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Dorothy Caldwell is a graduate of Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and presently maintains an active international exhibition and teaching schedule from her studio in Hastings, Ontario. She has been awarded grants to carry out research projects in Japan and India, and has worked “on site” in the Australian outback, the Canadian Arctic, and Newfoundland. Dorothy has completed major architectural commissions, and her work is included in public collections including the American Museum of Art and Design, NYC, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The International Quilt Museum and Study Center University of Nebraska, The Canadian Department of External Affairs, The Jack Larsen Collection, New York, The Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, and the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, among others. 

Michael James’s practice is focused on fabric constructions. His textiles have been recognized and exhibited internationally. They are included in the collections of the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Racine Art Museum, the Newark Museum, the Mint Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Shelburne Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, among others.

For his work in the domain of non-traditional quilts James was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1992 by his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, became a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 2001, and in 2009 was honored with the University of Nebraska’s system-wide “Outstanding Research and Creative Activity” Award (ORCA), given for a sustained record of excellent accomplishment in research or creative activity while at the university. In 2015 he was honored by the Renwick Alliance with its Master of the Medium Award, for lifetime accomplishment. Since 2002 he has concentrated  his creative efforts on digital textile printing and its interface with the quilt as mixed media platform. His work explores the liminal and fluid borderland between the physical and metaphysical worlds.