wet-felted “Eucalyptus Zen” was featured at the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach and Houston 2010. Jane’s artwork has been featured in Danny Gregory’s An Illustrated Life, Mixed-Media Self-Portraits, Material Visions, and Art Quilts at Play. website

Eduardo Lazo is a professional potter/sculptor who brings 30 years of experience to his classes. He is an internationally recognized expert in low fire techniques and has taught in private studios, community centers, colleges and universities. He holds an MFA from Cal. State University Los Angeles. website

Paul Leathers holds a B.F.A. from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and an M.F.A. from the University of Calgary. He has taught at the post-secondary level and has exhibited, attended artist’s residencies, lectured and led workshops internationally. After developing a portable foundry and adapting refractory shell technology, he expanded his studio practice to include installation-based sculptures and medallic artworks as well as jewelry and small-scale functional objects. Paul invents evocative forms that explore strategies of attraction and the objective relationship between viewer, viewed and viewpoint. website


Ingrid Lilligren coordinates HOT CLAY. A professor at Iowa State University, she teaches ceramics. Recent research has concentrated in application of crystalline glazes on sculptural porcelain forms. She has been artist in residence at the State Academy of Art in Tbilisi, Georgia, Mendocino Art Center, and A.I. R., Vallauris, France. Her work was the subject of a recent solo survey exhibit at the Dubuque Museum of Art and is exhibited and collected nationally. Her MFA degree is from The Claremont Graduate University. website

Val Link, artist, educator and craftsman received his BFA Degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and MFA Degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. After teaching three years at the Interlochen Center of the Arts in Michigan, he was hired in 1970 to establish the Jewelry and Metalsmithing Program at the University of Houston, Texas. He has held this position for 37 years until his retirement September 2007. In 1986 he was awarded the Humanities and Fine Arts Teaching Excellence Award. His gold and silver work is in numerous private collections as well as national and international museum collections such as The Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, The Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, Wisconsin, The Cranbrook Academy of Art Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England. He has been an active member in The Society of North American Goldsmiths since 1969 and a charter member in The Society of American Silversmiths. Over the last forty years he has been invited to present many workshops regionally and nationally.

Karen Michel is a mixed media artist and author of Green Guide for Artists and The Complete Guide to Altered Imagery who creates work from recycled and repurposed materials, mojo and sunshine. She lives in New York where she runs a non-profit art center for kids with her artist husband Carlo Thertus, the Creative Art Space for Kids Foundation. website

Barbara Teller Ornelas is best known for her “tapestry” weavings (95-108 weft threads per inch). She has set several records with her weavings: she is the only weaver in history to win Best of Show at the Santa Fe Indian Market – which she did twice; she established a new record in 1987 by selling a weaving for $60,000 that she and her sister made; and she has woven the largest tapestry style Navajo weaving on record. Barbara is a fourth generation weaver who was raised near Two Grey Hills on the Navajo Reservation where her father was a trader. She has been featured in National Geographic, Business Week, Americana and Native Peoples Magazines, as well as numerous books. She has won dozens of awards, and has demonstrated and lectured at museums and institutions across the country. website

Lynda Teller Pete began weaving at age 6 and won her first major award at age 12 at the Gallup Ceremonial. She has gone on to win numerous awards for her weaving including two Blue Ribbons from the Santa Fe Indian Market. Lynda collaborates with museums, schools and other art venues in Colorado and around the country to teach the public about Navajo weaving. She is also known as an accomplished beadwork artist and has won many awards for this work as well. website


Ron Pokrasso has been an exhibiting mixed media artist and printmaker for more than 25 years. He received his MFA degree from Pratt Institute in 1975 and has had over 40 solo exhibitions and more than 150 group shows. His work is in public, private, and corporate collections throughout the US and abroad as well as being featured in several books. For eleven years Pokrasso owned and directed Graphics Workshop (gifted to the College of Santa Fe in 1993). He is originator of the printmaking event “Monothon” and has been an ardent supporter of arts programs for youth. His teaching experience includes universities, museums, public schools and private workshops, as well as Artist Residencies in the US, Scotland, Ireland and Italy. In 2000, Ron Pokrasso received the Mayor’s Recognition Award for Visual Arts citing his artistic and educational contribution to the city of Santa Fe. In addition to numerous galleries nationwide, he is represented by Denise Roberge Gallery in Palm Desert. website

Randy Redroad is a filmmaker, musician, and educator. He has written, directed, edited and produced documentaries, shorts, feature films, and the pilot for a television series. These efforts have earned him many awards, including his feature film debut, The Doe Boy, which premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker’s Award, and went on to collect another fourteen festival awards. Randy is currently editing and directing several films which are at various stages of production. Between films, he makes music and teaches with the Akatubi Film and Music Academy–a traveling film school that brings digital filmmaking to reservation youth across the country. website

Ray Roberts was born in California and has been a professional artist for over 30 years, dividing his time between California and Arizona. Receiving his BFA from Art Center College of Design, Roberts began his career as an illustrator before transitioning to fine arts. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the California Art Clubs’ Gold Medal Award. Roberts incorporates his on-location painting experience into his studio works. He brings to Idyllwild more than 15 years experience conducting plein air workshops. website

Barbara Roth has a degree in art from UCLA, a teaching credential with specialization in art education, and has studied art at Art Student’s League in NY, Art Center in Pasadena, and Otis Parsons in LA. For many years, she taught school and wrote and illustrated children’s books. Today, she teaches at Sierra College, Placer Adult School, at art retreats in the US, as well as in Italy and France. Barbara uses this method of journaling for her own personal journals and has found them to work out really well. website

Terry Rothrock has worked as a potter in factories, for other potters, and as a self-employed artist and teacher. His fascination for working at the potter’s wheel is still the driving force in making pottery. He has explored a wide variety of forms, techniques, and surface decoration and enjoys sharing these with others. Currently, he teaches at Idyllwild Arts Academy and makes pottery with his wife, Chinlee Chang.

Lawrence Saufkie is from Shungopovi village on Second Mesa on the Hopi Reservation, and is a member of the Bear Clan. He has been a silversmith since he was eleven years old, and learned the craft from his father, Paul Saufkie, who along with Fred Kabotie, is recognized as the leader who created the Hopi overlay style known today as the “traditional” Hopi style. Lawrence travels and exhibits throughout the U.S. His award winning jewelry has been featured in numerous books on Hopi art and jewelry. In 1962, he was the first Hopi to attend the Santa Fe Indian Market. In 1998 he was named an Arizona Indian Living Treasure.

Griselda Saufkie, lives on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, where she began making baskets upon initiation, when she was about 12 years old. She has the distinction of being named an Arizona Indian Living Treasure. Griselda has received many awards for her basketry, and is included in books such as Art of the Hopi: Contemporary Journeys on Ancient Pathways, by Lois and Jerry Jacka. She is also an accomplished jeweler, and has assisted Lawrence in their home studio throughout his career.

Nicholas Simmons paints in watermedia and his paintings are known for their diversity and power. He exhibits internationally and teaches workshops across the country. He has studied with many watercolorists, including Valfred Thelin and Barbara Nechis. His paintings have been featured in a variety of publications, and on Public Television. His DVD, Innovative Watermedia, was released in 2008. Nicholas is sponsored by Da Vinci Paint and Princeton Brushes. His awards include the top prize at the 2007 National Watercolor Society, and unprecedented consecutive gold medals at the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, 2008-2010. He will be on the selection committee at the Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolour Biennial Exhibition in 2010. Nicholas is sought after as a workshop instructor, lecturer, and judge, known for his fresh, unorthodox, and often irreverent approach. He lives in the Washington, DC area. website

Lorene Sisquoc is a descendent of the Mountain Cahuilla and a member of the Fort Sill Apache tribe. She is co-founder of Mother Earth Clan and gives cultural presentations throughout the region. Lorene is the curator of the Sherman Indian Museum in Riverside, California. She is on the board of directors of the California Indian Basket Weavers Association, as well as Natachee (a non-profit organization dedicated to the continuance of American Indian culture and spirituality). In 1997, the city of Riverside honored her with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visionary Award for community cultural awareness.

Ernest H. Siva is a musician and teacher. He is the cultural advisor and tribal historian for the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. Siva formerly taught public school music in Palm Springs and Los Angeles before teaching courses in American Indian music at UCLA for 12 years. He and his wife June are Idyllwild Arts alumni and its ardent supporters. In 2004, Ushkana Press published his book, Voices of the Flute. He is president and founder of the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center.

Ed Skoog (MFA, Creative Writing, University of Montana) is Writer-In-Residence at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle and author of Mister Skylight, a collection of poems (Copper Canyon, 2009) and many stories and poems in literary magazines such as The Paris Review, Poetry Ploughshares, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, and Narrative. He was one of thirteen teachers nationwide nominated for a Distinguished Teacher in the Arts award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in 2005. He has taught creative writing at Tulane University, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts/Riverfront, and formerly at the Idyllwild Arts Academy.

Tony Soares learned the fundamentals of pottery from his grandmother at age seven, starting a 30+ year journey to revive the fading art of olla making. Though not of Cahuilla descent, he is credited with helping to revive the art of Cahuilla pottery making through his experimentation with local clays and indigenous handbuilding techniques. Today, his pottery is displayed in art galleries and museums including the Tahquitz Canyon Museum. Tony is dedicated to sharing his knowledge to ensure that Native American pottery making is never lost. He has taught his skills at many venues including the Agua Caliente Band of the Desert Cahuilla of Palm Springs and the Yuman tribes of the Colorado River, Arizona.

David St. John has been honored with many of the country’s most significant prizes for poets, including fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as The Rome Prize in Literature and an Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He currently teaches at USC. St. John is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently The Face: A Novella in Verse.

Mark Tahbo is known as one of the finest Hopi potters today. Born and raised on the Hopi Reservation, First Mesa, Mark learned the art from his great grandmother Grace Chapella, Nampeyo’s neighbor and a principle pottery “revival” artist decades ago. His distinctive pots have been exhibited worldwide in museums and galleries. Among the many top awards he has earned at the Santa Fe Indian Market is the prestigious Helen Naha Memorial Award for Excellence in Hopi Pottery which he earned for 3 consecutive years. Mark has been profiled in various publications including Native Peoples Magazine, and is included in numerous books and articles on Pueblo pottery.

Marie Thibeault is a Professor of Art at California State University, Long Beach, where she teaches her much sought after color course for painters. This seminal course is highly effective for all levels of painters from beginners to professionals. She received her BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in painting from UC Berkeley. Her large abstract paintings are arenas of action, informed by the contemporary landscape in transition and utilize symbolic color as an expressive force. She has an extensive exhibition record, and is the recipient of numerous awards. Her most recent exhibitions include Broken Symmetries at the Torrence Museum of Art, and When Worlds Collide at George Lawson, RFPRFP in San Francisco. website

Richard Tsosie is a Navajo jeweler and sculptor from Flagstaff and the Wide Ruins area of the Navajo Reservation and is currently living in Scottsdale, Arizona. His work has been featured in American Indian Art Magazine, Arizona Highways Magazine, the video “Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Indian Art and Its Evolution”, as well as several books including, Southwestern Indian Jewelry by Dexter Cirillo and Enduring Traditions, Art of the Navajo by Jerry Jacka. Richard’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums from New York to California.

Devon Tsuno is an abstract painter and curator. He received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2005, and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach. His hard edge paintings based on Los Angeles have been shown at galleries such as Sam Lee Gallery, Carl Berg Gallery, POST, and Louisiana Tech University. Devon has taught at schools such as CSULB, the University of La Verne, CSSSA at Cal Arts, East Los Angeles College and is currently the gallery director at Cypress College where he teaches painting, drawing and curatorial studies. His work as a curator started as the founder of Concrete Walls Gallery in 2003 and has curated numerous shows at spaces such as Angels Gate Cultural Center, focusing on developing community building exhibitions of mid-career and emerging artists. website

Laura Wait lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and divides her time between artist books and encaustic painting. Words as image play an important part in her work, acting as pattern, texture, and occasionally content. She holds a degree in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University, NY, as well as certificates in Printmaking and Bookbinding from Croydon College of Art, England. Her work is in many collections, including the Library of Congress. website

Amy Wallen, author of Los Angeles Times bestselling novel, MoonPies and Movie Stars is a writer-in-residence at New York State Summer Writers Institute and host of the national public radio and live reading series DimeStories (www.dimestories.org). She is also the Unconventional Relationships columnist for The Faster Times (www.thefastertimes.com). While you are reading this she is at work on her next novel. website

Pauline Warg is a metalsmith with 35 years experience. She earned a Journeyman Metalsmithing Certificate after completing a 3 year apprenticeship to Master Goldsmith Philip Morton and holds a BFA from the University of Southern Maine. Her work ranges from fabricated jewelry making and silversmithing to enameling both jewelry and holloware. She owns and operates WARG Enamel and Tool Center, in Scarborough, Maine. The center features a gallery of her own work, a full service tool and supply store for jewelers and enamelists, and teaching studio for metalsmithing and enameling. She is the author of Making Metal Beads, and teaches at the Maine College of Art, Armory Art Center, FL, Wildacres, NC, Peter’s Valley, NJ, and a variety of other art centers and colleges. website

Linda Womack shares her love of encaustic painting through national gallery exhibits, books, blogs and workshops. She is the author of Embracing Encaustic: Learning to Paint with Beeswax and the founder of the Oregon chapter of the International Encaustic Artists. Linda is often a featured speaker and instructor at the International Encaustic Conference and her work has been published in Studio Visit and American Art Collector. website

Marvin and Jonette Yazzie are from Lukachukai, a small town on the Navajo reservation in the Four Corners region of Arizona. Jonette assists Marvin in flute making, an art they learned from their relative Willard Coyote. Their flutes are carried in the Heard Museum shop and others around the country, as well as Asia and Europe. Recording artist Scott August of Cedar Mesa Music has used Yazzie flutes on Sacred Dreams and New Fire, two of his CDs. Marvin is listed in Flute Magic and Voices of the Flute. Yazzie flutes are used in the music programs of Tuscon and Klamath-Trinity school districts.
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Nathan Youngblood is a sixth generation potter from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, and is the grandson of renowned potter Margaret Tafoya, and son of Mela Youngblood. He has been making pottery since 1972, creating both black and red & tan traditional styles, and adhering to all the traditional aspects of making a bowl. Nathan has won over 44 awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market, often 1st & 2nd place, as well as the Jack Hoover Memorial Award for excellence in Santa Clara pueblo pottery. His work has been exhibited widely at galleries and museums across the country, and he has been included in numerous magazines and books on Native American art and pottery. Nathan has served on the boards for the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts (SWAIA), and the Wheelwright Museum.

Margaret Zinser has been a lampworker since 2001 and has been making beads and teaching beadmaking full time since 2005 after finishing her Master’s degree in Entomology in 2004. Her scientific background has contributed to her glass work by providing inspiration, a willingness to experiment, and a drive for technical and creative development. For training in lampwork, she has studied with Brownen Hellman, Lucio Bubacco, Bandhu Dunham and Shane Fero. Margaret volunteers on the Board of Directors of both the Sonoran Glass Art Academy, the premier glass art school of the Southwest, and Beads of Courage, a national non-profit that provides arts-in-medicine programming for children coping with serious illness. website

Fred Zweig has been actively working in metal and teaching others for more than 30 years. His current body of work includes raised bowls and brooches that involve hand forged elements combined with textured and modified planes of metal. Fred is a creative innovator of materials and tools to create his unique designs. His passion for metal and interest in the earlier craftsmen who have kept metalsmithing alive have led him to study and collect the work of American metalsmiths of the Arts & Crafts Movement.