May 2, 2022 Dear Peters Valley Friends, Happy Springtime! We hope that this season is as exciting for you as it is at Peters Valley. We’re busy opening up and preparing our campus once again to greet you. Studios are getting their annual deep cleaning after the quiet winter months. The phones are ringing with […]

We are excited to share that the New Jersey Arts and Culture Renewal Fund has awarded a $43,125 grant to Peters Valley School of Craft to help New Jersey artists recover from the financial devastation of the pandemic. Applications are now open and will be received through June 1. New Jersey artists can learn more […]

   We want to highlight a special person to the metals world in honor of Women’s History Month. Marie Zimmermann was a nationally-acclaimed jewelry and metal-working artist born in Brooklyn in 1879. Marie attended classes at Pratt Institute where she fell in love with metalwork and decided to become an artist, despite her father’s wishes […]

For our final GlassRoots Fellow guest blog post, Serenity Sewell writes about her time at Peters Valley, and how she’s grown since being here. Serenity will be a business major in college and she says that her artwork, “expresses my constantly evolving feelings, emotions, and outlook on life as I take steps to become the […]

Kayla (Eleven) Muldrow is one of our current Fellows through the GlassRoots program at Peters Valley this summer. She is an artist and poet, organizer, leader of ceremonies. She says her work, “is a fluid expression of the secrets of life and the changes happening within and around me.” Kayla wrote this powerful piece about what […]

Continuing with our GlassRoots blog takeover series, here is a note by current fellow Inique Bristol on her experience at Peters Valley so far: “Hello everyone! My name is Inique– Unique with an I– and I make things. I’m so grateful to GlassRoots and Peter’s Valley for this opportunity! During my time here at Peters […]

Today’s guest blog post comes from Erin Meyers, an art educator at High Point Regional High School. Erin is a long-time friend of Peters Valley and this summer received an Art Educator Scholarship to attend a ceramics course on campus. Below, she writes about her experience and shares photos from her class.   “I am […]

This week, we hear from Myia Graham on what her experience as a Fellow through the GlassRoots/Peters Valley program has been like: “Hello, hello, is this mic on? Hi, so let me introduce myself; I’m Myia, one of the five GlassRoots fellows. Peters Valley is the most relaxing, energizing, and helpful place with a wonderfully […]

Our second cohort of GlassRoots Fellows arrived from Newark last week and we are excited to be able to continue our series of blog posts with these talented artists. First up, we have Manny Ogbonnaya. Here’s what Manny has to say about his first couple of weeks at Peters Valley: “It is day 11 of […]

As we wrap up this first series of guest blog posts from our GlassRoots Artist Fellows, Joshua (Red) Jackson has written an incredibly moving post about his experience at Peter Valley: “Have you ever had a dream you felt you couldn’t make come true? That’s easily a massive part of my life, and for a […]