DON BRADFORD

Don Bradford, a ceramic artist for more than 40 years, has worked with raku, pit-barrel firing and ceramic sculpture. His pieces have been exhibited at the New Jersey State Museum, the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University, The Bergen Museum, and Morris Set Museum, among others.

A practicing ceramic instructor, he has taught and lectured for the NJ Arts in Education Foundation’s Project Impact,  the Thompson Park Creative Arts Center in New Jersey; St Thomas Aquinas College, and RoCA in New York.

Bradford holds a BA from  Montclair University and a MA from William Patterson University, and independent studies at Tuscarora Pottery School, NV,  the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, TN, the Greenwich House Pottery, NYC, and the Aegean School of Fine Arts, Greece.

MELISSA SGROI

Melissa Sgroi, an emerging abstract expressionist painter, primarily works on oversized primed canvas attached to the wall with pushpins and nails, which she later stretches. Sgroi paints on paper as well, developing gestural brushstrokes and color groups.