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Tedo Best

“Clay – delicate, gritty, powerful, fragile, beautiful and crude – its endless possibilities as containers and displayers of food, emotions, and ideas makes it for me, a fascinating, frustrating joy.’ -tedo “Enfoldments” describes the work of Tedo Best according to one friend and critic. Her ceramic vessels, mostly raku fired, tend to fold and wrap …

Robert Coombs

Robert Coombs was a part of the Chicago 4 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the fifties and early sixties, The four also included Diana Johnson, Mel Johnson and Tedo Best. In his lifetime he held degrees from The Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 1957, MFA 1958), The University of Chicago …

Mel Johnson

(1934-2018) Mel grew up in Chicago. While in high school he was apprenticed to Alphonso Iannelli in Park Ridge, who had worked with Frank Lloyd Wright during his time in Chicago. He worked with Richard Rush in his studio creating models. Mel attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he sat next …

Diana Johnson

Diana was born in Wyoming in 1935 to a sheep ranching family (the Johnsons). She likes to say that her art teacher in high school practically packed her bags for her to go to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In her first class, the teacher sat the students alphabetically (yes, at an …