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<A HREF="#Gallery">New Member Tile Gallery	</A>

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<A HREF="#Deadlines">Important Deadlines</A>

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<A HREF="#Events">Upcoming Events</A>

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<A HREF="#CERF">CERF Support</A>

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<A HREF="#Winter">Lifetime for Winter</A>

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<A HREF="#Prizes">Tile Heritage Prizes</A>


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Here’s a New Years treat for you, the Member Tile Gallery! 

<A href="THF-MemberTileGallery.html">Click here</A> 

for a colorful surprise! Although all members are listed in 

Who Supports THF, members who contribute $100 or more each year 

in membership fees (providing they have a website to link to) are 

now featured in the gallery with an image of their work. 

It is truly a striking array of tile talent!

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To establish the gallery we chose a representative image from 

each member’s website. If you wish to have a different image of 

your work, email our web designer Julia Murray, <A href=mailto:julmurray@aol.com>julmurray@aol.com</A>, 

with an image of your choice—roughly 4” x 4” at 150 dpi—and copy us 

in <A HREF=mailto:foundation@tileheritage.org>foundation@tileheritage.org</A> 

so that we can track your request. 

If you are not in the gallery and would like to be, simply upgrade 

your membership to the Centurian ($100) level—we will advance your 

expiration date accordingly—and then email an image with your website link. 

(<B>Please do not email credit card numbers</B>—use snail mail or fax 707 431-8455.)

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Looking down the road apiece, we plan to provide an option that will 

instantly regionalize the Member Tile Gallery. With a simple click a 

viewer will be able to see all gallery members in a particular area 

of the country. We’ll keep you posted.


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<B>Call for Entries</B>. The search is on for architectural and design projects representing 

the most innovative and visionary use of ceramic tile and natural stone, and <B>$36,000 

in prize money</B> is at stake as the annual <B>Spectrum and Prism Awards</B> issue their 

Call for Entries. As is tradition, the competitions—Spectrum for tile, Prism for 

stone—culminate with a presentation ceremony during the Coverings expo and conference, 

April 17-20, in Chicago. Detailed information and entry forms are available at 

<A HREF="http://www.coverings.com">www.coverings.com</A>. <B>Deadline: February 2, 2007</B>.

 
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<B>Call for Entries</B>. The <B>Lincoln Arts & Culture Foundation</B> is presenting <B>Feats of Clay XX</B>, 

its 12th annual juried competition of ceramic works on <B>April 28-May 27</B>, 2007 featuring 

artists from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. This celebratory exhibition of contemporary 

ceramic art will be held at the renowned <B>Gladding, McBean</B> clay factory in Lincoln, 

California and displayed inside an original 35-foot beehive kiln and in the historic 

architectural design studio. <B>Juror: Sherman Hall</B>, editor of Ceramics Monthly. 

<A HREF="http://www.lincolnarts.org/prospectus 2006.pdf">Prospectus</A> / <B>Deadline for submissions: February 2, 2007</B>.


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<B>500 Tiles</B>, a proposed gallery-style book, will showcase images of ceramic tiles. 

<B>Lark Books</B> is seeking all kinds of architectural and decorative ceramic tiles, 

including mosaic, terra cotta, painted, and textured, created by studio artists 

from around the globe. Diverse materials, techniques, and styles are desired. 

<B>Juror: Angelica Pozo</B>. Scheduled for release in the fall of 2007, <B>500 Tiles</B> aims 

to serve as an inspiring collection for beginning and professional tile makers, 

as well as tile collectors and enthusiasts. <B>Entry deadline: February 1, 2007</B>.  

For more information on submitting, please go to <A HREF="http://www.larkbooks.com">www.larkbooks.com</A>.

 
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<B>Northwest Handmade Tile Show</B> both presented by <B>Artisan Tile NW</B> 

and held simultaneously at the <B>Swedish Heritage Center</B> in Seattle on Friday and 

Saturday, <B>April 27-28, 2007</B>.  


The 2-day tile festival will bring together the 

Northwest’s amazing tile creators with other tile artists, buyers, designers, 

architects, home owners, and all those who are passionate about handmade tiles. 

“Insects” is the theme for the Juried Tile Show. 

For more information go to <A HREF="http://www.artisantilenw.org">www.artisantilenw.org</A>


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<font color="#368AA5">Upcoming Events </font color>in Brief </H3>

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<B>March 2 - April 22, 2007.  Artisan Tile NW Spring Show</B> in Seattle at the 

Northwest Craft Center and Gallery at the Seattle Center. Members of Artisan 

Tile NW will be showing their work. For details and directions go to 

<A HREF="http://www.artisantilenw.org">www.artisantilenw.org</A>

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<B>March 14-17, 2007. NCECA’s 41st Annual Conference</B> in Louisville, Kentucky. 

Visit <A HREF="http://www.nceca.net">www.nceca.net</A> for details.

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<B>March 21-24, 2007. SAMA’s 6th Annual Conference</B> in Mesa, Arizona. 

Go to <A HREF="http://www.americanmosaics.org/SAMAindex.aspx?id=ConfThisConference">www.americanmosaics.org</A>

for more information.

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<B>April 17-20, 2007. Coverings will be held in Chicago</B> at McCormick Place. 

Check out <A HREF="http://www.coverings.com">www.coverings.com</A> for more information.

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<B>April 27-28, 2007. Northwest Handmade Tile Show</B> in Seattle at the Swedish 

Heritage Center. For details go to <A HREF="http://www.artisantilenw.org">www.artisantilenw.org</A>

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<B>May 19-20, 2007. Tile Festival</B> in Doylestown, Pennsylvania at the 

Moravian Pottery and Tile Works. See <A href="http://www.mptw.go.to">www.mptw.go.to</A>


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The Tile Heritage Foundation is continuing its monthly support of <B>CERF, the Craft Emergency Relief Fund</B>, 

in its effort to respond with financial assistance to craft artists throughout the country impacted 

by a broad range of emergencies, the most notable of which were caused by Hurricane Katrina and its 

aftermath. As of the end of last October this national organization had committed close to $300,000 

in grants, loans and other donated services to over 100 craft artists in Louisiana and Mississippi. 

<B>CERF is the only nonprofit focused entirely on emergency assistance for artists in the US</B>.

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Especially impressive is the organization’s <B>proactive approach of helping artists prepare</B> for and 

mitigate the effects of disasters, focused in areas that are disaster-prone. Artists are encouraged 

to develop disaster plans, to store copies of their portfolios offsite, to understand the ins and 

outs of insurance coverage, and to evaluate risks.

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We are proud of our support of this worthy organization and want to encourage Tile Heritage members 

to join with us in supporting its programs. Take a few minutes and check out the website for detailed 

information: <A HREF="http://www.craftemergency.org">www.craftemergency.org</A>


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While celebrating its 30th anniversary, the <B>Southern California Chapter of 

the Society of Architectural Historians</B> (SAH/SCC) took the opportunity to 

acknowledge one of its founding fathers, <B>Dr. Robert Winter</B>, known to many 

as Bungalow Bob, with a prestigious <B>Lifetime Achievement Award</B>. The gala 

took place at a candlelit banquet in the elegant ballroom of the Lanterman 

House (Arthur L. Haley, 1915) in La Cañada on Sunday, December 3, 2006. 

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was NOT a bungalow!) Among the celebrities present at the event were

<B>Sheila Menzies and Irene de Watteville</B> representing the board of the Tile 

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Dr. Winter, architectural historian and professor emeritus at Occidental 

College, serves as custodian for the house of tilemaker <B>Ernest Batchelder</B> 

(1876-1957), where he has kindly hosted a Tile Heritage symposium and 

welcomed countless visitors over the years. Through 43 years of teaching, 

13 books (including the invaluable <I>Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles</I>), 

another on its way, tours, public lectures, service on commissions, 

Bob Winter has surely done more to arouse interest in Southern California’s 

architectural (and tile!) heritage and to inspire its preservation than any 

other living person.

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The Tile Heritage Foundation provides prize money each year in support of 

contemporary tile-related artwork. We do not involve ourselves in choosing 

the prizewinners; we leave this up to the jurors involved in each competition. 

The <B>Tile Heritage Prize</B> is awarded to the artist whose work, in the jurors’ 

judgment, best reflects ceramic traditions.

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The <B>Tile Heritage Prix Primo</B> was awarded to <B>Bob Smith</B> of Idledale Pottery, 

Idledale, Colorado for his piece <B>“Arid Torrent,”</B> submitted last spring to the 

<B>16th annual National Ceramic Competition</B> presented by the <B>San Angelo Museum of 

Fine Arts</B>, San Angelo, Texas. <B>Juror Ann Lancaster</B>, co-founder and former 

executive director of the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, commented that

 Smith’s work “reminds us of clay’s practical place in the manmade world.”


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Quoting <B>Bob Smith</B> from his <B>“Artist’s Statement”</B>: I have been changed significant

ly and irrevocably by making clay art. My head, hands and heart have come together 

during this active, long-term pursuit of my dreams. I am beginning to understand 

the complexities of my medium, and because I work hard and with care and sincerity 

to train my hands to do what they must, in this self-actualization I have become 

passionate. Through some stroke of good fortune, I have found work which is 

satisfying, engaging, challenging, and comprehensive, and through which my heart 

can sing.

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At the <B>Third International Ceramic Tile Triennial (elit-tile)</B> presented by the 

<B>Igneri Foundation Art and Archaeology</B> at the <B>Museum of Modern Art</B>, Santo Domingo, 

Dominican Republic in mid-November, <B>Dwain Naragon</B> was awarded the <B>Tile Heritage Prize</B>. 


The jurors <B>Mark Gordon</B> from the U.S.,

<B>Francois Ruegg</B> from Switzerland, and tonal 

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<B>Wilfredo Torres</B> from Cuba commented on Natagon’s excellent use of glazes, 

 his exquisite way of realizing the duality of repeated patterns.

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<B>Dwain Naragon</B> is Professor of Art at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. 

Commenting on his work he wrote, <B>“For years I have studied historical ceramics. 

Consequently this has led me to exploring anthropology and archaeology which provide 

universal clues to functionality and containment.”</B>

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Prizes were awarded in mid-September for <B>“One Square Foot,”</B> a national juried tile 

exhibition at the <B>Infinity Gallery</B> in Minneapolis presented by <B>Clay Squared to Infinity</B>.

  Among the works chosen by juror <B>Jason Busch</B>, formerly a curator of decorative arts at

 the Minneapolis Institute of Arts was a tile by <B>Wendy Penta-Nelson</B> at <B>Stone Hollow 

Tile</B>, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, that won the <B>Tile Heritage Prize</B>. Wendy’s tiles are 

infused with her love of the Arts and Crafts era. The subtle matte glazes create 

shadows and capture the moods of nature.

 
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There is no easy way to report the loss of two dear friends, <B>Mildred and Chris Bradley</B>,

 who passed into tile heaven within a month of one another just before the holidays. 

Many of you will remember them fondly—Chris, the Navy vet with his metal “front legs,” 

and Mildred with her cherubic charm weighted down with bags full of tiles. On tour 

Mildred would admonish me for catering to what I perceived as Chris’ needs. “Don’t 

worry about him,” she would say, “he’ll catch up with us soon enough.” Of course, she 

was right.

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We first met in 1992 when they attended the Tile Heritage symposium in Southern 

California. From that time on they came to every Tile Heritage event until the recent 

conference in Minneapolis. Avid rock collectors for years, the two quickly became tile 

fanatics, collecting both historic and contemporary tiles. Sheila and I visited them 

at their home on Staten Island and were thrilled to see all the tiles on display, each 

with its own story.  We also noticed that most of the rocks had been relegated to the 

basement!

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Yes, they will be missed, but many of us will carry them both in our hearts for years 

to come. That’s just the kind of people they were.

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