League of NH Craftsmen
Hanover
13 Lebanon Street
Hanover, NH 03755
Gallery 603-643-5050
hanleague@valley.net
Craft Studies 603-643-5384
craftstudies
@craftstudies.org
Monday-Saturday
10:00am-5:00pm.
And 11:00am-4:00pm
on Sundays
for the
month of December.
2011 Annual Ornament, Nature's Adornment is now available. 
Biographies
Jordan Barnett-Parker grew up in Brooklyn, NY and Camden, Maine. After finding his passion during a high school jewelry class, Jordan began an apprenticeship with world-renowned sculptor, designer, and master goldsmith, Michael Good, developing his drawing and design skills while focusing on metalsmithing. Following a desire for a more traditional and comprehensive education, he set out for Germany and attended the "Goldschmiedeschule Uhrmacherschule Pforzheim" in Pforzheim, Germany. There he completed a vigorous 2-year program where he earned the title of Master Goldsmith and Master of design. Jordan has worked for Michael Good designs, French watchmaker, Chopard, as well as Paul Gross of Designer Gold in Hanover, NH. He has a love of learning and a passion for the timeless craft of metalworking.
Sarah Bartos Smith has been knitting for over 15 years and particularly enjoys sweater knitting and knitted lace. She is passionate about wool and is interested in how the properties of different kinds of yarns will affect the finished object. Sarah puts a modern spin on knitting and likes to create interesting and wearable garments and accessories that turn heads. She also enjoys spinning yarn and weaving, and has taken and taught numerous workshops on spinning techniques. Sarah has a background in education, having taught Biology and Environmental Studies courses at the college level for many years.
Debbe Callaghan grew up in New York City where she learned to knit as a child and has been knitting on and off ever since. Debbe has applied many principles from her professional career to knitting including project planning, fiber alternatives, and finishing. She knits all types of garments and is particularly interested in lace knitting and non-traditional garment design (top down, seamless, geometric). Debbe works hard to customize each project for it's recipient. She believes that the process of knitting should be fun and relaxing and she hopes that every knitter feels proud of her/his work at all knitting levels.
Ara Cardew is a master potter with over twenty years experience in all areas of stoneware and porcelain pottery production, including throwing, slipware, glaze development, decoration and firing. Ara apprenticed with his grandfather, Michael Cardew and managed the family pottery, Wenford Bridge Pottery, Cornwall, England for many years. His teaching emphasis is on forms and decorations of the English slipware tradition.
Liana Chase grew up in South Salem, NY and recently graduated from Dartmouth College. She worked for several years as a pottery tech and children’s pottery teacher at the Katonah Art Center and went on to teach pottery at Dartmouth’s Davidson Ceramics Studio during her undergraduate years. Liana has spent the last year as a Fulbright scholar in Nepal, where she experimented with village pottery techniques in her free time. Her primary interest is in throwing functional pieces on the wheel.
Anne Clemens teaches introductory and children's classes in metals. She enjoys helping students explore their creativity through the varied ways that metal can be used to make unique creations of their own.
Caitlin Eastman grew up in Quechee, VT in a family of artists. Throughout her childhood she was surrounded by paintbrushes, paper mache, film and projects. She naturally went on to study Art Education at the University of Vermont and Fine Arts at the Burren College of Art in Ireland. Caitlin has worked as an art teacher in the public schools, in museums, and in the world of non-profits, and has recently come back to the Upper Valley to share her love of art and craft with the League of NH Craftsmen.
Deb Fairchild has been beading since 2003. Although she works with many off-loom beadweaving techniques, she especially likes the lacy, supple fabrics derived from the freeform expression of right-angle weave, bead netting, chevron chain, peyote and brick stitch. The freeform perspective also provides a strong foundation for experiments in the use of color and adaptation of technique. Each of her pieces is a one-of-a-kind study in color, rhythm, movement and form. Deb teaches throughout New England. She enjoys introducing new beaders to the craft and challenging experienced beaders to expand their skills and explore the depths of their creativity.
Marty Fielding lives and makes pottery in Middlebury, VT. He studied at the University of North Carolina @ Greensboro and Penland School of Crafts. He has been a visiting lecturer at Middlebury College and Ohio Northern University in addition to teaching workshops. Residencies include Frog Hollow Craft Center, Hotel Pupik in Scheifling, Austria, and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. His work is represented and exhibited in numerous galleries in the US including AKAR, the Northern Clay Center, Red Star Studios, and the Penland Gallery. Publications include articles in Ceramics Monthly and Clay Times, and images in several books.
Jeff Georgantes has a MFA in Jewelry/Metals from CSU, Fullerton, a MA in Sculpture and a BA in Art, both from CSU, Humboldt. He taught Art at College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA for fifteen years and has taught numerous visiting artist workshops across the USA. He helped develop and coordinate the Jewelry/Metals program at the Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA from the early '90's until 2005, when he started his position at Dartmouth College as Director of the Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio. His work can be seen in Alan Revere's book, "The Art of Jewelry."
Alice Glass went from a West Texas sheep and cattle ranch to practicing law in Washington D.C. In 1998 she married and moved to NH where she continued to work as a legal consultant with a D.C. firm. Seeking to fill a hole left by the passing of her mother, Alice took a metalworking class at the League of NH Craftsmen. Under the warm guidance of Kerstin Nichols, Alice discovered the peace and joy that come from creating objects with ones own hands. Over the last 10 years Alice and David share their time between their homes in NH and TX where she indulges her passions for photography and jewelry making.
Lynn Goldberg made her first basket in 1981 and has been hooked ever since. She has studied with many basketmakers in and around NH and the US. She uses the rib basket technique to design different forms because of its flexibility and how it lends itself to a variety of materials. She is a League juried craft artist, and has exhibited in the Handweavers Guild, Living with Craft exhibit at the annual fair, and the Northeast Basket Makers Guild. Lynn holds a BA in Anthropology from Brandeis University.
Patricia Goodman, MS, MEd, grew up in Vermont and first studied ceramics at the University of Vermont as an undergraduate while also working in her home studio in Northern Vermont. After a career in children’s special education and speech pathology Patty returned to pottery through the mentorship of Nathan Webb at the League of NH Craftsmen and Barbara Lane, a potter with a particular interest in glazes. Patty works in her studio in Etna where she hand-builds and throws pots on the wheel. While she primarily fires in electric kilns, she also uses an outdoor gas fired saggar kiln. She has a particular interest in testing and developing glazes. In 2008 she combined her love of teaching children with her passion for pottery, to teach children’s classes at CraftStudies. Patty has a strong interest in the history of pottery and its expression across varied cultures and times.
Sara Goodman is a textile artist with a studio/school in Lyme, NH. Her work has been featured in Handwoven and Shuttle Spindle and Dyepot Magazines, at the Handweavers Guild of America fashion show at Convergence and the Surface Design Association conference. Her one of a kind garments have won awards from Complex Weavers, The New England Weavers Seminar and the Vermont Weaver’s Guild. Her work has been featured at Julie's Artisans Gallery in New York, the Cambridge Artist’s Collective in Massachusetts, and Living with Craft at the Sunapee Craft Fair. She is a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen. Sara has traveled widely throughout the world in the pursuit of textiles: Guatemala, Mexico, Japan, Indonesia, Nepal and India. Recently, she has designed a collection of handwoven carpets, based on her original shibori designs, for Khawachen/Inner Asia in Hanover, NH.
Maria Gross has been a metal smith for over a decade. She began her studies at the Hanover League of NH Craftsmen working with Kerstin Nichols and other outstanding instructors along the way. She now lives in Center Conway, NH. Her work combines an eclectic love of different metals, different textures, detail, color, cold joining and found objects.
Case Hathaway Zepeda is primarily a video/performance artist, but has also been working with and teaching about non-ferrous metals for several years. She graduated as a Studio Art major with honors from Dartmouth College in 2009 and is currently working towards her MFA from Tufts and the School at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.
Sarah Heimann has been making pots in her Lebanon, New Hampshire studio since 2001. She was a resident artist at Watershed, a technician at Northern Clay Center, Minnesota and taught ceramics at Hamline University from 1997-2001. She has an MFA from the University of Minnesota.
Robin Henry has been teaching art in public (elementary & middle) schools for nearly 20 years both in Connecticut and New Hampshire, the last five teaching art and ESL at the Ray School in Hanover, NH. Each fall she works with Neely McNulty on the art docent program. Robin holds a BA in Art Education from Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT and an M.Ed. in Reading from Plymouth State University, NH. She is married to an artist and has two sons. Robin absolutely adores kids and relating books/artists to their art creation.
Marcia Herson become a mixed media jewelry artist and teacher as a third career. For 25 years she taught secondary schools, mostly for the Department of Defense in Turkey, Panama and Germany. Once back in the US Marcia managed her late husband’s children’s clothing store. Selling the store in 1995 gave her the opportunity to take classes. Polymer clay, as it is both inexpensive and immediately gratifying became Marcia’s first medium. In time she became a certified Precious Metal Clay (PMC) instructor and five years ago she started incorporating her own lamp-worked glass beads into the work. Marcia was first juried in to the League in 1997 and is now juried in: polymer clay, PMC, and glass. Her work always has been composed of one-of-a-kind mixed media pieces. Marcia has taught my techniques both in the US and abroad for over 15 years. My major goal in my teaching is to draw out my students’ latent abilities.
Stacy Hopkins studied the art of jewelry making in Florence, Italy; a city renowned for it’s artisan tradition and quality craftsmanship. It is here that she received her goldsmith’s certificate, developed her artistic expression. A former biologist with a degree in studio arts, Stacy incorporates both interests into her work. She uses various techniques derived from sculpture and etching to create her pieces yet is inspired by primitive life forms and archaic cultures which hold a powerful connection to the earth. Currently, she is involved in numerous projects and collaborates with Natural History museums, International designers and other fine artists.
Lisa Hurley grew up in a family full of artists. Going against the grain, Lisa studied nursing at Boston University but it wasn’t long before her roots called her home. She returned to artistic pursuits and formed a successful textile design business selling products throughout New England and as a juried member of The League of NH Craftsmen in Hanover. In 1998, she shifted her focus from textiles to mixed media work. Her work has been published in Somerset Studios and F & W publications. For several years, Lisa has sought to share her passion for mixed media and altered book art teaching classes around New England and most recently at CraftStudies.
Margaret Jacobs earned her B.A. in Studio Art from Dartmouth College. She has held artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and at Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. She is a sculptor and metalsmith who works primarily in steel and pewter. Her work has been shown at galleries throughout the Northeast including AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, NH; Jaffe-Friede Gallery in Hanover, NH; and Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery in NYC. Margaret is currently the Exhibition Coordinator at AVA Gallery and Art Center.
Jason Jarvis was born and raised in the Upper Valley. He has been with the League as an instructor since 2008 teaching mixed media in the children’s studio. Jason is a graduate in Art from Castleton State College and a graduate from UVEI in Art Education. He has exhibited both paintings and mixed media. What he loves about instructing at the League is seeing students return.
Jill Koppers’ love for clay began in elementary school rolling coil after coil for a pot that still stands in her parent’s living room. She has studied ceramics at Westchester Community College in New York, with independent teachers, and at CraftStudies @ the Hanover League of NH Craftsmen where she is an assistant teacher and a monitor. After twelve years as an elementary school teacher, Jill is now joining her skills of teaching, love of working with children, and her passion for clay in what she strives to be an experience where each child’s unique and beautiful spirit is celebrated and expressed through the medium of clay.
Allegra Kuhn received a BFA from University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth in Sculpture and currently is an MFA candidate in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College in Vermont. She currently maintains a studio in Framingham, Mass. Allegra and Peter Walls use nature as inspiration in their studio and design practice.
Tim McCosker has been teaching ceramics since 1973. His training was at the University of Vermont and Boston University's Program in Artisanry. He holds a Masters in education from the University of Vermont. From 1973-1977 he set-up and oversaw the pottery program at the University's Living and Learning Center and taught ceramics during two summers at the University's Art Department Ceramics Studio. Tim headed up the ceramic studio at the Hanover League of NH Craftsmen for nearly ten years, where he continues to instill a love of ceramics to beginner and intermediate ceramic students.
Kyoko Magari-Ball graduated from Art College in Kyoto, Japan where she studied design and craft using diverse materials. She worked in design and in traditional handmade silk kimono production with a master craftsman in Kyoto. Kyoko studied under ceramic artist Sachie Kimura for many years before moving to the United States. She has made ceramics in Kyoto, Chicago, and now Hanover, NH where she is enjoying New Hampshire life with her husband and daughter. Kyoko’s current focus is on making and teaching ceramics with a Japanese aesthetic.
Tina Nadeau was born and raised on Long Island in a family of artists and graduated with a degree in graphic design from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She relocated to the Upper Valley in 2000 with her husband and started her family while working in graphic design, briefly for the Valley News and then, for about nine years, for Dartmouth College. In 2010 she left the college to pursue certification as an elementary art teacher at the Upper Valley Educators Institute in Lebanon (graduated 2011). During that intensive, yearlong program, she interned in the art rooms of both elementary and middle schools, and she presently assists in a fourth-grade classroom at the Ray School in Hanover while also teaching courses at the League and freelancing for the Hood Museum of Art. Tina has embraced the many tactile pleasures of hands-on art making, including papier-mâché, jewelry design, and fiber arts.
Kerstin Nichols' jewelry and sculpture is in the permanent collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in NYC, the Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village in Millville NJ, and other public and private collections. She holds an MFA in sculpture and a BA in biology/geology. She has taught metalsmithing to people of all ages and experience levels for close to three decades, and has run the CraftStudies’ Metals Studio since 1991. As a dedicated teacher who brings the creativity and attention she gives her own work to her classes, Kerstin’s goal is to instill an excitement in what her students are learning that goes deeper than the mere making of beautiful objects and the mastery of techniques.
Joy Raskin has been a silversmith since 1984, and has exhibited throughout the United States, Ireland and New Zealand, showcasing both her jewelry and flatware designs. Joy is a native of New Hampshire, having attended public schools in Manchester and Concord. She was accepted as a member of the League of NH Craftsmen while still in high school. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Joy is an instructor at Metalwerx in Waltham, MA, at Snow Farm in Williamsburg, MA, and at Brookfield Craft Center in Brookfield, CT. Joy also teaches workshops on jewelry making, metalsmithing, wire wire-weaving, and various metal techniques at craft programs throughout New England. Joy has received many awards for her work and was commissioned by the NH State Council on the Arts to create the Cultural Access Award for the Governor’s Awards in the Arts in 2001. Her work is included in many collections, including the White House and Smithsonian Institution.
Karin Rothwell has worked with hundreds of students in clay ranging from babies hardly walking to college students, to 90 years of age—the eager, the forgetful, the displaced, some at-risk, or blind. She established the first children’s after-school program in the 1980’s at the League and has been teaching ever since. She maintains her own studio in Norwich where she lives with her family. Karin has traveled in many parts of the world which gives her a global, ethnic point of reference to her own work and what she shares with her students.
Sherry Saint Germaine holds a degree in Studio Art and Art History from Dartmouth College. She has been making jewelry since 1996. Her work has been displayed in the Gallery Triangle, Washington, DC; Frog Hollow, VT and the League of NH Craftsmen, but mostly Sherry does private one-of-a-kind pieces in precious metals and beadwork from her studio at home in Strafford, Vermont.
Margaret M. Sheehan likes to encourage a student's internal spontaneous creativity in every class she teaches. She has a BFA from University of the Arts, PA, is a League of NH Craftsmen juried craftsperson and continues honing her sewing skills by enrolling in classes with renown craftspeople at NCSW at Bennington College. She enjoys designing sets and building props for the Trumbull Hall Troupe in Etna. Her mono-printed fabric installations were on display at SculptureFest 2009 and 2010 in Woodstock, VT and became part of the summer 2010 “Moving Art” exhibition at the Aidron Duckworth Museum in Meriden, NH. Her art quilts have been on display in the Hanover Retail Gallery, various places around New England and in Lucca, Italy. At the League, she teaches a variety of courses and camps in the mixed media studio for adults and children.
Meredith Smith holds a BFA (Apparel Design) and MAT (Art Education) from RISD and did post graduate study in design at Brown University. Her career includes costume designer, jewelry designer, college professor, and owner/manager of a London based mail order clothing company. Meredith has been a state juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen for over 20 years, focusing on one-of-a-kind clothing and soft sculpture. She also serves as a stitchery and doll juror for the League.
Grant Taylor has been making traditional Celtic and Celtic-inspired furniture since 1981. He studied with master woodcarver Art Ritchie of Keene, NH and in Connemara, Ireland with furniture master Al O’Dea. Grant has been teaching woodcarving for several years and recently guided his students in making signs for the local town forest. He is a founding member of the Guild of NH Woodworkers and a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen. Grant plays music on the Celtic harp he made and his Irish wooden flute.
Holly Walker is a studio potter in Randolph, Vermont. She exhibits and teaches workshops nationally, and formerly served in varying capacities at Penland School of Crafts (NC) and as Director of Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (ME). Recent events include teaching at Haystack Mountain and Penland School of Crafts, visiting critic/artist at Rhode Island School of Design and University of Colorado, Boulder, and featured artist in Austin’s annual “Art of the Pot” exhibition (TX). Holly co-authored “Visual Translations” in The Studio Potter, 2010, and is a featured artist in “Masters, Earthenware” by Lark Books, 2009.
Shannon Wallis was an elementary art teacher before she had kids of her own. Now she teaches 4 and 5 year olds at Norwich Nursery School and is one of our monitors in the Hanover League of NH Craftsmen clay studio.
Peter Walls has a BFA in Art and Art Education from NYSCC at Alfred University and a MFA from Louisiana State University and works in the decorative arts and interior design field . Peter and Allegra Kuhn use nature as inspiration in their studio and design practice.
Pauline Warg is a metalsmith with 36 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 encompasses fabricated jewelry, silversmithing and enameling both jewelry and hollowware. Pauline owns and operates WARG Enamel and Tool Center, in Scarborough, Maine. She is the author of “Making Metal Beads” (Lark) and recently created a bracelet for and wrote a segment of the book “Jewelry Design Challenge,” a collaborative of 30 selected artists (Lark). She teaches in art centers and colleges across the country.
Nathan Webb is the Clay Studio Coordinator for Craftstudies @ the Hanover the League of NH Craftsmen, and an Assistant Instructor at the F.A. Davidson Ceramics Studio of Dartmouth College. He offers workshops that address a range of design techniques and approaches to firing. His work appears in 500 Vases, and the upcoming edition of 500 Raku. Nathan has been developing glazes from the granite found near his home in Bethel, VT, where he and his wife Becca Van Fleet Webb are presently constructing a wood-fired climbing kiln.
Bhakti Ziek is a visual artist, internationally recognized for work that spans the technological spectrum of weaving. Her extensive exhibition record includes works in the Museum of Arts and Design. She has lectured and taught throughout the United States and abroad; had articles on contemporary fiber published in many journals; and she is co-author, with Alice Schlein, of The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop®. A former college professor, she currently lives in Randolph, Vermont where she has her studio and offers tutorial teaching. Ziek has a M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
13 Lebanon St • Hanover, NH 03755 • Gallery: 603-643-5050 • CraftStudies: 603-643-5384