The 50,000-square-foot Johnson Atelier here is considered the finest place in America to cast bronze.

The finished pieces are exquisitely made at the Johnson Atelier, which he founded in 1974.

"Before the Johnson Atelier, sculptors went mainly to Italy to have large-scale things done," said its former manager, Christoph Späth.

The Johnson Atelier was born in 1974 as a solution to Mr. Johnson's problems.

The Johnson Atelier first opened in small quarters in Princeton, with a small staff and three departments, each encompassing a different part of the casting process.

"The Johnson Atelier sounded so much better than most graduate programs."

This is the new outdoor gallery that adjoins the Johnson Atelier here and is sponsored by the atelier in collaboration with the Atlantic Foundation in Princeton.

Johnson Atelier then milled an exact replica in styrene, which Mr. LaVerdiere coated in urethane and faux-finished to look like weathered stone.

Recently, at Johnson Atelier, a sculpture foundry in Mercerville, she has been casting bronze bells whose forms echo those of her ceramics, although they are open, as the pots are not.

Also on the site are a foundry and the Johnson Atelier, the sculpture school that the 69-year-old artist founded in 1974.