Craft/Material Studies alumni and jewelers Dave and Roberta Williamson are featured in the new documentary, Craft in America, premiering on PBS in October (watch a preview on the Craft in America web site). Dave and Roberta both received MFAs from the School of the Arts in 1976; Roberta’s concentration was metals area and Dave’s was ceramics. Both currently teach at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. The pair recently received a 2009 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship for $5000 and a $1000 Award of Excellence from the Best of 2009 exhibition of Ohio Designer Craftsmen at the Ohio Crafts Museum. Roberta is newly elected to the Board of Trustees of Ohio Designer Craftsmen; David has been selected as the Neal Malicky Distinguished Chair in the Humanities for the next 5 years at Baldwin-Wallace College. Roberta and David participated in the Smithsonian Craft Show last spring and will have work featured in this year’s Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show in November. Both have had pieces placed in the collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and The Tacoma Art Museum.
http://www.craftinamerica.org/artists_metal/story_334.php
http://www.craftinamerica.org
http://www.ohiocraft.org/about.html
http://smithsoniancraftshow.org/indexmain.asp
http://pmacraftshow.org/
