Woodman Residency Foundation

Ann Agee is a leading member in a pioneering generation of feminist ceramicists who have brought the art form to the forefront of contemporary discourses on sculpture. Through her practice, Agee engages ambiguous delineations between fine art, design, and craft; histories of cultural appropriation and exchange; and the range of women’s lived experiences. She earned her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1981 and her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1986. Her work has been included in notable group exhibitions, including: 1994’s Bad Girls, the New Museum, NY; 2009’s Dirt on Delight, the Institute of Contemporary Art, PA and the Walker Art Center, MN; and 2008’s Conversations in Clay, the Katonah Art Museum, NY.

Gordon Knox is a cultural innovator, institution builder, educator and arts-program designer. He has envisioned and established groups, residencies and institutions that support exploratory artists from across cultures and disciplines. Starting with the simple truth that humans are social beings, and that culture is the result of their interaction, he builds organizations grounded on interdependence and recognition. Gordon Knox was president of the San Francisco Art Institute, director of the Arizona State University Art Museum, core collaborator at the Stanford Humanities Lab, Civitella Ranieri in Italy, the Lucas Artists Programs in California, the Combine Artist Residency in Arizona, and the Woodman Artist Residency in Florence, Italy.

Charles Woodman, is the Founder of the Woodman Artist Residency and President of both the Woodman Residency Foundation and the Woodman Family Foundation. He is also an electronic artist working in video and expanded media. His recent projects have concentrated on the creation of multi-image video installations for museums and galleries, and the integration of video with live performance, often in collaboration with musicians or dancers. Exhibitions of his work include screenings at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and others. Woodman was a professor in the School or Art at the University of Cincinnati for 20 years, he currently lives in Oakland, CA.

Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York and London. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design and Head of Research at the V&A. His publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007); The Craft Reader (2010); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011, with Jane Pavitt); The Invention of Craft (2013); Art in the Making (2016, with Julia Bryan-Wilson); Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018); Objects: USA 2020; and Craft: An American History (2021). His next book, A Century of Tomorrows, will be published by Bloomsbury in December 2024.