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Native Minnesotan Janice Doroff Tanner is an abstract painter who bases her imagery on natural forms such as gourds and seed pods.

She received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minnesota and a Master of Arts in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota in Duluth. She has been a studio artist since 1983. Beginning in 1988 Doroff Tanner's work has appeared in several two-person exhibitions with her husband, ceramic sculptor James L. Tanner. She continues to show in solo and group exhibitions in Minnesota.

Doroff Tanner's most recent award is an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2004. She has also received two Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grants and two Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council Individual Grants. Her work has been collected by Waseca Art Center, Traverse Des Sioux Library System in Mankato, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Library, Sioux City Library in Iowa and the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth.

Patrick Wadley discovered glass etching in 1980 when he accidentally dropped a soft drink bottle into a sandblaster. This led to his learning to selectively sandblast areas of glass using contact paper stencils. On very thick pieces of sheet glass, Wadley was able to achieve detailed, low relief sculptural effects. He later transposed the technique to three-dimensional forms.

Wadley studied briefly at the University of Oklahoma and Sam Houston State University in Austin, Texas. He also studied at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington on a Corning Scholarship, and was later an instructor and artist in residence there. Wadley made his home in Texas in 1970 where he fulfilled alternate service as a conscientious objector. Travel in Europe, especially to France, had a great influence on his work.

He exhibited in in numerous solo shows in Texas and in group exhibitions in New York City, Washington, DC, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Aspen, Santa Fe and San Francisco. His work is in many private collections. Public collections holding his work include the Blanton Museum of the University of Texas, Austin; The High Museum, Atlanta and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Glass artist Sybren Valkema is known for his blown glass sculptures, decorative vessels, windows and utilitarian objects. He studies at Kooningliijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten and at Gravenhage, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education.

Valkema was an artist of firsts in the European glass world. A teacher and co-director of Amsterdam's Gerrit Rietveld Academy from 1943 to 1981, in 1965 he was the first to construct a European glass furnace for art studios and in 1969 established the first hot glass studio in a European art school at the Rietveld Academy.He was also a glass designer for Royal Leerdam from 1948 to 1967 and again in from 1971 to 1982. In the latter period he produced works for Leerdam's "Unica" ("Unique") line. Valkema was an instructor of Design and Aesthetics at the Leerdam Glass School from 1943 to 1953.

After 1981 Valkema was a guest artist at several glass studios, including Ann Wolff's studio at Stenhytta, Transjö, Sweden; Essener Glasstudio in Essen, Germany; Atelier de Verre, Sars Poteries, France; Crystalex in Nový Bor, Czechoslovakia; Littleton Studios and Gary Beecham Studio in Spruce Pine, North Carolina and at Studio Wilke Adolfsson in Orrefors, Sweden. Valkema's own studio was located in Blaricum, Netherlands.

Sybren Valkema's works in glass can be seen in many public collections in Europe, including the Musée du Verre, Liège, Belgium; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Germany; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany; Glasmuseum Frauenau, Germany; Glasmuseum Immenhausen, Germany; Glassmuseum Ebeltoft, Denmark, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England and in the Netherlands at the Nationaal Glasmuseum in Leerdam and the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam. In the United States Valkema's glass has been collected by Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin; Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina and the Pilchuck Collection in Stanwood, Washington. A retrospective, “The World According to Sybren Valkema,” was held at the National Glass Museum in Leerdam, Netherlands in 2005-05.

Artist David Wharton lives in Montana. His Bachelor of Fine Art was taken at the University of Oklahoma in Norman and his Master's degree was awarded by Cranbrook Academy of Art - Bloomfield Hills, Michigan He was the Master Printer at Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine, North Carolina from 1987 to 1989.

Wharton's work was selected for the U.S. State Department's Art in Embassies Program (Washington, DC) 2009. His work has been seen in exhibition venues throughout the western United Stated, including Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, Montana; Danforth Gallery, Livingston, Montana; Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Los Angeles, California;The Pendleton Art Center, Pendleton, Oregon; University of Colorado Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs; Washington State University, Pullman, Washington; University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho and the Tacoma Art Museum, to name but a few. Source: montana-artists. com

T. A. Zive received a B.A. degree from New York University in 1954 and studied at the Art Students League from 1955 to 1959. She has had many solo exhibitions in Florida in cities that include Miami, Miami Beach, Boca Raton and Palm Beach. Her work is held in the public collections of Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and Boca Raton Museum of Art and in private and corporate collections in Florida and New York City. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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