Feb 25, 2021
Submitted photo
From a private collection is this extremely rare Lotus Ware teapot made by Knowles, Taylor and Knowles.
EAST LIVERPOOL The Museum of Ceramics announces the opening of the online exhibit, Crockery City Teapots.
Funded by an Ohio Humanities CARES grant, the exhibit features over 250 teapots made in the East Liverpool pottery district. Visitors may go to the museum’s home page, themuseumofceramics.com or themuseumofceramics.com/ttcpots to see the exhibit.
The layout of the exhibit was created to closely replicate the museum experience. The opening page is a slide show of many of the teapots in the exhibit. A click on any of them, takes the viewer to a Gallery. Galleries are organized by pottery: Taylor, Smith, and Taylor, Hall China, Harker Pottery and Knowles, Taylor, and Knowles (Lotus Ware) have galleries of their own, while other galleries feature multiple potteries. Each teapot photo is accompanied by basic information such as year, maker, an
Yellow Springs artist hosts retrospective on watercolors
By London Bishop - lbishop@aimmediamidwest.com
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Yellow Springs artist hosts retrospective on watercolors
By London Bishop - lbishop@aimmediamidwest.com
YELLOW SPRINGS Sue Brezine, a watercolorist and member of the Village Artisans in Yellow Springs, will present a retrospective of her work in watercolors and pastels. Brezine’s Lobby Show will be on display from Jan. 8 through March 4 at the Village Artisans Gallery, located at 100 Corry St., Yellow Springs.
Brezine, a Dayton native, studied at the Dayton Art Institute as a child. She studied under American artist and author Betty Edwards at California State University, Long Beach. Edwards is most famous for authoring “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain,” the techniques of which Brezine took with her in her own teaching career. Brezine has taught at Riverbend Art Center, Dayton, Kettering Adult School, and other venues. She has presented her workshop, “Sketching Your Spirit,” to countless religious and professional organizations during her career.