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Eberle Studios: Developing Artistic Vision

March 25, 2022

Pittsburgh artist Ed Eberle is well-known in western Pennsylvania and around the world. With a career spanning over 50 years, Eberle works in a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, and installations, but most recognizably with ceramics. His porcelain vessels and sculptures often feature abstractions, geometry, and detailed figurative painting with terra sigillata used both as “gesso” and “paint.” To further a legacy in fine art ceramics, Eberle and family are now opening artist studios and open studio workspaces in Homestead, near the Waterfront shopping center.

The Power of Clay: Abbie Kasoff and Say It With Clay

March 21, 2022

When New Jersey ceramicist Abbie Kasoff was tirelessly working to build her human services non-profit organization Say It With Clay in the early 2000s, she was driven by her determination “that clay would do for others what it did for me.” In love with the medium since her high school years, Kasoff returned again and again to working in clay, seeking the healing and transformative mental state that is called “flow.” She came to understand the power of clay as a means of communication, a way to express feelings and ideas and to revisit them in a finished product – in a “second-stage give-back.”

Ceramixer: Growth Through Community

February 28, 2022

Talon Smith sees the world through the lens of community. For over a decade, this Pittsburgh potter, who identifies as non-binary, has developed their artistic vision and technique within the network of fellow artists and mentors. “I’ve had an idea for a number of years now,” they say, “of creating a network of potters in Pittsburgh where people can talk and share and get answers to their questions.” Talon’s friend and fellow potter Katy Ostronic of Katy Lynn Pottery joined Talon, along with other friends and colleagues, to refine the vision which has evolved into a group they are calling “Ceramixer.” Like a social mixer, the group meets regularly at different venues and features a variety of topics.