EDUCATION
1981-83 Wendell Castle School, A.O.S. Furniture Design
1976-79 Capilano College, Ceramics Major
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1998 Assistant Coordinator, Furniture ’98, East Meets West,
Visions Beyond the Horizon, Annual Furniture Society conference.
1996 Original Member, Furniture Society founding steering committee
1983-85 Employee of Wendell Castle Studio
1976-1980 Self-employed Silviculturalist
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1999 Faculty, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
1997-00 Senior Lecturer, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland,
CA
1987-97 Senior Lecturer, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1997, 1999 Faculty at Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO
1994 Faculty at Peters Valley, Layton, NJ
1987-89 Faculty at Penland School, Penland, NC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999 John Elder Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Kathy Albers Gallery, Memphis, TN
1995 Kathy Albers Gallery, Memphis, TN
1994 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1998
Expressions in Wood, Masterworks from the Wornick Collection, Oakland
Museum, Oakland, CA
Curators Focus: Turning in Context, Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville,
PA
Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997
Art-Making, John Elder Gallery, New York, NY
Revolution, Centennial Exhibition at The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston,
MA
Masterworks in Wood, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1996
25 at 25, The Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
The Jewelled Gift, Kathy Albers Gallery, Memphis, TN
1995
Benefit Auction, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Please Be Seated: Masters of the Art of Seating, Flagler Museum, Palm
Beach, FL
1994
Design For Living, Postwar Furniture from theCollection, Virginia MFA,Richmond,VA
The Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
The State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
The Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada
1993
Chicago New Art Forms Exposition, Chicago, IL
Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1992
Please Be Seated, Craft Council of Ireland, Dublin
The House that Jack Built, Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Pennsylvania Crafts; Directions for the Nineties, Loretto, PA
Sansar Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1991
Pritam and Eames Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Philadelphia Furniture Makers, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia,
PA
Erie Museum of Art, Erie, PA
The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1990
Art for Everyday, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Three Rivers Art Festival, Special Jurors Award, Pittsburgh, PA
Society for Art in Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
Albertson-Peterson Gallery, Winter Park, FL
Furniture of the Nineties, Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989
American Craft at the Armory, New York, NY
The Craft Enigma, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
AWARDS
1999 Canada Council, Individual Artist’s Grant
1997 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Craft Fellowship Award
1992 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Craft Fellowship Award
1989 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Craft Fellowship Award
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship
1987 Ontario Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1986 Ontario Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
1985 Artist-in-Residency, Lewiston, NY
New York Foundation of the Arts Individual Craft Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
2000 The New York Times, Art in Review, January 28, Grace Glueck
1999 Furniture Studio One, "The Heart of the Functional Arts."
The Furniture Society, Cambium Press, August.
1998 Interiors Magazine, Kate Hensler Fogarty, June.
1997 The Boston Sunday Globe, "Mastering the Art of Studio Furniture
Design,"
Christine Temin, Oct. 19.
Review Magazine, "Peter Pierobon," Karen Chambers, June.
1996 The Spirit of African Design, Algotsson and Davis.
1995 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, July.
1992 VOGUE DECORATION, November.
1990 Art for Everyday: The New American Crafts Movement, Patricia Conway.
1989 Product Design 3, Ettore Sottsass.
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, March.
MUSEUM AND ARTS MAGAZINE, Washington D.C., September.
1987 INTRAMUROS, France, September/October.
TORONTO LIFE MAGAZINE, April.
MODO, Italy, January.
1986
FINE WOODWORKING, January/February.
1985
CRAFT INTERNATIONAL, December.
SHITSUNAI, Japan, September.
I.D. MAGAZINE, August.
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Kathy and John Albers
Marc and Diane Grainer
Wendell Castle and Nancy Jurs
Wendy Evans Joseph
Mark and Elizabeth Levine
Sandy Milliken
Franklin Parrasch
Rick and Ruth Snyderman
Charles and Mapes Stamm
Ron and Anita Wornick
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
The Rose Foundation, Memphis, TN
MCI Corporation, World Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Rochester, NY
Cinetrix Canada, Toronto, Ontario
Best Company, Richmond, VA
