Bruce Beeken: It was more than just the objects, it was more than just the materials the objects were made from; it was more an understanding of these objects as a voice of a culture.
Jeff Parsons: I wanted to make furniture with wood and I wanted to make furniture that...fit in with my sort of assumptions about how things should be made.
Bruce Beeken: It would be...unbelievably important for this region...to have a serious design education program that was very steeped in the natural resources of this area. And I think if something like that happened...craftsmanship could be allowed to flourish in a new iteration about drawing on all the good stuff that we come from and that we are now and that we have and that we can carry forward.