Acclaim! Work by
Award-Winning International Artists

Essay by Caroline Kipp
164 pages
© 2023 browngrotta arts
ISBN: 1-930230-58-3
Produced by: browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT, USA
Designer: Tom Grotta
Photography: Tom Grotta
Editor: Rhonda Brown
Gallery Associates: Roberta Condos, Mary Luke
Color Consultant: Ken Berard


Humans love to rank things. It’s instinctive. We choose first place, best-in-show, and identify the MVP and the GOAT in sports, schools,
dogs, wines and more.
The art world is no different. There are competitions and awards of various kinds. The 45+ artists in our Spring exhibit, Acclaim! Work by
Award-Winning International Artists, like the others that we work with at browngrotta arts, have had their work acquired by museums
and recognized by collectors. In addition, each of these artists have achieved formal art acknowledgment in the form of an award or
medal or exclusive membership. Some of them have achieved more than one such commendation.
In the US, that may mean the award of a Gold Medal from the American Craft Council — 10 of the artists in Acclaim! belong to that
group. In Canada, it means membership in the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, which three of our artists have achieved. The
late-master weaver Peter Collingwood, an artist whose work appears in this exhibition, received an OBE, Order of the British Empire.
Yeonsoon Chang of Korea was selected Artist of the Year, by the Contemporary Art Museum in Seoul. In France, Simone Pheulpin was
awarded the Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris. Grethe Sørensen of Denmark and Agneta Hobin of Finland received the Nordic
Award in Textiles; Sheila Hicks the French Legion of Honor.

Adela Akers (US)

Jo Barker (UK)

Dorothy Gill Barnes (US)

James Bassler (US)

Micheline Beauchemin (CA)

Marian Bijlenga (NL)

Wendell Castle (US)

Yeonsoon Chang (KR)

Peter Collingwood (UK)

Lia Cook (US)

Olga de Amaral (CO)

Dominick Di Mare (US)

John Garrett (US)

Mary Giles (US)

Françoise Grossen (CH/US)

Helena Hernmarck (SE/US)

Sheila Hicks (US)

Agneta Hobin (FI)

Thomas Hucker (US)

Esmé Hofman (NL)

Ferne Jacobs (US)

Glen Kaufman (US)

Anneke Klein (NL)

Lewis Knauss (US)

Gerhardt Knodel (US)

Nancy Koenigsberg (US)

Irina Kolesnikova (RU/DE)

Gyöngy Laky (US)

Dawn MacNutt (CA)

John McQueen (US)

Rebecca Medel (US)

Norma Minkowitz (US)

Laura Foster Nicholson (US)

Simone Pheulpin (FR)

Ed Rossbach (US)

Mariette Rousseau-Vermette (CA)

Jane Sauer (US)

Cynthia Schira (US)

Warren Seelig (US)

Kay Sekimachi (US)

Carol Shaw-Sutton (US)

Sherri Smith (US)

Grethe Sørensen (DK)

Lenore Tawney (US)

Mercedes Vicente (ES)

Ulla-Maija Vikman (FI)

Katherine Westphal (US)

Anne Wilson (US)

Merja Winqvist (FI)

Jiro Yonezawa (JP)

Carolina Yrarrázaval (CL)