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Kohler brings artists to factory to learn, inspire By M.L. JOHNSON Associated Press
MILWAUKEE – The Kohler sink in your bathroom may be more of a work of art than you realize. The company known for kitchen and bathroom fixtures has opened its factory floor to artists for the past 40 years, allowing them to share ideas and techniques with factory workers so that both can be inspired. Three artists have created pieces produced by Kohler Co., and many more have gone on to design for other companies. The program, celebrating its 40th anniversary, is notable for its longevity and impact on the arts world, said Larry Bush, a ceramics professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. Kohler is unique in letting artists work on the factory floor with employ-
art and manufacturing at the time. Kohler convinced her brother, Kohler Co. Chairman and CEO Herb Kohler Jr., to let two artists ees and providing equipment to work at the factory for a month. create work on a massive scale, “They created all these fancihe said. ful things with the plumbing “The sort of thing that people products,” she recalled. “So, can do at the Kohler factory has for example, they took a urinal, inspired a lot of work beyond the turned it on its back, added some Kohler factory,” Bush said. clay wheels and filled it full of Ruth DeYoung Kohler – a print clay teeth and called it the Tooth maker, former teacher and grand- Fairy Wagon. And then they took daughter of Kohler Co. founder two toilets and put them back to John Michael Kohler – created back ... and they turned it into a the Arts/Industry program at the rocket ship.” John Michael Kohler Arts Center The project so captivated soon after taking over as direcKohler workers that the artists tor in 1972. Artists who visited were invited back for another Kohler during a clay exhibition month in late 1974. Since then, were hungry for access to the fac- more than 400 artists have AP Photo tory’s molds and other resources, completed residencies lasting up and eager to learn the techniques to six months. A retrospective An art installation of painted clay cups created by Molly Hatch used by craftsmen working there, at the Clay Studio Philadelphia in June 2010. Hatch has found she said. There was little interaca second career in product design after completing a residency tion between the worlds of fine See KOHLER, 3C program at Kohler Co. in Wisconsin.
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