Underglazing allows detailed designs like these vines and ladybugs to decorate pottery items. This bowl will be dipped in a finished glaze, and fired at more than 2,000 degrees, before it appears at the April 2 Spring Fling. (Crevier photo)
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![Virginia Zic will have a collection of her paintings exhibited at Sal e Pepe Contemporary Italian Bistro this month and part of next. An opening reception for “Edge of Reality: Recent Paintings by Virginia Zic” will be hosted by the restaurant, 97 South Main Street, on Sunday, March 13, from 2 to 4 pm. The collection, according to the artist, a professor emerita at Sacred Heart University who lives in Newtown, will offer viewers “new works ranging from semi-abstract garden images to abstract landscape views [that] reveal the energy, vitality and fluidity of organic forms.” (Hicks photo)](https://photos.smugmug.com/Journalism/Photos-from-the-issue-23/i-LMM9GcD/1/1edbdb4d/Ti/SH_Art%20About%20Town%20--%20Virginia%20Zic%20HORIZONTAL-Ti.jpg)
![Virginia Zic will have a collection of her paintings exhibited at Sal e Pepe Contemporary Italian Bistro this month and part of next. An opening reception for “Edge of Reality: Recent Paintings by Virginia Zic” will be hosted by the restaurant, 97 South Main Street, on Sunday, March 13, from 2 to 4 pm. The collection, according to the artist, a professor emerita at Sacred Heart University who lives in Newtown, will offer viewers “new works ranging from semi-abstract garden images to abstract landscape views [that] reveal the energy, vitality and fluidity of organic forms.” (Hicks photo)](https://photos.smugmug.com/Journalism/Photos-from-the-issue-23/i-hfcLrjH/1/f78a2ed7/Ti/SH_Art%20About%20Town%20--%20Virginia%20Zic%20VERTICAL-Ti.jpg)
