IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Beginning in England in the early ...

Local tile maker and Milwaukee Public Schools art teacher Ben Tyjeski (pictured above) co-authored Carl Bergmans and the Continental Faience & Tile Co. alongside Kelly Dudley and Kathy Roberts. It's ...

After nearly 30 years of research, three authors ― including a local tile-maker ― are releasing a new book that tells the story of one Belgian immigrant and his connection to a South Milwaukee-based ...

Beginning in England in the early 1880s, the Arts and Crafts movement spread across the United States and Europe by the late 1880s. It celebrated the importance of beauty in everyday objects and urged ...

While working on a project documenting terracotta in Milwaukee County, Ben Tyjeski, a local artist and teacher, heard of South Milwaukee’s Continental Faience and Tile Company from a 2016 newsletter. ...

What do Woodpeckers, Yellow Pond Lilies and Milwaukee’s architecture have in common? They’re all inspirations for local tile artist Ben Tyjeski’s first art show called Birds and Blooms. After years of ...

Author Ben Tyjeski is shown with his new book, "Carl Bergmans and the Continental Faience & Tile Co.," next to a fireplace with Continental tiles in Racine. After nearly 30 years of research, three ...