Thomas Reardon & Kathleen Doyle
Kathleen Doyle received her BFA from Memphis College of Art. Thereafter, she moved to North Carolina to fulfill a residency, teaching enameling, at the John C. Campbell Folk School. She then returned to school and received her MFA degree from the University of Illinois at Carbondale. In 1978, she returned to North Carolina to become a resident at the Penland School of Crafts.
Thomas Reardon was an interior designer for the State of New York when he studied metalsmithing at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He received his MFA in Metals in 1976 and soon became an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana. In 1978, he took a leave of absence from teaching to work as a goldsmith and small metal model maker in New York City. He moved to San Francisco in 1980 to accept a teaching position at California State University at Sacramento. After a year, he left teaching to venture out on his own as a self-employed goldsmith in San Francisco.
In 1981, Kathleen accepted a one-year sabbatical replacement teaching position at the California College of Arts and Crafts where Tom was also teaching a class. Tom and Kathleen met and later married. In 1995, they were invited by the Grovewood Gallery to be resident studio artists and have called Asheville home ever since.
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Doorkeeper
(TRKD DOORKEEPER)
mild steel and Biltmore Industries cog
5’ 7” H x 12” W x 13” base
$2,800
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