Acknowledgments
from Marc P. Keane

On behalf of all those taking part in the Teahouse Project, I would like to thank the following departments and organizations that gave us financial assistance, without which this project would not have been possible.

Department of Landscape Architecture
Johnson Museum
East Asia Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Department of Art
Cornell Plantations
Department of Textiles and Apparel
Department of Architecture


I would also like to thank the following people
and organizations who gave logistical support and advice:

Ellen Avril, Curator of Asian Art, and Franklin Robinson, Director, Johnson Museum, for their support with siting the Teahouse at the Museum.

Tom Cook, Instructor at the Cornell woodworking shop, for his help with fabricating the triangular deck.

Laurie Damiani, Administrative Director, and John Whitman, Director, East Asia Program, for their support, in general, with planning.

The Estate of Sylvia Leonardo, which kindly allowed us to collect the maple saplings from its property in Dryden; Attorney Daniel Hoffman facilitated this arrangement.

Allen Fannin, Adjunct Prof., Textile Science at Syracuse University, for his advice on weaving and locating yarn for the project.

Tracy Gingrich and Ann Sittauer, Montezuma Wildlife Refuge, for permission to collect phragmites reeds at the Refuge.

Kathryn Gleason, Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, (and all other faculty and staff of that department) for their unflagging support of having the Teahouse Project based in the LA department.

Mary Hirshfeld, Gardens Curator, and Nancy Ostman, Natural Areas Program Director, Cornell Plantations, for help locating weaving materials.

Pat Haines, for kindly allowing us to collect stones for the tea garden from her property, for the thick boards, and for the brownies and coffee.

Charlotte Jirousek, Department of Textiles and Apparel, for advice on weaving.

Jonathan Kline, Black Ash Baskets, for kindly letting us mine his old barn of its boards.

Gilbert Levine, Director, Einaudi Center, for offering the financial support of the Center.

Yoriko Nakajima, James-Henry Holland, Yasunobu Kato, Yuko Matsuda, Momoko Keane, Kai Keane, and Yasuko Whitman, for all their help with the tea gathering in the paper teahouse.

Dennis Osika, Director, Grounds Care, for logistical help in siting and installing the Teahouse at the Johnson.

George Scofield, Art supplies, Cornell Campus store, for all his help with finding materials for the paper teahouse.

Buzz Spector, Chair, Department of Art, for offering the financial support of the department.

Peter Trowbridge, for letting us harvest weeping willow and red-twig dogwood from his property.

Timothy A. Volk, Biomass Program Director, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, for the donation of willows from the SUNY biomass facility in Tully, NY.

Tom Whitlow, Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture, for his help with the maple saplings.

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I would also like to personally thank all the participants of the Teahouse Project for your time and efforts, whether you joined us for two hours or a hundred. I figure from class records that there were at least 2500 student hours involved in the work and it shows it! You did really, really well. Thank you!

A few people deserve a special note of thanks:

Bret Lebleu, Dustin John and Masha Hranjec, team leaders of the Site Construction teams, who put so much time and effort into building the triangular cedar deck.

Elizabeth Chasalow, webmaster, who wrote the code for this site, with help from Alex Weininger, Carrie Marill, and Brooke White.

Steve Lang, Jacob Hipps, and Mark Frank for showing up often to help with the final, on-site construction.

Misako Murata, for carving the maple-wood water laver.

Ken (Otto) Ottoson, for his carpentry expertise and many days of help during the construction of the teahouse.

George Perez, for his unflagging dedication and for making the scale model.

Alexandra Weininger for making the paper in the mizuya wall.

Brooke White, for making a time-lapse video of the teahouse construction.

And a final, heartfelt word of gratitude to Karen Edelstein, without whose extensive knowledge of the natural and human resources in the Ithaca area the Teahouse Project could not have happened.