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Pat York was born in Jamaica and has lived and traveled all over the world. She started her career in the Fashion Department of Vogue magazine in New York and then moved to Glamour magazine as the Photographer/Travel Editor. Photographing and writing assignments internationally continued the pattern of her life. Becoming a freelance photographer, her work appeared in numerous publications worldwide including Vogue, Time, Newsweek, Life, Town and Country, Playboy, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue Hommes, The London Times, The Independent on Sunday, and Stern. Since 1997, York has exhibited her work in major museums in the United States, Russia, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany, France, England, and Hong Kong. Documentaries have been made of her museum exhibitions in Europe and Aspen, Colorado.

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Andy Yoder was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1957. He attended Dartmouth College and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, before receiving a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1982. His work has been included in several shows in New York, at the Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, and at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, and he is the recipient of several awards and commissions. Yoder's offbeat imagery, with its Dadaist overtones, plays with viewers' associations with everyday objects and cultural icons.

*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.

Born Phyllis Richardson in Redwing, Minnesota, in 1941, Phyllis Yes received an M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1969, and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, Portland, in 1978. After receiving her doctorate she decided to shorten her name to something more fun.  Although primarily a painter, Yes also makes sculptures and videos.  She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship.  Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Japan, and South America.  She is a professor of art and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Yes’ work addresses the issues of femininity and gender identification.  She uses tools to symbolize masculinity in her paintings and objects, then sabotages them by overlaying them with webs of lacy patterns and motifs traditionally thought of as feminine.

Sirpa Yarmolinsky was born in Kurikka, Finland, in 1945, and lived six years in Paris (1970-1976) before moving to the Washington, DC, area where she resides today. While attending the Ateneum Institute of Arts in Helsinki, where she graduated in 1962, she studied under the influential Finnish design and textile artists Kaj Franck and Kirsti Rantanen. Yarmolinsky is known worldwide for her textile wall-hangings and woven sculptural forms. Early in her career she worked primarily with fibers, but in 1978 began earnestly pursuing sculptural works made with tar paper, roofing felt, and homemade paper. She gathers ideas for working materials by wandering hardware stores, and incorporates a variety of materials in her work. Her art has been exhibited at the George Washington University Textile Museum, the internationally-known tapestry gallery La Demeure, and in the permanent collection of New York’s Cooper Hewitt Museum, as well as in numerous private collections around the world, including England, Germany, France, and Israel. She won special acclaim at the 6^th International Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne, Switzerland.