J Taylor Wallace and Moorhead-Wallace are featured in The Tube & Pipe Journal January/February 2018 issue by Eric Lundin. A small staff and a small workspace don’t limit Taylor Wallace, founder of Metal Magic Interiors Inc. This large smoker is just one of many examples of large projects he designed and built. Photo by Oopey Mason. View the full article at the following link: http://www.thefabricator.com Advertisements

Completion: the Last 20% THURS, Oct 26 | 5:50 p.m.-7:05 p.m. Emily Moorhead, Artist & Miami Alumna Making is only the beginning. Moorhead will discuss the difficulties in finishing an artwork. Through the lens of museum practices, public art installation, and mediation, she will work through strategies for pushing past the struggle to make well-rounded and exhibitable pieces. Co-sponsored with the Contemporary Art Forum   Miami University of Ohio, Art Museum Department of Art Faculty & Alumni Exhibition Open August 29 to December 16, 2017 OXFORD, OHIO – This quadrennial exhibition brings together an assemblage of nearly 90 works of…

Emily Moorhead-Wallace, J. Taylor Wallace, George Schaefer and Leigh-Anne Riebold (left to right) are opening a gallery for their businesses, Metal Magic Interiors and Norman Leigh. DNAinfo/Joe Ward| October 20, 2017 4:42am BRIDGEPORT — For years, Metal Magic Interiors helped furnish some of the city’s hottest restaurants from a small shared workspace in Bridgeport. Similarly, the couple behind Norman Leigh Design have been making custom, Instagram-worthy pieces out of their Pilsen garage. Now the companies are taking their businesses to the next step with a joint showroom in Bridgeport. “Our businesses grew kind of parallel to each other,” said J. Taylor…

  CINCINNATI, Ohio—On Friday, September 8, from 6 to 8 p.m., the Cincinnati Arts Association’s Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts will kick off its twenty-third exhibition season with the opening of UnFunction, a group exhibition curated by writer and independent curator Maria Seda-Reeder (Cincinnati, OH) that examines the intersection of functional objects and fine art. The materials with which artists choose to engage have long reflected their particular understanding of the complex consequences of art as commodity. So what does it mean for artists to continue to create objects that…

August 29 to December 16, 2017 OXFORD, OHIO – The art faculty at Miami University are first recognized as educators. At a university or college, this is how students and colleagues know them. However, we rarely have an opportunity to see their personal artistic explorations since most show their creations in galleries and museums at other universities as part of the tenure and promotion process. It is for this reason that hosting a regular exhibition of recent work brings awareness of the art faculty’s creative energies to local audiences. Too often Department of Art exhibitions at universities and colleges are…