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Adela Akers (United States)
Selected collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New
York; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington,
DC; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Museum of Arts and
Design, New York, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota;
de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, California; Museum of Art,
Providence, Rhode Island; Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan; Cleveland
Museum of Art, Ohio; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Sono-
ma County Museum, California; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan. Recipient: Fellow: American Craft Council; Fellow: Cintas
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Norma Minkowitz
122nm Falling
mixed media fiber, 27” x 25” x 1.875”, 2025
Foundation; Grant: Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Award for Visual Arts:
Flintridge Foundation. Archive: Archives of American Art, Adela Akers
papers, 1960-2009; Oral Interviews with Adela Akers, March 4-6, 2008.
Polly Barton (United States)
Selected collections: Mint + Craft Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; Art
Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts;
LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York;The Textile Museum and
George Washington University Museum, Washington, DC; Guido Goldman
Ikat Collection, New York, New York; Oomoto Foundation, Kameoka, Japan;-
Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine,
New York, New York; Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, California; Church of
the Heavenly Rest, New York, New York; Community Hospital Foundation
of the Monterey Peninsula, California. Exhibition venues: Denver Art Mu-
seum, Colorado; Art in Embassies, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Penland School of
Crafts, North Carolina; Shumei Arts Council, Pasadena, California; Durango
Art Museum, Colorado; Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine; Macclesfield Silk Museum,
UK; San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, California; Chicago Cultural
Center, Illinois; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
James Bassler (United States)
Selected collections: LongHouse Reserve, New York,
New York; The Textile Museum and George Washing-
ton University Museum, Washington, DC; North Dakota
Museum of Art, Grand Forks; Art Institute of Chicago,
Illinois; American Craft Museum, New York, New York;
Minneapolis Museum of Arts, Minnesota; Cleveland Art
Museum, Ohio; Oakland Museum, California; Cooper
Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Ameri-
can Art Museum, New York, New York; Cotsen Amer-
ican Masters Textile Collection, Los Angeles, California;
Craft in America Study Center, Los Angeles, California;
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC. Exhibition venues: Pasadena Art Mu-
seum, California; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Robert
Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
Nebraska; Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan; US Embassy, Poland; Museum of Contempo-
rary Crafts, New York, New York; Los Angeles Contem-
porary Museum of Art, California; Fuller Craft Museum,
Brockton, Massachusetts; Central Museum of Textiles,
Łódź, Poland; Museum of Kyoto, Japan. Recipient: Gold
Medal: American Craft Council; Grant: National Endow-
ment of the Arts. Featured: Craft in America, PBS.
Lia Cook (United States)
Selected collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New
York; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; de Young Fine Arts
Museum, San Francisco, California; Danish Museum of
Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark; Galerie Natio-
nale de la Tapisserie et d’Art Textile, Beauvais, France;
Zhejiang Museum of Art, Hangzhou, China; Museum Bel-
lerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Museum of Arts and Design,
New York, New York; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Mas-
sachusetts; The Textile Museum and George Washington
University Museum, Washington, DC; Racine Museum of Art, Wisconsin;
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wis-
consin; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, NSW; Cleveland Museum
of Art, Ohio; American Association for Advancement of Science, Wash-
ington, DC; Berkeley Art Museum, California; Blanton Museum of Art,
the University of Texas, Austin; China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou;
Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Oakland Museum, California; Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Gregg Museum of Art & Design, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh; Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii; Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Cooper Hewitt, National De-