ELLIE  REINHOLD  says “Many peo­ple, are iso­lat­ed at home, hav­ing lost the abil­i­ty to roam safe­ly in the world. About a year ago I lost my stu­dio of 2 decades and moved mywork­ing space home. These events and oth­er more per­son­al loss­es have nar­rowed my focus and shift­ed mywork. There is a tiny old play struc­ture in my back yard that I pass every day when I head to the woods towalk. I have a full view of it from my home stu­dio. It has been in my paint­ings before, but now it dom­i­natesmy field of view. My new work cap­tures this lit­tle build­ing in dif­fer­ent moods and sea­sons, hold­ing someof my feel­ings from these strange days.”

Eve­lyn Ward : Hand­made pot­tery con­nects us with the mak­er every time we use it.   I’m cur­rent­lywork­ing with earth­en­ware clay because I love the rich col­or of the clay show­ing through on the sur­faces ofthe pots.” Using a tech­nique called mono­print­ing, Ward cuts out a design from paper coat­ed with col­oredslip. “Once the slip has dried a lit­tle, I put it on the pot, paper and all. When the slip has adhered to the pot, Ipull the paper off to reveal the design. Not all of the slip sticks, leav­ing the sur­face with an imper­fecttex­ture. I love those imper­fec­tions, and the clean lines and the print­ed qual­i­ty I get from this process.”