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  • Victor Bell: Sharing Joy

    While most artists would argue that the arts and culture have a positive effect on the world, it is often difficult to articulate concrete examples of how things are changed for the better through art.  For a young man who grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, the benefits of a culture soaked in education and the arts provided resources for learning and self-realization that launched him into a creative exploration of ideas and purpose, one that circles back into his community, further strengthening its strong foundations.

  • The Ceramics Studio at Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media:  Audra Clayton: Studio Arts Manager

    “Ceramics is a thriving art-making community here,” says Studio Arts Manager Audra Clayton of the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media in the city’s Shadyside neighborhood.  For over three quarters of a decade, this renowned institution has been synonymous with art in Pittsburgh, offering instruction, encouragement, and support to novices and professionals in a wide range of media.  What began in the 1940s as the Arts and Craft Center and reimaged in the 1980s to the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts is now the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media in the 21st century, embracing new technologies along with the old.  One of many programs at PCA&M, the Ceramics Studio has been a stalwart occupant of the basement workspaces and a staunch component of the institution through its many transitions. 

  • Lillstreet Art Center Stands Firm During Pandemic Year

     A city the size of Chicago offers a multitude of venues for the exploration of human creativity, with studios and galleries throughout the metropolitan area and its suburbs, but the city’s artistic nexus can be found at Lillstreet Art Center.  For over four decades, the center has provided a home for artists of all varieties.  Founded in 1975 by current Director Bruce Robbins and Martin Cohen, Lillstreet has stood as the gateway for the human need to interpret the world through art.  As we approach the one-year anniversary of a world pandemic, Director Robbins looks back on a year marked by innovative solutions to unique challenges.

  • GR Pottery Forms owner Jeff Rottman to Demo at CSC on October 12

    Sometimes the artist creates by inspiration and sometimes it all boils down to plain old problem solving.  Jeff Rottman spent a decade working as a production potter and selling his work at art fairs throughout the mid-west.  Always seeking ways to improve his product, he developed wooden forms that he used to systemize his process and standardize his product.  His search for a better technique blossomed into the founding of his company, GR Pottery Forms, in 2014.  Rottman will demonstrate the use of his forms at Ceramic Supply Chicago on October 12.