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Pewabic Fireplace detail. Photo courtesy Timothy Griffin.  No doubt about it: The Detroit Public Library’s Main Library on Woodward opposite the DIA is one...
Empty Bowls Helps Fill Community
No one’s crazy about the prospect of standing in line. Outside. In February. But Empty Bowls isn’t just any line. This line helps feed the community. Saturday...
PETE PINNELL, ON THE RECORD
Pete Pinnell knows vessels. With more than 35 years as a practicing artist and probably close to 100 columns for Clay Times Magazine, Pinnell was a...
SOLANUS CASEY COMMEMORATIVE TILE CELEBRATES BEATIFICATION
Father Solanus Casey, the revered Detroit priest whose beatification Saturday brings him one step closer to sainthood, lived and died within five years and two miles...
Kiln Pad Pop-Up Suits Ben Teague
With Ben Teague’s artwork, both nothing and everything is what it seems. Teague himself playfully suggests that the prefix PARA- may be the best way to describe...
Marcia Hovland Demos at our October Second Saturday
Marcia Hovland’s artwork has a way of making people feel happy. Whether the playful bunnies that find their way onto many of her tiles and...
Exhibition Artists Find Serendipity in Soda and Wood FIrings
Brett Gray Cup Trio  It takes more than the happenstance commonly attributed to serendipity to achieve the masterful glaze outcomes artists Brett Gray and Kevin...
Troy Bungart Brush-Making Workshop and Kiln Pad Pop-Up
Ceramicist and brush maker Troy Bungart isn’t out to compete with $5 mass-market bargain brushes. “I am not making that brush. Those people have nailed it....
Celebrate Pewabic at Maker/Mentor Reception
Cup, 2017, Alex Thullen Celebrate Pewabic artisans — staff and students — at the Maker/Mentor artists’ reception, 6-9 p.m. Friday, July 21, and at the exhibit itself in Pewabic’s galleries...