Seeing “art” as an impractical career choice, Carol earned her undergraduate degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 

Anne is a corporate refugee who gleefully reinvented herself as an artist and arts activist. 

“I chose sumi painting or it chose me. When I was studying art at the University of Washington, George Tsutakawa taught a class in this art form that

Ali VandeGrift is a glass bead maker and scientific glassblower. Since 2004, glass has been the main focus of her life. Her current body of artwork is focused on stringer work, specifically intricate scrollwork and linear patterns. 

Amber Cowan is an artist and educator out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she is a faculty member of the Glass Department of Tyler School of Art at Temple University. 

Boyd Sugiki was first introduced to glass in 1986 at Punahou High School in Honolulu, HI, and studied under the guidance of Hugh Jenkins. He went on to receive a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and a MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Alair Wells has a BFA and MFA in Sculpture. Her passion lies in creating beautiful organic objects from seemingly cold hard materials, such as metal.

Brian Watson is a wood sculptor from Bremerton, Washington. He uses salvaged woods from the Puget Sound region to create spare, thin-walled vessel forms that evoke natural forms and human emotions. 

I am a Seattle based artist that has been working with metal for over 20 years. I have been teaching Creative Metal Working and Welding One at Pratt for over 15 years.

Having studied jewelry as an art form at the University of Washington and training as a blacksmith with a specialty in making Damascus steel, Celeste has a broad range of artistic experience. 

A West Coast native with family roots in Hawaii, Adia Mei Jun Bobo has been working as a jewelry metalsmith since 2010. After graduating from the Art Institute with a Culinary Arts degree Adia somehow found herself working as a Territory Manager in the construction industry. 

Andrea Ramsay (@andrearrr) attended The Port Townsend School of Woodworking and upon returning to Seattle found Pratt to be the perfect spot to continue building. 

Bill Brown grew up near Baltimore, spent a few years in Montana where he picked up a bachelor's degree in graphic design. He made his way to Seattle to become an illustrator. His first big assignment was for Condé Nast Traveler in 1997. 

I've become "Anne of All Trades" with the goal of gaining and sharing knowledge and living as an example to empower and inspire my peers to get outside, to take risks, to pick up tools and explore their own creativity.

Beth Zirngible received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics in 1996 from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, and has been teaching art ever since.