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“Let us never cease to be grateful to those who established the freedoms for which our Country stands and those who have placed themselves in harm's way to guarantee those freedoms; and let us never forget how precious life on this planet is for all of its creatures.”

-Jim Kassebaum

Laguna Endangered Species Awareness Tile Series

*Click on the year to see each tile.

YEAR*	SPECIES (Common Name)	ARTIST	SIZE & SHAPE	DESCRIPTION
1992	Desert Tortoise	Karen Patterson	8" round	Glazed - single color
1993	Polar Bear	Karen Patterson	7" x 9"	Multiple glazes
1994	Schaus Butterfly	Karen Patterson	7" x 9"	Encaustic (2 clay colors) no glaze
1995	American Crocodile	Dennis Caffrey Tile Guild	8" x 8"	Decal
1996	Peregrine Falcon	Bob Shenfeld Syracuse, NY	8" x 8"	Cajun Press/High relief/Stain rubbed
1997	Red Wolf	Jon Neiford	7" x 7"	High relief - rubbed with wax
1998	Greenback Cutthroat Trout	Mark Hodgkinson (The Green Man Potter - Boulder) St Dennis, France D'Anjour (central)	8" round	Model hand carved in wood; Tile pressed in 50T press constructed by Mark
1999	Western Lily	Caryn Fieger	8" octagon	Pressed and bisqued by Lenny, glazed and fired by Caryn
2000	California Brown Pelican	Jim & Sue Sullivan	8" elliptical	Designed, pressed, glazed and fired by the Sullivans. They picked the pelican and did the 1st draft of the write-ups
2001	Hines Emerald Dragonfly	K. J. Patterson	8.75" “freeform” round	Karen picked the Dragonfly. lots of hand decorating
2002	Black Rhinoceros	Kevin Myers	8" square	Kevin picked the Rhino. Lots of hand decorating with new Specialty Art Glazes. We pressed the tiles.
2003	Thick Billed Parrot	Diana Watson	5.875" x 7.8"	Diana selected the parrot (over her Asian elephant). Cuerda Seca style. Used EM334 with her custom glazes
2004	American Bald Eagle	Janet Panozzo	8.5"W x 10.375"H
2005	Eastern Small-footed Bat	Trikeenan Tileworks Kristin & Stephen Powers	Triangular 6" x 6"	Created with Cone 6-8 stoneware and Sand grain glaze. Monochromatic with pooling for effect.
2006	Eastern Puma	Bella Vista Tile Lisa & Jim TeviaClark	6" x 6"
2007	Horned Lizard	Haldor Hjalmarson Phoenix, AZ	6" x 6"	Sprigging
2008	Sea Turtle	Patty Galvez & Tim Hueckel HCP Chico, CA	7.25" x 5.25"	Cone 10 Oxidation
2009	Whooping Crane	Julie Brooks	8.25" x 5.5"	Cone 5 oxidation Made with Laguna Clay and Glaze
2010	Humpback Whale	Allison Moore		Made with Laguna Clay and Glaze; Frost Porcelain WC-437 glazed with several of Laguna Crackle Series Glazes.

Laguna Endangered Species Awareness Tile Series

YEAR*

SPECIES(Common Name)

ARTIST

SIZE & SHAPE

DESCRIPTION

SPECIES
(Common Name)