- Hi, I'm Lynn Anne Verbeck and I'm your neighbor.
(cheerful rock music) I grew up in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania.
I moved away after college and now after all these years, about 17 years, I've come full circle and moved back to my hometown, putting roots down here now.
(gentle music) I am a ceramic artist.
I like to do sculptural, functional wear, so I like people to use and hold my pottery.
I like to use the wheel.
The pottery wheel is my tool of choice.
I like to give it this sculptural twist.
A lot of my pieces might have some hand built elements onto the throne wear.
I feel so blessed to have found my niche in life, something that brings me passion.
I went to film school at Penn State University.
I was getting caught up in all the technicality.
It was pretty intense, but I had this wonderful professor and he said, "you need to go take a pottery class.
You need to just get in the mud, get primal, and get down with some clay."
And I hopped into class there and I fell in love with it.
It's a way for me to be expressive.
There's things that I can't talk about really that touch me so deeply and when I throw the clay and form it, it's maybe a little tip of the iceberg of how I can express that out in the world.
(gentle music) Welcome to ARTery.
Welcome!
With ARTery, Adrienne and I are cultivating this idea of a safe haven, a place where everyone can feel, "I can come in and I'm gonna be welcomed in this space."
So we can sit down and let our guard down and spend time together and create.
We're gonna have a coffee shop in the front.
Such a nice, open space, right?
There's gonna be an art library and then the back half of the space, half is printmaking and the other side will be ceramics.
Oh, and over here, we're gonna have our popup classes.
There'll be sewing, jewelry making, hand building, clay.
I'm hoping people will come in and get comfortable, then they'll wanna be a part of the energy that's going on in here.
- Possible open mic nights.
- Yes, open mic!
- And be who were truly meant to be, creative beings.
So exciting.
- It's gonna be great.
- Oh my God.
(gentle music) We are all creative beings, we truly are.
When people say to me, "oh, I'm not an artist," I say, "you just haven't given it the time yet."
For me, the possibility of someone coming in here and discovering something that brings them joy, that's my passion.
(exhales) Art is freedom.
It is freedom.
And I know that and I want to share everything I know.