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Fred Fenster
Fred Fenster received his undergraduate in education and industrial arts from the City College of New York in 1956 and his graduate degree in metals, with a minor in ceramics, from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1960. He is prefessor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he has taught art since 1962.
Richard Mawdsley
Richard Mawdsley received his BFA in metals in 1967 from Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University) and his MFA in metals in 1969 from the University of Kansas. He first taught at Illinois State University for 9 years before accepting a position to teach metals at Southern Illinois University in 1978, where he taught until his retirement in 2004.
Mr. Mawdsley's work is narrative in subject, frequently representing mechanical or industrial objects such as water towers. He uses tubing as a predominant construction element to create mind-bogglingly intricate, realistic and beautiful small sculpture that is frequently functional in nature.
Tom Madden
Tom Madden is associate professor and chair of the crafts department at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. He received his BFA from Kansas State University and his MFA from Bowling Green University.
Mr. Madden works primarily in hollowware, pewter, copper and silver and has been doing research into bi-metal surface embellishment, keum boo – damascene, Higo Zogan, and electroforming. He has presented at many workshops nation wide and has taught at Colorado Mountain College, Mississippi State University, Eastern Michigan University, and University of Michigan before coming to CCS. The National Ornamental Metal Museum chose him as their Master Metalsmith in 2007.
Joe and Betty Harris
Deborah Lozier
Deb Lozier lives and works in her studio in Oakland, California when she is not exhibiting and teaching internationally. Her work has appeared in many publications and is included in the permanent collection of the Oakland Museum of California
Kirk McNeill
Kirk McNeill has been smithing for ten years, and is a board member of the California Blacksmith Association, and a member of ABANA (Artist-Blacksmiths Association of North America). In 1990 he attended the International Teaching Center for Metal Design in Aachen, Germany, where he honed his skills in the European craft tradition.
He was introduced to smithing while pursuing the idea of a career as a stone and wood sculptor. He first got his hands on hot steel while taking a toolmaking class at Cabillo College in Aptos, California, and after that forged steel became his medium.
At his shop on Santa Cruz's West Side, he works with hot forged iron, bronze and copper, creating unique metalwork in designs; modern and historical. To learn more about Kirk McNeill, please visit his website.
Darlys Ewoldt
Darlys Ewoldt is a studio metalsmith in Chicago, Illinois, and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia College Chicago. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including three Fellowship Grants from the Illinois Arts Council. Darlys’ work focuses on sculptural vessels and patinas.
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