GROUP 4 FACILITATOR

Jack Craft, Clarendon Texas

I am a rancher in the panhandle of Texas. I studied economics, sculpture, and ranch mgt. at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth from 1981-1985. After college I sketched rarely and made jewelry often, and read incessantly which suited my creative needs.....until I turned forty. At forty I realized that if I was to do any thing I had better get on with it. At about the same time I started pouring Iron at Tucumcari which has been great.
I like to work with ferrous metal: cast or steel, pure copper, silver, and lead. I would never make art if I had to use bronze, I can't explain it but that's how it is. I don't mind stone, and have done a piece with bamboo, so I guess wood is not totally out as a material. However weight and mass are important considerations to me. I love forged metal; specifically how forged metal is more dense than cast metal and how that weight feels in one's hand.
Currently I have been making cast iron objects that I use as tools to make images with mono type prints. This body of work is currently being shown at Exhibitions 2D in Marfa Texas.

Robin Speas, Santa Fe New Mexico

1999 to 2007 Moved Speas Studio to Santa Fe into a straw bale, owner design/build home and studio.

1995 to 1999 Opened Speas Studio, a design and build company specializing in creative furniture and architectural details.

1990 to 1994 Pursued further education full time and UNM. resulting in Master of Fine Arts in sculpture.

1978 to 1990 Business owner of RJ Speas Woodworking, Design/build

-Interior architectural design detail consultant for Samyn-D'elia Architects.

-Extensive professional and private commissions throughout New England

-Architectural renderings of additions, renovations and private homes.

Dana Provence, Alamosa Colorado

 

Kendra Brock, Albuquerque New Mexico

Kendra G Brock is a sculptor currently residing in New Mexico who makes a variety of works from adobe-like clay, cast iron, cast glass and Polaroid transfers. She is currentley involved being a new mother, and has just finished an Art in Public Places project in Taos, New Mexico titled "Earth". (photo) "I love working with both adobe and cast iron because they both, left to their own devices, will transform as we do and as the earth does. In these works I represent my deep emotional, spritual, and physical reality because I feel being honest about being human is the best way to change the world."