Work of the Week

John Nygren earned his Master of Fine Arts in pottery at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1968 and that same

The Studies Building at Black Mountain College was designed by architect A. Lawrence Kocher and built by the students and faculty of Black Mountain College

José de Creeft learned from a range of sculptural traditions but ultimately arrived at his own spontaneous approach to form and material. He began to

George Peterson’s approach to sculpture employs destruction as a means of creation. He assembled this sculpture from broken skateboards and burned the surface of the

A key figure in the California Pop art movement, Ed Ruscha’s art is laced with humor and irony because, as he has said, “Art has

Wesley Harvey is a gay, queer, cisgender man working in ceramics for over 20 years. His work “examines different facets of gay male sexuality and

Using paper strips instead of fabric, Sanford Biggers here creates a collage reminiscent of the Log Cabin quilt pattern. Rumors tell of this pattern’s use

A resident of Asheville from 1898 until his death in 1920, Clarence Augustus Worrall created pastels of North Carolina that were sold locally to tourists

In 1955 Jorge Fick became one of the few students to receive an official degree from Black Mountain College, attending from 1952 to 1955. This

Stoney Lamar set out to be a furniture maker; however, he quickly learned that his interest was not in assembling but rather in subtracting from