PAST FEATURED ARTISTS

Amy Gray

Amy Gray moved to Lawrence, KS from the East Coast in 2006. Incorporating a variety of media and using different artistic styles such as geometric, abstract and representational, Amy endeavors to capture the beauty of the world around her.

She draws her inspiration from the American Great Plains as well as other locations to which she has traveled.

Amy has won various prizes and her art has been featured in the West Elm catalog.

Herbert “Herb” Friedson was born in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio. In high school, Mr. Friedson was fortunate to have an art teacher who saw something special in him. Though enamel work wasn’t taught at his high school they did have a kiln for firing glass powder onto a copper base. His teacher spent many hours over the course of several weeks teaching him the art and technique of enameling and thus a great artist was made.

Following high school, Mr. Friedson studied enameling at the Cleveland Institute of Art under Kenneth F. Bates, the preeminent leader of the American enameling field, from 1955 to 1958.

After receiving his B.F.A. in 1958, Mr. Friedson moved to New York where he worked as a textile design consultant from 1960 to 1964.

In 1965 he moved to Lawrence, Kansas to pursue his M.F.A. at the University of Kansas and was awarded his degree in 1967. Upon graduation, he was invited to teach jewelry, metals, and freshman design at K.U. and remained there until 1974 when he decided to leave teaching and focus on his artwork.

Mr. Friedson’s enamels have been featured in many important regional and national exhibitions including the Cleveland Museum of Art’s ‘May Show,’ the Everson’s ‘Ceramic National,’ and the Wichita Art Association’s annual ‘Decorative Arts and Ceramics Exhibition.’

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