Local ceramics craftsman awarded artist fellowship

Layton — Bruce Dehnert, head of the Ceramics Department at Peters Valley Craft Center, was recently awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship. Dehnert is one of four artists working in crafts who were honored this year by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. The award, given biannually and administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Association, is comprised of a monetary grant and exhibition next year at a leading institution. Dehnert, whose work is primarily utilitarian pottery, has headed the ceramics program at Peters Valley Craft Center since 1999. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, and is in numerous collections including The White House Collection in Washington, D.C., the Yixing Museum of Ceramic Art in China and the Dowse Museum in New Zealand. Peters Valley Craft Center is located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area near Layton. Funding for Peters Valley is provided by the New Jersey State Council of the Arts/Department of State, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and by the generosity of its members and individual donors. For store information, call 973-948-5200 or log on to www.petersvalley.org. Call 973-948-5202 for gallery information.