James Clifton Baxter, a BFA graduate of Rhode Island School of Design in Industrial Design, has been fortunate enough to be exposed to a wide variety of talented artists, artisans and design professionals, from numerous disiplines. The people and the works he has encountered in several different venues has given him a broad appreciation of the world of design and the way things are made.

Gallo, AIA and Peter A. Pizzi, AIA and he can also count the late golf course architect Desmond Muirhead among his list of mentors, having worked with him on several projects in Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Korea.

The majority of his professional life has been involved with architectural modelbuilding in co-operation with David L. Spalding of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Edward N. O'Quinn of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, with a client list that spans the US, Carribbean, Japan, Korea and East Germany. This discipline proved to incorporate all of his expertise in product design and production, architecture, and landform design into a one-of-a-kind product manufacturing effort creating highly detailed individual pieces,