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FLORENCE - Whimsical work by ceramistAli Shapiro will be exhibited starting Tuesday at Backstreet Gallery's new Old Town location at 1421 Bay St.

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Ceramistand sculptor Will, who is the team's skipper, said: 'In only three days it is extremely hard work to achieve the scale and finish to make the work a success.

THE ICE MEN GO-ETH!

If music isn't your thing and you prefer ceramics, professional ceramistEwelina Birut-Hadjimanolis can take both beginners and advanced learners on a ceramic experience ride.

Knowing thy artistic self

First, he wished to invoke contemporary primitivism, he says, and second, "I wanted to revive the colors of the '50s and the '60s in a new way." The result is a light that, from the outside, "looks like a rhinoceros," says Levy, and from the inside "makes a halo of color." (It comes in four shades--red, green, orange, and blue--and four sizes.) Manufactured by ceramistJean-Paul Aiello, who runs the Terres et Formes workshop in Gardann Biography definition and examples!