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 Wendell Castle
Artist-in-Residence

Fields of Expertise:
Art & Design > American Crafts
Art & Design > Woodworking

Dept/Division: College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: wxcfaa@rit.edu
News Contact: Kevin Fuller, kmfuns@rit.edu, 585-475-6241
Website: http://www.rit.edu/~652www/


Wendell Castle, an expert in woodworking, is a renowned woodworker and sculptor who has elevated furniture to an art form.

His work is part of the White House Collection of American Crafts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian Institute and the American Craft Museum.

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 Albert Paley
Artist-in-residence

Fields of Expertise:
Art & Design > American Crafts
Art & Design > Metal Crafts

Dept/Division: College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: Please contact News Specialist
News Contact: Kevin Fuller, kmfuns@rit.edu, 585-475-6241
Website: http://www.rit.edu/~652www/


Albert Paley is a metal sculptor with a worldwide reputation and many permanent collections and exhibitions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Art, The White House Collection of American Crafts, the Smithsonian Institute and the American Craft Museum.

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 Michael Rogers
Associate Professor, School for American Crafts

Fields of Expertise:
Art & Design > American Crafts
Art & Design > Glass Blowing

Dept/Division: College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: marsac@rit.edu
News Contact: Kevin Fuller, kmfuns@rit.edu, 585-475-6241
Website: http://www.codexapparition.com


Michael Rogers, associate professor in RIT’s School for American Crafts, spent 11 years teaching as head of the glass program at Aichi University of Education in Kariya, Japan.

He speaks fluent Japanese and his sculptural works are in the permanent collections of the First Contemporary Glass Museum in Spain, Suntory Museum in Japan, Museo del Vidrio in Mexico, National Museum in Lviv, Ukraine, and the Huntington Museum in the U.S.

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 Leonard Urso
Professor

Fields of Expertise:
Art & Design > American Crafts
Art & Design > Metal Crafts

Dept/Division: College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
E-Mail: lursoart@aol.com
News Contact: Kevin Fuller, kmfuns@rit.edu, 585-475-6241
Website: http://www.rit.edu/~652www/


Leonard Urso, an expert in metal crafts, is actively involved in creating large and small-scale sculptors, paintings, as well as silver and jewelry art forms. His works are represented in several museums and both corporate and private collections.