"We have this incredible opportunity in cities for the bicycle to be a realistic and practical form of transportation-fast, easy, convenient, fun,"

Every day, in the small, pic­turesque village of Essex, Connecticut, the glass artists Marc Petrovic and Kari Russell-Pool send their two daughters

Edited by Dean and Geraldine Schwarz
South Bear Press
Decorah, Iowa
$75

Elmhurst Art Museum
Cat Chow: Speak Softly
Elmhurst, Illinois
April 19-July 13, 2008

The artisanal urge-the fundamental human desire to make something with one's own hands-has never been so endangered as it is right now.