Randy Johnston has had an illustrious 45-year career in ceramics. He is recognized internationally as an artist who has pursued functional expression and brought a fresh aesthetic vision to contemporary form, and for his many contributions to the development of wood kiln technology in the United States. He is professor and department chair emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, where he taught ceramics and drawing. His work has been exhibited internationally and he is the recipient of numerous awards including the Bush Artist Fellowship granted by the Bush Foundation in Minnesota and two Visual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Distinguished teaching award in American Arts from the James Renwick Society of the Smithsonian. Johnston received an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota where he studied with Warren MacKenzie. He also studied in Japan at the pottery of Shimaoka Tatsuzo, who was a student of Shoji Hamada. Johnston has presented hundreds of lectures and guest artist presentations worldwide. He has work in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert in London, the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Nelson Aitkins Museum, and numerous international public and private collections.

Marguerite Robichaux received an MFA from Louisiana State University and visited Maine as a student, which is when she grew to love the state. Now living in the woods of northwest Maine, her studio lies in the shadow of the Bigelow Mountain Range — one of her favorite subjects. Robichaux also spends part of each year painting in a small studio in southern Louisiana where she grew up, and whenever she travels it is always with a set of watercolors and a French easel. Her work is included in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.

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