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Frank Giorgini is an artist specializing in ceramic techniques, including tile and percussion instruments. He teaches courses on architectural tile design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York.

Mosaic tiles

Giogini was commissioned by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority to design a mosaic for the Whitehall St. subway station. Passages was installed in 2000.^[2] His book, Handmade Tiles: Designing, Making, Decorating ({{ISBN|9781579902711}}), is a standard reference for making ceramic tiles.

Hand percussion instruments

He studied the traditional ceramic techniques of Nigeria. In collaboration with percussionist Jamey Haddad developed a modern Udu drum. Some of his hand-made drums are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

References

1. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=PYrh8-kBNYEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Frank+Giorgini%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FPZ4VOHVNKPLsASl7IGAAw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Library of Congress data from Handmade Tiles: Designing, Making, Decorating]
2. ^{{cite web |url= http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=R&artist=1&station=18 |title= MTA Arts & Design: Whitehall Street, Frank Giorgini, Passages, 2000 |publisher= New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority |accessdate= 2014-11-18 }}

External links

Meet The Artist: Frank Giorgini—biographical page at his company

{{cite web |title= Artwork: Passages (Frank Giorgini) |url= http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Artwork:_Passages_%28Frank_Giorgini%29 |accessdate= 2014-11-28 }}—photographs of Passages

{{cite journal |journal= Experimental Musical Instruments |volume= 5 |date= February 1990 |title = Udu Drum: Voice of the Ancestors |first= Frank |last= Giorgini |pages= 7–11 |url= http://windworld.com/features/back-issues/volumes-5-6-1989-1991/ |format= abstract }}

4 : 1947 births|Living people|American ceramists|Parsons The New School for Design faculty