When Walt Disney built a new animation studio in Burbank in 1940, it cost millions of dollars. Nine years later, when the cash-strapped upstart Modernist animation outfit United Productions of America ...

After artist Canyon Castator moved to Los Angeles from New York, he spent weeks walking around downtown in search of a studio. He found one in a five-story industrial building in the flower district.

In midcentury New York, Greenwich Village was the place to be: Creatives of all disciplines—from poet Allen Ginsberg to dancer Martha Graham—made their lives and work in this downtown neighborhood.

Before the new Clay Studio building opened in Kensington last weekend, Executive Director Jennifer Martin and a reporter christened the building by making the very first pieces in the newly ...