Special Commissions & Collections

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute Washington D.C. – Permanent Collection
The Oakland Museum, Oakland CA – Permanent Collection
Colonial Williamsburg
The Vatican
Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Papal Visit of Pope John Paul II, 1987 (649 ciboria)
White House, Washington D.C. – First Permanent Collection of American Craft
US State Department, International Presidential Gifts: 1983, 1984, 1985
Presented to: Mayor Jacque Chirac, Paris FRANCE, King Hussein, JORDAN,
Prime Minister Spadolini, ITALY, King Olaf, NORWAY, Helmut
Schmidt, WEST GERMANY


Awards

“Best of California Design” California Design Exhibition, San Francisco, 1994
“Award of Excellence” La Quinta Festival of the Arts, CA 1990,1991,1992
“Rolex Award” Philadelphia Craft Show 1992
“ASI Art Achievement Award" / Public Choice San Francisco, CA 1988


Publications

The White House Collection of Amercian Crafts by Michael W. Monroe: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Publishers 1995
Designing for the Table by Michael Wolk; The Library of Applied Design, 1992
Crafts of America by Constance Stapleton; Harper & Row, 1988
Object Lessons – Beauty and Meaning in Art, Toni Sikes, Guild Publishing 2001
Challenge V: International Lathe-Turned Objects - Albert B. LeCoff 1993
Los Angeles Times, Cover, METRO Section
Los Angeles Times, Cover, RELIGION Section
Los Angeles Times, Cover, HOME Magazine
Washington Post
Home and Garden Magazine
Better Homes and Gardens Magazine
Metalsmith Magazine
House Beautiful
Central Coast Magazine, Cover
Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects, Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton,
2007

Exhibitions

American Craft Museum, NY “The White House Collection of American Crafts”
Philadelphia Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA
Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Hot Tea”
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis, MO “To See or Not to See”
Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT “From the Lathe”
Arizona State University, “Turning Plus … Redefining the Lathe-Turned Object”
“Challenge V” International Lathe Turned Objects: Dane G. Hanson Museum, Logan, KS
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples FL,
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN, Berman Museum, Collegeville PA, Fine Arts
Museum of the South, Mobile AL, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco CA,
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI
California Design Exhibition, Contract Design Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA
American Craft Enterprises Shows: San Francisco, Baltimore
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA “Jewels & Gems/Collecting California Art”
Society of American Silversmiths, “Artisans in Silver”: National Ornamental Metals
Museum, Memphis TN, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton MA, Muscarelle Museum,
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA,
San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo CA
The Scarlet Palette Gallery, Cambria CA “Randy Stromsoe and Arne Nyback”
American Craft Expo, Evanston IL
Pritam & Eames, East Hampton NY “American Work in Metal”
MCI World Headquarters, Washington D.C. “The Renwick Collection”
American Craft Museum, New York NY “Tea Pot Show”





2000 - present Independent Studio Artist & Instructor Templeton, CA

1979 – 2000 Independent Studio Artist & Instructor Harmony and Cambria, CA

1975 – 1979 Designer/Superintendent Porter Blanchard Silversmiths, Inc.
Calabasas Studio – Leading Supplier to Bullocks-Wilshire, Gumps, Cartier
Halls, Fortunoff, Sweeny’s, Geary’s, Shrieve Crump & Lowe

1973 – 1975 Flatware Training from Porter’s son-in-law, Lewis A. Wise

1970 – 1973 Last apprentice to Master Silversmith, Porter Blanchard Pacoima, CA