Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs at Tufts University, and he has held a number of positions at Harvard University. His nonprofit work includes serving as the chair of the Medford Arts Council to promote community arts and culture, and serving on the Leadership Council for MASSCreative, a statewide non-profit advocacy organization. A Medford resident and ceramics collector, he earned a Ph.D. in English literature and languages from Brandeis University, and is an active poet and translator of poetry.

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She curated Crafting Modernism: Mid-century American Art and Design, and What Would Mrs. Webb Do? A Founder’s Vision for the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. In addition to curating and writing, Jeannine teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons. A graduate of Providence College and Boston University, she serves on the steering committee of the New York Silver Society and the Friends of American Art at Yale. At SA+C she has worked on programming and is currently chairing the Governance committee.

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Now working as a studio artist, Lynn has won numerous awards from the National Basketry Organization including a Certificate of Excellence. Lynn has degrees from the University of Massachusetts and she is a past president of the New England Chapter of the Museum Store Association. At SA+C she sits on the Finance, Governance, and DEI committees.

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She currently lives with her family in Littleton, MA and is the CEO and Artist behind Queen Adeline: A Sustainable Fashion Brand. In her business she uses 100% cotton African print textiles and other biodegradable fibers sourced from Ghana, designed to minimize waste help reduce her customers’ carbon footprint. Queen’s work pays homage to her African roots and is also a nod to her life of travels.

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Lorraine has long been involved with the Museum of Fine Arts where she has worked in education and on a number of advisory committees. She is also active at Fuller Craft Museum.  At SA+C Lorraine has served in the past on the Program and Education committees and is currently on the Development committee.

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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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mentorship for BIPOC, gender nonconforming and female makers. She has been published in Fine Woodworking, American Craft, and Architectural Digest and has received fellowships from the Windgate Foundation, Winterthur Museum, and Center for Furniture Craftsmanship. She holds a degree in furniture making from The North Bennet Street School.

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She is inspired by the arts and empowered by supporting organizations that promote freedom of expression and spaces to create and consume art. Alicia is a dog and human mom, a nurturer of plants, an amateur photographer, and a wannabe yogi. You’ll often find her playing board games or watching movies with her family or perusing a nearby gallery or museum.

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Isaacson Miller, Inc., the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis. These days she is taking a new path, launching a private company that will design and sell kits for building high quality contemporary wooden furniture for all parts of the home.

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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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Jo, who has a PhD. in Art Education, lives in Columbia, Missouri. During her 35 years at the University of Missouri, she was head of the fiber program and led the Art Department before becoming the founding Director of the School of Visual Studies. In addition, she was the founding director for two Craft Centers in Missouri and has served on the board of the National Basketry Organization. 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. At SA+C Jo serves on the Governance and Year of Craft committees.

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Her work is represented in the United States at the Sienna Gallery in Lenox, MA. Her most recent bodies of work were Topographies Never Traveled featured at Sienna Gallery and Diptych: Grey and Black featured at PLATINA in Stockholm, Sweden. She was instrumental in establishing RISD’s partnership with the world-renowned Marzee Gallery in Nijmegen, Netherlands, to launch the first emerging graduate-run and -curated satellite gallery in Amsterdam. She is the founder of Arch Street Studios, a collaborative event space, based in Providence, RI. 

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Museum through several shows and events, including a panel discussion on how to collect fine art.  They continued their education in collecting crafts, and their purchases evolved along with their education, with a particular interest in fiber arts and basketry – later loaning their collection to museums and traveling exhibitions.

The Wices later joined Craft Alliance, a St. Louis organization dedicated to teaching, exhibiting, and promoting craft art to the greater St. Louis community; Martin joined their board in 2016. He also supports craft organizations like CERF and the Penland School of Craft.

After attending Grinnell College and Northwestern University School of Medicine, Martin practiced physical medicine and rehabilitation at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis and later joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine before retiring in 2019.

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Jo, who has a PhD. in Art Education, lives in Columbia, Missouri. During her 35 years at the University of Missouri, she was head of the fiber program and led the Art Department before becoming the founding Director of the School of Visual Studies. In addition, she was the founding director for two Craft Centers in Missouri and has served on the board of the National Basketry Organization. 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. At SA+C Jo serves on the Governance and Year of Craft committees.

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factories around the world. Eddie has written numerous technical articles for GASNews and has taught equipment building workshops across the US. He has instructed hot glass sculpting workshops at Ox-Bow School of Art, Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Craft; Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey; and The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass. He has lectured and demonstrated in Australia, Japan, Taiwan and Korea; and lectured and moderated panel discussions at numerous GAS Conferences. He has written, directed, and performed shows as a magician in glass studios at such notable venues at the GAS Conference at The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA and at fundraising events in Los Angeles, CA and St. Louis, MO, raising over $25,000 for Disaster Relief on behalf of CERF+. Eddie was a founding board member of the New Orleans Creative Glass Institute (NOGCI) and served on the Board of Directors of the Glass Art Society (GAS), as Board Secretary of Central Park NC, and as Board Chair of Craft Emergency Relief Fund Plus (CERF+). Eddie currently serves as Town Commissioner in Star, NC. What one gives to community, one does not lose.

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throughout the U.S. and internationally. She has participated in artist residencies with the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Ferro Corporation, Mesa Arts Center, and Muncie Metal Spinning. Her work has also been published in Metalsmith Magazine, American Craft, NICHE, Ornament, the Lark 500 series, and the Art of Enameling. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Ball State University.

You can read more in a recent feature from American Craft Magazine here.

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University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2009, Hatch’s career took off after she was awarded the prestigious Arts/Industry Residency in the Kohler Pottery at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. In 2013, Hatch had her first solo museum exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Alliance and was included in New Blue and White, a contemporary decorative arts exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 2014, Physic Garden, Hatch’s first monumental 456-plate work inspired by the museum’s collection of English Ceramics, was permanently installed at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta as well as a second monumental wall piece titled Caughley Landscape, another installation commissioned by the museum and the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta for their permanent collection. In 2016, the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in Korea exhibited a selection of wall installations by Hatch as a part of a larger ceramics invitational titled Post-Tile. Chronicle Books published Hatch’s first illustrated book of paintings in March of 2015 and September Publishing printed Hatch’s second major book of paintings and historic research titled, A Passion for China in October 2017. In 2017 Hatch installed her largest museum commission to date at the Newark Museum in Newark, NJ. Commissioned by Chief Curator Ulysses Dietz, Hatch designed and executed a triptych of almost 600 plates for a wall installation for permanent installation titled Repertoire. To design and complete this monumental commission, Hatch worked with curators across three departments in the museum collections: African, Asian and American. Hatch lives and works in Florence, Massachusetts.

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expectations and narratives. Kyungmin largely uses handbuilding techniques to construct her figures out of porcelain, a material she prefers for its ability to contrast starkly with bright and colorful decoration.

Originally from South Korea, Kyungmin earned her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Georgia in 2012 and her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2008. Currently, Kyungmin is an Assistant Professor of 3D studio Art at Endicott College in Beverly,MA. Park was a long-term resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana where she earned 2014-2015 Matsutani Fellowship and 2015-2016 Windgate Fellowship. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, most notably at: the Aqua Art Miami Basel, SOFA Chicago, A.I.R Vallauris, France as well as a number of galleries.

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Center, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Missouri and exhibits his work nationally.

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among others and is in the collections of the Newark Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. 

Michael has taught at Parsons School of Design, the School of Art+Design at SUNY Purchase, Penland School of Crafts, Anderson Ranch Art Center and the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship.  He lives and works in the Catskills of NY.

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Architecture + Design.  His work ex has beenhibited at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Seattle Asian Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery.  Rowland is a recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship.

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mentor Doug Sigler, and received her MFA in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Sylvie has been routinely invited as a visiting artist, teacher, and researcher to many schools including San Diego State University (CA), University of Wisconsin Whitewater and Madison (WI), Penland School of Crafts (NC), Haystack Mountain School (ME), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (CO), Australia National University (Canberra, Australia) and Tainan National University of the Arts (Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C.). She has shown nationally at galleries and museums such as The Fuller Craft Museum (MA), The Mint Museum (NC), and the Museum of Art and Design (NYC). Currently, Sylvie maintains a studio practice making furniture on commission, production work for sale online, and sculpture dealing with the intersecting flight patterns of the histories of trade, the intentional and unintentional transplantations that come with it, hybridity, materiality, queer theory, and the natural world. Sylvie teaches the Fundamentals of Construction at Madison College’s Construction and Remodeling Program. She is also on the board of trustees of CERF+, the Artists’ Safety Net. When Sylvie isn’t doing the above, you might find her on her bike, teaching woodworking to kids, or traveling somewhere. 

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