1.  American Hands: An Interview with Photographer Sally Wiener Grotta

Sally Wiener Grotta photographs the hands of craftspeople as they create, and began with Pennsylvania.
Her expressive portraits in the studio and workshop captures craft traditions from previous centuries into the present.

Samuel Yellin at his studio forge, Philadelphia

2.  Samuel Yellin and the Wrought Iron Imagination

Samuel Yellin sketched in iron from his Philadelphia Forge.
Check out the  The James Bond Secret Agent-Samuel Yellin Connection.

Colorful and iconographic enamel on copper footed bowl by Pittsburgh artist Virgil Cantini (1919-2009).

3.  Virgil and Lucille Cantini of Pittsburgh:  Mid Century Modern from Enamels to Sculpture

I had never heard of the Cantinis, and the range of work is awesome, with devoted collectors.

Large Jacks Table. Adrian Pearsall of Craft Associates.

4.  Mid-Century Modern and Pennsylvania’s Adrian Pearsall and Craft Associates of Wilkes-Barre

Adrian Pearsall was a delight to discover, a Mid-Century Modern furniture maker hidden away in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

5.  Ruba Rombic:  Reuben Haley’s Art Deco Glass from Consolidated Glass Company, Coraopolis, PA

Fall in love with these crazy angles from the Ruba Rombic collection of glass.

Writing the HiP Passions column over the past year has introduced me to some amazing craft made in Pennsylvania.  This is the end of my series, but keep checking in with Handmade in PA to discover even more craft.