2005 - Recipient of the Fellowship Award from the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
2004 - Niche Award finalist.
2003, 2002 -“Best of Baskets, Leather & Paper” Award, the American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL
2002 – “Museum Purchase Award” for the Fuller Craft Museum, Craft Boston: Circa Now, Boston, Ma. “Third Place Award for Excellence in Craft” Baltimore ACC Craft show.
2001 – “First Place Award” in Crafts category “Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2001” Pa. State Council on the Arts. “Second Place Award” for work in the Fine Craft category at the Mayfair National Juried Exhibition “Second Place Award for Excellence in Craft” Baltimore ACC Craft show. Recipient of the Fellowship Award from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
2000 – “Best Use of Materials” award at the 6th Annual National Juried Exhibit at the Artsbridge at Prallsville Mills, Stockton, N.J.
1999 – “Grant of Excellence” The Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa. “Third Place Award – Best of Show” The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. “First Place Award” St. Louis Art Fair, Mo.
1998, 1997 – “Best of Show” Cherry Creek Arts Festival

Publications

The Complete Book of Gourd Craft - Summit & Widess
Baskets: Tradition and Beyond - Leier, Peters & Wallace
The Decorated Gourd – Dyan Mai Peterson
Design! A Lively Guide to Design Basics for Artists and Craftspeople - Steven Aimone
Fiberarts Design Book 7 - Susan Mowery Kieffer
Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot - Vol XXVIII N0.4 Issue #112 Fall 1997 Published by the Handweavers Guild of America
Ateliers d’Art de France 2001 March/April issue
CraftArts International 2002 April issue #54
Delta Sky 2003 March 2003
FiberArts 2004 November/December

David Licata

David Licata is an artist who has been working with glass for the past four years. He graduated in 2005 with a B.S. in Art Education and a B.F.A. in Sculpture from SUNY at New Paltz NY. He is currently finishing up an assistantship at the Creative Glass Center of America where most of this work has been made.

Awards

2004 - Student Art Alliance Grant for thesis exhibit. New Paltz, NY.
2000 - Westchester Arts Council annual award for Achievement within the Arts.

Exhibits

2006 - Contemporary lampworking exhibit at the lynn Tendler Gallery, Brookfield Ct.
2006 - Nature exhibition at the Pearl Gallery, Stone Ridge NY.
2005 - “Self-Portrait” exhibit at the White Plains Public Library, NY.
2005 - Exhibition at the Pearl Gallery, Stone Ridge NY.
2004 - Bachelor in Fine Arts Exhibit at Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, New Paltz. NY.
2003 - Student Art Alliance Art Auction. Chandler Gallery, New Paltz NY.
2003 - “Art in Nature” exhibit in the SUB Gallery. New Paltz NY.
2002 - Sculpture group exhibit at the Student Art Gallery. New Paltz NY.