Get Fired Up

Convertible Car Kiln by Patti Warashina heats up the Renwick's current exhibition, USA Clay.

This red hot ceramic sculpture is also featured in our book Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery.

Skilled Work features more than 100 objects from the Renwick's collection in vibrant, full-color photos. A 28-page section of the book is devoted to works in clay, the same medium featured in our show USA Clay.

You'll be so excited by the beautiful illustrations in the book that you'll want to see the works in person!

Visit the Renwick and see the exhibit. Plus, order Skilled Work online during the month of April and save 20 percent off the hardback and softcover prices.

Pictured top: Patti Warashina, born 1940, Convertible Car Kiln, about 1971, ceramic with gold and silver luster and glazes, plastic, fabric on a wood base, 14 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 14 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James Renwick Alliance.

Pictured bottom: Skilled Work book cover.