In November 2024, Vice President of External Affairs Leslie Denk and Liz MacLean, principal at Architectural Resources Group (@arg.create) and lead architect on the Museum’s #ExteriorImprovementProject, visited the Heath factory (@heathceramics) in San Francisco to watch their team make new tiles for the exterior of the Museum’s building. Because the standards for glazing ingredients have changed over the years, they had to create a new formula that would best resemble the mottled brown and red shades of the original tiles created in the late 1960s. Once the design was achieved, the Heath team began the process of creating new building tile by hand. ✨ Thank you to the team at Heath for allowing us to document their process! 1. ARG’s Liz MacLean, Norton Simon Museum’s Leslie Denk, and Eric Gaietto, Heath’s Tile Sales Director 2. Tony Heang, Tile Prep Lead 3. Alyssa Koszic, Tile Raw Goods Generalist 4. E. Chien Saelee, Tile Forming Generalist 5. Edgar Pena, Tile Glazer 6. Israel Rivera, Tile Kiln Lead 7. Cindy Saephan, Tile Finished Goods Generalist ___ Photos by Alana Hale