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Cynthia Giachetti American, born 1964 Lives and works in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Cynthia Giachetti received her BFA from the University of California, Davis (2002), and her MFA from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (2007). She has also studied at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine (2003). Giachetti has participated in many exhibitions, including NCECA Clay National, Arizona State University Art Museum (2009); a solo installation at Project Row House, Houston (2009); Art Venture, Louisiana Art Works, New Orleans (2008); Icons, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago (2008); No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans (2008); Bling, Santa Fe Clay (2008); Full and Spare, Florida State University Fine Arts Museum, Tallahassee (2008); What Remains, Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Exhibitions Gallery—Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2007); Post Millennium Exponent, NCECA 2007, Louisville, Kentucky (2007); Redefining the Figure, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, California (2001); Fourteenth Annual Ceramic Sculpture Conference, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California (2003); California Clay Competition, Artery, Davis, California (2002). She has performed Butterfly Symphony at Louisiana State University (2006) and Bust at the University of California, Davis (2004). She has been awarded the Artist Grant from Project Row Houses, Houston (2008), and the Laguna Clay Award, California Clay Competition (2002). Her work will be featured in an upcoming issue of Ceramics Monthly.
Ryan Gothrup American, born 1977 Lives and works in Richmond, Virginia
Ryan Gothrup received a BFA in crafts with a concentration in glass from Kent State University (2004) and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in craft/material studies with a glass concentration (2009). He completed coursework in sculpture and ceramics at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis (1999–2001) and in glassblowing at the Indianapolis Art Center (1998–2002). He has been awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (2008). He taught for six years at the Indianapolis Art Center (2001–7) and continues to teach summer classes at Virginia Commonwealth University. Gothrup’s work has appeared in group exhibitions such as How Is This Glass? Post Glass Artists/Glass Guerillas, Glass Art Conference, Corning, New York (2009); Art of Glass: Generations, Visual Arts Center, Portsmouth, Virginia (2009); Blend, FAB Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (2009); Slight of Hand Show, Gallery 5, Richmond, Virginia (2009); American Craft Council
Show, Baltimore Convention Center (2008); Domestic Separation, FAB Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (2007); Picture Windows 2005: Urban Interpretation, organized by Public Art Indianapolis (2005); Vessel: A Glass Exhibition at the Historic School 30, Indianapolis (2005); and Craftforms at Wayne Art Center, Pennsylvania (2002).
Sabrina Gschwandtner American, born 1977 Lives and works in New York
Sabrina Gschwandtner received a BA in art and semiotics from Brown University (2000) and an MFA from Bard College (2007). In 1998 she pursued video studies at the Sommerakademie für bildende Kunst (International Summer Academy in Fine Art) in Salzburg, Austria, where she studied with Valie Export. She is also the founding editor and publisher of a limited-edition periodical titled KnitKnit (2002–7). Gschwandtner has had several solo exhibitions, including Watch and See, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Sweden (2009); Without Looking, Reijmyre Konsthall, Sweden (2009); and Bionic Threads (with Christy Matson), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2007). Her group exhibitions include Motion Blur: American Craft, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Sweden (2009); Dorothy Saxe Invitational, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (2009); Craftwerk 2.0, Jonkoping Ians Museum, Sweden (2009); Gestures of Resistance, Gray Matters in conjunction with the College Art Association Conference, Dallas (2008); Thread as Line, Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, Virginia (2008); Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (traveled 2007–8); Craftivism: Reclaiming Craft and Creating Community, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay (2008); Common Threads, organized by Confederation Centre Art Gallery and the Illingworth Kerr Gallery (traveled 2007–8); Material Pursuits, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont (2007); Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2007); A Fold in the Fabric, LMAK Projects, New York (2006); Group Loop, G Fine Art, Washington, D.C. (2005); Performa 05: First Biennial of Visual Art Performance, Artists Space, New York (2005); In Practice, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York (2004); Cram Session: Dark Matter, Baltimore Museum of Art (2004). Gschwandtner has presented lectures titled “On Craftivism,” Museum of World Culture, Goteborg, Sweden (2009); “Making Craft Matter: Feminism and Politics in Handmade Art,” Harvard University (2008); and “Crafting Protest,” Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York (2008), among many others. She has had residencies at the International Artists’ Studio Program in Stockholm (2009); the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2009); and MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
(2007, 2004). She also received a Sculpture Center Emerging Artist Fellowship (2004) and a Weston Award for Excellence in the Arts (1999). Gschwandtner’s work has been reviewed in publications such as Craft (UK), Fiberarts, Modern Painters, and Artforum. She was also profiled on National Public Radio. Gschwandtner has contributed essays to the Journal of Modern Craft and American Craft, among others. She has curated exhibitions and film screenings, including No Idle Hands at Light Industry, Brooklyn, (2008); The Handmade Goes Digital, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2007); The Workmanship of Risk, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York (2006); Political Textiles, ThreeWalls, Chicago (2004); and Knitted Light, Ocularis, Brooklyn (2003).
Lauren Kalman American, born 1980 Lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island
Lauren Kalman received a BFA in metals from the Massachusetts College of Art (2002) and an MFA from Ohio State University, Columbus (2006). She has also studied at the Penland School of Craft, for glass (2004); Pilchuck Glass School, for glass (2003); the Logo Foundation, for robotics (2003); Peters Valley Craft Center, for stone setting (2001); the Cleveland Institute of Art, for jewelry (1998); and Cleveland State University, for art history (1998). She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design, Northeastern University, and Brown University. In 2010 Kalman has a solo exhibition at the Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Her work will also appear in the group invitational exhibition Extreme Beauty at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Other solo exhibitions include Blooms, Efflorescence, and Other Dermatological Embellishments, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago (2009–10); SOFA Chicago with Sienna Gallery (2009); New Work, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts (2009); Gilded Affection, Sewanee: The University of the South, Tennessee (2009); Hard Wear, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts (2008); Corpus, Figure, Skate, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville (2008); A Pretty Little Trick, Window into Sculpture Series, Sculpture Center, Cleveland (2008); Hard Wear, Recoleta Center, Buenos Aires, in conjunction with the Sixth Encuentro, Corpoliticas/Body Politics in the Americas (2008); Dress Up; Dress Down, Medicine Factory, Memphis (2007); Memento Mori, Extension Gallery, Mercerville, New Jersey (2003). Kalman’s work has been in group exhibitions including Elusive Matter, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon (2009); Image, Imaged, Imagined, Fort Point Art Center, Boston (2009); The Stimulus Project, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts
(2009); RE/ACTIONS, Craft Alliance, Saint Louis (2009); Transitions/Transformations, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande (2009); Bridge Art Fair, Digital Media Lounge, Catalina Hotel, Miami (2008); Body Prop, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls (2008); In Situ, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (2007); Southern 60 Second Video Festival, traveling, organized by Fugitive Projects, Nashville (2007); On a Pedestal, Off the Wall, Sculpture Center, Cleveland (2007); Misdemeanor, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland (2006); Parameters of Preciousness, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois (2006); Metal and Otherwise, Florida Craftsmen Gallery, Saint Petersburg (2004); Evocative Objects, Banister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence (2003); Twenty-fourth Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Arts Center,Arizona (2002). In summer 2009 she contributed an essay titled “Dossier: South Africa,” on the state of studio jewelry in South Africa, to Metalsmith. Her work has been reviewed in American Craft and Metalsmith.
Christy Matson American, born 1979 Lives and works in Chicago
Christy Matson received a BFA in fiber from the University of Washington (2001) and an MFA in textiles from California College of the Arts (2005). She is currently an assistant professor of fiber and material studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught formerly at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (2006). In 2010 Matson is participating in Wind/Rewind/ Weave, Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, and The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts. Matson’s work has been exhibited in solo and twoperson exhibitions including Between Fiction and Make Believe, LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago (2009); Plain Weave Variations, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (2007); Bionic Threads (with Sabrina Gschwandtner), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2007); Decode (with Jason Van Anden), Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh (2007). Group exhibitions featuring Matson’s work include Psychic Reality, Heaven Gallery, Chicago (2009); Vinosonic, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago (2009); NEXT: Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, ThreeWalls, Chicago (2009); Inspired Design, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Hendersonville, North Carolina (2008–9); Grounded (in conjunction with NPR’s exhibition FRELAB), Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago (2008); Improv Performance, South Bay Talent Center (a project by Jon Brumit), San Jose, California (2008); Resounding the Environment, Evanston Art