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Workplace: Artist Talk with Jerry Toerpe
Workplace installation view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2024.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
1:00–1:30 p.m.
All ages
Free
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Artists entering the factory are often greeted by experienced Kohler Co. associates who know the ins and outs of production. Jerry Toerpe has worked with artists and makers in the Pottery for fifty years as a Kohler associate and carpenter. Hear how Toerpe developed unique casting equipment and tools that Kohler associates, and artists, use to this day.
This event is a part of Arts/Industry Community Day.
Workplace: Artist Talk with Jerry Toerpe is supported by the Kohler Trust for Arts and Education, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, the Frederic Cornell Kohler Charitable Trust, Kohler Foundation, Inc., and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Arts/Industry is a unique collaboration between the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and Kohler Co. This residency program is administered by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and generously hosted and funded by Kohler Co. Additional support for the 50th Anniversary of Arts/Industry is provided by the Mellon Foundation.  Â
