Led by its founders, the workshop emphasized bold colours and simple designs for their textiles, pottery, clothing, furniture, and interior schemes.
Kelly Malone, founder of Workshop, a do-it-yourself educational space, said the D.I.Y. and local movements "go hand in hand".
The bride, 31, works in New York, where she is a founder of WorkShop Style, a website selling women's wear-to-work fashions.
ANNA HALPRIN Founder, San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, and co-founder, Tamalpa Institute I work toward a future where more of us call ourselves artists, working together to make art concerned with the primary issues of life; a future where art is honored for its power to inspire, teach, transform and heal.
The workshop founders, including Ellen Miller, Margaret C. Whiting and Madeline Yale Wynne, were a cosmopolitan, well-traveled group.
Richard Taylor, the Weta Workshop founder, told The Dominion Post of Wellington, "Wellington Airport feels like the home of Gollum after spending so many months here during the last three films".
"I think it's good that the judges are non games players," said Ian Livingstone CBE, co-founder of Games Workshop and member of GameCity's advisory board.
The art historian Arlene Raven, a founder of the workshop, recalled: "They made amazing performances in restaurants, where you didn't see art performed.
The lineup also features actor Sean Brosnan, son of James Bond star Pierce, Chinese director Anthony Chen, Games Workshop founder Ian Livingstone, and fantasy author Robert Rankin.
As a Senegalese tailor, founder of a workshop offering sewing courses ("Baobab Couture") told us, "we are a permanent coordination assembly".
