Over the course of several years, I had the opportunity to follow Joy Brown's work in Connecticut, Japan and China, where traditions of ceramic and bronze casting remain very much alive.
What emerges is less a biography than a way of observing how form takes shape through time, collaboration, and repetition.
The Piccirilli Factor presents the lives and contributions of Italian sculptors who founded what became the largest and most prolific marble carving studio in the United States. For nearly half a century, the Piccirilli contributed to the City Beautiful Movement, shaping the architectural landscapes of Washington and New York in collaboration with leading architects and sculptors. .
2025 | The Italian sculptors who carved the Lincoln Memorial
2005 | History of Samba and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
2009 | Iona Bromberg's survival story in the woods in WWII.
2026 | The sculptor that's bringing the world closer together
2020 | Conductor and Teacher. A pioneering American composer.
2012 | reflections from the frontlines of the Civil Rights movement.
2026 | The American Sound that shaped America in the 1800s
2026 | Before jazz it was them and their violins.
America’s leading sculptor during the American Renaissance.
