Two of her pieces are included in Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in American. In addition to her studio work, Lois has taught basketry at Haystack, Arrowmont, Snow Farm, and North Country Studio Workshops. Lois has juried and curated basketry exhibitions and served as the President of the National Basketry Organization for three years.

Lois has been an exhibitor at the Society’s CraftBoston several times and received the SA+C’s Award of Excellence in 2015.

Before becoming a studio artist, Lois was a journalist writing primarily about education for national publications including the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, and the San Jose Mercury. In the 1980s, she served as an advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Education on a number of national education reports. She has written for national craft magazines about fiber art and basketry.

Lois has a long history of civic involvement. She was board president of Young Audiences of Massachusetts and served two terms on the Lexington, Massachusetts, School Committee. She was the non-scientist member of the Internal Review Board at Children’s Hospital Boston for over 20 years and served four terms at Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts. Lois was on the board of CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund) and joined the board of Penland School of Craft in 2017.

With degrees from Simmons College and Stanford University, Lois has taught writing at the secondary and university levels. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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Prior to joining MIT, he worked at Tufts University as Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs, and before then, held a number of positions at Harvard University over thirteen years, including Assistant Dean for Centers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Secretary of the University in the Office of the Governing Boards.

As a volunteer, Gary has served as the chair of the Medford Arts Council since 2014 and helped lead this municipal commission to become honored as the 2016 Local Cultural Council of the Year for Massachusetts in recognition of its dedication to community arts and culture. In addition to his responsibilities as Council Chair, he is an advocate for bringing public art and creative placemaking to the city, and actively encourages greater connectivity among the many stakeholders in the local arts and culture community. Gary also serves on the Leadership Council for MASSCreative, a statewide non-profit advocacy organization.

Gary earned a Ph.D. in English literature and languages from Brandeis University, where he specialized in modern and contemporary poetry. He is an active poet and translator of poetry. Gary’s lifelong interest in the visual arts is matched by a deep enthusiasm for many craft media, especially contemporary ceramics.

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She is currently Treasurer of the Society of Arts & Crafts and serves on the Boards of North Country Studio Workshops and Snow Farm. Past board positions include the Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+), the Penland School of Craft, the National Basketry Organization (NBO), and the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen.

Polly has taught several Fiber workshops including, Pastepaper, Boxmaking, Paper Basketweaving, and Floor Cloths. Polly describes herself as an “arts advocate” dedicated to helping sustain the careers of craft artists, many of whom have their work in her private ceramics, fiber, and wood colelction. Polly lives in Boston, MA.

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Paulette received her B.S. in painting and sculpture from the College of Saint Rose and Skidmore College in NY, and her M.F.A. in Art Metal from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paulette exhibits and sells her work both nationally and internationally and teaches workshops in jewelry making and metalsmithing techniques.

She is a founding member of Metalpeople Studio in Madison, WI. Her current studio, Metalpeople East, is located in Lebanon, NH. She serves on the Boards of Trustees for the Society of Arts + Crafts in Boston, MA, and for the Alliance for the Visual Arts in Lebanon, NH.

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She became a board member in 2014 and is currently serving her second consecutive term.  She has been involved with a number of committees, such as CraftsBoston, the Education Committee, and the Retail/Marketing committee.

Effie has exhibited her jewelry at the Society of Arts + Crafts and her work has been acquired by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.  She has juried work for an exhibition held at the Society of International Jewelry Artists at Alchimia, a jewelry school in Florence, Italy.

Effie has been actively making and collecting contemporary jewelry for over 22 years and is a member of The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and The American Craft Council (ACC).

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Jennifer served as a Senior Designer in the Boston Office, on the Design Steering Committee, and on the Sustainable Design Task Force. In the field of Interior Design, Jennifer was on the Board of the International Interior Design Association, serving as Boston City Center Director, Chair of the Business Leaders Breakfast, Vice President and President, and on the Board of Directors of the Boston Architectural College. She is an interior design educator and has been an adjunct faculty instructor, thesis advisor, and review juror for interior design studios at Endicott College, the Boston Architectural College, the Suffolk School of Art and Design, the Wentworth Institute of Technology, and the University of Massachusetts.

Currently, Jennifer serves as a consultant on corporate and residential interior design projects. Jennifer is a member artist of the Fort Point Arts Community and Metalwerx. She is married to Josh Billings and has two teenage sons, Max and Ari. She has been making and collecting contemporary jewelry for over 22 years.

She is a member of The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and The American Craft Council (ACC).

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Much of her time is spent at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she has volunteered for the past 25 years as a Gallery Instructor, working with students of all ages and as an adult guide. In addition, she serves on the American, Asian, and Contemporary visiting committee, and is an advisor at both the MFA and The Fuller Craft Museum.

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Ellen-Deane has been an active member of many non-profit organizations in New York City, Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco, and upstate New York. She has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society of Arts + Crafts for over 20 years and became an Honorary Life Trustee in 2014. Ellen-Deane is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hyde Collection, a historic home and fine art museum in Glens Falls, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Union College Concert Series in Schenectady, and an immediate past member of the Board of Directors of the Saratoga Chamber Players.

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She was co-curator of Gilded New York: Design, Fashion & Society (Museum of the City of New York, 2013) and Artistic Luxury: Fabergé – Tiffany – Lalique (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008). She curated New York Silver, Then and Now (Museum of the City of New York), in a dialogue between contemporary artists and the historic silver collection of MCNY (2017). Her upcoming exhibition is Betty Cooke, The Line and the Circle, on the legendary Baltimore jeweler. The exhibition will open at the Walters Museum of Art.

Jeannine’s interest in the Society of Arts + Crafts stems from her years as the Peter and Carolyn Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She also contributed an essay for the exhibition Inspiring Reform, Boston’s Arts and Crafts Movement (Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 1997) and is an authority on the arts and crafts era in Boston.

Jeannine teaches the history of American ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design and the history of American Craft at Parsons, The New School. She serves on the steering committee of the New York Silver Society and the Friends of American Art at Yale.

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Exhibitions and awards that have been sponsored by the National Basketry Organization include 2019 Tradition and Innovation in Basketry 10, 2017 All Things Considered 9, Basketry in the 21^st Century, 2015, All Things Considered VIII, and 2020 Members in Print II.  She received a Certificate of Excellence by the National Basketry Organization, awarded by Lloyd E. Herman, Founding Director of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian for her entry in All Things Considered 9.

Lynne received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Textile Design from the University of Massachusetts and studied sculptural weaving at MASS College of Art.

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Subsequently, she earned an MBA from Babson College and joined Fidelity Investments, where she led numerous initiatives in technology, finance, and strategic planning. She collects craft at every opportunity and take classes in craft techniques for relaxation.

Beverly began working with SA+C as a CraftBoston intern in 2009, and joined the Board of Trustees in 2014.  She has created fiber sculpture artwork and has exhibited her pieces in juried shows. In addition, she has been a docent at the Fuller Craft Museum, an organizer of artist open studios in her community of Lexington, and an organizer of exhibits with fiber artists. She continues to be an avid collector.

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Miguel successfully combined a career practicing architecture with his North Bennet Street School training as a cabinet maker to become a nationally recognized designer and maker of studio furniture. His work has been featured in numerous journals including House and Garden, Good Housekeeping, American Craft, and Fine Woodworking, and has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country. He has contributed articles and essays on furniture and design to a number of books and magazines, including Fine Wood Working, Woodworker’s Journal, and Furniture Studio. He is a past president of The Furniture Society and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the American Craft Council.

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Honoring age-old tradition along with sharing human experience and vision is integral to Amy’s work. She has studied with textile masters Yoshiko Wada, Akemi Cohn, Kiranada Sterling Benjamin, Catharine Ellis, and chemist Joy Boutrup, and brings these roots together with an understanding of mindfulness and body movement. Years before her current artistic practice, after initially pursuing a degree in marine biology, Amy connected with the colors and patterns of nature and obtained her degree in studio art. She went on to take formative classes at Penland School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of Arts + Crafts in shibori, katazome, and roketsuzome with these textile masters. Her creative path continually aligned with her mind/body practice and coalesced after traveling to Japan. Amy inquires deeply and finds discovery through her daily studio and mind/body practices.

In 2005, Amy began exhibiting her textile art and has received awards from the American Craft Council, American Craft Exposition, CraftBoston, Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, and the Smithsonian Craft Show.  Amy has guest-lectured and led workshops at many institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts.

She lives and works from her studio in the historic arts community of Fort Point, Boston with her husband Ky and their dog Kuma.

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She is a former Chair of the Enterprise Forum of Cambridge and served on the Board of the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation. For many years she was a board member and treasurer of Bend the Arc: a Jewish Partnership for Justice, a national social justice organization that works toward a fair, just, and compassionate America. Currently a member of the Launchpad Venture Group, she is particularly interested in funding women owned and women led businesses. In addition to SAC, she is a member of Social Venture Partners, a philanthropic organization that provides both money and professional volunteer assistance and a director and past chair of the board of Jewish Vocational Service in Boston.

Her interest in collecting began with a piece of glass by John Lewis she purchased in the mid 70’s and has now expanded beyond glass but that is her particular interest.

She holds a BS degree from Carnegie-Mellon and a PhD in mathematics from Harvard University.  She has three grown children and five grandchildren.

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His legal career has included teaching law since 2006, first at Babson College and then at Boston University. His wife and he currently split their time between their homes in East Dennis and South Natick.

His hobbies include gardening, reading, writing, and charitable work, including Board Chair of South Coastal Counties Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor.

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Prior to her employment at MU, she was the founding director for two Craft Centers in Columbia, MO and St. Louis, MO. Her service to her community includes the board for the National Basketry Association, where she coordinated exhibitions for the organization as well as other local and regional not-for-profit arts committees. She is known for her detailed multi-media work using textiles and handmade paper. Her work is exhibited widely and appears in many private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. She is a contributing author for textile journals, teaches workshops across the country; lectures on contemporary American basketry as well as curates and juries exhibitions. Most recently she was the co-curator and co-editor for the traveling exhibition and catalogue, Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America.

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