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Julia Parker, a Native American basket maker talks about his works at a lecture to craftspeople, students, collectors and educators at California College of Arts and Crafts and showed by an example that Native American Basketry is a viable contemporary practice that cuts across cultures. Parker insists on emphasizing the functionality of baskets and their role in traditional Native culture.

The 'Art of Gold' is a touring exhibition giving an overview of studio goldsmithing in North America organized by the Society of North American Goldsmiths and includes the work of 78 artists, ranging from jewelry to sculpture to vessel forms.

The works of Bennett's recent exhibit 'Made in Oakland; The Furniture of Garry Know Bennett' was a retrospective of the artists 30-year career is described. It included more than 80 furniture pieces and smaller works.

'Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000' exhibited a half-century of ceramic objects from 170 artists. Two themes of the exhibition were the strong role played by diversity and influence of visual conversations in modern ceramics

The Otis Art Institute's ceramics department gave birth to the modern vision of ceramics as an art form, under the leadership of Peter Voulkos. The movement went from functionality to modernism, but still must overcome the constricting rules of the art world.

Blown glass artist Marvin Lipofsky enjoys combining travel and work. He creates glass sculpture to suit the political and cultural environment he finds in the places he visits.

Many of the works of ceramics sculptor Robert Arneson were on display at the Palo Alto Art Center. The exhibit clearly demonstrates Arneson's goal of making ceramics a valid fine arts form. Arneson died some 10 years earlier, at the age of 62.