Pottery is just the beginning
Learning the basic skills of making pottery is only the beginning when you allow your mind to run free with the unlimited ideas of what clay has to offer.…
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She is home in the Volunteer state
The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians in Tennessee offer an impressive view of nature’s ability to create beauty from a continental collision. From an aerial view, the soft ridges of the mountains sweep…
He captures the stages of nature
Some people reside close to nature and others become one with the land. Tom Lockhart returned to native Colorado to help run a family business and began to appreciate…
Artist’s works ’sirs’ with inner pulse
http://www.scribd.com/doc/252305586/Artist-s-works-sirs-with-inner-pulse While living in Russia, Padrick Bentley became immersed in the sights, sounds, history, myths and legends. Like the fabled Prince, he brought back with him the magical feather…
Tinker Toys and little boys
The imagination of a child can take a simple object and remold into a completely different entity. Communities for dogs, planes that turn into homes, boats that drive down…
The box has no subject barriers for actor
There are no marked passageways for those that straddle the black lines of Theatre Arts, music, film and media. Throw in a taste for performance art and you have a…
She sculpts men of status
    Blending art and history is nothing new as we recall oil and watercolor portraits of somber figures, dressed in their period garb, rather smug and disinterested. But do we remember…
‘Hearts’ of a potter are in the Hoosier
The wheat fields of Indiana are a golden flowing carpet that stretches over acres of well-worked land, broken only by lush green wooded areas that appear to watch over the…
He creates visual works of feelings
Minjae Lee is a 23-year-old self taught artist who produces work that reflects his signature of powerful colors and creative movement. He uses seemingly old-fashioned tools, such as markers,…
About the Cover art as published then in the Potter’s Shed Section: 2008-09 Fall/Winter print edition, Vol. 20 No. 3 “Portrait Cup with Yellow Lines Ceramic” ( 7.5″ x 8″…
About the Cover art as published then: 2004 Spring/Summer print edition, Vol. 16 No. 1 Cover art by Donna J Antram-Rice who is a gentle woman of many titles: Loving…
About the Cover art as published then: 2005 Spring/Summer print edition, Vol. 17 No. 1 “The Open Door” , watercolor with pen and ink, is by Kay Sluterbeck, an editorial…
About the Cover art as published then: 2005-06 Fall/Winter print edition, Vol. 17 No. 2 “Summer’s Last Bloom” by Karen Flesch of Decatur, Indiana.
About the Cover art as published then: 2006 Spring/Summer print edition, Vol. 18 No. 1 “Blue Shoe” by Julie Beyer, mixed media, 30 by 40 inches. At this time, by…
About the Cover art as published then: 2007 Winter edition, Vol. 19 No. 1 “Portrait of the artist as a cow” oil, 30 x 40 inches by Katherine (Kat) Rohrbacher…
About the Cover art as published and text excerpted from feature, “Fiely=The Journey Continues” then: 2007-08 Fall/Winter print edition, Vol. 20 No. 2 “Lady Blue With Hat” by…
‘Wall works’ are gigantic signs of hope
Murals created by fresco painting have existed since 300 BC and even earlier using more primitive methods. Once thought of as having a significant impact on communities with messages…
His pictures talk a thousand words
The art of photography can take years of work to finally achieve that satisfying impact of a professional artist. Rarely does anyone pick up a camera and immediately…
A chit chat with David Poxon
It has been a cornerstone in the international art world since 1907. Known for its tedious selection of “the best of the best”, any artist elected into this distinguished entity,…
She is on a ‘yellow brick’ road
After Tufts University in Boston, where she majored in Music, International Relations and Russian and East European studies and with a minor in Philosophy, Julia Torgovitskaya performed dozens of…