Bracelet

Fair Market Value: $350

Dimensions: 9" x 1.5"

Repurposed skateboard decks

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Tara Locklear

Inspired by materials in industrial and social culture, Tara Locklear's jewelry creates an immediate focus for the viewer. Driven by her love of the color and graphic qualities these materials provide, exploring and forming them are at the heart of her practice. From sheet steel, cast cement to recycled skateboards, all of her material choices have inherent beauty and strength beyond their functioning identity. Tara's focus is to create finely crafted jewelry that empowers the weather individually and to bring a refreshing point of view to contemporary jewelry.

Her work is shown in galleries, the Smithsonian, American Craft Council Shows, and in public collections including the Racine Art Museum. Her curatorial projects include Monochrome Noir at Velvet da Vinci. She has taught several workshops and given lectures on her process around the United States including Pratt Design School NYC and Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh.

Gravers Lane Gallery

Gravers Lane Gallery was founded in 2010. Located in the historic Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Gravers Lane Gallery represents a diverse stable of regional, national and international artists spanning many generations, from emerging to lifetime award recipients. Engaging the surrounding community by creating a comfortable welcoming environment is very important in our exhibition practices.

Untitled, circa 1986

Fair Market Value: $650

Contributor will receive 50% of winning bid

Dimensions: 3.5" x 3.00625"

African Blackwood

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M. Dale Chase

Made from African Blackwood, the turned box was made using an 18th century Rose Engine Lathe, which created unique decorative patterns. This hand-size box is an early example of M. Dale Chase's work, with equal emphasis on the overall shape of the box and its exterior and interior patterns.

M. Dale Chase took to ornamental turning after 32 years as a vascular surgeon. Ornamental turning utilizes Holtzapffel and Rose Engine lathes developed in England during the 1800's. Shaped metal cutters are oriented to cut patterns into wood. Chase first experimented with a 150 year-old Holtzapffel lathe, then transitioned to using the Rose Engine lathe. From early boxes patterned on the exterior, his focus shifted to simple forms with interior patterns. Chase boxes are included in the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and 100 in the collection at the Center for Art in Wood.

The Center for Art in Wood

The Center for Art in Wood interprets, nurtures, and champions creative engagement and expansion of art, craft, and design in wood to enhance the public's understanding and appreciation of it. CAW has built its reputation by providing opportunities for makers and visitors to experience craft directly, through participatory programming; seminal exhibitions and documentation; and the growth, conservation, exhibition, and care of its permanent collection. The Center's practice of keeping these resources free and available to the public emphasizes its commitment to building a democratic and inclusive community.

Ornamental Turned Box, circa 2007

Fair Market Value: $1,250

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Dimensions: 1.0625" x 2.9375"

African Blackwood and Boxwood

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M. Dale Chase

This ornamentally turned box represents a major development of M. Dale Chase's work. He transitioned to creating simple-shaped boxes which were only ornamented on the inside. This created sensual forms that invited fondling in the palm of one's hand. Chase precisely laminated different color woods, then turned them to form the box. Complex cutters of his design cut precise patterns through the wood layers, resulting in the vividly contrasting designs.

M. Dale Chase took to ornamental turning after 32 years as a vascular surgeon. Ornamental turning utilizes Holtzapffel and Rose Engine lathes developed in England during the 1800's. Shaped metal cutters are oriented to cut patterns into wood. Chase first experimented with a 150 year-old Holtzapffel lathe, then transitioned to using the Rose Engine lathe. From early boxes patterned on the exterior, his focus shifted to simple forms with interior patterns. Chase boxes are included in the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and 100 in the collection at the Center for Art in Wood.

The Center for Art In Wood

The Center for Art in Wood interprets, nurtures, and champions creative engagement and expansion of art, craft, and design in wood to enhance the public's understanding and appreciation of it. CAW has built its reputation by providing opportunities for makers and visitors to experience craft directly, through participatory programming; seminal exhibitions and documentation; and the growth, conservation, exhibition, and care of its permanent collection. The Center's practice of keeping these resources free and available to the public emphasizes its commitment to building a democratic and inclusive community.

Sniffer

Fair Market Value: $350

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Dimensions: 6" x 6" x 2"

Carved wood and paint

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Dana Dalton

From the 12 Days of Christmas, Sniffer is hand-carved and painted wooden rabbit. Dalton is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) where she majored in sculpture. She has been a participant of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, American Craft Made with the American Craft Council, and has shown extensively throughout the country.

Gravers Lane Gallery

Gravers Lane Gallery was founded in 2010. Located in the historic Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Gravers Lane Gallery represents a diverse stable of regional, national and international artists spanning many generations, from emerging to lifetime award recipients. Engaging the surrounding community by creating a comfortable welcoming environment is very important in our exhibition practices.

#5

Fair Market Value: $250

Dimensions: 6" x 9" x 3"

Ash wood and stone box

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Don Miller

Don Miller is a Philadelphia based woodworker, instrument maker and educator. He holds a BA in German form the University of Kansas and an MFA in 3D Design from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. He recently retired as an Associate Professor in the Craft+ Material Studies program at The University of the Arts and inhabits his own workshop in Germantown, PA. His work investigates natural material, functional form and historical technology. This piece is #5 in a series of small pieces that were made of similar likeness.