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Renzo Faggioli, (b.1940) Master Ceramic Artist

Master craftsman, Faggioli has been a fixture of the Lehigh Pennsylvania area since his arrival from Italy. He has instructed ceramics just down the street from the Allentown Art Museum at the Baum School of Art, at the Moravian College as the Ceramist-in Residence in Bethlehem, and served as a guest instructor at the Penn Lehigh Campus.  There is an endless list of students and protégés that sing his praises.  Faggioli started his own higher education at the Scuola State Ceramica della Robbia in Florence, Italy, and he then did his advanced studies at Alfred University and Carnegie-Mellon University. For those of you who know ceramics, there is nothing finer that studying at Alfred. Faggioli’s work has been shown at many major exhibitions throughout the Eastern U.S. and Europe. His work has been featured in solo shows at Allentown Art Museum, Baum School of Art, Holland Art House Gallery in West Chester, and the former Hoopla Gallery in Bethlehem. In April, 2004, he received the A