Publications
Art & Antiques Magazine, "Tradition - With a Twist", April 2004 Emotional Design: Why We Love or Hate Everyday Things, Donald A. Norma, Basic Books, 2004 The Workshop: Celebrating the Place Where Craftsmanship Begins, Scott Gibson, photos by Randy O'Rourke, Tauton Press, 2003 The Roanoke Times, "Meet Jake, a "non-Artist' Who Makes Art", by Joanne Pointdexter, July 21, 2003 The Washington Post, "Tongue-and-Groove and Tongue and Cheek", Paul Fitzgerald, 1/15/01 Art as Evidence, Jules David Prown, Yale Univerity Press, 2001 There's a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home, Myrna Kaye, Little, Brown & Co., 1998 The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, Galen Cranz, Norton Pub. Co., 1998 Fine Woodworking Magazine (back cover), February, 1996 American Art Magazine (illustration in "Promise and Perils of Context", Summer, 1997 The Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/21/95 The Washington Post, 'Washington Home' section, 5/25/95 Woodcarving Magazine (England), Vol.2, 1992
Shows
Served as one of three judges at the Sixth Annual Texas Furniture Makers Show, Nov. 5th & 6th, 2005 "The Chair Show", Southern Highlands Craft Guild, NC, 1995 Alleghany Arts and Crafts Center, Covington, Va., 1995 Towson State University, Baltimore, MD, 1994 Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, 1990
Museum Exhibitions
Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian), "Right at Home: American Studio Furniture", April 2, 2004 - Jan. 17, 2005 International Arts and Artists, 2000-2003 Ohion Craft Museum, 2000 Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, PA 1999 Art Museum of Western Virginia, "By Heart and Hand: Collecting Southern Decorative Arts", 10/2/98 - 2/17/99 Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 10/9/98 - 3/2001 Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian), Washington, DC, 1995

Galleries
Worcester Center for Crafts, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester, Mass., "The Chair", 10/12/02 - 11/23/02, juried by Sam Maloof Urban Artware, Winston-Salem, NC, 1993-1994 Michael B. Tusing Gallery, Staunton, VA, 2000 - present Sandar Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1985, 1996-1997 Meredith Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 1994
Museum Acquisitions
"Oops!" #9 - Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian), Permanent Collection "Hickory Dickory Clock, gift from Jacob Cress to the Art Museum of Western VA, Roanoke, VA, sold to benfit the Acquisitions Fund by Sotheby's, NY, NY, 1/19/01 "Oops!", Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA, 2000 "Hickory Dickory Clock", Indianapolis Children's Museum, Indianapolis, IN, 2000 "Oops!" and selected miniatures, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 2000
Collections
Ralph and Terry Kovel, Ohio R.J. Reynolds, North Carolina Meirhoff, Maryland Leigh Keno Antiques, New York John Nye, New York John Beverly, Virginia William McIlhenny, Paris Ben and Susan Grigsby, Virginia Marion C. Burke, Conneticut Michael and Melissa Platt, Kentucky