UPDATE 2: I found the artist. Visited the Hyatt’s website and looked at the photos of their facilities. The Ellis Room matches the carpet and wall treatments in my photos; two exhibitions were in the Ellis room. One was Northern Arizona University. The University’s website is scant on photos, so I started going after the individual names listed as exhibitors. Bingo. Steve Schaeffer is my mystery artist.

Update 1: found a list of exhibitors: SDSU Alumni and Students, Arizona State University, University of Arizona prof and grads, Watershed 6, NCECA Insternational Resident Artists, Utah State University, Arizona CLAY Juried Exhibition, Maricopa Community Colleges, Northern Arizona University. That narrows it a little.

Please help with this puzzle.

Who: Please tell me if you can identify the artist for any of these pieces.

What: See images below

Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Second Floor, during NCECA. I cannot find any reference to who was exhibiting there. I do know it was not Utah State. Those students’ work was amazing, but it was in a different space, a taller corner one with windows.

When: NCECA 2009, Phoenix

Why: Because I want to know what school these people are from, and look up the school.

How: Because somebody will have photos or will remember. If you have forensic-level image editing software, maybe you can sharpen the tag enough to make it out; I’ll send you the hi-res photo.

Something about the material interested me enough to take a photo, because I also took closeups.

But this and the next image… wouldn’t mind seeing these everyday. They’re right up my alley.

Maybe the sculpture in the background is a clue.