After two years developing the first "contemporary ceramic studio" in Los Angeles, Petroglyph was launched in 1993 to create a space for adult women, their friends and their families, to have a creative and social experience. Jennifer Kurtz Rubin was frustrated with art classes where she continually had to buy a bunch of supplies on day 1, attend sessions on a weekly schedule, and where invariably she'd get busy before the course ended and be left with half-finished projects and boxes of unused tools. She wanted to have a creative outlet for her and her friends that didn't always focus on food or games. Jennifer would say "if women ran the world, bars would be spaces to get together after work, or go with kids, and be able to enjoy some creative time. An added bonus would be that someone else would clean up the mess." Jennifer and her husband Michael left the film industry in Hollywood and moved to the beach community of Santa Cruz, Califorina, to launch their business and to start a family.Read more