Barbara B. Buchholz

If rules sometimes need to be broken, a likely candidate to do so would be an art gallery specializing in "outsider art" -- that created by artists outside the mainstream...

Glass blowers need a lot of moxie. Much of their artwork never reaches a finished state because of the delicate nature of the medium and the many steps involved. The...

When Paul Zurowski and Bill Hiscott opened Sawbridge Studios in the River North neighborhood three years ago, the former corporate marketers thought there was an untapped local market for handcrafted...

If you think flashcards are just about learning multiplication and division tables, Herman Miller Inc., the giant Zeeland, Mich., furniture manufacturer, has some news--and fun--in store for you. The company...

Christopher Broadhurst may paint far from the mainstream art community (he works in Tamworth in eastern Ontario, 2 1/2 hours from Toronto). But the painter, whose parents moved to Canada...

At this time of year, many galleries organize the visual equivalent of a summer reading list, a group show of pleasant compositions with cheerful sun-washed colors and not terribly taxing...

Some of the forms within Mario Martinez's acrylic paintings are easy to decipher -- snakes, large branches, fully opened flowers and an occasional friendly ghost. But in the large works...

Sandi Pierantozzi's earthenware vessels beg to be touched. The Philadelphia artist rolls out slabs of terra sigillata, a watered-down clay, shapes the slabs into functional objects, occasionally adding a quirky...

When lawyer Susan Tatnall hired John Funk and his Chicago catering service, The Art of Dining (312-878-7280), to orchestrate a small dinner party at her Batavia home last winter, it...

By day, Michael Wathen serves as general manager of Chicago's small European-style Claridge Hotel. By night, the native Chicagoan turns on his creative juices. He has developed a line of...