Leslie LeFranc is a farmer-florist, growing and foraging native and cultivar flowers on the rolling farmland of the Upper Delaware River Highlands.
Her career as a graphic designer, before turning to floriculture, informs her floral aesthetic, where she is most interested in the disparate tension that results from combining and arranging the simplest wildflowers with highly cultivated cut flowers.
Most recently, her editorial floral work has been featured in Edible Wedding and Edible Hudson magazines.
Matt Nolen is a studio artist living and working in New York City and Narrowsburg, NY. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in numerous private and public collections including: The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NYC., The Museum of Arts and Design, NYC., The Newark Museum, NJ., The Houston Museum of Fine Art, TX., The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. and The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY .
Nolen’s work has been written about and reviewed in many periodicals and books including: The New York Times, American Ceramics, Ceramics Art and Perception, Masters of Craft, Confrontational Clay, Postmodern Ceramics and Painted Clay.
Nolen has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Foundation (regional NEA) Fellowship, and international residencies in Israel and China. His residency at the Kohler Co.’s Art/Industry Program resulted in a handmade public washroom that has been named “Best Restroom in America” by the Cintas Corp. and among “The 10 Best Bathrooms in the World” by the Travel Channel.
He has recently served as President of the Board of Trustees for Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine, and is Adjunct Professor of Art at New York University, Hunter College, and Ceramics Area Coordinator at Pratt Institute.
