Life Outside the Lab: Art in the Park

Ana Carter, Vice President of Boling & Dean Lab in Columbus, OH, comes by her artistic talents naturally. The Cuban-born painter’s family is full of artists from all genres—musical, dramatic and visual—and she learned to draw from her brother at a young age.

Her Art in the Park...

Diana Shveyko, Owner of Design Dental Lab in Chicopee, MA, began drawing and painting a few years ago when she was going through a difficult time. “Art has really helped me,” she says. “If I have a problem or I’m in a bad mood, I take out my supplies and it helps lift my spirits.”

Shveyko...

About 20 years ago, ceramist and professional photographer Naoki Aiba was inspired by the vibrant, colorful photos of cross-sectioned teeth in Voyage, a book by Ceramist Claude Sieber, MDT. Aiba—Owner of Science Art, Inc., in Monterey, CA and Oral Design Center Monterey—started doing some...

Kristin Ettinger has been an artist since she was a little girl, eventually earning her B.F.A. in college, where sculpting became her passion. Years later, a chance meeting with a potter/dental technician led her into the dental technology field and it’s a perfect match. 

“As an artist...