Preview a selection of our silent auction items below. Half of all proceeds go directly to our participating artists!
To purchase a piece at the Buy It Now price, please contact Natalie Svacina at nsvacina@crafthouston.org or 713-529-4848 x 111.
To see all the items and bid in person, join us at the Crafting a Legacy Spring Luncheon on Thursday, April 30th.
Note: HCCC Member discounts are not applicable to the silent auction.
Dan Anderson
Rest in the Long Run, ca. 1990
Ceramic, slip decorated
6.25 x 11 x 5.5 inches
Value: $2,000
Minimum Bid: $1,200
Buy It Now: $2,200
Dan Anderson was an American ceramic artist known for his architecturally inspired vessels drawing on the industrial landscape of the Midwest, including water towers, silos, and oil cans. His work combines wheel-thrown and hand-built forms with wood firing and ceramic decals, creating richly textured surfaces that evoke weathered materials and mid-century industrial imagery.
Donated from the collection of Lee & Mel Eagle
Heidi Gerstacker
Untitled (brooch)
Vitreous enamel, sterling silver
2.25 x 2.25 x .5 inches
Value: $2,400
Minimum Bid: $1,440
Buy It Now: $2,640
Heidi Gerstacker is a Houston-based jeweler who has received international attention for her work, which incorporates forms from nature. Through the process of sketching and modeling, she distills the visual essence of plants and insects into delicate and geometric jewelry. In this brooch, she alludes to insect eyes, graphic patterning from chewing gum packaging, and Pointillism.
Ann Johnson
Broken Cameo
Transfer print on poured concrete, gilding, gold leaf, cotton bolls, fabric, discovered plate pieces
8 x 10 x 4 inches
Value: $1,500
Minimum Bid: $900
Buy It Now: $1,650
An interdisciplinary artist, Houston-based Ann Johnson has a passion for exploring issues, particularly the unfair treatment of African Americans and women, through her experimental printmaking practice. This work is a nod to women who do the back-breaking work of taking care of other families before they can take care of their own. The African-inspired fabric, cotton bolls, and broken plate pieces from the Seward Plantation in Texas particularly reference African American women.
Anna Mavromatis
(my) reading list…
Archival pigment prints on kitakata paper, hand crumpled magazine pages, stitching
32 x 24 x 3 inches
Value: $6,800
Minimum Bid: $4,080
Buy It Now: $7,480
Anna Mavromatis’ work showcases various printmaking techniques, historical and contemporary photographic processes, and traditional surface decoration. Her background in architecture and fashion design is evident in her work and choice of materials, especially those with historic significance. This dress incorporates images of banned book covers and is patterned by a historically repeated crime: restricting the availability of books, and limiting the knowledge and extent of education of tomorrow’s adults.
Edward Lane McCartney
Color Story, Aqua (ring, size 7)
Sterling, serpentine (center stone), blue topaz, Swiss blue topaz, kiwi green sapphire, aquamarine, apatite, citrine, opal, blue chalcedony
2 x 2.25 x 1.25 inches
Value: $900
Minimum Bid: $540
Buy It Now: $990
A former resident artist and board president of HCCC, Edward Lane McCartney is a prolific mixed-media and jewelry artist. For nearly 20 years, he has honed his craft as an art jeweler, and much of his work involves pushing the boundaries of body adornment and traditional ornament.
Edward Lane McCartney
Color Story, Blanc (ring, size 7.5)
Sterling, agate druzy (center stone), moonstone, cubic zirconia, opalescent glass, sandblasted glass, pearl, mother-of-pearl flat, opal, street diamond (found glass), rainbow moonstone, rock quartz, carved mother-of-pearl, aquamarine, 14k yellow gold
2.25 x 2.25 x 1.5 inches
Value: $1,200
Minimum Bid: $720
Buy It Now: $1,320
A former resident artist and board president of HCCC, Edward Lane McCartney is a prolific mixed-media and jewelry artist. For nearly 20 years, he has honed his craft as an art jeweler, and much of his work involves pushing the boundaries of body adornment and traditional ornament.
Edward Lane McCartney
Color Story, Bleu (ring, size 7.25)
Sterling, lapis lazuli (center stone), London blue topaz, blue topaz, blue sapphire, lapis lazuli, vintage Czech glass cabochon, vintage Rivoli rhinestone, titanium-plated druzy, kyanite, vintage glass sugarloaf cabochon, quartz
2.25 x 2.75 x 1.5 inches
Value: $1,200
Minimum Bid: $720
Buy It Now: $1,320
A former resident artist and board president of HCCC, Edward Lane McCartney is a prolific mixed-media and jewelry artist. For nearly 20 years, he has honed his craft as an art jeweler, and much of his work involves pushing the boundaries of body adornment and traditional ornament.
Edward Lane McCartney
Color Story, Polychrome (ring, size 7)
Sterling calsilica (center stone), citrine, sunstone, lapis lazuli, carnelian, gold-plated agate druzy, coral, peach moonstone onyx, goldstone, blue sapphire
3 x 1.75 x 1.25 inches
Value: $1,200
Minimum Bid: $720
Buy It Now: $1,320
A former resident artist and board president of HCCC, Edward Lane McCartney is a prolific mixed-media and jewelry artist. For nearly 20 years, he has honed his craft as an art jeweler, and much of his work involves pushing the boundaries of body adornment and traditional ornament.
Edward Lane McCartney
Color Story, Rouge (ring, size 7)
Sterling, ruby (center stone), ruby in matrix, garnet, pink topaz, synthetic ruby, pink tourmaline, amethyst, strawberry quartz, bi-color tourmaline, synthetic pink sapphire, watermelon tourmaline
3 x 2.25 x 1.25 inches
Value: $1,200
Minimum Bid: $720
Buy It Now: $1,320
A former resident artist and board president of HCCC, Edward Lane McCartney is a prolific mixed-media and jewelry artist. For nearly 20 years, he has honed his craft as an art jeweler, and much of his work involves pushing the boundaries of body adornment and traditional ornament.
Don Pilcher
Untitled, ca. 1980
Porcelain and glaze
8.5 x 9.5 x 8 inches
Value: $1,000
Minimum Bid: $600
Buy It Now: $1,100
Don Pilcher is a renowned ceramicist and educator known for his mastery of stoneware and porcelain, with a strong emphasis on form, volume, and the expressive potential of the vessel. A former professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, his career evolved from traditional large-scale pottery to avant-garde altered forms inspired by George Ohr. From the ‘60s through the ‘80s, he was known for large stoneware pots and glazed porcelain.
Donated from the collection of Lee & Mel Eagle
Tracye Wear
Purple and Yellow Agave Bowl
Ceramic
19 x 19 x 5 inches
Value: $2,500
Minimum Bid: $1,500
Buy It Now: $2,750
Tracye Wear is a Houston-based ceramic artist known for her sculptural vessels inspired by organic forms and natural processes. Wear’s work explores the intersection of nature and material, often drawing on botanical elements like seed pods, shells, and plant structures to create richly textured, hand-built forms. Her ceramics emphasize surface, contour, and the transformative effects of heat and glaze.
Courtesy of Moody Gallery
Sandie Zilker
Multi-Color Brooch
14k gold, sterling, natural, and faceted stones: garnet, amethyst, green garnet, sapphire, citrine
1.375 x 1 x .25 inches
Value: $800
Minimum Bid: $480
Buy It Now: $880
2014 Texas Master Sandie Zilker is no stranger to experimentation in color, contrast, texture, pattern, and form. She sums up her aesthetic philosophy as this: “I’m kind of noisy, and so is my work. There is usually something loud about everything I do or make. Being boring or bored is my worst fear.”
Thomas Buechner III
Heechee
Sculpted glass
10 x 14 x 9 inches
Value: $750
Minimum Bid: $450
Buy It Now: $820
Thomas Buechner III was the owner and master glassblower at the Vitrix Hot Glass Studio in Corning, NY. In this work, lavender bands of molten glass were carefully applied in multiple rounds on a hyacinth central core to create a graduated spiral, then sculpted to form an arc. The work perfectly captures the properties of hot glass: fluid, juicy, dynamic, and mesmerizing. This is part of the Heechees series, which is inspired by sci-fi writer Frederick Pohl.
Donated from the collection of Dick Moiel & Kathy Poeppel
Harlan W. Butt
Nandina Vessel #1
Copper, enamel, silver
4 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches
Value: $750
Minimum Bid: $450
Buy It Now: $820
2005 Texas Master and metalsmith Harlan W. Butt is known for his enameled vessels. His work often incorporates kinetic elements—hinges, folds, and movable components—alongside pierced and layered surfaces that create shifting patterns of shadow and reflection. Drawing inspiration from natural structures, architectural forms, and mechanical systems, he transforms precious metals into dynamic compositions that blur the line between adornment and small-scale sculpture.
Roslyn Dupré
Sew-ist?
Cotton thread on cotton canvas, faux gilded bamboo frame
8 x 16 x 1.5 inches
Value: $350
Minimum Bid: $210
Buy It Now: $385
2026 resident artist Roslyn Dupré is a conceptual artist and bricoleur who reworks themes of the Southern Gothic with traditional fiber techniques. She is a maker of objects, a teller of abstracted stories and word play, and an instigator of ritual and revelation. This work is a hand-stitched provocation: Sew-er, patiently embroidered and politely framed. Is it the sew-er, needle in hand, creating order stitch by stitch? Or the sewer, doing the dirty work beneath our feet?
René Lee Henry
Eclipse, Moon Poppy (earrings)
Copper, fine silver, sterling silver, spray paint
2 x .44 inches
Value: $140
Minimum Bid: $84
Buy It Now: $154
2016 resident artist and current HCCC staff member René Lee Henry creates limited-production jewelry and one-of-a-kind sculptural jewelry inspired by abandoned architecture. This collection is inspired by Googie architecture in a state of decline. The Googie style emerged from the 1950s California car culture and embodied jet-age futurism, featuring sweeping rooflines and bold colors designed to catch the eye of motorists speeding along the freeways.
Candace Hicks
Notes on String Theory #401
Embroidery on canvas on wood panel
10.5 x 8 x 1 inches
Value: $500
Minimum Bid: $300
Buy It Now: $550
As a lifelong reader, current resident artist Candace Hicks collects coincidences from the books she consumes—shared words, themes, and plot elements—and transforms them into conceptual art experiences. Her work explores narrative, coincidence, and feminist themes.
Morgan Hill
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary! (brooch)
Holly wood, paint, steel
4 x 2.75 x 2 inches
Value: $300
Minimum Bid: $180
Buy It Now: $330
Morgan Hill is a sculptor and jewelry designer whose work draws on a wide range of influences from 90’s pop culture, cult films, and costume design to her Southern upbringing. Her jewelry brand, Bad Habits by Morgan Hill, celebrates the pleasure of excess and indulged desires. The works embody the moment when you are about to have too much of a good thing. Like all indulgences, buying and wearing jewelry is a burst of excitement and joy, but it holds the potential for a desire-fueled obsession.
Jessica Jacobi
Golden Pod (earrings)
Sterling silver, gold-plated wire
2.75 x 0.625 x 0.5 inches
Value: $300
Minimum Bid: $180
Buy It Now: $330
2007 resident artist and current HCCC staff member Jessica Jacobi explores social definitions of the body in her work, investigating different perspectives or corporeal elements, both segmented and whole. She enjoys the intimate quality of jewelry and how it can prompt unexpected interactions between the wearer and viewer. These earrings include a roller-printed “skin” on the surface of the silver, and gold-plated wire that creates the pod form through single-strand twining.
Younha Jung
60622 (necklace)
Steel
19 x 5 x 2 inches
Value: $800
Minimum Bid: $480
Buy It Now: $880
2016 resident artist Younha Jung, born in South Korea, is a Houston-based artist specializing in jewelry and steel. Her work explores the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit, emphasizing the interaction between human presence and built environments. Using mild steel and architectural materials, the piece reflects how built environments actively shape human behavior and daily experience.
Katie Mongoven
Liling China Miniature Stem Vase Blue & White 030425
Seed beads, viscose, found ceramic vessels
Dimensions variable
Value: $2,000
Minimum Bid: $1,200
Buy It Now: $2,200
Current resident artist Katie Mongoven is a Chinese American fiber artist based in Detroit, MI, and Houston, TX. Her work examines identity, the One-Child Policy, and the “third space” of the Asian American diaspora. She creates intricate embroidery and mixed-media pieces, combining thread, hair, and ceramics to explore themes of loss and cultural reconstruction.
Lorena Morales
Once Upon a Home XXII
Enamel paint and oil-based markers on layered hand-cut paper, vintage wallpaper
14 x 11 x 2 inches
Value: $975
Minimum Bid: $585
Buy It Now: $1,073
2026 resident artist Lorena Morales is a Houston-based multidisciplinary artist born in Venezuela. This work, part of a series of multidimensional collages started in 2022, combines painting and drawing with vintage wallpaper. By intentionally altering the wallpaper’s design, she explores how we remember in fragments to piece together a whole memory. Her work remains deeply rooted in the perception of home and the persistence of memory.
Thomas Perry
Cliff Vase
Colored clays
12 x 4 x 4 inches
Value: $220
Minimum Bid: $132
Buy It Now: $242
2004 resident artist Thomas Perry is known for his expressive hand-built vessels that balance structure with spontaneity. His work often emphasizes surface and process, incorporating layered textures, slips, and atmospheric firing to create richly varied finishes. This work was inspired by cliff walls during a residency at Bandelier National Monument. He is a co-founder of Empty Bowls Houston and ClayHouston.
Thomas Perry & Carolyn Dahl
In the Eye of a Flower
Clay
1.5 x 14 x 14 inches
Value: $490
Minimum Bid: $294
Buy It Now: $539
2004 resident artist Thomas Perry is known for his expressive hand-built vessels that balance structure with spontaneity. His work often emphasizes surface and process, incorporating layered textures, slips, and atmospheric firing to create richly varied finishes.
An original member of HCCC’s Advisory Council, Carolyn Dahl is an award-winning textile artist who has exhibited nationally in galleries and museums, is the author of Transforming Fabric and Natural Impressions, and has been featured on Home & Garden and PBS television. For this special edition of brightly patterned works, the two artists have collaborated, with Thomas creating the pottery form, and Carolyn painting the design.
Kathryn Rabinow
Artist’s Gouache (scarf)
Cashmere
18 x 71 inches
Value: $450
Minimum Bid: $270
Buy It Now: $495
Kathryn Rabinow’s wearable art reflects her delight in the world. Her 100% cashmere scarves bring her photography to life and allow the wearer to be literally “wrapped in art.” This photo of colorful tubes of paint was taken in 2024 at the Anderson Ranch in Colorado.
Kendall Ross
Kitchen Sink (vest)
Wool
20 x 21 inches
Value: $500
Minimum Bid: $300
Buy It Now: $550
Current resident Kendall Ross is an Oklahoma City-based fiber artist known for hand knitting colorful, wearable art pieces and large-scale textiles. At Pepperdine University, she studied history, and her background as a historian inspires the content and purpose behind her art. She is inspired by the exercise of using a historically woman-dominated craft to push the boundaries of vulnerability, scale, and the limits of handknitting.
Rachelle Thiewes
Slipstream (brooch)
Steel, stainless steel, silver, auto paint
.625 x 4.625 x 4.625 inches
Value: $3,000
Minimum Bid: $1,800
Buy It Now: $3,300
2009 Texas Master Rachelle Thiewes is based in the Chihuahuan desert of West Texas. Her jewelry is designed to engage and challenge the wearer, making them an active participant, an initiator of sounds and body rhythms. Light, movement, sound, order, and chaos are integral elements of her work. The mountainous desert, the blistering sun, and the Lowrider car culture of El Paso have inspired much of her work.
Grace Sachi Troxell
Obon Lantern
Ceramic
16 x 9 x 9 inches
Value: $350
Minimum Bid: $210
Buy It Now: $385
2026 resident artist Grace Sachi Troxell comes from a lineage of Japanese and Pennsylvania Dutch ceramicists. She uses clay to explore organic and inorganic materials, form and deformity, grief and mourning. During her time at HCCC, Troxell was inspired by her walk to the studio every day, when she looked through the trees to see the sky. Using clay forms reminiscent of cast branches and cutouts, Grace considers what it means for a vessel to bring light and growth in a time of grief.
Claire Webb
Pearlish Choker
Anodized waste aluminum, silk
18 inches
Value: $1,800
Minimum Bid: $1,080
Buy It Now: $1,980
Claire Webb, a Tucson-based metalsmith, uses unexpected material combinations to explore fundamental human needs and desires. These otherworldly “pearls” respond to the imperial legacies of historical cabinets of curiosities. Discarded aluminum becomes forms that echo the mystery and allure once reserved for rare natural specimens. By restaging adornment through waste, the piece invites a reconsideration of how value is assigned.
