Newly Juried Members 2022

John Boland

John Boland, a native of Seattle Washington was raised in a predominantly Asian community. He quickly acquired an appreciation of Asian aesthetics, particularly the ceramic traditions of Japan, Korea and China. His ceramic interests were encouraged by Robert Sperry at the University of Washington and later Jorge Wilmot and Ken Edwards of Tonola, Mexico. John started Sugar River Pottery in February 2022 where he is producing on a smaller scale in his studio in Claremont, NH.

Yuan Pan

Yuan Pan is an artist, designer, and craftsman. He is the owner of Goose Pond Tileworks and has over 25 years of experience in art and design. He specializes in carved relief ceramic tiles that can be displayed as individual artwork or installed as accents. Yuan received his education in China, New Zealand, and the United States. His work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. Yuan lives with his family in beautiful Westmoreland, NH.

Lisa Almeida

Lisa is a contemporary tapestry weaver – a weft-facing discontinuous hand-woven technique. She primarily weaves with wool, but has begun working with linen and other natural fibers. Most of her work is inspired by her surroundings, including the natural world and human events. Flowing curves and gradient shading are recurrent themes in her work along with creating sculptural additions.

Maggie Burnett

Maggie Burnett studied art at Mount Holyoke College and continues to participate in classes and workshops throughout New England. She has exhibited her work in CT, MA, VT, and NH . Since moving to White River Junction, VT, Maggie has worked at AVA Gallery and Art Center and is the owner of Mae in White River Junction, VT where she creates hand-dyed home décor.

Janet Gordon

Janet is a felter who felts primarily shawls, cowls, and landscapes which have her signature touch of added sculptural effects with the use of needle felting techniques, embroidery and machine sewing. At the heart of Janet’s work is the exploration of color. The impulse for her work arises from entering into the inter-play of color with all of its moods and dynamic relationships that unfold as the colors move together and away from one another. She uses the finest merino wool which is hand dyed and wet felted together with silk materials and a variety of fibers to create texture and design.

Rebecca McGovern

Rebecca started early making soft sculptured fabric creations. Coming from a family of sewers it was inevitable that she would inherit the love of sewing and crafting. Being a decorative painter has contributed to the skills of painting tiny faces. She has certification in porcelain dolls and has taught classes at local quilt shops. Her line of original doll, toy and appliqué quilt patterns is currently being sold online and in quilt stores.

Caitlyn Burch

Caitlin has been a full time glass artist for 20 years. She has been a member of the League for her lampwork jewelry for many years and has recently juried into glass blowing as well. She is a second generation glass blower and her keen sense of color and form are part of what make her work so distinctive.

Lauren Dow

Lauren Dow is a metal sculptor in southern Maine practicing the art of lost wax bronze casting. She has a passion for community and is attracted to process driven work that involves many hands. She uses found objects and creates her original models using animals and plants from her garden and surrounding woods. Her work acts as a memorial for the ever changing and decaying world that often goes unnoticed.

Tara Santoro

Tara loves creating one of a kind wearable art metal jewelry designs for the fashion fearless, for those who are not afraid of making a true fashion statement with a unique architectural, edgy accessory. Her body of work includes big bold rings, earrings and pendants, all hand fabricated in Sterling Silver. Her design aesthetic and inspiration are deeply rooted in her love of contemporary, minimal modern design and architecture, the art of the Bauhaus, and Mid-Century Modern design.

Hilary Taylor

Hilary works with metal clay (fine silver) as well as traditional metal smithing techniques. During the firing process the clay burns off in the kiln leaving the piece in silver. She combines the fine silver of metal clay and the ancient Korean technique of keum boo to accent her work with 24k gold. Her designs and textures are inspired often by nature and celestial images. She creates mostly pendants and earrings as well as cuff bracelets. 

Jackie Griswold

Jackie Griswold is a mixed media collage artist who uses up-cycled and recycled materials including paint, paper that she has hand decorated, found objects, ribbon and lace, alcohol inks, stencils and stamps, glitter glue, vintage books and music sheets, and bits and bobs of ephemera that most people might not consider as art materials.

Lisa Laughy

Lisa is a juried member in wood working and was recently juried in mixed media with her collage works and hand bound books. Her collages incorporate paper in the form of engravings from old books, marbled endpapers, vintage maps, stamps, and other interesting bits of ephemera. She adds details by decorating with drawing and/or painting. Her hand bound books are sewn primarily using the Coptic stitch, and incorporate repurposed vintage and antique books covers, most featuring tooled leather and marbled paper. Since the Coptic stitch is an open-spine technique, she gives new life to old book covers with broken spines, and creates blank sketchbooks and journals that have a worn vintage feel.

Donald Moss

Don has been making furniture and sculptural objects for twenty years and over the last few years, his focus has been primarily on table lamps. His goal is to choose and combine materials that bring warmth, playfulness, and an element of surprise into our living spaces. Don is mostly drawn to humble materials: weathered wood, rusted fencing, rough metal tubing, recycled papers and fabrics.

Susan Savory

Susan Savory was born and raised on the banks of the Susquehanna River in upstate New York. She moved to the seacoast of New Hampshire in 1980, after completing her BFA in Illustration at Parsons School of Design. She has experimented in almost every medium: painting and drawing, glass, clay, fiber and metal, and has shown her work in galleries and museums throughout New York, New England and California. She currently creates illustrations, largely for children’s books, in cut paper collage, pencil and gouache. Her most recent personal work is an ongoing series of collages built with vintage photographs, letters and book pages, found and created papers, inks, graphite, and paint.

Thomasin Alyxander

Alyx is a bead-weaver who uses mostly seed beads and small (mostly Czech) glass beads in her work. She also uses textured metal in some of her designs. Most pieces are one-of-a-kind although some of them can be considered variations on a theme. She draws her inspiration from history, mythology, and natural history. 

Christopher Argurkis

Chris started his journey with photography many years ago in his teens, back in the film days. Back then it was his hobby, today it’s his profession and passion. He loves to photograph everything in the natural world including beautiful NH wildlife, landscapes, astrophotography to really close up insects shots.

Garrett Evans

Garrett’s work is a wide variety of landscape, astrophotography, and wildlife photography. He is a photographer who loves adventure and the pictures and images he releases are his way of bringing the viewer along on his journeys. He goes out in all weather and conditions to capture his images, hiking up mountains in the dark to be at the top to see the sun as it rises over the surrounding peaks or kayaking to islands off the coast of Maine to camp for the night and watch the Milky Way over the dark Atlantic Ocean.

Ed Thomas

I have been a commercial photographer for almost 40 years, shooting for companies and catalogues. Along the way I have always been involved in the fine art sector of photography, lately specializing in seeing the beauty in decrepit buildings and studying the history of such structures. Also, I am interested in photographing pieces of things such water or a rock and seeing the art on the inside. I still use film occasionally but am excited at the improvements I can make with the computer. It is also good to get some great shots using a minimum of equipment.

Kait Armstrong

Kait Armstrong has lived in New Hampshire for over twenty years. Her interest in art began at a young age and was encouraged by her family of creative thinkers. She attended Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia where she graduated with a BFA in textile design with an emphasis in color theory. In 2017 she attended a printmaking workshop at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. This experience solidified her love of woodblock printmaking and it has been her primary medium ever since. Kait draws inspiration from beauty in the natural world, and utilizes printmaking to confront social and environmental issues.

Anna Orbovich

Anna E. Orbovich is an artist working in printmaking, drawing and sculpture. As an avid outdoors-person Orbovich’s time working and conducting research in the harsh and remote wild places ranging from the Arctic to the Desert to most recently the rugged Superior Hiking Trail in Northern Minnesota have vastly influenced the direction of her work. She is eager to explore the inspiration that comes from her new surroundings of the lakes, rivers, trails and mountains of New Hampshire.

Daniel Bowen

Daniel’s work consists of a mixture of all wood, to wood and resin designs. He works with wood ranging from walnut, maples, mahogany, cherry, oak, pine, mulberry, and more. He enjoys making objects such as cutting boards, charcuterie boards, and beer taster trays to name a few.

Sara Desjardins

Sara has a background in illustration and graphic design and creates her detailed work by using pyrography or wood burning techniques. She often depicts animals or sea creatures in action making very unique, narrative style wall hangings on wood.

Brad Owens

Brad is a woodworker who makes unique cutting boards and wooden kitchen utensils for specialized uses. His pieces are all one of a kind, made from a large variety of wood species, and enjoyable to use.

Bradley Wolcott

Bradley’s love of design and woodworking began in the Hopkins Center Woodworking Studio at Dartmouth College. After graduation, he served four years as a cavalry officer in the United States Army including a 13 month combat tour in Iraq. Upon completing his service, he enrolled at the North Bennett Street School in Boston, Massachusetts to pursue a career in furniture making. This foundation of fine craftsmanship is reflected in his contemporary work where traditional techniques are combined with more organic, curvilinear forms to create furniture that is intended to last for generations. Today he works in Concord, NH creating custom furniture for clients throughout the United States.