Thank you for getting Out of Hand!

The Society for Contemporary Craft hosted it's annual benefit, Out of Hand! on March 1, 2008. This year’s event featured demonstrations by Woodturners Anonymous, local ceramicist Justin Rothshank, and Jessica Rutherford from the Pittsburgh Glass Center. Hands on activities included beading with Olga Mihaylova, a polymer clay activity, and shabori scarf dying with board member Julia Sawyer. Guests had their palms read by Michael Mykita and hands decorated with henna art by artist Cynthia and Lia Shaffer. Pat Buckley helped guests bind books while Dave Russell and educators from The Andy Warhol Musuem showed them how to construct assemblage buttons. All this while Steel Impressions jazzed, and rocked our party guests with traditional calypso music. Our live and silent acutions were a success and we would like to thank all those who participated.

Please click here for a special thank you to all who donated their time, effort and dollars. 

Thanks to this years sponsors:

Silversmith Level - $5,000
Highmark
Mellon

Coppersmith - $2,500
Judy and Michael Cheteyan Educational Foundation
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Blacksmith - $1,000
Julia Sawyer and Ken Doyno

Thank you to our food booth sponsors:

• La Creme
• P.F. Chang's
• Spaghetti Warehouse
• Tallulah's Cafe and Catering
• Morgan Phillips

Additional Food & Beverage Sponsors:

• Chicken Latino
• Common Plea Catering
• Consumer Produce
• Dozen Cupcakes
• Catering by Linda Iannotta
• La Prima
• Mon Aimee Chocolat
• Paragon Monteverde Foods
• Piccolo Forno
• Penn Brewery
• Prestogeorge
• Starbucks Coffee
• Square Cafe
• Whole Foods

Thanks to this year's volunteers:

• Adrienne Borkowski
• Aimee Hong
• Alex Bard
• Alissa Martin
• Bob Kmetz
• Carrie Diedrich
• Catherine Skolnicki
• Chelsea Linden
• Deborah Webber Frank Czuri
• Jean Schmidt
• Jim Powell
• Joyce Ross
• Julie Frey
• Karen White
• Kate Lewis
• Liz Schwartz
• Mary Lou Jurkovec
• Pam & Emil Quatchak
• Sabrina Pearson
• Susan Cohen
• Tammy Schweinhagen
• Frank Czuri

Special thanks to the R.R. Donnelley-Hoechstetter Plant and Bob Bowden for donating our event invitations and Jody Stein of Create Studios for designing the invitation. And to Northside Floral for not only donating beautiful flowers for our event but for all year long.