Commissions & Special Gifts

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The following were created for private individuals and institutions.

1. Trivets for the Boston Symphony Tanglewood Institute

2.“My Family Odyssey”, the sculpture, and the tile, “Coming to America” 2005 - created for a fund raising event honoring ancestors arriving at Ellis Island, New York City. More detail of sculpture.

3. “Stars in the Heavens” - Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine, sent me 25 pounds of their red clay. to make mini figures, for their Gala 2007 fund raiser, held at the Chicago Art Institute.

4. “Courtship - A love Story in 9 Frames”, 2009, wedding gift inspired by the brides profession as a documentary film maker

5. “Archer Lithophane and Tile” - a gift created for the family of Makoto Yabe, in memory of a beloved ceramic artist and teacher 2005.
More detail of sculpture.

6. “Love from Chile to Massachusetts” - 2008, wedding gift inspired by the groom, from Chile, and the bride from Massachusetts

7. "It's a Ceramics World" – 2006, created to inspire students at Babson, Olin and Wellesley, for the entrance to the ceramics studio, located at Babson College

8. “Twizzlers Dancing” 2009– Tile mural created with help from the Babson College community - an example of a tile project I am hired to do with students. It is featured in step-by-step teaching links on the Amaco Glaze website and the Laguna Clay websites.

http://www.lagunaclay.com/classroom/ceramic-twizzler-tile-mural.php

9. “The Piano Lesson”, 2008 – Babson College school play featuring a piano with carvings I made of clay painted with acrylic paint.